British Columbia’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s brewing program has won Brewery of the Year at the recent 2019 BC Beer Awards.

The program, which sells growler fills of its students’ beer at the Langley campus on Friday afternoons, offers a two-year brewing diploma and has been in operation since 2015.

This was KPC’s brewing program’s second major award this year, which also won the Grand National Championship at the US Open College Beer Championship in May.

According to CBC, KPC also won five individual awards for beers made at its teaching brewery in Langley.

Saturday marked the 10th edition of the BC Beer Awards, which has seen enormous growth since the first event in 2010. 

At the inaugural event, 187 beers were entered by 36 different breweries for judging, according to organizers; this year, 1,185 were entered by 122 breweries.

Comparing the two years also reveals how new, dominant beer styles have emerged, says awards co-founder Chester Carey.

For example, around 260 of the beers entered this year were IPAs, 94 of which were hazy IPAs — a style that didn’t even exist in B.C. in 2010.

“In the very first year we had one sour beer entered … This year we had 138 sour beers entered and there’s three whole categories for various types of sour beers,” Carey added.

For the full story along with the complete list of winners go here.