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Long neck, full body, excitingly rich with the ability to make you feel all tingly inside and now an international gold medal winner – Black Giraffe is everything you could want in a beer!

Just weeks after hitting bottle shops and bars across Australia, Black Giraffe, the black coffee lager produced by Burleigh Brewing Co, has taken home GOLD at the World Beer Championships in the US.

Scoring an amazing 94/100, the judges labelled Black Giraffe ‘exceptional’, with the beer ranking the highest in the Specialty Beer category, scoring higher than two Sam Adams brews from one of the most renowned craft breweries in the States.

Commenting on Black Giraffe, the World Beer Championships said:

“Very dark brown color. Rich and dimensional roasted coffee, bakers chocolate, and dried fruit aromas and flavors with a dry, zesty medium-full body and a long, pure and pervasive barista approved finish. A superb coffee beer with a solid caffeine kick.”

The World Beer Championships are run annually in a series of style-based tasting sessions in a dedicated tasting lab at the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) in Chicago, and is one of the most professional and highly regarded competitions in the world.

This the third time in just a few months Burleigh Brewing Co beers have taken home Gold, with Duke Pale Ale and My Wife’s Bitter taking home the highest accolade in June – proving just how well regarded the Gold Coast brewery is worldwide.

Black Giraffe is the brewery’s second release from their Bit On The Side Dept, and was developed as a combined effort between, Brennan Fielding, the Burleigh Brewing Co Brewmaster and coffee expert, Kenton Campbell, CEO of Zarraffa’s Coffee.

Burleigh Brewing Co CEO, Peta Fielding, said this latest win is especially exciting because this time they’re sharing it with Zarraffa’s Coffee.

“Obviously our medals are all a Burleigh Brewing team effort, but this time it feels more like a ‘team sport’ than an ‘individual gold’ as we get to celebrate with Zarraffa’s Coffee – afterall, they helped us to select the coffee and roasted it to perfection!”

Kenton Campbell, Zarraffa’s Coffee Founder and CEO, said he was interested in the Black Giraffe project from the moment Brennan first mentioned it.
 
“I saw this as the perfect business partnering – a micro brewery and a speciality coffee company – creating a new and exciting product.”
 
“Together, our brands are two of the best in our respective industries and this partnership has amplified that.”
 
“Doing the beer in itself was amazing. To have it be so amazing and now on the worldwide stage, I’m privileged to be a part of it.”

“It’s great that smaller businesses, coming together, can achieve such wonderful things.”

Burleigh Brewing’s limited releases from their ‘Bit on the Side Dept’ come packaged in dinner-size, 650ml screen-printed, collectible bottles. The perfect size for sharing (but you’ll need to buy two, because you’ll both want a bottle to keep!)

Black Giraffe is available at bottle shops and pubs and clubs throughout Australia. For a location in your area, please visit the Burleigh Brewing Co website – www.burleighbrewing.com.