Only IL Brewery To Earn Two Medals In 2025 World Beer Cup Might Surprise You

NAPERVILLE, IL — The World Beer Cup recently announced its 2025 list for the best beers in the country, with one Naperville brewery making the list, earning medals for two of its nonalcoholic beers.

Go Brewing, which opened in 2022, received the silver medal for Disarm in the hoppy nonalcoholic beer category. The brewery also earned a bronze medal for New School in the specialty nonalcoholic beer category.

The World Beer Cup began in 1996 and taps over 200 judges to determine the top three beers in more than 100 different categories.

“Evaluating beer happens on many levels,” competition director Chris Williams said on the World Beer Cup website. “On a professional level, beer evaluation is a form of peer review. The results are public, so consumers can learn what beers meet a high level of quality and what beers exemplify certain styles as interpreted by the judges.”

Judges evaluate the beers on such standards as flavor, aroma, appearance and style. Click the link to see the World Beer Cup's Award criteria.

Go Brewing's medals were among just eight awarded to Illinois breweries in the 2025 World Beer Cup. On their website, Go Brewing, which strictly offers nonalcoholic drinks, states that their mission is to "help create a better tomorrow by crafting the best non-alcoholic beer on the planet."