World Cup Beersommeliers

26/08/2026

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿

One of the main tasks of a beer sommelier is to spark a passion for beer. Léon Rodenburg from the Netherlands, the reigning World Beer Sommelier Champion, fulfills this role in many different ways. In August, he had the pleasure of hosting a beer tasting at a campsite near the coast in the Dutch province of Zeeland.

“Even though it’s a rather unusual place for a beer tasting, I was very happy to spread my love of beer with all 25 participants who were spending their vacation there,” says Rodenburg, adding: “A perfect start to my own summer vacation somewhere in Europe! I don’t know exactly where our camper van will take us in the coming weeks!”

We’ll stay tuned—Léon will surely have something to share about it!

World Cup of Beer Sommeliers - organized by Doemens and supported by Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers

03/07/2026

🍺🏆 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲

Am 𝟭𝟮. 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 findet die Deutsche Meisterschaft der Biersommeliers in Gräfelfing statt!

Wer tritt die Nachfolge von Jutta Knoll an und wird nächste Deutsche Meisterin oder Deutscher Meister der Biersommeliers?

Infos und Downloads unter: https://doemens.org/deutsche-meisterschaft-der-biersommeliers-2026/

🍺 𝟯𝟴 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶è𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘁 – 𝗷𝗲𝘁𝘇𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗱’𝘀 𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝘁!

Am 12. September 2026 steigt bei Doemens die siebte Deutsche Meisterschaft der Biersommeliers. 🇩🇪 Große Spannung ist angesagt, denn es werden Nuancen für ein erfolgreiches Abschneiden entscheiden. 🥇

Wer erkennt in der Vorrunde die Bierstile? Wer erkennt die Off-Flavours im Bier? Und wer behält einen kühlen Kopf, wenn es im Halbfinale heißt: präsentieren, präsentieren, präsentieren?

Wir sind gespannt: Wer folgt auf die amtierende Deutsche Meisterin Junta Knoll? Wer darf am Ende den goldenen Pokal in die Höhe stemmen? 🏆

Ein besonderes Bonbon: Die Top 10 der Vorrunde qualifizieren sich automatisch für die Weltmeisterschaft der Bier-Sommeliers 2027 in Österreich. 🇦🇹 🌍🍻

Ein herzliches Dankeschön schon jetzt an unsere Unterstützer: Bayerischer Brauerbund, Hopsteiner Europe, Rastal sowie den Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers als ideellen Unterstützer. 🙏

Wir freuen uns auf eine großartige Meisterschaft!



World Cup Beersommeliers Biertasting Bonn

23/06/2026

🇨🇭🍺 𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗲𝗶𝘇 𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝗵𝗿 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳!

In vielen Ländern laufen die Qualifikationen für den World Cup of Beer Sommeliers 2027 – und auch in der Schweiz wird sich am 𝟮𝟳. 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 zeigen, wer das Nationalteam vertreten darf.

Eines ist sicher: Die Leistungsdichte ist enorm. Es gilt, sensorische Herausforderungen zu meistern wie Bierstile erkennen, Fehlaromen identifizieren und unter Druck die richtige Entscheidung treffen – die Anforderungen an Biersommelièren und Biersommeliers sind hoch und oft entscheiden nur Nuancen, wer in die nächste Runde kommt.

Die Schweiz gehört seit Jahren zu den stärksten Nationen der Welt. Mit Weltmeister Giuliano Genoni (2022) und hohen Platzierungen bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2025 hat die Schweizer Bier-Szene eindrucksvoll gezeigt, welches Niveau hier vorhanden ist. 🇨🇭🏆

Die Schweizer Meiserschaft wird veranstaltet von dem Schweizer Brauerei-Verband (Schweizer Bier) - alle Infos unter https://sm.bier-sommelier.ch/

Wir wünschen allen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern jetzt schon eine gute Vorbereitung auf die Meisterschaft!

🍻 𝗛𝗼𝗽𝗽 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗶𝗶𝘇 – 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗽 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗸𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿!

Fotos: Doemens
Ideeller Unterstützer der Meisterschaft: Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers

18/06/2026

11/06/2026

🏆🍺 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲? 👀

At the 7th Austrian National Beer Sommelier Championship, Reinhard Feigl impressed the jury and audience alike with his presentation skills, beer knowledge and stage presence — earning the title of Austrian Beer Sommelier Champion 2026.

Thanks to Martin Voigt and proBier, we can now take a closer look behind the scenes and watch the presentation that secured the title.

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AROSy36yTdw

Whether you're preparing for your own national championship or simply passionate about beer communication, this is a great opportunity to see championship-level beer presentation in action.

Congratulations once again to Reinhard Feigl and thank you to proBIERTV for sharing this insight into the competition.

Doemens
Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers
Bierland Österreich

Ein Auftritt, der am Ende den Unterschied gemacht hat! In diesem Vi...

09/06/2026

A lively look back at the 7th Austrian National Beer Sommelier Championship: In mid-May 2026, Austria’s 20 best beer sommeliers demonstrated their knowledge, sensory skills, and presentation abilities at Mohrenbräu - Das Vorarlberger Bier.

Organized by Bierland Österreich, with operational management and ex*****on by Jens Lukart, Head of Doemens Savour Academy, the film by proBierTV on YouTube traces the journey from arrival through the preliminary rounds, semifinals, and finals to the crowning of the winners. Congratulations to Reinhard Feigl, Julian Selinger, and Katharina Marterer!

A highlight: The top 10 of the preliminary rounds will represent Austria at the 9th World Beer Sommelier Championship in 2027 in Vienna—organized and hosted by the Doemens Academy.

Many thanks to proBIERTV for the excellent compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDEKKDpqdpY

Doemens Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers Bierland Österreich

02/06/2026

Since winning the title in 2025, World Cup Beer Sommelier Champion Léon Rodenburg from the Netherlands has been in even higher demand, especially internationally. The Finest Beer Selection by Meininger & Doemens also invited him to contribute his sensory expertise as a judge. We spoke with Leon about his impressions and experiences.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.
𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻: It was a lot of fun but also hard work tasting for the Finest Beer Selection. With expert jury members split across several tables, we assessed entries in all kinds of styles varying from pilsners all the way to barrel aged stouts. This requires a lot of focus and attention but is very rewarding after a judging day.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳?
𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻: There are two main reasons:
1) Each beer is tasted individually, and not compared to others. You are asked to fill in a full sensory profile and then score the beer as it is presented to you, from a consumers perspective. This differs from most other competitions.
2) The quality and variety of participating beers is very high. This makes it very enjoyable to taste all the beers, even though you don’t know which brewery or brand it is.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘉𝘚 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶?
𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻: All the judges at the FBS are beer sommeliers, brewers, ingredient experts, consultants or other professionals working with beer. Tasting beers together, during the judging days as well as during the social events, will teach even the most experienced tasters something new. These lessons I learned plus the network of experts I got to meet were of the biggest value to me.

World Cup of Beer Sommeliers - organized by Doemens and supported by Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers

27/05/2026

🇦🇹🍺 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳!

At the Austrian Beer Sommelier Championship in Dornbirn and Muntlix on the 15th of May, some of the country’s best beer sommeliers competed in highly demanding preliminary rounds, featuring exclusively pale beers — a true challenge for sensory precision, beer style recognition and concentration under pressure.

The competition once again showed why Team Austria is internationally respected as one of the strongest teams in beer sommelier competitions worldwide.

A professional jury evaluated not only technical knowledge and sensory skills, but also stage presence, communication and the ability to present beer culture in an engaging and authentic way.

🏆 Austrian National Champion 2026:
🥇 Reinhard Feigl
🥈 Julian Selinger
🥉 Katharina Marterer

The winners were joined on stage by Florian Berger (Austrian Brewers Association) and Jens Luckart (Doemens Genussakademie & organizer of the championship).

The following sommeliers qualified for Team Austria for the World Championship 2027 in Vienna:

🍺 Stefan Egermann
🍺 Reinhard Feigl
🍺 Thomas Franzke
🍺 Ursula Huber-Kainz
🍺 Johannes Keller
🍺 Katharina Marterer
🍺 Albert Mühlwerth
🍺 Martin Seidl
🍺 Julian Selinger
🍺 Sebastian Voglmayr

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗻 🌍🍻

🇦🇹 The Austrian Beer Sommelier Championship is hosted by Bierland Österreich and organized by Doemens in cooperation with BierIG - Interessensgemeinschaft der Bierkonsumenten and Mohrenbräu - Das Vorarlberger Bier. The Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers acts as a supporting partner of the championship.

📸 Thank you for the pictures pirart.at

21/05/2026

Finest Beer Selection 2026: Expert tasting featuring 50 international sensory evaluation professionals. Among them, for the first time, were three World Beer Sommelier Champions: Oliver Wesseloh (2013), Simonmattia Riva (2015), and Léon Rodenburg (2025)—a clear indication of the competition’s high professional standards!

World Cup of Beer Sommeliers - organized by Doemens and supported by Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers

Finest Beer Selection by Meininger & Doemens

13/05/2026

In this post, we’d like to give you a closer look at Leon’s daily work, so we asked him three questions:

𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘺?
At the brewery I have a weekly routine: Monday: filling kegs, Tuesday: filling bottles, Wednesday & Thursday: brewday and Friday: fermentation / cellar work
Each day’s routine is different, but I always start with a cup of coffee :) In between the weekly planning I clean our tanks and installation, purchase ingredients, plan our production and perform management tasks

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘺?
As one of the owners I am responsible for the production and quality of our beers, so my main focus is on brewing

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘺?
During the week I mainly use the tasting skills I gathered as a sommelier, for example to assess the progress of fermentation or if a finished product is up to specification. I organize internal tasting panels to systematically assess the quality of our products. Depending on time, I give tours of the brewery and sometimes tastings. Throughout the year we attend multiple beer festivals with our brewery, I join the crew for some of them to pour beer and tell visitors of the festivals the stories around our beer.

Leon describes some really exciting projects here. We’re eager to see what’s next and will be following his progress over the coming months as he continues his work as a brewer and beer sommelier! Stay tuned!

World Cup of Beer Sommeliers - organized by Doemens and supported by Verband der Diplom Biersommeliers

Léon Rodenburg Bierbrouwerij De Magistraat