The countdown to the Australian Liquor Industry’s night of nights is well and truly on, with the off-premise finalists of the 2022 Australian Liquor Industry Awards (ALIA) being revealed.

ALIA is split into Off-Premise and On-Premise awards, you can see the 2022 On-Premise finalists here.

These finalists will now go to our panel of judges: a wide selection of liquor industry professionals from across Australia, with the winners then revealed on the awards night – Wednesday, 19 October.

You can secure your ticket to ALIA 2022 by clicking here.

Congratulations to all the finalists, good luck with the final stage of voting and we look forward to seeing you on the night.

The 2022 Australian Liquor Industry Awards – Off-Premise Finalists

BEER & CIDER

Full Strength Beer

  • Carlton Draught
  • Carlton Dry
  • Great Northern Brewing Co Original Lager
  • Hahn Super Dry
  • Melbourne Bitter
  • Resch’s Draught
  • Tooheys Extra Dry
  • Tooheys New
  • Victoria Bitter
  • West End Draught
  • XXXX Bitter

Light & Mid-Strength

  • Balter Captain Sensible
  • Capital Brewing Summit Session Ale
  • Cascade Premium Light
  • Coopers Mild Ale
  • Gage Roads Side Track All Day XPA
  • Great Northern Brewing Co Super Crisp Lager
  • Hahn Super Dry 3.5%
  • Iron Jack Crisp
  • Matso’s Ginger Beer
  • Peroni Leggera
  • XXXX Gold
  • Young Henry’s Stayer Mid

Premium Domestic

  • Boags Premium
  • Byron Bay Premium Lager
  • Coopers Pacific Pale Ale
  • Coopers Pale Ale
  • Coopers Sparkling Ale
  • Coopers XPA
  • Crown Lager
  • Emu Export
  • Furphy Refreshing Ale
  • Stubbies

Premium International

  • Asahi Super Dry
  • Birra Moretti
  • Budweiser
  • Carlsberg
  • Corona Extra
  • Guinness
  • Heineken
  • Miller Genuine Draft
  • Peroni Nastro Azzurro
  • Peroni Red
  • Sapporo
  • Stella Artois

Mainstream Craft

  • 4 Pines Pale Ale
  • Balter IPA
  • Balter XPA
  • Goat Very Enjoyable Beer
  • James Squire 150 Lashes
  • Kosiuszko
  • Lazy Yak Pale Ale
  • Little Creatures Pale Ale
  • Mountain Goat Organic Steam Ale
  • Pirate Life South Coast Pale Ale

Independent Craft

  • Bentspoke Crankshaft
  • Black Hops Brewery G.O.A.T.
  • Bridge Road Brewers Beechworth Pale Ale
  • Capital Brewing XPA
  • Gage Roads Little Dove
  • Gage Roads Single Fin
  • Grifter Lager
  • KAIJU Tropical Pale Ale
  • Modus Operandi Pale Ale
  • Moon Dog Old Mate Pale Ale
  • Young Henry’s Newtowner
  • Your Mates Larry

Cider

  • Batlow Premium Cider
  • Bilpin Original Cider
  • Kopparberg
  • Little Fat Lamb
  • Mercury Hard
  • James Squire Orchard Crush
  • Pure Blonde
  • Rekorderlig
  • Somersby
  • Strongbow
  • Willie Smiths Organic
  • Young Henry’s Cloudy Cider

Best Australian Brewery

  • 4Pines
  • Balter
  • Bentspoke
  • Capital Brewing
  • Coopers
  • Gage Roads
  • Little Creatures
  • Moon Dog
  • Stomping Ground
  • Stone & Wood
  • Young Henrys
  • Your Mates

WINE

Red Wine Brand under $14.99 RRP

  • 19 Crimes
  • Angove
  • Elephant In The Room
  • Jacob’s Creek
  • McGuigan
  • Penfolds
  • Two Truths
  • Wolf Blass
  • Yalumba
  • Yellow Tail

Red Wine Brand $15-$34.99

  • Jacob’s Creek
  • Little Giant
  • Oyster Bay
  • Penfolds
  • Pepperjack
  • St Hallett
  • Calabria Family Wines
  • Taylors
  • Seppelt
  • Wirra Wirra

Red Wine Brand over $35

  • Brown Brothers
  • Ferngrove
  • Grant Burge
  • Henschke
  • Nanny Goat
  • Penfolds
  • Peter Lehmann
  • St Hallett
  • St Hugo
  • Taylors
  • Wynns Coonawarra Estate

White Wine Brand under $14.99

  • Brown Brothers
  • Evans & Tate
  • Giesen
  • Hardy’s
  • Richland
  • Jacob’s Creek
  • Lindeman’s
  • Stoneleigh
  • Wolf Blass
  • Yellow Tail

White Wine Brand $15-$34.99

  • Bird in Hand
  • Evans & Tate
  • Jim Barry
  • Kim Crawford
  • Mud House
  • Oyster Bay
  • Shaw & Smith
  • Squealing Pig
  • Taylors
  • Villa Maria

White Wine Brand over $35

  • Cloudy Bay
  • De Bortoli
  • Leeuwin Estate
  • Penfolds
  • Petaluma
  • Scotchmans Hill
  • Shaw & Smith
  • Tyrrells
  • Vasse Felix
  • Peter Lehmann

Rosé Brand

  • Bird In Hand
  • Brown Brothers
  • De Bortoli
  • La Vieille Ferme
  • Mateus
  • Oyster Bay
  • Pierre D’Amour
  • Squealing Pig
  • Ultimate Provence
  • Wild Flower

Australian and International Sparkling

  • Bird In Hand
  • Brown Brothers
  • Cielo
  • Chandon
  • De Bortoli
  • Grant Burge
  • Jacob’s Creek
  • Jansz
  • Veuve Deville
  • Yellow Tail

Champagne

  • Bollinger
  • Dom Perignon
  • G.H. Mumm
  • Moët & Chandon
  • Perrier-Jouët
  • Piper Heidsieck
  • Pol Roger
  • Ruinart
  • Taittinger
  • Veuve Clicquot

Dessert and Fortifieds

  • Brown Brothers Australian Tawny
  • De Bortoli Noble One
  • Galway Pipe
  • Grant Burge Aged Tawny
  • McWilliam’s Royal Reserve
  • Morris Muscat
  • Penfolds Club Reserve
  • Renmano Tawny
  • Stone’s Ginger Wine
  • Wolf Blass Red Label Tawny

Best Australian Winery

  • Angove Family Winemakers, McLaren Vale
  • Brokenwood, Hunter Valley
  • De Bortoli, Riverina
  • Brown Brothers, Riverina
  • Penfolds, Barossa
  • Scarborough Wine Co, Hunter Valley
  • Shaw and Smith, Adelaide Hills
  • Vasse Felix, Margaret River
  • Wynns Coonawarra Estate
  • Yalumba, Barossa

SPIRITS – RTD – RTS

Non-Alcoholic Product

  • Big Drop Pine Trail Pale Ale
  • Carlton Zero
  • Edenvale Wines
  • Gage Roads Yeah Buoy
  • Gordons Zero
  • Great Northern Brewing Co Zero
  • Heaps Normal Quiet Xpa
  • Heineken 0.0
  • James Squire Zero
  • Lyre’s
  • McGuigan Zero
  • Better Beer Zero

Dark Spirit up to $69.99

  • Buffalo Trace
  • Bundaberg Up
  • The Kraken
  • Starward Two Fold Whisky
  • NED Australian Whisky
  • Jim Beam White
  • Johnnie Walker Black Label
  • Jack Daniels
  • Jameson
  • Fireball
  • Sailor Jerry
  • Monkey Shoulder

Light Spirit up to $69.99

  • Absolut
  • Bacardi Superior
  • Bombay Sapphire
  • Gordon’s London Dry Gin
  • Grey Goose
  • Jose Cuervo Silver
  • Never Never Triple Juniper Gin
  • Roku
  • Smirnoff Red
  • Tanqueray
  • Tito’s
  • Vodka O

Luxury Dark Spirit over $70

  • Archie Rose Single Malt
  • Glenmorangie The Original
  • Gospel Rye
  • Hennessy VSOP
  • Laphroaig 10 Year Old
  • Lark Symphony No.1
  • Martell VSOP
  • Starward Nova
  • Talisker 10 Year Old
  • The Balvenie 12 Year Old
  • The Macallan 12 Year Old
  • Woodford Double Oaked Bourbon

Luxury Light Spirit over $70

  • 1800 Silver
  • 23rd Street Signature Gin
  • Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin
  • Belvedere
  • Brookie’s Cape Byron Gin
  • Don Julio Blanco
  • Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin
  • Grey Goose
  • Hendrick’s Gin
  • Ink Dry Gin
  • Never Never Juniper Freak
  • Patrón Silver

Liqueurs

  • Aperol
  • Baileys
  • Chambord
  • Cointreau
  • Disaronno
  • Drambuie
  • Jägermeister
  • Kahlúa
  • Midori
  • Mr Black
  • Tia Maria
  • Vok Liqueurs

Dark RTD-RTS

  • Bundaberg UP
  • Canadian Club
  • Jack Daniel’s
  • Jack Daniel’s Double Jack
  • Jameson Dry 6.5
  • Jim Beam White
  • Kraken Black Spiced Rum and Cola
  • NED Australian Whisky & Cola
  • Starward (New) Old Fashioned
  • Wild Turkey 101 Premium
  • Wild Turkey Rare
  • Woodstock Gold

Light RTD-RTS

  • Brookvale Union Seltzer
  • Cruiser
  • Fellr
  • Fizzer Alcoholic Seltzer
  • Gordon’s Gin & Tonic
  • Grainshaker
  • Hard FIZZ
  • Jose Cuervo Sparkling Margarita
  • Smirnoff Seltzer
  • UDL
  • White Claw
  • Young Henrys Gin & Tonic

Best Australian Distillery

  • 23rd Street
  • Adelaide Hills Distillery
  • Anther Spirits
  • Archie Rose
  • Beenleigh Artisan Distillery
  • Bundaberg Rum
  • Cape Byron
  • Four Pillars
  • Lark Distillery
  • Manly Spirits Distilling Co
  • Never Never Distilling Co
  • Starward

MAJOR AWARDS

New Product of the Year

  • Archie Rose Bone Dry Gin
  • Better Beer
  • Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru
  • Brookie’s Byron Negroni
  • Canadian Club and Soda RTD
  • Fellr Passionfruit
  • Glenmorangie X
  • Jose Cuervo Sparkling Margarita
  • Lyre’s Classico Grande
  • Moon Dog Cooler Cocktail Spritz
  • Never Never Oyster Shell Gin
  • XXXXX Zero

Liquor Brand of the Year

  • 19 Crimes
  • Archie Rose
  • Coopers Brewery
  • Fireball
  • Four Pillars
  • Hard FIZZ
  • Jack Daniel’s
  • Jose Cuervo
  • NED Australian Whisky
  • Never Never
  • Penfolds
  • Starward

Liquor Group of the Year

  • Bottlemart
  • Cellarbrations
  • Super Cellars
  • Liquor Barons
  • Liquor Legends
  • Local Liquor
  • Porters Liquor
  • Star Liquor
  • Dan Murphy’s
  • Sessions
  • Thirsty Camel
  • The Bottle-O

Liquor Store of the Year

  • Blackhearts and Sparrows, Melbourne VIC
  • Bottlemart Shortland Hotel, Shortland NSW
  • Porters Liquor Lansvale, Lansvale NSW
  • The Wine Emporium, Newstead QLD
  • Liquor Barons, Carlisle WA
  • Oldfield Cellars, West Gosford NSW
  • Bermagui Cellars, Bermagui NSW
  • Thirsty Camel Highway Hotel, Plympton SA
  • Cork and Glass, Yarralumla ACT
  • Nicks Wine Merchants, Doncaster East VIC
  • Liquor Emporium, Marrickville NSW
  • Craft Wine Store, Red Hill QLD

Off-Premise Supplier of the Year

  • Bacardi-Martini Australia
  • Brown-Forman
  • Campari
  • Carlton and United Breweries
  • CCEP
  • Coopers
  • Diageo
  • Lion
  • Pernod Ricard
  • Proximo
  • Southtrade International
  • Treasury Premium Brands
  • Vanguard Luxury Brands
  • William Grant & Sons

Andy Young

Andy joined Intermedia as Editor of The Shout in 2015, writing news on a daily basis and also writing features for National Liquor News. Now Managing Editor of both The Shout and Bars and Clubs.

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