2026 Ireland Quality Food & Drink Awards Drinks Shortlist
Meet the Drinks category finalists of the 2026 Ireland Quality Food & Drink Awards!
The standard of entries was extraordinary, and it is a significant achievement to be shortlisted. This year's winners will be announced at a gala dinner awards celebration at The Round Room, The Mansion House, Dublin on Wednesday 16 September 2026.
Best of luck to our finalists!
Beer styles produced using ale fermentation. Includes pale ales, amber ales, IPA, session ales and speciality or craft ales. Products may be bottled, canned or kegged and intended for retail sale.
Aldi Brown Bear Double IPA
Our Brewery - Do You Wanna Funk - NEIPA
Our Brewery - Hang Up Your Hang Ups - Hazy India Pale Ale
Our Brewery - Light Up Gold - West Coast IPA
Our Brewery - Modern Love Pale Ale
Lidl Birra Bionda Italian Style Lager 5%
Lidl Crafty Irish Craft Lager 5%
Lidl Crafty Irish Craft Pale Ale 4.5%
Lidl The Crafty Brewing Company Belgian Style Saison 4.8%
Lidl The Crafty Brewing Company Irish Craft Stout 4.5%
Distilled spirits flavoured predominantly with juniper. Includes London Dry, flavoured, contemporary and craft gins.
Aldi Boyle's Irish Gin
Frankie & Eileen's Craft Gin
Lidl Wild Burrow Gin 40%
Sweetened or flavoured spirits, speciality distilled products and fortified wines such as vermouth or sherry.
Lidl Dundalgan Toffee Yum Yum 12%
Richmount Irish Elderflower Liqueur
Lidl Sunrise Mojito Can 5%
Lidl Sunrise Passionfruit Martini 5%
Lidl Sunrise Woo Woo 5%
Rosé wines ranging from pale to deep pink styles. Includes dry, off dry and sparkling rosé wines.
Le Petit Poulet Rose
Lidl Breath of Paradise Cotes de Provence AOP 12.5%
Aldi S/S Pinot Grigio Blush
Distilled spirits made from fermented grain mash and aged in wood. Includes Irish, Scotch, American and world whiskeys.
Aldi Ard Fallen Whiskey
Lidl Dundalgan Irish Whiskey 40%
Distilled grape-based spirits including brandy and Cognac. Products may be aged or unaged and intended for sipping or mixing.
Aldi Specially Selected VS Cognac
Lidl Reverie Cognac VS 40%
Sparkling wines including Champagne, Prosecco, Cava and other sparkling styles. Includes traditional and tank-method wines intended for celebration or everyday consumption.
Aldi Champagne Brut
Aldi Cremant de Loire
Aldi IT Metallic Secco
Lidl Comte de Senneval Champagne
Aldi Organic Prosecco DOC
Bottom-fermented beers including pale lager, pilsner, helles and speciality lagers. Products may be mainstream or craft and sold in bottles or cans
Aldi Brown Bear Gluten Free Lager
Our Brewery - Pressure to Pick - Italian Pilsner
Aldi Strana Pilsner
Alcoholic drinks containing low or zero alcohol. Includes beers, wines, spirits and ready-to-drink products formulated to reduce or remove alcohol.
Fierce Mild, Non-Alc (Extra Pale Ale)
Fierce Mild, Non-Alc (Lager)
Still red wines produced from red grape varieties. Includes all styles and regions intended for retail sale.
Aldi Aimone Vino Rosso
Aldi Animus Douro Reserva
Lidl Chianti Riserva Italy 13%
Lidl Hachón Ribera del Duero Spain 14%
Aldi Original Series Stellenbosch Premium Red
Aldi S/S Chilean Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon
Aldi S/S Valpolicella
Aldi St Emilion Grand Cru
Neutral distilled spirits typically produced from grains or potatoes. Includes flavoured and premium vodkas.
Lidl Ignis French Grain Vodka 40%
Still white wines produced from white or red grape varieties. Includes all styles and regions intended for retail sale
Aldi Castellore Organic Pinot Grigio Venezie
Aldi Le Petit Poulet White
Lidl Albariño D.O Rías Baixas 13%
Lidl Deluxe NZ Premium Pinot Gris Gisborne 12.5%
Aldi S/S Picpoul de Pinet
Aldi S/S Pinot Gris
