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Original Beer Company

🌍 South Korea · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Seoul craft brewery founded in 2017, rapidly becoming one of Korea's most acclaimed. Original Beer Company won World Beer Awards Country Winner and World's Best Stout & Porter in 2022, followed by Gold in 2023 — extraordinary recognition for such a young Korean brewery. Known for complex dark beers and innovative ales that push the boundaries of Korean craft brewing.

6Beers
4Styles
6.2%Avg ABV
2017Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
67%
catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Original Beer Company

6 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 6 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 6 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
light
4 of 6 beers
clean
4 of 6 beers
crisp
3 of 6 beers
sweet
4 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied6 beers · 4 style families
Pale Ale 3Stout 1Strong 1Wheat Beer 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 367 other breweries making Imperial Stout and Kölsch.
typical for Imperial Stout and KölschOriginal Beer Company
in no beersin every beer
malty
in 1 of 6 · typical Imperial Stout and Kölsch brewery: 4 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
dry
in 4 of 6 · typical Imperial Stout and Kölsch brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more dry than typical.
sweet
in 4 of 6 · typical Imperial Stout and Kölsch brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.
hoppy
in 1 of 6 · typical Imperial Stout and Kölsch brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less hoppy than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 28%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
5 / 6
beers above the median
#290
best ranked beer
Original Beer Company Fedora Kölsch

Their beers place in the Top 28% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Original Beer Company

Seoul craft brewery founded in 2017, rapidly becoming one of Korea's most acclaimed. Original Beer Company won World Beer Awards Country Winner and World's Best Stout & Porter in 2022, followed by Gold in 2023 — extraordinary recognition for such a young Korean brewery. Known for complex dark beers and innovative ales that push the boundaries of Korean craft brewing.

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