Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Beverages, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Christian Schubert, Research Associate, Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) e.V.

As the awardee, he will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Edgar Chambers IV,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Beverages 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Beverages Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Beverages. It is due to their e orts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. Vesela Shopska
Department “Technology of Wine and Beer”, University of Food Technologies—Plovdiv, 26 Maritza Boulevard, 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Research Interests: beverage fermentation; brewing; beer microbiology; yeast immobilization; antioxidant activity; beer and wine analysis

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 500;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Beverages in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Beverages Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Beverages 2020 Best Paper Award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of various papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the journal Award Committee led by the Associate EiC Prof. Dr. Antonio Morata, have been selected.

One Article:
Analysis of Lambic Beer Volatiles during Aging Using Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) and Gas Chromatography–Olfactometry (GCO)
By Katherine Witrick, Eric R. Pitts and Sean F. O’Keefe
Beverages. 2020, 6(2), 31; doi:10.3390/beverages6020031

One Review:
Current Trends in Kombucha: Marketing Perspectives and the Need for Improved Sensory Research
By Juyoung Kim and Koushik Adhikari
Beverages. 2020, 6(1), 15; doi:10.3390/beverages6010015

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 800 and a chance to publish a paper in Beverages in 2022.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Beverages and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Beverages and it’s editorial board are pleased that Ms. Claudia Gonzalez Viejo was selected as the winner of our travel and publication award this year. She was our choice among the many outstanding nominations that we received from around the world. Beverages, through it’s publisher MDPI, is proud to support outstanding young scientists as they move forward in their careers. That support comes both through awards such as this that allow the dissemination of research at scientific conferences and through publication as well as through the open access scientific publication process, which makes high-quality scientific work publicly available.

Ms. Claudia Gonzalez Viejo, who is currently studying at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her principal research interests lie in the field of food and beverages from farm to the final product. Her currently investigating “the effect of bubble formation within carbonated drinks on the brewage foamability, bubble dynamics and sensory perception by consumers” for her PhD. She will attend the “European Brewery Convention Congress” 2–6 June 2019, in Antwerpen, Belgium, to present her work “Sonication of Beer Increases Perceived Quality Based on Bubble Size and Foamability”

Congratulations to the Award recipient, and thank you to all of the applicants.

Prof. Dr. Edgar Chambers IV
Editor-in-Chief