New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- Jai Ho! The resounding A.R. Rahman composition from the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire played as Narayan Manepally, CEO of Geist Brewing Co. and Vidya Kubher, the brand's head brewmaster, collected the Gold Award at the European Beer Star 2025 competition in Nuremberg, Germany, in September. This wasn't the first rodeo for the Bengaluru-based distribution craft brewery. In 2024, they won the silver for their light amber smoked wheat beer, Geist Rauch-a-Fella. But winning the gold in a competition judged through a rigorous two-day blind tasting was a different high.

"We won the gold in the South German Hefeweizen Dunkel category for our beer, Geist Uncle Dunkel," Manepally, 62, shares. "This is a category tha...