The 20 great american beer festival gabf competition awarded 252 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the united states, including gabf proam medals. Victory brewing company victory is a brewery founded in 1996 in downingtown, pennsylvania, united states. You can download a pdf list of 20 winner here, or go to an. Theres much to digest, but ive pointed out five of the more interesting takeaways from the 2017 gabf.
All said and done, california breweries took home the most medals 52 total with colorado, the home of gabf in the states capital of denver, taking. The following link will take you to a pdf file that has the gold, silver and bronze medals for each of 84 different style categories american style wheat beers to. Washington breweries win big at gabf washington beer blog. The 20 great american beer fest has already come and gone. List of great american beer festival medalists wikipedia. American beer festival winners list 20 great american beer festival winners list 2012 great american beer festival winners. Marble brewery is a brewery in albuquerque, new mexico, founded in 2008. This year, 24 firsttime entrants won awards from among 230 firsttime entrants. Great american beer festival competition winners announced. Great american beer festival 2018 dates announced tenemu.
A pdf list of the winners is available at the gabf website. Great american beer festival 20 in broad brushstrokes. Gabf 2015 homebrew competition key dates 2nd february entries open th february entries close 16th19th february judging takes place 21st feb winners announced at festival approximately 5. Somehow breweries have yet to run out of beer puns for their beer names, so we searched high and low throughout the 2019 gabf to find the wittiest titles or otherwise amazing names. Presented by the brewers association, gabf is the largest.
This is a list of great american beer festival medal winning breweries. This judge panel award gold, silver, and bronze to the top beers in each category according to a gabf style guidelines. New and established breweries claim great american beer. Go here for a list of all gabf winners, the gabf, which claims to be the largest commercial beer competition in the world, awarded 252 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the united states.
Though some were award winners and others were poured on the festival floor, all are hilarious. The main brands are hopdevil, prima pils, headwaters pale ale, golden monkey, dirtwolf, and storm king, which are distributed in 34 states and 9 countries. Local winners at the 20 great american beer festival the. This years event included over 800 breweries in the festival hall, more than 3,900 beers served. At least five different breweries received medals in a state with about 25 breweries. For many brewers, particularly the winners, the highlight was saturday when 280 breweries collected 306 medals in 102 categories. Colorado breweries win 38 medals at the great american. October 12, 20 by jay brooks leave a comment earlier today, the winners of the 32nd great american beer festival were announced. We want to congratulate the 2014 great american beer festival medal winners.
We are tremendously proud of all our talented brewers, particularly bob, who routinely represents. Sun king was the first commercial brewery to open up in approximately 30 years in indianapolis. Great american beer festival gabf 20 winners page 3. Get a taste of victory the hopshop beer market has the below available right now come get you some. Homebrew recipes are scaled up and brewed at a craft brewery for submission into the competition. The 30 barrel brewhouse is responsible for brewing all classic and seasonal styles.
The gabf proam entries are brewed by professional craft brewers based on awardwinning homebrew recipes from american homebrewers association aha members. Gabf postevent report 2014 great american beer festival. Yesterday the results from the largest brewing competition, the 2017 great american beer festival gabf and it awarded 293 medals to 266 brewery locations. View the 2014 winners or download a pdf list of the winners. Small brewpub and small brewpub brewer of the year. This years great american beer festival gabf has only been over for two days and we already know when the next one will be happening. Sun king brewing is a brewery in the colenoble district of indianapolis, indiana, united states. It is the largest brewery in indianapolis and the second largest brewery in the state.
Colorados 20 gabf winners took home 46 medals, with the sandlot, left hand brewing and dry dock leading a list of both established and new breweries. Great american beer festival medals list announced the. View the 2018 winners or download a pdf list of the winners. The sandlot, left hand and dry dock among gabf 20 winners. The brewers association awarded 306 medals to 280 breweries across the united states at the 2018 great american beer festival competition. Another great american beer festival, another 4,000 beers in the books. Please click on the pdf icon to download a past great american beer festival winners list. And if you didnt get tickets which was harder than ever again this year you can at least toast to the many winners below. View the 20 winners or download a pdf list of the winners. Presented by the brewers association, gabf is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and a symbol.
Great american beer festival gabf 2014 winners list. Five takeaways from the 2017 gabf winner list hop culture. Marking their 17th consecutive year as gabf medal winners, this latest win brings iron hills companywide total to 39 medals. Chuckanut helles, chuckanut brewery north nut, bellingham, wa bronze. In its 30th year, the 2016 great american beer festival gabf competition awarded 286 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the united states, plus three gabf proam medals to teams of amateur homebrewers paired with professionals. Congrats to all medal winners and cheers to the judges. Its main brewhouse is located in downtown albuquerque on marble avenue, which gave the brewery its name. Great american beer fest 20 winners announced huffpost. New and established breweries claim great american beer festival.
The great american beer festival includes a judge panel which judges a significant number of beers, 3,930 in 2012. Presented by the brewers association ba, gabf is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and the premier symbol of brewing excellence. Last weekend the 32nd annual great american beer festival was staged by. Official list of 20 great american beer fest winners.
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