Great American Beer Festival Medal Winners in Washington, D.C.
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Over the weekend, the Brewers Association held its 30th Great American Beer Festival, bringing tens of thousands of craft beer lovers to Denver for a three-day tasting extravaganza. In addition to drinkers who came to have fun, a panel of professional beer judges came to the city and spent a week judging hundreds of entries in the annual beer competition.
When it was first held, in 1987, the competition had entries in just a dozen categories — this year there were 84, broken down further into 135 sub-genres. Winners were announced on Saturday morning, and there were several local winners.
DC Brau took home the Silver in Belgian- and French-Style Ale for the homebrew-originated Your Favorite Foreign Movie. Arlington’s Rock Bottom scored Gold for Nikki’s Gluten Free Honey Pale Ale (in the Gluten Free segment, of course), and Port City Brewing snagged a bronze in English-Style India Pale Ale for Monumental IPA.
Check out a full list of this year’s winners (and past winners) here, and let us know, do you agree with the judges’ decisions? Who would you have picked to win?
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