Well, life is now back to normal. GABF has come and gone and I managed to survive the thrill ride of heading to Denver. For those of you who are beer fanatics (being on this blog I hope you are) do yourself a HUGE favor and at some point make the pilgrimage. I was a GABF virgin and there wasn’t one aspect of the trip that failed to impress. It easily lived up to the hype. The biggest wow factor isn’t the amount of beer, brewers or beer brethren it’s that an event this massive runs soooo smooth. Truly amazing!
Since most of you have already read the details on all the big winners I’ll just give a quick hooray to the breweries that did PA proud.
Stoudt’s Brewing: Heifer-in-Wheat (Gold)
Triumph Brewing: Kellerbier (Silver), Dunkel Lager (Silver)
Bullfrog Brewery: The Jaspers (Bronze)
McKenzie Brew House: Saison Vautour (Gold)
Troegs: Flying Mouflan (Gold), Troegenator (Silver), HopBack Amber (Silver)
Iron Hill (Credited to DE but brewed in Media): Pig Iron Porter (Gold), Russian Imperial Stout (Gold)
Weyerbacher: Imperial Pumpkin (Bronze)
The sad surprise was that Delaware and New Jersey were completely shut out. Even the imaginative creations of Sam Calagione didn’t manage to bring home metal for Dogfish. Overall the east didn’t fair as well as the west. With California netting 56 awards and Colorado taking 42 they were easily this year's big winners. More on all the winners here.
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