Bron Yr Aur Brewing among the top winners at this year’s competition
Event organizers recently announced the winners of this year’s Best of Craft Beer Awards. Washington breweries enjoyed an impressive showing again this year (listed below). Among Washington’s winners, Bron Yr Aur Brewing of Naches led the way with a particularly impressive showing, bringing home five medals. There were only a couple other breweries in the competition who did better than that.
Held each winter in Bend, Oregon, the Best of Craft Beer Awards is described as the nation’s fastest-growing beer competition, inviting breweries from across the nation to submit beer for judging. It’s not as big or prestigious as the Great American Beer Festival, but it is still significant.
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- Over 2,000 beers were submitted to the competition from breweries across the country. (International submissions are also permitted.)
- 162 breweries from 33 states took home medals in 90 categories.
- A total of 262 medals were awarded by a panel of BJCP judges and guest judges from the craft beer industry.
- The most-contested category was American Style IPA with 125 entries. Next, the Hazy or Juicy IPA category saw 97 entries. The least-contested category was American-Style Black Ale, which saw just nine entries. On average, about 26 beers submitted in each of the 90 categories.
Before you get your barley in a bunch, remember that we do not know what breweries did not entered the competition. A brewery must proactively enter these competitions. Maybe your favorite Mixed-Culture Brett Beer was not even in the running for a medal. That’s just the way these things work. Breweries pick and choose which competitions to enter; some breweries choose to abstain from competitions.
Here are the Washington breweries that earned hardware at the 2019 Best of Craft Beer Awards.
Aslan Brewing Co
Silver – American-Style Light Lager – Classic
Gold – Specialty Saison – Frances Farmer
Black Raven Brewing Company
Gold – Herb and Spice Beer – Festivus
Bron Yr Aur Brewing Co.
Gold – American-Style Cream Ale – Beaver Deceiver Cream Ale
Silver – American-Style Stout -Gentlemens Stout
Bronze – Robust Porter – Oak Creek Porter
Silver – Scottish-Style Ale -Bonnie Doon Scottish Ale
Gold – Vienna-Style Lager – Vienna Lager
Brothers Cascadia Brewing
Bronze – Session India Pale Ale – Best Day Ever
Dru Bru
Silver – Munich-Style Dunkel or European-Style Dark Lager – Bru Ski Patrol
Fremont Brewing
Bronze – Berliner-Style Weisse – Berliner Weisse
Ghostfish Brewing Company
Bronze Gluten-Free Beer – Peak Buster – Double IPA
Icicle Brewing Company
Bronze – American-Style Brown Ale – Timbertown Brown
Silver – Field Beer – Dark Persuasion
Loowit Brewing Company
Silver – German-Style Doppelbock – Chance the Raptor
Silver – Irish-Style Red Ale – Two-Sixteen Red Ale
Lowercase Brewing
Bronze – Rye Beer or German-Style Rye Ale – Rye iPA
Old Schoolhouse Brewery
Gold – Brown Porter – Big Valley Brown
Silver – Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale – Eddy Hopper
Ravenna Brewing Co
Silver- American-Style Imperial Porter – Lion Tamer Porter
Reuben’s Brews
Gold – Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout – Dry Stout
Gold – Rye Beer or German-Style Rye Ale – Roggenbier
Steam Donkey Brewing Co.
Bronze – Specialty Saison – Lavenduala
Stoup Brewing
Gold – Munich-Style Dunkel or European-Style Dark Lager – Dunkel Lager
Bronze – American-Style Strong Pale Ale – Citra IPA
Bronze – American-Style Pale Ale – Mosaic Pale
Ten Pin Brewing
Gold – Oatmeal Stout – Ten Pin Brewing – Snake Eye Stout
Silver – American-Style Imperial Stout – Black Eyed Katy Imperial Stout
Click here to see the complete list of competition winners (all states).
