The Great American Beer Festival starts today in Denver.
Last year, San Diego County breweries won 15 medals (7 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze) at the competition portion of the event. This year the ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 9:30 a.m. SD time; it will be broadcast live on the internet at this link.
Two new beer styles have been added this year: Adambier and Grodzisz, while two award categories have also been added: Very Small Brewing Company of the Year (less than 1,000 barrels produced in 2012), and Mid-Size Brewpub of the Year. These awards are determined by points accrued in competition, and each brewery can enter up to 10 beers. Good luck to our local brewers!
Here’s what San Diego breweries will be pouring during the festival sessions:
- AleSmith (Horny Devil, IPA, Old Numbskull, Vietnamese Speedway Stout, Wee Heavy)
- Ballast Point (Even Keel San Diego Session Ale, Grunion Pale Ale, Longfin Lager, Navigator Doppelbock, Sculpin IPA)
- Benchmark (Blond, Brown, IPA, Oatmeal Stout, Wee Heavy)
- Coronado’s brewpub (Berry the Hatchet, Black Sails, El Borracho Brown, Rauch-Sham-Bo, Rye Dogg IPA)
- Coronado’s production facility (Blue Bridge Coffee Stout, IPA, Island IPA, Mermaid’s Red, Orange Avenue Wit)
- Green Flash (East Village Pilsner, Flanders Drive, Green Bullet, Double Stout, Trippel, Le Freak, Little Freak, Rayon Vert, Silva Stout, West Coast IPA)
- Karl Strauss (Pintail Pale Ale, Red Trolley Ale, Tower 10 IPA, Windansea Wheat, Wreck Alley Imperial Stout)
- Karl Downtown (Black’s Beach, Four Scowling Owls, Doppelbock, Tower 20 IIPA, Two Tortugas)
- Latitude 33 (The Pasha’s Rye Brown, Vanilla’s Porter)
- Mission (Armada IPA, Carrack Imperial Red Ale, Dark Seas Imperial Stout, El Conquistador Extra Pale Ale, Shipwrecked Double IPA)
- Modern Times (Black House, Blazing World, Fortunate Islands, Lomaland, Oneida)
- Monkey Paw (Bonobos, I5, Low and Slow, Sweet Georgia Brown)
- Oceanside Ale Works (American Strong Ale, DUDE, Elevation 83, Pier View Pale, San Luis Rey Red)
- Pizza Port Bressi Ranch (Brown, Chronic Ale, Ponto Session IPA, Swami’s IPA)
- Pizza Port Carlsbad (Attrition, Carlsbad Raceway, Deez Smokin’ Nutz, First In, Shagadelic Brown)
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach (Bacon and Eggs, Flying Hawaiian, Kung Fu Elvis, Norsewoman IPA, Z Man Stout)
- Pizza Port Solana Beach (Dawn Patrol Dark, May the Port Be With You, Old Boneyards, The Kook IPA, Whale’s Tails)
- Port Brewing (Board Meeting Brown Ale, Hop 15, Hot Rocks Lager, Old Viscosity, Older Viscosity)
- Rock Bottom La Jolla (Moonlight Porter)
- Saint Archer (American Stout, Blonde Ale, IPA, Pale Ale)
- Stone Brewing Co. (2013 Stone ESPRESSO Imperial Russian Stout, 2013 Stone Old Guardian OAK-SMOKED Barley Wine, Drew Curtis/Wil Wheaton/Greg Koch Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout, Stone 17 Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA, Stone Enjoy by IPA, Stone IPA, Stone Levitation Ale, Stone Reason Be Damned Belgian Style Abbey Ale aged in Red Wine Barrels, Stone Ruination IPA Grapefruit Edition, Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale)
- Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Liberty Station (Angry & Wit IPA, Burton Snatch IPA, Cimmerian Portal, Lifeblood, Stone Sublimely Self-Conscious Ale)
- The Lost Abbey (Duck Duck Gooze, Framboise de Amorosa, Red Poppy, Saints Devotion, Saison Blanc)