San Diegan brewers earned 50 medals, plus five honorable mentions, at the Los Angeles International Beer Competition, including three gold medals each for Chula Vista’s 3 Punk Ales and North Park-based Eppig Brewing. Resident and Second Chance each brought home two golds. Local results below:
Gold Medals (19)
- 3 Punk Ales – Everything Went Black (American-Style Black Ale)
- 3 Punk Ales – Neurotic (American-Style Sour Ale)
- 3 Punk Ales – This Charming Stout (Oatmeal Stout)
- AleSmith – Private Stock Ale (Old Ale or Strong Ale)
- Burning Beard – Banksy (Extra Special Bitter)
- Council – 3rd Anniversary Biere De Miel (Experimental Beer)
- Deft – Dawn of the Deft (Brown Porter)
- Eppig – Kottbusser (American-Style Wheat Beer)
- Eppig – Natural Bridge: Special Lager (American-Style or International-Style Pilsner)
- Eppig – Natural Bridge: Zwickelbier (Kellerbier/Zwickelbier)
- Home – Marzen of Our Lives (German-Style Maerzen)
- Intergalactic – Alpha Mensae (Other Belgian-Style Ale)
- Karl Strauss – Two Tortugas (Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale)
- Pizza Port Carlsbad – Zman (Export Stout)
- Resident – Saison Prestige (Wood-and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer)
- Resident – Tennessee Calling (Wood-and Barrel-Aged Beer)
- Second Chance – All You Need Is Love (Scotch Ale)
- Second Chance – Legally Red (American-Style Amber/Red Ale)
- Thorn – Gutter Clown (American-Style India Pale Ale)
Silver Medals (11)
- 2kids – Incredulous (Ordinary or Special Bitter)
- Belching Beaver – Peanut Butter Milk Stout (Specialty Beer)
- Booze Brothers – Buena Vista (American-Style India Pale Ale)
- Booze Brothers – Ginger Bloom (Herb and Spice Beer)
- Council – Broken Wand Boysenberry (American-Style Sour Ale)
- Deft – DoubleDeft Secret (Historical Beer)
- Mike Hess – My Other Vice (German-Style Sour Ale)
- Pizza Port Bressi Ranch – Liquid Mistletoe (Belgian-Style Tripel)
- Second Chance – Tabula Rasa Toasted Porter (Robust Porter)
- South Park – Baja 500 (Chili Pepper Beer)
- South Park – Totally Bollocks (English-Style Brown Ale)
Bronze Medals (20)
- AleSmith – Spezial Pils (German-Style Pilsner)
- Ballast Point – Aloha Sculpin (Australian-Style or International-Style Pale Ale)
- Ballast Point – Indra Kunindra aged in Bourbon Barrels (Wood-and Barrel-Aged Beer)
- Booze Brothers – Snow Blind (American-Style Wheat Beer with Yeast)
- Burning Beard – Panic at the Nunnery (Belgian-Style Tripel)
- Burning Beard – Roggen the Lightning (Rye Beer)
- Council – Beatitude Cherry (Belgian-Style Fruit Beer)
- Council – Nicene (Brett Beer)
- Deft – Austere Abbot (Other Belgian-Style Ale)
- Division 23 – Direct Drive Doppelbock (German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock)
- Eppig – Natural Bridge: Baltic Porter (Baltic-Style Porter)
- Home – Dr. Wu (American-Belgo-Style Ale)
- Intergalactic – Orion’s Stout (Oatmeal Stout)
- Legacy – Founding Fathers Nut Brown Ale (American-Style Brown Ale)
- North Park – Pierpont’s Reserve (Other Strong Beer)
- Pizza Port Carlsbad – Shagadellic Brown (English-Style Brown Ale)
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach – Bring the Chargers Bock (European-Style Dark Lager/Munich-Style Dunkel)
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach – Guillaume (Session Beer)
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach – Kung Fu Elvis (American-Style Strong Pale Ale)
- SouthNorte – Agavemente (Specialty Beer)
Honorable Mentions (5)
- AleSmith – Speedway Stout (Imperial Stout)
- AleSmith – Sublime Mexican Lager (American-Style Amber Lager or Dark Lager)
- Mike Hess – Steel Beach (American-Style or German-Style Light Lager)
- New English – Zumbar Chocolate Coffee Imperial Stout (Coffee Beer)
- Thorn – Barrio Lager (American-Style Lager or Ice Lager or Malt Liquor)
Additionally, Pizza Port’s San Clemente brewpub won a Bronze medal for Nerf Herder (English-Style Mild Ale) and Honorable Mention for Barrel Aged Dusk til Dawn (Wood-and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer). Full results available here.