San Diegan brewers earned 21 medals (eight first place/gold, six second place/silver, and seven third place/bronze) at the California State Fair Commercial Beer Competition. El Cajon’s Burning Beard topped the local medal count with five. View the full list of results here.
First Place
- Burning Beard – Panic At The Monastery (Trappist Quadrupel)
- Burning Beard – Wave of Phase (New England-Style IPA)
- Eppig Brewing – Eppig Special Lager (International Pale Lager)
- Pizza Port Bressi Ranch – Chronic (English-Style Pale Ale)
- Rip Current Brewing – Breakline Bock (Traditional German-Style Bock)
- Rock Bottom La Jolla – San Diego Sunset Blonde (Blonde or Golden Ale)
- Rock Bottom La Jolla – Siren Island Golden Ale (Belgian Blond Ale)
- South Park Brewing – Grassmarket (Scottish Export)
Second Place
- Burning Beard – American Wild With Tart Cherries (Fruit Lambic)
- Burning Beard – Get Thee To A Monastery (Trappist Dubbel)
- Eppig Brewing – Natural Bridge: Baltic Porter (Baltic-Style Porter)
- Kairoa Brewing – Cheeky Buggah (Belgian Blonde Ale)
- Societe Brewing Co. – The Coachman Session IPA (Session Beer)
- South Park Brewing – In The Meantime (English-Style India Pale Ale)
Third Place
- Burning Beard – Roggen The Lightning (German-Style Rye Ale)
- Eppig Brewing – Meister (American-Style Wheat Beer)
- Mike Hess Brewing – Habitus (Rye IPA)
- Pizza Port Ocean Beach – Junk In Da Trunkel Dunkel (Dunkelweizen)
- Rock Bottom La Jolla – 3 Pepper Ale (Chili Beer)
- Rock Bottom La Jolla – Surfer’s Solitude Red (Irish Red Ale)
- South Park Brewing – Munderstruck (European-Style Export/Dortmunder)