{"id":22857,"date":"2019-10-05T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2019-10-08T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:39:01","slug":"san-diego-winners-from-2019-gabf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2019\/10\/05\/san-diego-winners-from-2019-gabf\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego winners from 2019 GABF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nGreat\nAmerican Beer Festival<\/strong><\/a> is both the largest, most\nrespected annual beer fest and professional brewing competition in the country.\nHeld each fall in Denver, Colorado, it is organized by national trade\norganization, the Brewers Association<\/strong><\/a>.\nThis year\u2019s edition\u2014the 38th in the event\u2019s history\u2014was held this weekend and,\nearlier this morning, winners were announced from the competition component. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the BA, this year\u2019s competition included 9,497 entries from 2,295 U.S. breweries located in all 50 states. There was a total of 107 different style categories, with an average of 80 entries per category. It took a total of 322 judges to go through and rank all of those beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, San Diego County breweries brought home a total of 18 medals\u2014eight gold, five silver and five bronze. Coronado Brewing<\/a> <\/strong>and SouthNorte Brewing<\/a><\/strong>\u2014sister companies with shared ownership\u2014earned two medals each. The latter took gold in the American-Style Cream Ale category for its Sea Se\u00f1or Mex Lager and silver in Specialty Beer for the second time with its Agavamente, while Coronado took silver for its Freebooter Barleywine and bronze for its Weekend Vibes IPA. That last medal was in the category with the second-most entries (342), American-Style India Pale Ale. Pizza Port<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s family of breweries also accounted for three medals, golds in the Ordinary or Special Bitter category for Chronic Amber Ale (at the company\u2019s production brewery in Bressi Ranch) and Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout for Solana Stout (from its Solana Beach brewpub) plus another gold in Aged Beer for A Creator\u2019s Calling (from associated brand, The Lost Abbey<\/a><\/strong>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe\nSan Diego Brewers Guild is extremely proud of San Diego\u2019s consistently strong\nshowing at GABF,\u201d says Kris Anacleto<\/strong>, vice president of the guild and\nCEO of Booze Brothers Brewing Co.<\/a><\/strong>\nin Vista. \u201cIt is because of our craft beer community\u2019s pioneering spirt and innovation\nthat San Diego\u2019s craft beer legacy continues to thrive in today\u2019s hyper-competitive\nnational landscape. Congratulations to all of this year\u2019s winners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San\nDiego has a long history of showing well at the Great American Beer Festival.\nIn recent years, local operations have earned 16 (2018), 14 (2017), 18 (2016)\nand 19 (2015) at the annual competition. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfollowing is a full list of local winners\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold Medals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rye Beer:<\/strong> Rye Dawn, Breakwater Brewing, Oceanside<\/em>
Non-Alcohol Beer:<\/strong> Enough Said N\/A, Two Roots Brewing, Kearny Mesa<\/em>
Aged Beer:<\/strong> A Creator\u2019s Calling, The Lost Abbey, San Marcos<\/em>
American-Style Cream Ale: <\/strong>Sea Se\u00f1or Mex Lager, SouthNorte Brewing, Bay Park<\/em>
Ordinary or Special Bitter: <\/strong>Chronic Amber Ale, Pizza Port Brewing, Carlsbad<\/em>
Robust Porter: <\/strong>Tabula Rasa, Second Chance Beer Co., Carmel Mountain Ranch<\/em>
Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout:<\/strong> Solana Stout, Pizza Port, Solana Beach<\/em>
Old or Strong Ale: <\/strong>Private Stock Ale, AleSmith Brewing, Miramar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silver Medals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specialty Beer:<\/strong> Agavamente, SouthNorte Brewing, Bay Park
Contemporary American-Style Pilsener:<\/strong> Citra Pils, Saint Archer Brewery, Miramar
American-style Black Ale: <\/strong>Bowie Knife, Thunderhawk Alements, Miramar
American-Style Stout: <\/strong>Cimmerian Portal, Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens \u2013 Liberty Station, Point Loma
Barley Wine-Style Ale: <\/strong>Freebooter Barleywine, Coronado Brewing, Coronado<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bronze Medals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American-Style IPA:<\/strong> Weekend Vibes IPA, Coronado Brewing, Bay Park<\/em>
American-style Brown Ale: <\/strong>Browner Than Ivan, Chula Vista Brewery, Chula Vista<\/em>
Belgian- and French-Style Ale: <\/strong>Industrial Gris, Resident Brewing, Downtown<\/em>
Belgian-Style Dubbel: <\/strong>OB Bubble Dubbel, Kilowatt Brewing, Kearny Mesa<\/em>
Imperial Stout: <\/strong>Rescue Buoy Imperial Stout, Rip Current Brewing, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Great American Beer Festival is both the largest, most respected annual beer fest and professional brewing competition in the country. Held each fall in Denver, Colorado, it is organized by national trade organization, the Brewers Association. This year\u2019s edition\u2014the 38th in the event\u2019s history\u2014was held this weekend and, earlier this morning, winners were announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_1304.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"Local Great American Beer Festival medal count hits 18","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-5WF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}