2022 U.S. Open Beer Championship

Monday Night Brewing along with several other distribution partners received accolades for their submissions to the annual U.S. Open Beer Championship competition.

From the U.S. Open Beer Championship website, July 11, 2022 – The annual U.S. Open Beer Competition returned to its normal schedule at its new event center in Oxford, Ohio following two years of pandemic-related schedule changes. Breweries sent more than 9,000 brews representing over 150 styles of beer to be judged, along with home brews that have medaled at the 2021 American Homebrew Association’s national competition.

The complete winner’s list can be found at U.S.

Welcome Second City Distillery

Second City Distillery  is reclaiming the culture of small-scale distilling as a craft, returning to the use of quality corn and fresh, local ingredients.

While major distillers use the entire run of a batch, the distillery, named for its hometown Augusta, the second city of Georgia, uses only the “heart” of each batch to yield the best spirits possible. Second City products are distilled, bottled, and packaged by hand at the distillery. In Summer 2022, the distillery entered into a partnership with Leon Farmer & Company to distribute its brands to Athens and Northeast Georgia.

2021 Brewery of the Year

Wild Leap Craft Beverages has been named Beer Connoisseur magazine’s 2021 Brewery of the Year in the 2021 Official Review.

From Beer Connoisseur & Wild Leap:

Wild Leap  submitted an incredible 12 beers in the 2021 Official Review that achieved a rating of World Class or Exceptional. The brewery’s record-breaking three World Class-rated beers in a single year were Lone Buffalo, Alpha Abstraction Vol. 15 and Too Pure To Be Pink. This marks the first time in the twelve-year history of the Official Review that a brewery received three World Class ratings in a calendar year.

2021 U.S. Open Beer Championship

Each year some of the breweries in our award-winning portfolio submit a variety of beer styles to the U.S. Open Beer Championship competition. This year Leon Farmer & Company is pleased to announce that several of our distribution partners were awarded medals for their submissions. 

From the U.S. Open Beer Championship website, September 6, 2021 –Breweries from Antioquia, Columbia to Columbia, South Carolina sent more than 8000 beers representing over 140 different styles to the 2021 U.S. Open Beer Championship. Today, the U.S. Open Beer Championship announces the medal winners and Grand National Champion.

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2021 GABF Winners

Congratulations to each of our brewing partners who won medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival.

*Press Release provided by GABF*

Boulder, Colo. • September 10, 2021— The Brewers Association (BA) awarded 290 medals to 265 breweries across the country during the 2021 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) awards ceremony in the largest competition to date. The best beers in 97 beer categories covering 175 different beer styles (including all subcategories) were awarded gold, silver, and bronze medals during the 35th edition of the celebrated competition.

Judging took place in 34 sessions over 17 days with strict health and safety measures in place.