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. A total of 170 judges evaluated 9,680 entries from 2,192 breweries from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The awards ceremony was held at the Bellco Theatre in Denver on Friday evening during the Craft Brewers Conference and was livestreamed on The Brewing Network.
To allow for the fall hop harvest and beer production, and to include Fresh Hop beers in this prestigious competition, 78 Fresh Hop Beer category entries will compete in early October, with winners announced Friday, October 15.
“Despite being forced to cancel the festival portion of GABF, our brewing community rallied together to make this year’s GABF competition one for the books—our largest competition judged to date,” said Chris Swersey, competition director, Great American Beer Festival. “Judges continue to be impressed with the quality and innovation of all entries they evaluated. The Brewers Association is proud to honor this year’s deserving winners. We look forward to celebrating in person together next year.”
GABF 2020 Competition Statistics
- 34th edition of the GABF competition
- 8,806 beers judged
- 1,720 breweries in the competition from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C.
- 115 judges from 21 states
- Average number of competition beers entered in each category: 97
- Category with the highest number of entries: Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale (377)
- 272 total medals awarded
- 240 medal-winning breweries
- 337 first-time GABF entrants
- 19 first-time GABF winners
Leon Farmer & Company is pleased to announce that several of our distribution partners were awarded medals for their beer submissions in this year’s competition!
Deschutes Brewery
- Silver – Dee Wright Imperial Brown, Other Strong Beer
Elysian Brewing
- Gold – Night Owl, Pumpkin Beer; available for the fall season in Northeast Georgia
Green Man Brewery
- Gold – Green Man Porter, Robust Porter; available year-round in Northeast Georgia
Tucker Brewing
- Gold – Tucker Lager, Light Lager; available year-round in Northeast Georgia
Wicked Weed Brewing
- Silver – Freak of Nature DIPA, Imperial India Pale Ale; available year-round in Northeast Georgia
- Bronze – TransAmLam, Belgian-Style Sour Ale
The complete winner’s list can be found at GABF Winners List.
Photo provided by Wicked Weed Brewing.
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