Straight Kick to the Scotch Ale – Urban Brew Labs – IllinoisĦ. Flavus Maximus Ale – Soul Fire Brewing – Texasĥ. Breaking Bud IPA – Knee Deep Brewing – CaliforniaĤ. Purple Floors and Dinosaurs IPA – Double Branch Brewing – Floridaģ. Menace to Sobriety Stout – Hank Hudson Brewing – New YorkĢ. This year’s Top 10 Favorite Beer Names included:ġ. Open beer judges always enjoy the creativity behind the names that breweries demonstrate for their products, selected subjectively – based on laughter volume - at the conclusion of the judging. Open Beer Championships is blind judges know only the categories, not the names or locations of beers being judged. and Canada, at locations including Atlanta, GA Oxford, Ohio and Welland, Ontario. Pontoon Brewing in Atlanta, GA earned the inaugural Black is Beautiful gold.ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, judging was held in both the U.S. Open Beer Championships will donate 100 percent of the entry fees in this category to a foundation or organization that supports equity, inclusion, and justice, which will be determined by the gold medal winner. Open board of directors sampled several outstanding imperial stouts. Homebrewer Justin McClenahan Silver Spring, Maryland, won a national bronze medal for his Baltic porter.įor the 2020 competition, a special Black is Beautiful Imperial Stout category was added earlier this year after U.S. Open Beer Championship judges more beer styles than any other competition in the world and is the only major beer competition that includes beers from professional breweries and gold medal winners from the National American Homebrewing Association competition. Narrow Path Brewing out of Loveland, Ohio took third place overall, earning three gold medals for their Barrel-Aged Cerise Sauvage, English Dissent Mild Ale and Tri-Kettle Tripel. Monday Night Garage Brewing out of Atlanta, Georgia placed second, winning three gold medals and a silver, all from beers judged best in the barrel-aged category, which includes Rum Barrel Aged, Blended Barrel-Aged, Barrel-Aged Strong Stout Specialty and Barrel Aged Dark beers. Deschutes’ silver medal winners are The Ages Barrel Aged Sour Ale and Obsidian Stout. Deschutes’ gold medal winners included Wowza! Light IPA, Home at Port Aged in a Port Barrel and Lil’ Squeezy Juicy Ale. Open Beer Championship’s 12-year history, having also won the honor for 20. Deschutes is the first three-time Grand Champion winner in the U.S. This competition is the only one to include beers from professional breweries and beers from gold medal winners from the National AHA Homebrew Competition.ĭeschutes Brewery of Bend Oregon is the 2020 Grand National Champion, winning three gold and two silver medals. Breweries from Luxembourg to Louisiana sent in more than 6,000 beers representing over 140 different styles for the 2020 U.S.
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