There’s the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup, and now California has its own competition. Capping an epic two days of panels, trade shows and tastings at the CA Craft Beer Summit in Long Beach was the California Craft Brewers Cup, complete with an awards ceremony and medals awarded in 61 categories.
And whoa, Nellie, Orange County and Long Beach breweries won quite a bit. Notably, against more than 181 entries, GameCraft Brewing took gold with its Pay to Win in the most-entered category for American-style IPA. Brewer Andrew Moy, who saw success at the national level when he was at Riip Beer Co., earned another gold in coffee beer for GameCraft with There Is No Cow Level. Meanwhile, TAPS Brewery in Tustin nabbed two gold and two bronze medals for its well-known Euro-centric beers.
Here are the rest of the results!
GOLD
Anaheim Brewery: 1888 (historical beer)
GameCraft Brewing: Pay to Win (IPA), There Is No Cow Level (coffee beer)
TAPS Brewery: Don’t Drop That Dun Dun Dunkel (Euro dark lager), Krystal Clear (German-style wheat)
Unsung Brewing Co.: Buzzman (cream ale)
SILVER
Ambitious Ales: Central Perk (coffee beer)
Beachwood Brewing: Vanilla Fudge (chocolate beer)
Chapman Crafted Beer: Absofruitly! Raspberry (wild ale)
Stereo Brewing: Summer Sun (Berliner Weisse), I’m Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (chili beer)
BRONZE
Beachwood Brewing: Tart Simpson (Berliner Weisse)
Noble Ale Works: Nose Candy (IPA session beer)
Phantom Ales: Phantom Doppelbock
Pizza Port San Clemente: Dusk Til Dawn (chocolate beer)
Riip Beer Co.: Marooned 12 (Belgian strong)
TAPS Brewery: Poseidon (double IPA), Light (American lager)
Greg Nagel has been writing about beer since 2011, is an avid homebrewer of wine, cider, and beer, is a certified Cicerone Beer Server, level 1 WSET in Wine, a podcaster with the Four Brewers Show, and runs a yearly beer festival called Firkfest happening on June 29th in Anaheim!
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