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GABF: Northern California winners in the craft brewing competition

By William Brand
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm in General.

More winners in the GABF craft brewing competition… The good news…almost all of these winners are bottled and can be found locally in the Bay Area.

Northern California brewers cleaned up in the American Style Pale Ale category:
Gold: Mission Street Pale Ale, Firestone-Walker, Paso Robles;
Silver: Drake’s San Leandro, 1500 Pale
Bronze: Firestone Pale 31, Firestone-Walker

Ditto in American Style India Pale Ale

Gold: Union Jack, Firestone-Walker

Silver: Blind Pig IPA, Russian River, Santa Rosa

And the rest….

Gold: Pyramid Berkeley, Pyramid Crystal Weizen, Pyramid Apricot Ale

Gold: Mad River, Blue Lake, Extra Pale Ale

Gold: Russian River, Redemption (Belgian and French-stle ale)

Gold: Third Street Aleworks, Santa Rosa, Blarney Sisters Dry Irish Stout.

Silver

Silver: Firehouse Grill & Brewery, Sunnyvale, Firehouse Porter

Silver: Firestone Walker, Paso Robles, Oktoberfest,

Silver: Sierra Nevada, Chico, Kolsch Style Ale

Silver: Anderson Valley, Boonville, Brother David’s Double (Belgian-style srong speciality ale)

Bronze

Bronze: Bear Republic, Healdsburg Double Aught (Bohemian -style pils), El Oso, (American style amber)

Bronze: FiftyFifty, Truckee, Imperial Stout,

Bronze: Schooner’s, Antioch, Oatmeal Stout

That’s all for now folks.

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