May 27th, 2008
Craft Brewers Festival & Competition Results 2008
Craft Brewers Festival & Competition Results 2008(Best of Show will be announced at the Craft Brewers Festival onJune 21)
San Diego Brewers Guild Member Stats
SDBG won Award Ribbons in 18 of the 27 Categories
SDBG took 12 of the 27 Gold’s (45%)
SDBG took 35 of the 81 total Ribbon’s given out (43%)
SDBG had 11 Brewery Members win awards
3 European Amber LagerMission Brewery A- Vienna Lager Mission Vienna Lager 2 6 Light Hybrid BeerMission Brewery C- Kolsch Mission Blonde 2Pizza Port-San Clemente B- Blonde Ale Trestles Golden 3 7 Amber Hybrid BeerMission Brewery C- Dusseldorf Altbier Mission Amber 1 8 English Pale AlePizza Port-San Clemente C- Extra Special/Strong Bitter The Ripper 3 9 Scottish & Irish AleAleSmith Brewing Co E- Strong Scotch Ale Wee Heavy 1Pizza Port-San Clemente D- Irish Red Ale Luck O the Irish 2 10.2 American Amber and Brown AlePizza Port-Carlsbad B- American Amber Ale Sharkbite Red 2 11 English Brown AlePizza Port-Carlsbad C- Northern English Brown Ale Good Grief 1Pizza Port-Solana Beach A- Mild Dawn Patrol Dark 2
12 PorterAleSmith Brewing Co C- Baltic Porter Decadence 2007 1Lightning Brewery C- Baltic Porter Black Lightning Porter 2 13 StoutPort Brewing Co F- Russian Imperial Stout Lost Abbey Serpent Stout 1Pizza Port-Carlsbad E- American Stout Sticky Stout 3 14.1 India Pale AleGreen Flash Brewing Co. B- American IPA West Coast I P A 1Pizza Port-Carlsbad B- American IPA Wipeout I P A 2Pizza Port Solana Beach B- American IPA Swami’s IPA HM 14.2 Double IPACoronado Brewing Co C- Imperial IPA Idiot IPA 1Pizza Port-Carlsbad C- Imperial IPA Poor Man’s I P A 2Alpine Beer Co C- Imperial IPA Pure Hoppiness 3 15 German Wheat & Rye BeerMission Brewery A- Weizen/Weissbier Mission Hefeweizen 1Pizza Port-San Clemente A- Weizen/Weissbier T-Street Wheat 3 16 Belgian & French AlePort Brewing Co E- Belgian Specialty Ale Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi 2 17 Sour AleAlpine Beer Co D- Straight unblended Lambic Briscoe 1Port Brewing Co E- Gueuze Lost Abbey Cable Car 2Port Brewing Co B- Flanders Red Ale Lost Abbey Red Poppy 3 19 Strong AleStone Brewing Co C- American Barleywine Double Bastard Ale 1Pizza Port-Solana Beach C- American Barleywine Shark Attack 2Lightning Brewery A- Old Ale Old Tempest Ale 3 21 Spice/Herb/Vegatable BeerCoronado Brewing Co A- Spice, Herb or Veg. Beer Orange Ave Ale 2Alpine Beer Co A- Spice, Herb or Veg. Beer Willy Vanilly 3 22 Smoke Flavored & Wood-aged BeerBallast Point A- Classic Rauchbier Abandon Ship 1Port Brewing Co C- Wood-Aged Beer Older Viscosity 2 23 Specialty BeerBallast Point Victory At Sea 1Port Brewing Co Veritas 003 2