Category: Beer News
Posted by Melody Baetens (The Detroit News) on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:41 PMMichigan beers do well at the 2009 Great American Beer Festival
Over the weekend the 28th Annual Great American Beer Festival took place in Denver, CO. The fest invites beer industry professionals from around the world to blindly taste beers from a variety of categories and judge them. The GABF features more than 1900 beers from 400 breweries across the country.
Here's how Michigan's breweries did in this year's competition.
Gold Medal: Arcadia Ales' Cereal Killer Barleywine in the category of wood- and barrel-aged strong beer.
Silver Medals: Big Rock Chop House & Brewery's Red Rock in the category of Belgian-style lambic or sour ale.
Shorts Brewing Co.'s Bloody Beer in the category of experimental beer.
Redwood Brewing Co.'s Cream Stout in the category of sweet stout
Bronze Medals: Bastone Brewery's Saison Du Bastone in the category of French- and Belgian-style saison.
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales' Bam Bier in the category of session beer.
Kuhnhenn Brewing Co.'s 4th Dementia Old Ale in the category of old ale or strong ale.
