The Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal Winners

A win at the GABF competition is a HUGE deal. Winning a Gold, a Silver or a Bronze medal in any one of this year’s 98 beer style categories can turbo-charge careers and put a new brewery or brewpub on the national stage.

But the Gold Medal in particular is almost sacred…and here’s who took the gold this year!

American-style wheat

Sweet as Pacific Ale / GoodLife Brewing / Bend, Oregon

American-style wheat with yeast

Fuzztail  / Sunriver Brewing / Sunriver, Oregon

American-style fruit beer

Razz against the Machine / Little Machine Brewing / Denver, Colorado

Fruit wheat beer 

Sierra Blanca Cherry Wheat / Sierra Blanca / Moriarty, New Mexico

Belgian-style fruit beer                                                                         

Blood Orange Witt / Refuge Brewing / Temecula, California

Pumpkin/squash beer

Pumpkinator / St. Arnold Brewing / Houston, Texas

Field beer

C Porter / LauderAle / Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Chili beer

Ghost Pepper Imperial Stout / ZwanzigZ Brewing / Columbus, Indiana

Herb/spice beer

Lemon Balm & Beets Wheat / New Sarum Brewing / Salisbury, North Carolina

Chocolate beer

Imperial Smoked Porter with cacao nibs / Joseph James Brewing / Henderson, Nevada

Coffee beer

Heritage Coffee Brown Ale / Alaskan Brewing / Juneau, Alaska

Coffee stout/porter

Speargun Coffee Milk Stout / Snake River Brewing / Jackson, Wyoming

Specialty beer

Barrel-aged Sweet Potato Soufflé Rye / Odd Side Ales / Grand Haven, Michigan

Rye beer

Unite The Clans / Third Spice Brewing / Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Honey ale

Orange Blossom Common / Karl Strauss Brewing / Carlsbad, California

Session beer

Guillaume / Pizza Port Ocean Beach / San Diego, California

Session IPA

Rome City IPA / Brew Hub / Lakeland, Florida

Other strong beer

Imperial Cream Ale / Nexus Brewery / Albuquerque, New Mexico

Experimental beer

Source Series Opuntia / Carolina Bauernhaus / Anderson, South Carolina

Fresh or wet hop ale

Wet Hop Melvin / Melvin Brewing / Alpine, Wyoming

Historical beer

Waverly Tulip / Square Pegs Brewing / Alamosa, Colorado

Gluten free beer

Dark Ale / Ground Breaker Brewing / Portland, Oregon

American Belgo-style ale

Saison du Bois / Lynwood Brewing / Raleigh, North Carolina

American-style sour ale

Dam Wild: Hops and Lemon Verbena / Flat Tail Brewing / Corvallis, Oregon

Brett beer

Fancy Pants / Jessup Farm Barrel House / Fort Collins, Colorado

Mixed culture Brett beer

Funk Yo Couch / Wiley Roots Brewing / Greeley, Colorado

Wood & Barrel-aged beer

Porter aged on Palo Santo wood / Spellbound Brewing / Mount Holly, New Jersey

Wood/barrel-aged strong beer

Hurly Burly Port Barrel-aged Narleywine / Out Of Bounds Brewing / Rocklin, California

Wood/barrel-aged strong stout

Medianoche / Weldwerks Brewing / Greeley, Colorado

Wood/barrel-aged sour beer

Plum creek Sour /  Rockyard American Grill / Castle Rock, Colorado

Fruited wood/barrel aged sour beer

Zoned Ag Apricot / Corralitos Brewing / Watsonville, California

Aged beer

La Muerta  / Freetail Brewing / San Antonio, Texas

Kellerbier or Zwickelbier

Zwickelbier / Red Rock Brewing / Salt Lake City, Utah

Smoked beer

So Long and Thanks for all the (Smoked) Fish / Sandlot Brewery / Denver

American-style pilsener or international-style pilsener

Rocket 100 / The Austin Beer Garden Brewing / Austin, Texas

Light lager

Super Awesome Lager / Austin Beerworks / Austin, Texas

American-style lager or malt liquor

Mexican Lager / Lone Tree Brewing / Lone Tree, Colorado

American-style cream ale

Buckle Bunny / Eureka Heights Brewing / Houston

American-style amber lager

Auburn Lager / Mad Anthony Brewing /Fort Wayne, Indiana

German-style pilsener

Zoigl Pils / Zoiglhaus Brewing / Portland, Oregon

Bohemian-style pilsener

Velvet Revolution / The Austin Beer Garden Brewing /Austin, Texas

Munich-style helles

Penn Gold / Pennsylvania Brewing / Pittsburgh. PA

Dortmunder or German-style Oktoberfest

Dortmunder / Lupulin Brewing / Big Lake, Minnesota

Vienna-style lager

Gustav / Taft’s Ale House / Cincinnati, Ohio

German-style Marzen

Asheville Lager / Wedge Brewing / Asheville, N .C.

Munich-style dunkel or European-style dark lager

Chuckanut Dunkel / Chuckanut Brewing / Bellingham, Washington

Dark lager

Mischievous Black / Six Ten Brewing / Tampa, Florida

Bock

Low Boy / On Tour Brewing / Chicago, IL

German-style doppelbock

Wobblor / Crooked Lane Brewing / Auburn, California

Baltic-style porter

Public Enemy Baltic Porter / Dust Bowl Brewing / Turlock, California

Golden or blonde ale

Boone Creek Blonde / Appalachian Mountain Brewing / Portsmouth, New Hampshire

German-style Kölsch

Chuckanut Kölsch Style / Chuckanut Brewing / Bellingham, Washington

English-style summer ale

Organic California Blonde Ale / Eel River Brewing / Fortuna, California

Classic English-style pale ale

Mr. Kite’s Pale Ale / Social Kitchen & Brewery / San Francisco

English-style IPA

Punjabi / CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing / Fort Collins, Colorado

Australian-style or international-style pale ale

Triumvirate / Rueben’s Brews Taproom / Seattle

American-style pale ale

Monterrey Street / Central Coast Brewing / San Luis Obispo, California

American-style strong ale

Hubert MPA / Melvin Brewing / Alpine, Wyoming

Imperial IPA

Manta Ray / Ballast Point Brewing / San Diego

American-style amber or red ale

F-Town Amber / Copper Club Brewing / Fruita, Colorado

Double red ale

Hop Donkey / Auburn Ale House / Auburn, California

Imperial red ale

Cinder Beast / Sunriver Brewing / Sunriver, Oregon

English-style mild ale

Hold The Reins / Brink Brewing / Cincinnati, Ohio

Ordinary or special bitter

Three Tun / Brew Hub / Lakeland, Florida

Extra special bitter

14 degree ESB / Bent Paddle Brewing / Duluth, Minnesota

Scottish-style ale

Taildraggers Clan-Destine / Saddle Mountain Brewing / Goodyear, Arizona

Irish-style red ale

Ridgetop Red / Silver Ciuty Brewing / Bremerton, Washington

English-style brown ale

Boulder Garden Brown / Orlison Brewing / Spokane, Washington

American-style brown ale

Bull Creek Brown Ale / Springfield Brewing / Springfield, Missouri

American-style black ale

Hoppa Emeritus / Beachwood BBQ & Brewing / Long Beach, California

Berliner-style weisse

Kalliope / Captain Fatty’s / Goleta, California

Leipzig-style Gose or Contemporary Gose

Mermaid’s Scorn / Benchtop Brewing / Norfolk, Virginia

German-style alt bier

Glacier Ale / Red Lodge Ales / Red Lodge, Montana

South-German-style Hefeweizen

Hefeweizen / Gordon Biersch Brewery / Broomfield, Colorado

German-style wheat ale

AlpenGlow / Fat Head’s Brewery & Saloon / North Olmsted, Ohio

Belgian-style blonde ale or pale ale

Squatters Hell’s Keep / Utah Brewers Cooperative / Salt Lake City, Utah

Belgian-style Witbier

Wild Wacky Witt / Moon River Brewing / Savannah, Georgia

Classic Saison

Saison / Funkwerks / Fort Collins, Colorado

Specialty Saison

Rye Saison / Base Camp Brewing / Portland, Oregon

Belgian/French-style ale

Grisette Summer Ale / Sly Fox Brewing / Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Belgian-style lambic or sour ale

El Sur / Casa Agria Specialty Ales / Oxnard, California

Belgian-style dubbel or quadruple

#Quadgoals / 515 Brewing / Clive, Iowa

Belgian-style tripel

Tripel Dog Dare / Big Dog’s Brewing / Las Vegas

Belgian-style strong specialty ale

Amandus / Lazarus Brewing / Austin, Texas

Other Belgian-style ale

Witty Moron / Stone Brewing / San Diego

Brown porter

Porter / Back East Brewing / Bloomfield, Connecticut

Robust porter

Tabula Rasta Toasted Porter / Second Chance Beer / San Diego

Classic Irish-style dry stout

Bearded Seal / Pinthouse Pizza North / Austin, Texas

Export stout

Correspondent / Wander Brewing / Bellingham, Washington

American-style stout

Cholo Stout / Marble Brewery / Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sweet stout or cream stout

Oatmeal Milk Stout / Finkel & Garf Brewing / Boulder, Colorado

Oatmeal stout

Wall of Sound / Stereo Brewing / Placentia, California

Imperial stout

The Russian / 2SP Brewing / Aston Pennsylvania

Scotch ale

Real Heavy / Real Ale Brewing / Blanco, Texas

Old ale or strong ale

10&2 Barleywine / Fifty West Brewing / Cincinnati, Ohio

Barleywine style ale

Shipfaced / Silver Harbor Brewing / St. Joseph, Michigan

American-style IPA

Prairie Madness / Hailstorm Brewing / Tinley Park, Illinois

 

                                 American Craft Beer would like congratulate ALL of the 2017 GABF winners (now please send us beer).

 

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