The 2024 Great American Beer Festival Competition Winners

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A win at the Great American Beer Festival competition is a BIG deal. Taking a gold, silver or bronze medal in any one of this year’s beer categories can put a new brewery on the map and reaffirm the brewing skills of industry leaders that sometimes get overlooked.

The 2024 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awarded 300 medals to the best commercial breweries and cideries in the US. Presented annually by the national craft beer trade organization, the Brewers Association, it remains the nation’s largest professional beer competition and the premier symbol of brewing excellence.

This year, 273 breweries and cideries were awarded 326* medals. The Great American Beer Festival judge panel evaluated serious brews and ciders across 102 beer categories (including 170 subcategories) and five new cider categories.

In addition to that three GABF Collaboration medals pairing two professional breweries and three GABF Pro-Am medals pairing homebrewers with professional brewers were announced.

The competition was made possible thanks to more than 250 volunteers who facilitated the multi-step judging process and 285 beer experts who evaluated 8,836 commercial beer entries, 233 commercial cider entries, 95 Collaboration entries, and 52 Pro-Am entries. Judging occurred in three phases over seven days and included brewery entries from all 50 states plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

So yeah, this beer competition is a very big deal…

“The Great American Beer Festival continues its commitment to recognizing exceptional beverages from across the country in the 2024 competition,” said Chris Williams, competition director for the Brewers Association. “With the addition of five new cider categories, we’re pleased to recognize the best of the best in beer and beyond. Congratulations to this year’s winners!”

The awards ceremony was held at the Bellco Theatre in Denver during the 40th anniversary Great American Beer Festival over the weekend

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And here (drum roll please) is a COMPLETE list of this year’s winners…

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Congratulations to all of this year’s big winners… Live long and prosper!