Pelican Brewing MacPelican’s Wins GOLD @ North American Beer Awards

MacPelican’s Wins GOLD! North American Beer Awards 2013

The 17^th North American Beer Awards, held in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is a unique event sanctioned by the North American Brewers Association. The competition provides an opportunity for brewers to have their product evaluated by qualified judges against the best beers, ciders, meads and sodas in the country. The event is conducted as a single blind sampling followed by rank ordering of the entries within a category. In 2012, over 1,400 beverages were entered into the competition.

Brewer Master Darron Welch was thrilled with this year’s results, especially MacPelican’s Scottish Style Ale. “MacPelican’s is one of our most popular beers at the Pelican in Pacific City. Until just recently, MacPelican’s hasn’t won many awards. I am excited to have MacPelican’s be recognized as a premium beer in its category!” Kiwanda Cream Ale, Tsunami Stout and Stormwatcher’s Winterfest all took Silver Medals in their respective categories.

Gold MacPelican’s Scottish Style Ale – Scottish-Style Heavy

Silver Kiwanda Cream Ale – Golden or Blonde Ale

Silver Tsunami Stout – Foreign-Style Stout

Silver Stormwatcher’s Winterfest – English-Style Barley Wine

The North American Beer Awards culminates with the Mountain Brewers Beer Festival, which allows the public to sample the well made, tasty brews entered in the competition. All proceeds are donated to local charities.

Pelican Brewery Presents the Tillamook County Fair Homebrew Competition

Do you have a passion for craft beer? Have you tried your hand at home brewing? Think you might have an award-winning recipe? Here’s your chance to earn bragging rights!

The Pelican Pub & Brewery will be sponsoring the 2013 Tillamook County Fair Home Brew Competition. Let’s find out if you can live up to this year’s fair theme “Got a Good Thing Growing!”

Participation in the competition is free and entries must be dropped off at the Pelican Pub & Brewery located at 33180 Cape Kiwanda Drive in Pacific City, Oregon, by Friday, July 26^th at 5pm. Ribbons will be awarded by the Tillamook County Fair for 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place in the judged categories. Categories may be combined depending on the number of entries received. The “Best Of Show” winner will receive the “Brewers Getaway Package”- one night stay in a Kiwanda Guest Room for two at the Inn at Cape Kiwanda, a $50 gift card for the Pelican Pub & Brewery, and a chance to meet the brewers at a special behind-the-scenes tour of the brewery.

Are you the next Tillamook County Fair Home Brew Champion? It might not have the same ring as the North American Beer Awards or Great American Beer Festival, but everyone has to start somewhere, right? In fact, Brewmaster Darron Welch got his start winning “Best of Show” at the Lane County Fair! Check us at PelicanBrewery.com for details on how to enter. See you at the fair.
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