GABF LIVE – 2012 Awards Ceremony UPDATES

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The GABF Award Ceremony has begun….I’ll be posting as fast as the stream allows (and it’s pretty sketchy this year):

For the full list of all awards click here.

Overall 2012 Awards:
Large Brewing Company & Brewer Of The Year:  Pabst

Mid-Sized Brewing Company & Brewer Of The Year:  Troegs
Small Brewing Company & Brewer Of The Year: Funkwerks
Brewpub Group Of The Year:  Great Dane Pub
Large Brepub & Brewer  Of The Year:  The Church Brew Works
Small Brewpub & Brewer of the Year: Devil’s Backbone

Festival Flair Awards: 

Best Decorated Inline Booth:  Swamphead
Best End Cap Booth: Stone

Distributors:

2012 Craft Beer Distributor of the Year:  Tryon Distributors, NC
2012 Distributor of the Year:  Brown Distributing, FL

Nancy Johnson Brewers Association Event Director: Trade Show Manager of the Year

Beer Awards:  4338 Beers Entered
GABF Pro-Am:  GOLD:  More Fun Blonde New Belgium & Jay Shambo !

1. American-Style Wheat Beer  GOLD Blacktooth brewing Wagon Box Wheat
2. American-Style Wheat Beer With Yeast GOLD Montana MBC Wheat
3. Fruit Beer  GOLD Dry Dock Apricot Blonde
4. Fruit Wheat Beer  GOLD Mad Anthony Ruby Raspberry
5. Field Beer or Pumpkin Beer  GOLD Stevens Point Whole Hog Pumpkin
6. Herb and Spice Beer  GOLD Burnside Brewing Sweet Heat
7. Chocolate Beer GOLD Chicago Brewing Co Co for Coconuts
8. Coffee Beer GOLD Smog City Groundwork
9. Specialty Beer GOLD Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar
10. Rye Beer GOLD Heretic Gramarye
11. Specialty Honey Beer GOLD Twisted Pine Westbound Braggot
12. Session Beer GOLD Pizza Port Twirp
13. Other Strong Beer GOLD Boulevard Reverb Imperial Pilsner
14. Experimental Beer GOLD  Red Rock Brewing Parledon
15. (NEW) Fresh Hop Ale GOLD  Sierra Nevada Estate
16. Indigenous Beer GOLD  BJ’s Got Beer
17. Gluten-Free Beer GOLD Rock Bottom Nikki’s Gluten Free Honey pale Ale
18. American-Belgo-Style Ale GOLD  Green Flash Le Freak
19. American-Style Sour Ale GOLD Capt. Lawrence Barrel Select
20. American-Style Brett Ale GOLD Logdson Farmhouse Ales Saison Bretta
21. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer GOLD BJ’s Jerry Maker
22. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer GOLD Beer Co Manhattan Project
23. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout GOLD Central Waters 1414
24. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer GOLD Cisco Lady of the Woods
25. Aged Beer GOLD Silver Moon Brewing 2010 Old Train Wreck
26. Kellerbier or Zwickelbier GOLD Uncle Billy’s Brewing Bottle Rocket
27. Smoke Beer GOLD Fort Collins Bombastic
28. American-Style or International-Style Pilsener GOLD Auburn Ale House Gold Country Pilsner
29. German-Style Pilsener GOLD Troegs Sunshine Pils
30. Bohemian-Style Pilsener GOLD New Glarus Hometown Blonde
31. Munich-Style Helles GOLD CB Potts 6x Helles
32. Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest GOLD The Sandlot Move Back
33. American-Style Lager, Light Lager or Premium Lager GOLD Pabst Blue Ribbon
34. American-Style Specialty Lager or Cream Ale or Lager GOLD Henry Winehards Blueboar Pale Ale
35. Vienna-Style Lager GOLD Devils Backbone Vienna Lager
36. German-Style Märzen GOLD Shiner Oktoberfest
37. American-Style Amber Lager GOLD Stevens Point Pointoberfest
38. European-Style Dunkel GOLD Equinox Knightrider Munich Dunkel
39. American-Style Dark Lager GOLD Shiner Bock
40. German-Style Schwarzbier GOLD Shiner Bohemian Black lager
41. Bock GOLD Tommyknocker Butthead Bock
42. German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock GOLD Harpoon Uberbock
43. Baltic-Style Porter GOLD Rock Bottom KOP The Hammer
44. Golden or Blonde Ale GOLD Mad River Steelhead Xtra Pale Ale
45. German-Style Kölsch GOLD Blind Tiger Capital City Kolsch
46. English-Style Summer Ale GOLD Revolution Cross of Gold
47. Classic English-Style Pale Ale GOLD Pericola’s Pale Ale
48. English-Style India Pale Ale GOLD Goose Island IPA
49. International-Style Pale Ale GOLD Eddyline River Runners Pale Ale
50. American-Style Pale Ale GOLD Brickstone APA
51. American-Style Strong Pale Ale GOLD Tie Me Up brewery Melvin
52. (203 entries) American-Style India Pale Ale GOLD Tappet IPYay
53. Imperial India Pale Ale GOLD Tie Me Up 2×4 (Jackson WY)
54. American-Style Amber/Red Ale GOLD Troegs Hopback Amber
55. Imperial Red Ale GOLD Laurelwood Organic Deranger Imperial Red
56. English-Style Mild Ale GOLD Unita Bristlecone
57. Ordinary or Special Bitter GOLD Firestone Walker DBA
58. Extra Special Bitter GOLD No-Li Crystal Bitter Ale
59. Scottish-Style Ale GOLD Maui Brewing Wee-Heavy
60. Irish-Style Red Ale GOLD Glenwood Canyon Brewing Irish Red
61. English-Style Brown Ale GOLD Sierra Blanca Nutbrown Ale
62. American-Style Brown Ale GOLD Telluride Brewing Face Down Brown
63. American-Style Black Ale GOLD Firestone Walker Wookie Jack
64. German-Style Altbier GOLD Union Craft Balt Altbier
65. German-Style Sour Ale GOLD Devils Backbone Berlinner Metroweiss
66. South German-Style Hefeweizen GOLD Troegs Dreamweaver Wheat
67. German-Style Wheat Ale GOLD Sandlot Wild Pitch
68. Belgian-Style Witbier GOLD Boulevard Zon
69. French- and Belgian-Style Saison GOLD Funkwerks Saison
70. Belgian and French-Style Ale GOLD Lost Abbey Saints Devotion
71. Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale GOLD Upland Sour Reserve
72. Belgian-Style Abbey Ale GOLD Green Flash Tripel
73. Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale GOLD Funkwerks Deceit
74. Brown Porter GOLD Holy City Brewing Pluff Mud
75. Robust Porter NO GOLD Awarded
76. Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout GOLD–Pizza Port Seaside Stout
77. Foreign-Style Stout GOLD Island Brewing Starry Night Stout
78. American-Style Stout GOLD Pizza Port Order In The Port
79. Sweet Stout GOLD Beachwood Udder Madness
80. Oatmeal Stout GOLD Pizza Port Oats
81. Imperial Stout GOLD Weasel Boy Anastasia RIS
82. Scotch Ale GOLD Pizza Port Way Heavy
83. Old Ale or Strong Ale GOLD The Church Brew Works Heinie’s Hooch
84. Barley Wine-Style Ale GOLD Sun King Johan The Barleywine