Northwest winners in Denver
There were no local winners this year, but several Northwest breweries took home medals today from the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
At least one winner is scheduled to pour at next weekend’s Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival at Avista Stadium: Boulder Bend Dunkelweizen, which won a bronze for Olympia’s Fish Brewing .
Three Magnets , a new Avista entrant from Olympia, also took a bronze for its Old Skook barleywine, while Seattle’s returning Two Beers earned a gold for its Immersion Amber. Neither of those beers is currently on the list for the festival here.
More than 6,000 beers were entered for competition at GABF, the nation’s largest beer event. Other regional medalists include:
Barley Brown’s (Baker City, OR): gold, Ratchet Strap IPA and Disorder Stout.
Chuckanut (Bellingham): gold, Kolsch; bronze, Dunkel.
Ghostfish (Seattle): gold, Watchstander Stout; bronze, Grapefruit IPA (gluten-free).
Reuben’s Brews (Seattle): gold, Gose; bronze, Dry Stout.
Block 15 (Corvallis, OR): gold, Turbulent Consequence peche lambic.
Fat Head’s (Portland): gold, Blitzkrieg Bock rye.
Golden Valley (McMinnville, OR): gold, Beaverton Blonde.
Old Town (Portland): gold, Shanghai’d IPA.
Pelican (Pacific City, OR): gold, MacPelican’s Wee Heavy.
Silver City (Bremerton): gold, Old Scrooge strong ale.
Wander (Bellingham): gold, Wild Warehouse barrel-aged.
Bend Brewing : silver, Volkssekt sour; bronze, Black Diamond dark lager.
Boise Brewing : silver, Black Cliffs stout.
Flyers (Oak Harbor, WA): silver, Spitfire Best Bitter.
Groundbreaker (Portland): silver, IPA No. 5 (gluten-free).
Laurelwood (Portland): silver, Eazy Duz It imperial IPA.
Lompoc (Portland): silver, Proletariat Red.
Mazama (Corvallis, OR): silver, Rasplendent raspberry hibiscus wit.
pFriem (Hood River, OR): silver, Pilsner.
Rogue (Newport, OR): silver, Hazelnut Brown Nectar.
10 Barrel (Bend): bronze, P2P stout and Cucumber Crush sour.
Gigantic (Portland): bronze, MASSIVE! 2013 strong ale.
Lucky Envelope (Seattle): bronze, Helles Lager.
The Commons (Portland): bronze, Petite Classique saison.
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