<\/a>Photo \u00a9 Brewers Association<\/p><\/div>\n
Illinois, and the Chicago area in particular, had a strong showing at this weekends Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n
Here are the winners from the Land of Lincoln (and one neighbor from Indiana):<\/p>\n
– Category: 3 Fruit Beer, 58 Entries \nBronze:<\/strong> Strawberry Blonde Ale, DESTIHL, Normal, IL<\/p>\n– Category: 4 Fruit Wheat Beer, 38 Entries \nBronze:<\/strong> 5 Lizard Latin-Style Witbier, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Bedford Park, IL<\/p>\n– Category: 18 American-Belgo-Style Ale, 71 Entries \nBronze:<\/strong> A Little Crazy, Revolution Brewing, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n– Category: 48 English-Style India Pale Ale, 54 Entries \nGold:<\/strong> India Pale Ale, Goose Island Beer Co., Chicago, IL<\/p>\n– Category: 50 American-Style Pale Ale, 109 Entries \nGold:<\/strong> Brickstone APA, Brickstone Brewery, Bourbonnais, IL \nSilver:<\/strong> The Weight, Piece Brewery, Chicago, IL \nBronze:<\/strong> Zombie Dust, Three Floyds Brewing Co., Munster, IN<\/p>\n– Category: 66 South German-Style Hefeweizen, 70 Entries \nSilver:<\/strong> Ebel\u2019s Weiss, Two Brothers Brewing Co., Warrenville, IL<\/p>\n– Category: 70 Belgian- and French-Style Ale, 68 Entries \nBronze:<\/strong> Domaine DuPage, Two Brothers Brewing Co., Warrenville, IL<\/p>\n– 2012 Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am Competition \nSilver:<\/strong> Pointon\u2019s Proper \u2013 An English Mild RAM Restaurant and Brewery \u2013 Wheeling, Wheeling, IL Brewmaster: Lanny Fetzer, AHA Member: Scott Pointon<\/p>\nIt’s nice to see the Chicago area (using that geographically loosely) get a clean sweep in the “American-Style Pale Ale” category. It’s also nice to see the relatively unknown Zombie Dust from Three Floyds get some hardware.<\/p>\n
And, yes, we know Goose’s IPA is brewed in upstate New York now but we still felt inclined to include it.<\/p>\n
Congrats to all the Illinois brewers who placed and participated in this years GABF.<\/p>\n
With all the new breweries coming online this year, here’s to hoping for an even stronger showing next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[506,317,550,935,547,1107,447,101,983],"yoast_head":"\n
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