Strong showing from Georgia brewers at 2016 US Open Beer Championship
Red Hare, Cherry Street wing big at 2016 US Open Beer Championship
Marietta’s Red Hare Brewing took the #4 spot for Top 10 US Breweries with a total of five medals in the competition with Cherry Street coming in at the #5 spot with four wins. Georgia breweries in total took home 19 medals from this year’s competition, in its 8th year. The quality of beer coming from Georgia breweries has grown exponentially in the last few years and it looks like others are starting to notice that as well. Monday Night Brewing, Coastal Empire, SweetWater, Jekyll, Red Brick, and Terrapin also took home medals from the competition.
Here’s the list of Georgia winners:
Top 10 US Breweries
4) Red Hare
5) Cherry Street Brewing Cooperative
Beer Winners
IPA
- Bronze | IPA | SweetWater Brewing
Bitter
- Silver | Laughing Skull Amber | Red Brick
American Stout
- Silver | Happy Ending | SweetWater Brewing
Oatmeal Stout
- Bronze | Sticky Stout | Red Hare Brewing
Imperial Stout – American
- Gold | O.A.S.I.S. | Cherry Street
American Brown Ale
- Silver | Watership Brown | Red Hare
International Style Pale Ale
- Gold | Cotton Tail Pale Ale | Red Hare Brewing
Bohemian Pilsener
- Bronze | Sound Czech Pilsner | Terrapin
German Lager / Pilsener
- Silver | Ta Ta | Cherry Street
Chili Beer
- Bronze | Dawn Patrol Imperial Stout | Coastal Empire
Wood / Barrel Aged Pale Beer
- Bronze | Mom Jeans | Monday Night Brewing
Wood / Barrel Aged Dark Beer
- Silver | Bourbon Barrel Drafty Kilt | Monday Night Brewing
Wood / Barrel Aged Strong Beer
- Bronze | Belgo Ruskie | Cherry Street
Wood / Barrel Aged Strong Stout
- Gold | Wonderwall | Cherry Street
- Gold | Georgian Imperial Stout | Monday Night Brewing
Out of Bounds Pale Ale (Specialty)
- Gold | SPF 50/50 | Red Hare
Out of Bounds IPA
- Bronze | White Caps | Coastal Empire
Session IPA
- Silver | Fixin’ To | Jekyll Brewing
Non-Alcoholic
- Bronze | Red Hare Root Beer | Red Hare
Totals
- Gold | 5
- Silver | 6
- Bronze | 8
- TOTAL | 19 medals
Totals by Brewery
- Red Hare | 5 | 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze
- Cherry Street | 4 | (2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Monday Night | 3 | 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze
- Coastal Empire | 2 | 2 Bronze
- SweetWater | 2 | 1 Bronze, 1 Silver
- Jekyll | 1 | 1 Silver
- Red Brick | 1 | 1 Silver
- Terrapin | 1 | 1 Bronze
For a full list of results check out the US Open Beer Championships website.
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