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GABF Medal Winning Brewery Tour # 3 – Olfactory Brewing

Off to San Francisco for our last GABF winning brewery, Olfactory Brewing and Blending. They won gold for Proverbial Fork a mixed- culture Brett beer.

Here are some fine choices to get to know this Bay Area brewery:

Tsunduku Rice Lager – “decocted and naturally conditioned local pilsner malt and jasmine rice. Hopped in abundance with Sterling, Loral and Saaz.”

Mind Fuzz Fuzzy IPA – “Brewed pilsner malt, oats, and wheat and hopped with Simcoe Cryo, Mosaic, Nelson and Motueka.”

Manic Pendulum Batch # 2 – “Mixed fermentation Saison aged for over a year in oak and blended in stainless with an abundance of Citra hops.

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L.A. and GABF 2024

Even though some of the luster has worn off it is still important to take time to see who won what medals at this years Great American Beer Festival awards.

And boy did L.A. come up gold in some mighty big ways. Highland Park Brewery was the big winner taking home a brewery of the year award for their brewery size as well as gold for Baseball Lager, Timbo Pils, DDH Pillow and Competition IPA, that last one is huge because it is one of the largest categories, American IPA.

Trademark Brewing in Long Beach snared gold in the equally big West Coast IPA category for Codebreaker and earlier in the ceremony picked up silver for A La Playa in the fruit beer category. Fellow Long Beach winners were ISM Brewing with a bronze and Beachwood with a silver.

Another important win came in the Hazy IPA category where Ambitious Ales took the top prize for Professional Human Being IPA.

DTLA got some medals two with Angel City getting a second win for their Apple Pomace Puncheon and Audiograph getting a second too for Bas Clef Strong Ale.

Other fun notes:

Wayfinder Beer won the Krispy King Lager crown for their Hell and Bearded Tang in Orange County won the Alpha King Hoppy crown.

This was a first year for cider medals but it seemed a little weird since there are already great cider competitions out there.

Heard two great beer names during the broadcast: Animals Strike Curious Poses and Polterweiss

Other SoCal brewery of the year winners were Everywhere Beer and Riip Beer.

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