CBC, the Craft Brewers Conference was in Las Vegas aka Land of the Sphere and that is where the World Beer Cup awards were announced yesterday.
Here is my Los Angeles centric take on who won…
- 9,300 beers entered into the competition from 50 countries
- took 8 categories before California announced itself by sweeping the Coffee beer category
- Orange County picked up a brace of medals in Strong Porter and Hoppy Pilsner
- Bend, Oregon was the big city winner
- Speaking of Bend, 10 Barrel swept the German Style Sour Category, winning all three medals
- weird fact that German-Style Pilsner was the 3rd biggest category
- Good to see that Ian McCall and ISM Brewing came up big with multiple medals
- Got to see Bianca, Jace and Guillermo streaming!
- Also happy to see L.A. based winners Paperback repping Glendale with Silver, Ogopogo and Far Field with Gold and Cellador with Silver, Bravery with Bronze
- La Fin du Monde from Unibroue won Gold and I have that in my fridge!
- Great beer names: Cactus Makes Perfect, Hell Yes Helles, Irish Pre-Nup
You can see the full list of winners HERE