The Great American Beer Festival was postponed again this year by the COVID pandemic, but just like last year, the medals competition and online awards ceremony are still being held.

Last month, we went over the initial batch of submitted beers by more than dozen New Mexico breweries. We have added a few more since then, so we send along a big thank you to Marble, Rio Bravo, Santa Fe, and Second Street for updating our list.

The ceremony will be broadcast online Friday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Anyone can follow along, and we already know that Rowley Farmhouse Ales will be holding a public watch party for Santa Fe. Our man Luke will be over at Second Street Rufina with the staff there watching in the back, and will have full coverage of any medals won and the reaction from the Santa Fe area breweries.

As for the Albuquerque-based Crew members, we could not find a brewery willing to host an official watch party (Friday nights are not necessarily ideal to carve out a portion of a taproom for a bunch of industry folks, so we understand), but we are planning to post up at Gravity Bound to watch off our laptop(s). Hey, we were going there anyway to watch the New Mexico United road game at 7, so it makes sense to just hang out in the same spot. If anyone in the brewing industry would like to join us, please, head on over and make our lives a little easier when it comes to tracking down the medal winners.

We will note that while the festival part of GABF was not held this year, the twice-delayed Craft Brewers Conference was held in Denver in its place, so many of the top brewers and brewery owners are currently in Colorado. Anyone we are unable to reach on Friday, we will catch up with them the following week.

Rather than re-list the submitted beers on a per-brewery basis, we are instead listing the categories in the order they will be announced on the online broadcast. This should help everyone follow along. We also noted the past medal winners that are back in the running this year. Note that this is not a complete list, so there could be even more beers entered. We will keep a running tally on Facebook and Twitter, so if you want to follow along but are unable to watch the broadcast, you can keep tabs that way.

1. American Wheat Beer
2. American Fruit Beer
3. Fruit Wheat Beer — Petroglyph Wit, Lava Rock; Trampled by Tangerines, Nexus; Social Hour, Santa Fe; Squeezer, Santa Fe
4. Field Beer
5. Pumpkin Beer
6. Chili Beer
7. Herb and Spice Beer — Summer Honey, Rio Bravo; Odin’s Eye, Thirsty Eye
8. Chocolate Beer
9. Coffee Beer
10. Coffee Stout or Porter — Panama Joe, Canteen; Turkish Coffee Stout, Marble
11. Specialty Beer — Campfire S’mores Stout, Bathtub Row
12. Rye Beer — Canyon Rim Rye, Bathtub Row
13. Honey Beer — Honey Chamomile Wheat, Nexus (2015 silver); Citrus Buzz, Thirsty Eye
14. Non-Alcohol Beer
15. Session Beer
16. Session IPA
17. Other Strong Beer — Imperial Cream, Nexus (2017 gold)
18. Experimental Beer — Strawberry Milkshake IPA, Nexus
19. Experimental IPA
20. Experimental Wood-Aged Beer
21. Historical Beer
22. Gluten-Free Beer
23. American-Belgo-Style Ale
24. American Sour Ale
25. Fruited American Sour Ale
26. Brett Beer
27. Mixed-Culture Brett Beer
28. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer — Saison de Luxe, Steel Bender
29. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer
30. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout — Cognac BA Putin, Rio Bravo
31. Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer
32. Fruited Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer — The Judy, Steel Bender
33. Kellerbier or Zwickelbier
34. Smoke Beer
35. Light Lager
36. American-Style Lager — Andesite Lager, Lava Rock
37. Contemporary American-Style Lager
38. American Pilsner
39. International Lager — La Ref Lager, La Reforma; Pinche Cerveza, Lava Rock; Pepe Loco, Santa Fe; Wooden Teeth, Turtle Mountain (2018 gold)
40. American Cream Ale — Turquoise Trail Cream Ale, Beer Creek; Cerveza, Marble
41. Hoppy Lager — Kiwi Lager, Bathtub Row; Italian Pilsner, Ponderosa; Hoperation Hanging Garden, Turtle Mountain
42. American Amber Lager — Pajarito Red Lager, Bathtub Row; Rod’s Steam Bitter, Second Street (2013 gold/2017 bronze); Forward Standard Cali Common, Turtle Mountain
43. German-Style Pilsner — Pop’s Pilsner, Canteen; Pilsner, Marble (2017 bronze/2016 bronze/2013 silver/2011 bronze); Agua Fria Pilsner, Second Street
44. Bohemian-Style Pilsner — High Plains Pilsner, Canteen; Easy Come, Easy Go, Ex Novo
45. Munich-Style Helles — The Wanderer, Bosque; Helles Awaits, Canteen; She Sells Seashelles, Ex Novo
46. Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest — Thunder from Dortmunder, Marble (2013 bronze)
47. Vienna-Style Lager
48. German-Style Marzen — Oktoberfest, Second Street
49. German Dark Lager — Maximilian, La Reforma (2020 gold); Dupy’s Dunkel, Marble
50. International Dark Lager
51. Bock
52. German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock
53. Golden or Blonde Ale — Pistol Pete’s 1888 Blonde Ale, Bosque (2018 bronze); Blonde Bombshell, Brew Lab 101; Stay Goalden, Ex Novo
54. German-Style Kolsch
55. English Ale — Winsor Trail Pale Ale, Second Street
56. Australian Pale Ale — Riverwalker IPA, Bosque; 7K IPA, Santa Fe
57. International Pale Ale or New Zealand Pale Ale
58. English IPA or New Zealand IPA — Southern Hemisphere 2920 IPA, Second Street
59. American-Style Pale Ale
60. Juicy or Hazy Pale Ale
61. American-Style Strong Pale Ale — Threat Level Turquoise, Ex Novo; Zapparado Pale Ale, Second Street
62. Juicy or Hazy Strong Pale Ale — Resto Hazy Pale Ale, Bosque
63. American-Style IPA — Scale Tipper, Bosque; NM TRU IPA, Lava Rock; IPA, Marble; Safeword IPA, Marble; IPA, Rio Bravo; El Drac, Thirsty Eye
64. Juicy or Hazy IPA — Desert Fog, Marble
65. Imperial IPA — DIPAcabra, Bathtub Row
66. Juicy or Hazy Imperial IPA
67. American Amber/Red Ale — Rowe Mesa Red Ale, Beer Creek; Ripsaw Red, Ponderosa; El Ojo Rojo, Thirsty Eye
68. Strong Red Ale — Red Racer, Beer Creek; Sienna Red, Brew Lab 101
69. English Mild or Bitter
70. Extra Special Bitter — Tarantino’s Best Bitter, Marble; Amber, Rio Bravo
71. Scottish-Style Ale — Wee Heavy, Marble
72. Irish-Style Red Ale
73. English-Style Brown Ale — Pecos Brown, Beer Creek; Nut Brown, Santa Fe (1991 bronze)
74. American-Style Brown Ale — Brown Ale, Second Street (2020 gold)
75. American-Style Black Ale or American-Style Stout — Black Wedding, Beer Creek; Bruiser the American Pitbull, Thirsty Eye
76. German Sour Ale
77. Specialty Berliner-Style Weisse
78. Contemporary Gose — Pickle Down Economics, Bosque; Rita, Marble
79. German-Style Altbier — Altbier, Second Street
80. German Wheat Ale
81. Belgian-Style Table Beer or Belgian-Style Session Ale
82. Belgian-Style Ale or French-Style Ale
83. Belgian-Style Witbier
84. Classic Saison — Dry-Hopped Saison, Ponderosa
85. Specialty Saison
86. Belgian-Style Sour Ale
87. Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale — Amelia, Steel Bender
88. Belgian-Style Abbey Ale
89. Belgian Fruit Beer
90. Brown Porter — Lockdown Porter, Brew Lab 101
91. Robust Porter
92. Stout — Extra Stout, Bathtub Row; Metal Snake, Turtle Mountain
93. Sweet Stout or Cream Stout — Right Foot Milk Stout, Beer Creek
94. Oatmeal Stout — Boca Negra Stout, Lava Rock
95. Imperial Stout — Imperial Stout, Canteen
96. Scotch Ale — Ludicrous Speed, Brew Lab 101; Sons of Scotland, Ex Novo; Scotch Ale, Nexus
97. Old Ale or Strong Ale or Barley Wine — Beam Me Up (Higher) Scotty, Nexus
98. Fresh Hop Beer

Among the breweries that usually compete at GABF (and have won medals in the past) that we did not receive lists from were Boxing Bear, La Cumbre, Quarter Celtic, Rowley Farmhouse Ales, Sierra Blanca, Starr Brothers, Toltec, and Tumbleroot.

We send our best wishes to all the breweries that entered into the competition this year. Let’s bring even more gold, silver, and bronze back to New Mexico.

Keep supporting local!

— Stoutmeister