It had been a minute since Boxing Bear had heard their name called during the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony. Well, more than a minute, as it was 2017 when Featherweight Session IPA won a bronze. Leave it to old reliable to end that drought, as Chocolate Milk Stout brought home a silver medal…
Category: GABF 2024
GABF 2024: Tractor embraces their 1st medal before biggest event of the year
The times are good over at Tractor Brewing these days. The brewery, which just celebrated 25 years in business, had been prepping for the biggest annual event when a big honor was bestowed upon the brew team with their first Great American Beer Festival medal. I caught up with head brewer TJ Frederich and events…
GABF 2024: Quarter Celtic basks in glow of their first gold medal from Denver
The brothers McKeown, Brady and Ror, were hundreds of miles apart this past Saturday, but still had their eyes fixed on the same spot. The former was watching the livestream and the latter was present at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony in Denver, waiting to see if Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery would…
Trio of New Mexico breweries snag medals at GABF awards ceremony
Three breweries from Albuquerque claimed medals at the Great American Beer Festival on Saturday morning. Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery won their first gold medal, topping the Vienna Lager category with their Vienna Festbier. It beat out 122 entries for the top spot. Quarter Celtic had previously won two silvers in 2020 and a bronze…
GABF 2024: A mostly complete guide to the NM brewery competition entries
The Great American Beer Festival is kicking off today (Thursday) in Denver, but alas, the Crew cannot attend as our jobs and lives are keeping us in New Mexico again this year. Nonetheless, we wanted to keep track of which local breweries entered the annual awards competition so that all of you could, too. We…
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