New York breweries took home six awards, including two golds, at the World Beer Cup on Friday night in Denver. The bi-annual competition capped off a week of the Brewers Assocation’s Craft Brewers Conference, and included brewers from all over the world. A total of 4,758 entries from 58 countries were judged blindly by a diverse panel. 281 awards were presented at the ceremony, to breweries as large as Coors and as small as a streetside brewpub in Saratoga Springs.
Competition was stiff this year, with the largest number of entries coming in the American IPA category (223 beers entered) and an average number of entries per category up 22% from a year ago. Below are the winners from New York state, along with the total entries in the category in which they won.
Category 10: Rye Beer, 47 entries
Bronze: RastafaRye, Blue Point Brewing Co., PatchogueCategory 23: Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer, 62 Entries
Silver: Funky Jewbelation, Shmaltz Brewing Co., Clifton ParkCategory 49: German-Style Sour Beer, 40 Entries
Gold: The Dare, Druthers Brewing Co., Saratoga SpringsCategory 57: Belgian-Style Blonde Ale or Pale Ale, 46 Entries
Silver: St. Stusan Belgian Style Pale Ale, Galaxy Brewing Co., BinghamtonCategory 83: Foreign-Style Stout, 38 Entries
Gold: Black Rock Stout, Crossroads Brewing Co., Athens
Silver: Whiteface Stout, Great Adirondack Brewing Co., Lake Placid
Nearby New Jersey won two medals. Flying Fish got a bronze medal for Hopfish in the Classic English-Style Pale Ale category, and the Maple Shade outpost of Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant took the bronze in the Specialty Honey Beer category for their Honey Tripper.