Oh, hoppy day
Texas snags 9 medals at 2012 Great American Beer Festival, including gold forPeticolas
A toast to the Texas brewers who took home awards at the 2012 Great AmericanBeer Festival.
Michael Peticolas of Peticolas Brewing Company with his gold medal from the 2012GABF.Dennis Zaskoda/Facebook
Texas showed itself as a comer at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Boulder, Colorado. Six Texas breweries took home nine awards for best beers, including a gold medal for a brand-new brewer out of Dallas.
Peticolas Brewing Co., launched in January 2012 by lawyer Michael Peticolas, took the gold in the "classic English-style pale ale" category for its Royal Scandal, an English pale ale known for its slightly bitter, European flavor profile.
Fort Worth's Rahr & Sons Brewing Company took home a silver medal for its Iron Thistle, a dark Scotch ale. Other big winners were Austin-based Real Ale and Spoetzl Brewery, maker of Shiner.
GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world. Brewers received gold, silver and bronze medals in 84 categories covering 134 different beer styles, establishing the best examples of each style in the United States. A total of 254 awards were presented.
Winners were chosen from 4,338 entries from 666 breweries, hailing from 48 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam — its largest field of entries ever and a 10 percent increase over 2011.
Below is the full list of winners from Texas:
- Gold, Shiner Bock, Spoetzl Brewery, winner in the American-style dark lager category, from a field of 12 entries
- Gold, Royal Scandal, Peticolas Brewing Co., winner in the classic English-style pale ale category, from a field of 29 entries
- Gold, Shiner Oktoberfest, Spoetzl Brewery, winner in the German-style Märzen category, from a field of 32 entries
- Gold, Shiner Bohemian Black Lager, Spoetzl Brewery, winner in the German-style Schwarzbier category, from a field of 32 entries
- Gold, Bottle Rocket, Uncle Billy's Brew & Que - Lake Travis, winner in the Kellerbier or Zwickelbier category, from a field of 23 entries.
- Silver, Firemans #4, Real Ale Brewing Co., winner in the golden or blonde ale category, from a field of 67 entries
- Silver, Hans' Pils, Real Ale Brewing Co., winner in the German-style pilsener category, from a field of 52 entries
- Silver, Iron Thistle, Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, winner in the Scotch ale category, from a field of 44 entries
- Bronze, Uberbrau, Humperdinks Restaurant and Brewery, winner in the American-style amber lager category, from a field of 45 entries
