1) World Beer Cup awards *********************************************************** The World Beer Cup International Competition is a global competition recognizing excellence in 68 traditional and emerging beer style categories with gold, silver, and bronze awards. The 1998 WBC was held April 2 - 4, 1998, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Medal winners were announced August 31st at a celebration honoring great beer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We decided to share these results with you as many of you have been asking us about the results. Note our local winners among the best from around the world! Category - Classic English Style Pale Ale Gold Samuel Adams Boston Ale- Boston Brewing Co, Boston MA Silver Royal Oak-Thomas Hardy Brewery-Dorchester, England Bronze Denver Pale Ale-Great Divide Brewing co, Denver, CO Category - India Pale Ale Gold Lucknow India Pale Ale- Castle Springs Brewing, Moultonborough, NH Silver Ponderosa IPA-Prescott Brewing Co, Prescott, AZ Bronze Prohibition Ale-Speakeasy Ale & Lagers, San Francisco, CA Category - English Style Best Bitter Gold Sweetwater Ale-Sweetwater Brewing, Atlanta, GA Silver Red Butte Bitter-Desert Edge Brewery, Salt Lake City, UT Bronze Emerald Ale-Seabright Brewery, Santa Cruz, CA Category - Engish Style Strong Bitter Gold Tower ESB-Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery, Denver, CO Silver Extra Special Bitter-Snipes Mountain Brwing-Sunnyside, WA Bronze Stoddard's ESB-Stoddard's Brewhouse & Eatery, Sunnyvale, CA Category - Scottish Style Ale Gold Dave's Scotch Ale-Molson Breweries, Etobicoke, Ontario Silver McRock's Scottish Ale-Red Rock Brewing Co, Salt Lake City, UT Bronze Irish Red Ale-Brown Bear Brewing Co-Lawrence, KS Category - English Style Mild Ale Gold Alcatraz Mild-Alcatraz Brewing, Indianapolis, IN Silver Raven Ale-R&B Brewing Co, Vancouver, British Columbia Bronze McClellan's D.M.-Il Vicino Brewing Co, Salida, CO Category - English Style Brown Ale Gold Ruffian Nut Brown-Mt. Valley Brewpub, Suffern, NY Silver Birdman Brown-Alcatraz Brewing, Denver, CO Bronze Nut Brown Ale-Blackstone Rest. & Brewery, Nashville, TN Category - Strong Ale Gold Star Brew-1332 Marin Brewing Co, Larkspur, CA Silver Hibernation Ale- Great Divide Brewing Co, Denver, CO Bronze Saint Arnold Christmas Ale-Saint Arnold Brewing, Houston, TX Category - Barley Wine Style Ale Gold Olde Curmudgeon-La Conner Brewing Co, La Conner, WA Silver Old Blarney Barleywine-Moylan's Brewing Co, Novato, CA Bronze B&H Big Head Barley Wine-Barley & Hopps, San Mateo, CA Category - Robust Porter Gold Devou Dark-Brew Works Rest. & Pub, Covington, KY Silver Edmund Fitzgerald Porter-Great Lakes Brewing Co, Cleveland, OH Bronze Pt. Reyes Porter-Marin Brewing Co, Larkspur, CA Category - Brown Porter Gold black Jack Porter-Left hand Brewing , Denver, CO Silver Black Butte Porter-Deschutes Brewery, Bend OR Bronze Possum Trot Brown Ale-75th Street Brewery, Kansas City, MO Category - Sweet Stout Gold Iron Horse Stout-Big River Breweries, Inc, Chattnooga, TN Silver Cheytown Sweet Stout-C.B. & Potts/Big Horn Brewing, Englewood, CO Category - Oatmeal Stout Gold Milly's Oatmeal Stout-Stark Mill Brewery, Mancheste, NH Silver McAuslan Oatmeal Stout-LaBrasserie McAuslan, Montreal, Quebec Bronze Zoser Stout- Oasis, Boulder, CO Category - Imperial Stout Gold Ruffian Imperial Stout-Mt. Valley Brewpub, suffern, NY Silver Old Rasputin-North Coast Brewing, Fort Bragg, CA Bronze Inkwell Extra Stout Cottage-City Brewing, Oak Bluffs, MA Category - Classic Irish Style Dry Stout Gold Zonker Stout-Snake River B.C., Jackson, WY Silver Old 58 Stout-Woodland B.C., Seattle, WA Bronze Total Eclipse Stout-Blue Ridge BC , Greenville, SC Category - American Style Pale Ale Gold Sharptail Pale Ale-Montana BC, Billings, Mt Silver Mt. Tam Pale Ale-Marin BC, Larkspur, CA Bronze Snake River Pale Ale-Snake River BC, Jackson, WY Category - American Style Amber Ale Gold Believer's Bitter-Angelic BC, Madison, WI Silver Chelsea Sunset Red Ale-Chelsea BC, New York, NY Bronze Sharkbite Red-Carlsbad Brewery, Carlsbad, CA Category - Golden Ale/Canadian Style Ale Gold Independence Gold-Independence BC, Philadelphia, PA Silver 420 Extra Pale Ale-Sweetwater BC, Atlanta, GA Bronze Labatt 50-Labatt Breweries of Canada-London, Ontario Category - American Style Brown Ale Bronze Golden Gate Original Ale-Golden Pacific BC, Berkeley, CA Category - German Style Kolsch/Koln Style Kolsch Ale Gold Chaser Pale-Blackstone Rest. & Brewery, Nashville, TN Silver Yumeminato Kolsch-Beer Gasse, Samaiminato, Tottori, Japan Bronze Skinny Atlas Light-Empire BC of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY Category - German Style Brown Ale/dusseldorf Style Altbier Gold Widmer Alt-Widmer Bros BC, Portland, OR Silver Southampton Secret Ale-Southampton Publick House, Southampotn, NY Bronze Alle Tage Altbier-McNeill's Brewery, Brattleboro, VT Category - South German Style Hefeweizen/Hefeweissbier Gold Tabernash Weiss-Tabernash BC, Denver, CO Silver Edelweiss Hefetrub-Osterreichische Brau-Aktiensgesellschaft, Austria Bronze Hitachino Nest Beer Weizzen-Kiuchi Syuzou Naka-Machi, Ibanaki, Japan Category - South German Style Weizenbock/Weissbock Gold Edelweiss Gamsbock-Osterreichische Brau-Aktiensgesellschaft, Austria Silver Weizenator-BJ's Brewery, Portland , OR Bronze Weizen bock-Kumazwa BC, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Category - Belgian Style Dubbel Silver Abbey Belgian Style Ale-New Belgium Brewery, Fort Collins, CO Category - Belgian Style Tripel Gold Tripel Karmeliet-Brewery Bosteels, Buggenhout, Belgium Silver Celis Grand Cru-Celis Brewery Inc., Austin, TX Bronze Pran Qster-North Coast Brewing, Fort Bragg, CA Category - Belgian Style Pale Ale Silver Abbey Ale-Blue Moon Brewing, Golden, CO Bronze Michinoku Fukushima Beer/Red Ale, Seiko Co, Japan Category - Belgian Style Strong Ale Gold Le Faux Pas-Brew Moon, Cambridge, MA Silver Hitachino Nest Beer XH, Kiuchi Syuzou, Naka-Machi, Japan Bronze Belgian Strong Ale-Alesmith BC, San Diego, CA Category - Belgian Style White (or Wit) Belgian Style Wheat Gold Allagash White-Allagash Brewing Co, Portland, ME Silver Red Rock White-Red Rock Brewing Co, Salt Lake City, UT Bronze Hoegarden White Ale-Brouwerij de Kluis, Hoegaarden ,Belgium Category - German Style Pilsener Gold Beck's- Beck & Co, Bremen, Germany Silver Herforder Pils-Brauerei Felsenkeller NRW, Herford, Germany Category - Bohemian Style Pilsener Gold Red Ass Pegasass Pilsner-Red Ass BC, Fort Collins, CO Silver Holy Cow! Pilsner-Holy Cow!, Las Vegas, NV Bronze Pilsner Iganosato-Mokumoku, Ayama, Mie, Japan Category - European Style Pilsener Gold hahn Premium-Tooheys Pty Ltd, Lidcombe, Australia Silver Cerveja Antarctica-Cia Antarctica Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bronze Sapporo Draft-Sapporo Breweries Ltd, Tokyo, Japan Category - Munchner Style Helles Silver Sudwerk Helles-Sudwerk, Davis CA Bronze Taiwan Beer-Taiwan Tobacco & Wine Monopoly, Taipei, Taiwan Category - Dortmunder/European Style Export Gold Red Brick Golden Lager-Atlanta BC, Atlanta, GA Silver Herforder Edel-Export-Brauerei Felsenkeller, Herford, Germany Bronze Aldara Luksus-A/S "Aldaris", Riga, Latvia Category - Vienna Style Lager Gold Vienna Style Lager-Salt Lake BC, Salt Lake City, UT Silver Leinenkugel's Red Lager-Jacob Leinenkugel BC, Chippewa Falls, WI Bronze Independence Franklinfest-Independence BC, Philadelphia, PA Category - German Style Marzen/Oktoberfest Gold Oktoberfest-Los Gatos BC, Los Gatos, CA Silver Oktoberfest-Schooner Brewery, Dallas, TX Bronze Sudwerk Marzen, Sudwerk, Davis, CA Category - European Style Dark/Munchner Dunkel Gold Tabernash Munich Dark Lager-Tabernash BC, Denver, CO Silver Berghoff Genuine Dark Beer-Jos. Huber BC, Monroe, WI Bronze Asahi Kuronama-Asahi Breweries, Tokyo, Japan Category - Geman Style Schwarzbier Silver Shonan Liebe-Kumazawa BC, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Bronze King's Peak-Uinta BC, Salt Lake City, UT Category - Traditional Bock Gold Toothless Bock-Bavarian Lager Cellar-Albuquerque, NM Silver Saint Arnold spring Bock-Saint Arnold BC, Houston, TX Bronze Penalty Bock-C.B. & Potts/Big Horn Brewing, Englewood, CO Category - German Style Helles Bock/Maibock Gold Sudwerk Maibock-Sudwerk, Davis, CA Silver Herforder maibock-Brauerei Felsenkeller, Herford, Germany Bronze Honey Double Mai Bock-Stoudt Brewing, Adamstown, PA Category - German Style Strong Bock Beer Gold SOT- Brew Works Rest. & Pub-Covington, KY Silver Doppelbock-La Conner BC, La Conner, WA Bronze Canon-Les Brasseurs, Montreal, Quebec Category - American Style Lager Gold Kokanee-Columbia Brewery, Creston, BC, Canada Silver Labatt Blue-Labatt Breweries of Canada, London Ontario, Canada Bronze Red Dog-Plank Road Brewery, Milwaukee, WI Category - American Style Light Beer Gold Miller Lite-Miller BC, Milwaukee, WI Silver Coors Light-Coors, Golden, CO Category - American Style Premium Lager Silver Miller Genuine Draft-Miller BC, Milwaukee, WI Bronze Brick Red Baron-Brick Brewing Co, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Category - Dry Lager Gold Toohey's Extra Dry-Toohey's Ltd, Lidcombe, Australia Category - American Style Ice Lager Gold Icehouse-Plank Road Brewery, Milwaukee, WI Silver Miller High Life Ice-Miller Brewing CO, Milwaukee, WI Category - American Style Malt Liquor Gold Schlitz Malt Liquor Category - American Style Amber Lager Gold Killian's Red-Coors, Golden, CO Silver Steam Engine Steam-Steamworks, Durango, Co Bronze Dr. Holty's Cyclone Lager-Dr. Holty's Little Beer Co, Redondo Beach, CA Category - American Style Dark Lager Bronze Michelob Amber Bock-Anheuser Busch-St Louis, MO Category - American Style Lager/Ale or Cream Ale Gold Lodgepole Light-Prescott BC, Prescott, AZ Silver Genesee Cream Ale-Genessee BC, Rochester, NY Bronze Sandstone Cream Ale-Thunder Canyon Brewery, Tucson, AZ Category - American Style Wheat Ale or lager with Yeast Gold Happy Valley Hefeweizen-Desert Edge Brewery, Salt Lake City, UT Silver Weiss Guy Wheat-Alcatraz Brewing, Tempe,AZ Bronze Claim Jumper Hefeweizen-Bayhawk le, Inc, Irvine, CA Category - American Style Wheat Ale or Lager without Yeast Gold American Wheat Beer-Western Reserve Brewing, Cleveland, OH Silver Lucknow American Wheat-Castle Springs Brewing, Moultonborough, NH Bronze New World Wheat-Tied House Café & Brewery-Mt. View, CA Category - Fruit Beers Gold Sweet Cherry Brown-Montana Brewing Co, Billings, MT Silver Folie douce-Les Brasseurs De L'Anse Inc, L'anse Saint Jean, Quebec Bronze Sweetwater Blue-Sweetwater Brewing, Atlanta, GA Category - Herb and Spice Beers Gold Triple "C" Special Ale-Brew Moon, Cambridge, MA Silver Lake Effect Winter Ale-Western Reserve Brewing, Cleveland, OH Bronze Samuel Adams Winter Lager-Samuel Adams Brewery, Cincinnati, OH Category - Specialty Beers Gold B & H Evening Toasted Ale-Barley & Hopps , San Mateo, CA Silver Longshot Molasses Coffee Stout-The World Homebrew competition, MA Bronze Froch Heather Ale- Heather Ale Ltd, Alloa, Scotland Category - Smoke Flavored Beer Gold Smoke-Rogue Ales, Newport, OR Silver Alaskan Smoked Porter-Alaskan Brewing , Juneau, AK Category - Non-Alcoholic Malt Beverages Gold Clausthaler Extra Herb-Binding-Brauerei, Hessen, Germany Silver Kronenbier Cia Antarctica, Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil Bronze O'Doul'd Amber-Anheuser Busch, St. Louis, MO