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Nine Indiana breweries won awards Thursday in the World Beer Cup, a decades-old competition hosted in Indianapolis for the first time.
Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing Co. led the way among Hoosier companies by collecting three awards, including one gold and two bronze.
Five Indiana breweries were selected for gold awards in the competition made up of 112 beer categories and five cider categories.
In addition to Sun King, the Indiana-based gold winners were Westfield-based Grand Junction Brewing Co., Whitestown-based Moontown Brewing Co., Columbus-based Zwanzigz Pizza and Brewing and Michigan City-based Shoreline Brewery.
In its 29th year, the World Beer Cup is part of the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America, which occupied the Indiana Convention Center this week. More than 550 vendors showcase their products during the largest craft-brewery-specific show in the United States.
A panel of 265 World Beer Cup judges evaluated more than 8,000 entries from 1,761 companies.
Noblesville-based Primeval Brewing collected a silver award, while Indianapolis-based Guggman Haus Brewing Co., Indianapolis-based Bier Brewery and Greenfield-based Wooden Bear Brewing Co. each won a bronze.
Indiana’s award winners:
- Sun King Brewing Co., gold for Free Range Farmhouse Ale in the category of Brett beer
- Sun King Brewing Co., bronze for Stupid Sexy Flanders in the category of Belgian-style Flanders oud bruin or oud red ale
- Sun King Brewing Co., bronze for Amalfi (a collaboration with California-based brewery the Lost Abbey) in the category of experimental beer
- Grand Junction Brewing Co., gold for Not Grandma’s Pumpkin Ale in the category of pumpkin beer
- Moontown Brewing Co., gold for Follow the Lederhosen in the category of German-style Maerzen or Franconian-style rotbier
- Shoreline Brewery, gold for Curse the Goat in the category of German-style doppelbock or eisbock
- Zwangzigz Pizza and Brewing, gold for Fulcrum Imperial Stout in the category of American-style imperial stout
- Primeval Brewing, silver for French Kiss in the category of Belgian-style ale or French-style ale
- Bier Brewery, bronze for Pumpkin Ale in the category of pumpkin beer
- Guggman Haus Brewing Co., bronze for Riverside NEIPA in the category of juicy or hazy India Pale Ale
- Wooden Bear Brewing Co., bronze for Broliner Weisse in the category of wood- and barrel-aged sour beer
For more information, visit worldbeercup.org.
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