'15 NABA winners

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  1. muddyh2oblues

    muddyh2oblues Initiate (0) Mar 13, 2010 Illinois

    Besides the A-B and MillerCoors offerings, I only saw a handful of beers I can get around here. Congrats to the winners, there's great beer all over this country!
     
    #21 muddyh2oblues, Jun 8, 2015
  2. core42

    core42 Pooh-Bah (1,862) May 5, 2010 Michigan
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    Quite a bit of love for Latitude 42 which is cool to see. That said it's about the 6th best brewery in the Kalamazoo/Portage, MI area
     
    #22 core42, Jun 8, 2015
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  3. hopnado

    hopnado Initiate (0) Aug 13, 2014 Michigan

    After viewing the NABA winners list it's safe to assume the NABA is irrelevant
     
    #23 hopnado, Jun 8, 2015
  4. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    True, it's regional. It was held in Idaho, so a lot of faraway breweries probably just didn't find it worth the trouble to enter, send beer etc. But there were winners from Michigan (Latitude 42), New York (Paradox), Massachusetts (Boston Beer Co.), and Belgium (Lindemans). I don't think any of these breweries are owned by AB.
     
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  5. sharpski

    sharpski Grand Pooh-Bah (3,100) Oct 11, 2010 Oregon
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    Is there another judging event that gets entries from as much of the U.S. as GABF does? Leaving out the World Beer Cup, the judging events I know of that accept entries from all 50 states (the NABA and Best of Craft Beer Awards) are still more regional in participation with a few distant breweries in the mix. What are the similar judging events in the Midwest, East, and other parts of the country?
     
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  6. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    I didn't see a list of entered breweries, so, just like GABF, we don't know who was entered. It's good to see events other than GABF, and compare winners lists. Maybe the folks who don't recognize the winners could talk their local breweries into entering, use it as a GABF tune-up.
     
    #26 BBThunderbolt, Jun 9, 2015
  7. BuffaloBrasky

    BuffaloBrasky Initiate (0) Sep 26, 2014 California

    I haven't heard of 90% of these beers and breweries. Not sure if that's a good thing or if the NABA is really out of touch.
     
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  8. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Which shows a couple things:

    A: There's a lot of damn breweries these days, and even as well-aware as we collectively are, we can't get 'em all.

    B: Part of my reason posting this, was to raise awareness of the event. I think it'd be great to more breweries from all over North America involved in this, and have it become a bigger thing.

    C: GABF, after all, is limited to American breweries. There's plenty of great beers being produced in Canadia that don't even get a chance at GABF.
     
    #28 BBThunderbolt, Jun 9, 2015
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  9. -N8

    -N8 Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2014 Germany

    Great to see New Mexico is well represented on the podium.
     
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  10. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    I've heard of most of the Washington and Oregon breweries on the medalists list, and I'd say a lot of them are in the top tier for their states, but many are definitely under the radar even locally. Of course there are quite a few notable exceptions, but this reads like a partial list of some of the most highly regarded breweries in the Pacific Northwest:

    Barley Brown's
    Boneyard
    Breakside
    Reuben's
    Sound
    Chuckanut
    Selkirk Abbey
    Pelican
    Boundary Bay
    Icicle
    Aslan
    Wander
    Bend Brewing
    Sunriver
    GoodLife
    10 Barrel
    Old Schoolhouse
    Walking Man
    Howe Sound
    Oakshire

    I've heard very good things about Urban Chestnut in St. Louis too, so I can only assume that most of the finalists from elsewhere are of a similar caliber. Long story short: just because they aren't darlings of BA doesn't mean they aren't cranking out some really great beer.

    Both NABA and these awards certainly seem relevant as far as I'm concerned.
     
    #30 Orca, Jun 9, 2015
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