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2009 Longshot Contest Winners

Brian — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:03:11 +0000

Jim Koch, the founder and brewer of Samuel Adams, started out as a home brewer himself. He has always been a vocal supporter and great champion of the home brew hobby. Samuel Adams holds a contest every year called Longshot, where they allow home brewers all over the country to submit their beer and have it judged by a panel of experts. The winners of the contest get to have their beer nationally distributed by Sam Adams!

They pick three winners and announce them at the Great American Beer Fest. Two of the winners are selected from the general home brew community while one is chosen from among the Sam Adams employees. They highly encourage their employees to brew beer and over 90% of them do, that’s pretty impressive.

The husband and wife duo from HereForTheBeer.com (they have an excellent site and do some really fun videos) were at the GABF and recorded the winners being announced by Jim Koch. You can check out the video below:

Winners of the 2009 Great American Beer Festival

Brian — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:25:04 +0000

The judging has concluded and the winners of the 2009 Great American Beer Festival have been chosen and posted online. There were 495 breweries entered into this years competition and they entered an impressive 3308 beers. With 132 judges, that’s an average of 25 beers per judge. Not a bad gig!

There were 78 different categories so the list of winners is pretty long. You can check out all of the results at GABF 2009 Winners

Great American Beer Festival = Supreme Beer Envy!

Brian — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:12:05 +0000

I am sitting here, reading blog posts, watching videos and following tweets from the Great American Beer Festival and have nothing but envy that I couldn’t make it this year. It looks like so much fun, I am adding a new goal to my list this year. I am going to the Great American Beer Festival next year! At least, I really hope to go to the festival next year. It’s going to be after my Year of Beer is over but that’s not going to stop me from making it one of my goals. It will be a great way of ending my first Year of Beer and starting my second.