The Brewers Association (BA) has announced the medal winners in the Fresh Hop Beer category for the 2021 Great American Beer Festival competition.
This year’s GABF judging began earlier than ever before in order to host the GABF awards ceremony during the Craft Brewers Conference in Denver in September. To include the Fresh Hop category in the competition, judging was pushed to October to allow for the fall hop harvest and beer production. There were 83 entries submitted by 69 breweries from 14 states.
The medal winners for the category were:
GOLD: Energy Cone – Single Hill Brewing Co., Yakima, Wash.
SILVER: Fresh Hop Green Battles – Pinthouse Pizza North, Austin, Texas
BRONZE: Seems So Long Since We Walked in the Moonlight – Burke-Gilman Brewing Co., Seattle, Wash.