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Voting for Tap Hunter’s 2nd Annual Brewery Awards starts November 1st on TapHunter.com. This year, individuals can submit their “favorite fan story” through the 17th of the month before a public vote on the stories begins. Prizes go to the top three fan stories as well as the top three local breweries. Last year’s brewery win- ners: 1st Place – AleSmith. 2nd Place – Hess. 3rd Place – tie between Ballast Point and Stone. Stay tuned to TapHunter.com for more news


and announcements later this month.


Boob Check, an English-style ale with cherry, hibiscus, honey and lime, is scheduled to make its debut at the San Diego Brewers Guild Fes- tival on November 5th. Proceeds from the sale of the beer after the festival will go to Beer for Boobs, a local “super cancer fighting walking


crew” who have been training for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on November 18th - 20th (learn more about the crew and how to get


involved by visiting beerforboobs.org). A pilot batch of the beer was poured at the Mammoth Festival of Beers after the idea was hatched to brew up a pink beer, achieved through the com- bination of the lime’s acidity and the hibiscus’ natural coloring. The revamped recipe, using a different yeast strain with more peach notes in it should finish between 6-7% ABV with low IBUs. Ingredients for the beer – roughly 11 kegs worth – were donated by Brewers Sup- ply Group (malt), Stone Brewing Co. (Galaxy hops), White Labs (yeast), Coronado Brewing Co. (honey), and Home Brew Mart/Ballast Point (cherry, hibiscus, lime and the brewing equipment).


The 30th rendition of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) was held in Denver, Colorado from September 29th – October 1st with 49,000 attendees, 466 breweries in the festival hall and 2,375 beers served over four sessions. The fes- tival’s competition remains the world’s largest commercial beer competition, with 3,930 beers battling for medals this year; according to a post by San Diego Beer Blog, California breweries were awarded the most medals of any state, 51 out of 248, with San Diego brewing operations accounting for nearly 40% of CA’s plaudits. San Diegans finished the day with a total of 20 med- als (six gold, twelve silver and two bronze); see the photos of the award ceremony at facebook. com/westcoastersd. AleSmith Brewing Com- pany took home a trio of silvers, the first for AleSmith IPA (American-Style Strong Pale Ale category, the fifth most competitive category based on number of entries), the second for Decadence ‘10 Old Ale (Old Ale or Strong Ale category), and the third in the final category for Old Numbskull (Barley Wine-Style Ale catego- ry). Karl Strauss Brewing Company’s bronze medal-winning Two Tortugas Holiday Quadru- ple (Belgian-Style Abbey Ale category) will be the focus of next month’s beer pairing recipe column Plates & Pints by Brandon Hernández; look for Karl Strauss Executive Chef Gunther Emathinger’s special recipe that complements this second annual holiday ale. The Lost Ab- bey’s Framboise de Amorosa—which starts its life as Lost and Found Abbey Ale before spend- ing more than a year in red wine barrels with


three raspberry additions-- was awarded a sil- ver medal (American-Style Sour Ale category). Pizza Port Carlsbad walked away with six medals total thanks to two silver medals in the first twelve categories: Coffee Monster (Cof- fee Beer category) and Twerp (Session Beer category), followed by three gold medals: 547 Haight-The Toronado San Francisco’s 20th An- niversary Imperial Red Ale (Imperial Red Ale category), Good Grief Brown (English-Style Brown Ale category), and the aptly-named Great American Brown (American-Style Brown Ale category), before one more silver medal: Revelations (Belgian-Style Strong Spe- cialty Ale category). The North County brew-


Brewers Association founder Charlie Papazian (far left) with the AleSmith team (l-r): Anthony Chen, Abby Heilbron Vacula and Peter Zien


pub and its “Brew Guys” also won the highly- coveted Large Brewpub and Large Brewpub Brewer of the Year award for the third year in a row. Pizza Port Ocean Beach took gold for Skidmark Brown Ale (English-Style Mild Ale category), two silvers for Achievement Beyond Life’s Experiences American Stout/Brit Antrim Benefit Beer (American-Style Stout category) and Rhino Chaser Imperial Red Ale (Imperial Red Ale category), and one bronze for Z-Man Stout (Foreign-Style Stout category). Led by head brewer Yiga Miyashiro, the newest in the Pizza Port family also won the Small Brew- pub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year award. The original Pizza Port Solana Beach accepted gold for Jules Winnfield (American- Style Stout category) and silver for Dawn Patrol Dark (English-Style Mild Ale category). Port Brewing Co., the “American Side” of The Lost Abbey, received a bronze medal for Hot Rocks


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Clockwise, from top left: Neva Parker, Kara Taylor, Lara Wenner, Lisa White, Kristjan Vaca, Laura Ulrich and Colby Chandler


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