ONCE AGAIN, CALIFORNIA BREWERS TAKE HOME MOST WINS AT 2023 GABF, SECURING 73 MEDALS

After an exciting weekend of festivities at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), the Brewers Association (BA) awarded 303 medals to 263 breweries across the country. This year’s award ceremony hosted 2,033 breweries from all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Judges evaluated 9,298 entries from 99 categories. The enormity of the competition requires them to be judged over weeks by hundreds of beer judges and experts from ten countries.

California brewers took home 73 medals.

You can find the full list of 2023 GABF award winners here.

Congratulations to the CCBA Member medal winners!

• 1849 Brewing Co.
• Alvarado Street Brewery & Bistro
• Bagby Beer Co.
• Ballast Point Brewing Co.
• Bartlett Hall
• Beachwood Brewing
• Belching Beaver Brewery
• BNS Brewing & Distilling Co.
• Buck Wild Brewing
• Burgeon Beer Co.
• Claremont Craft Ales
• Common Space Brewery
• Device Brewing Co.
• Docent Brewing
• Fall Brewing Co.
• FiftyFifty Brewing Co.
• Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co.
• Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
• HiDef Brewing Co.
• Highland Park Brewery
• Hop Dogma Brewing Co.
• HopSaint Brewing Co.
• Institution Ale Co.
• Laguna Beach Beer Co.
• Liquid Gravity Brewing Co.
• Lost Winds Brewing Co.
• MadeWest Brewing Co.
• Modern Times Beer
• North Park Beer Co.
• Original Pattern Brewing Co.
• Pizza Port Brewing Co.
• Ritual Brewing Co.
• Rouleur Brewing Co.
• Russian River Brewing Co.
• Stereo Brewing Co.
• TapRoom Beer Co.
• Tenma Beer Project
• The Bruery
• Three Mile Brewing Co.
• Topa Topa Brewing Co.
• Unsung Brewing Co.

An additional congratulations to Liquid Gravity Brewing, Brendan Gough and Beau Sorenson for 2,001–5,000 Barrels Brewery and Brewer of the Year.