Bay Area breweries are a hit at the Great American Beer Festival

More than a dozen brewers from the Bay Area and Sacramento have won awards at the Great American Beer Festival last weekend. Presented by the Brewers Association, the Colorado event is the largest beer competition in the world – think of it as the Oscars of Beer.

GABF awards prizes to 102 different beer categories and the competition is fierce. This year, judges received almost 8,500 applications from approximately 2,400 breweries in the United States.

It's particularly exciting that a brand new brewery wins a medal – a sign of more great things to come – and this year saw two promising local debuts: Original brewing in Oakland and Alaro brewery in Sacramento. The original design was ranked second in a Belgian Call of the Void category, which is the second beer brewed at Original Pattern. Meanwhile, Alaro won a gold medal in the English-style IPA category for his Castillo IPA.

Here are the rest of the local winners:

• Alvarado Street Brewery & Grill (Monterey): Gold in an international style blond beer for Mai Tai P.A.
• Crooked Lane Brewing Co. (Auburn): gold in a German style koelsch for Veedels Bräu
• Drake's Brewing Co. (San Leandro): Gold in a strong beer aged in cask for the Santa & # 39; s Brass
• Brewpub by Peter B (Monterey): Gold in an American fruit beer for Tropic Maelstrom
• Hermitage Brewing Co. (San Jose): Sour Cherry sour fruit brewed sour beer beer
• Moonraker Brewing Co. (Auburn): imperial imperial silver for the aurora borealis
• New Helvetia Brewing Co. (Sacramento): Money in a beer at the cafe for Mystery Airship 4.0: Golden Ale of Cascara Temple
• Russian River Brewing Co. (Santa Rosa): money in Kellerbier for STS Pils
• Santa Clara Valley Brewing (San Jose): Silver in a German style wheat beer for Alviso Mills Hefeweizen
• Sudwerk Brewing Co. (Davis): Money for an American beer with amber for Märzen
• Three Mile Brewing Co. (Davis): Money in IPA session for Little Downtown Tom
• 21st brewery of amendment (San Leandro): American cream bronze in El Sully
• Faction Brewing Co. (Alameda): International style blond beer bronze for the Penske folder
• Deviant Standard Brewing (San Francisco): bronze in the South German Hefeweizen style for Hefeweizen