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The Brewers Association, the trade association representing America’s small and independent brewers, has announced the 2023 winners of the largest beer competition in America, the Great American Beer Festival.
The annual competition is open to America’s craft breweries. The winners are announced on the last day of the annual three-day Great American Beer Festival, one of the largest beer festivals in America.
This year, 2,033 breweries from all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico entered 9,300 beers into the competition. The beers were entered among 99 categories, ranging from Abbey Ale to Zwickelbier. The enormity of the competition requires them to be judged over weeks by dozens of beer judges and experts from around the world.
A complete list of winners is available on the Brewers Association website.
In addition to the individual beer awards, the Great American Beer Festival awards “Brewery of the Year” honors to breweries of different sizes, based on their success in the competition. The 2023 Great American Beer Festival Brewery of the Year Winners are: