2014 VA Craft Brewer's Cup Winners!

This year’s competition, managed by master Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judge Tom Cannon, had 28 judges review 221 beers in 23 different categories. George Stewart, Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade, presented the awards for Best in Show. The winners of Best of Show and each category are as follows:

Best of Show winners 2014 Virginia Craft Brewers Cup:

• Gold: Devils Backbone Outpost – Turbo Cougar
• Silver: Devils Backbone Basecamp – Smokehaus Lager
• Bronze: Devils Backbone Basecamp – Berliner Metro Weiss

American and German Lager

• Gold: Devils Backbone Outpost – Turbo Cougar
• Silver: Blue Mountain Brewery – Living Helles
• Bronze: Devils Backbone Outpost – Schwartz Bier

Pilsner

• Gold: Lost Rhino Brewing Company – Rhino Chaser Pilsner
• Silver: Legend Brewing Company – Pilsner
• Bronze: Mad Fox Brewing Company – Praha Pils

Vienna and Oktoberfest

• Gold: Devils Backbone Outpost – Vienna Lager
• Silver: Sunken City Brewing Company – Sunktoberfest
• Bronze: Lost Rhino Brewing Company – RhinoFest

Kolsch and Blonde Ale

• Gold: Champion Brewing Company – Killer Kolsch
• Silver: Parkway Brewing Company – Bridge Builder Blonde
• Bronze: Capitol City Brewing Company – Capitol Kolsch

Light and Amber Hybrid Beer

• Gold: Bull and Bones Brewhaus – Appalachian Alt
• Silver: Sunken City Brewing Company – Steemboat Beer
• Bronze: Champion Brewing Company – Stickin’ in my Rye

English, Scottish, and Irish Ale

• Gold: Apocalypse Ale Works – Heavy Red Horseman
• Silver: Midnight Brewery – Rockville Red
• Bronze: Old Bust Head Brewing Company – Bust Head English Pale Ale

American Pale Ale

• Gold: Beach Brewing Company – Ghost Ship
• Silver: Triple Crossing Brewing – Easy Now
• Bronze: Center of the Universe Brewing Company – Ray Ray’s Pale Ale

American Amber and Brown Ale

• Gold: O’Connor Brewing Company – Red Nun Red Ale
• Silver: South Street Brewery – Browntown
• Bronze: Wolf Hills Brewing Company – Creeper Trail Amber Ale

Porter

• Gold: Parkway Brewing Company – Raven’s Roost Baltic Porter
• Silver: Old Ox Brewery – Black Ox
• Bronze: Port City Brewing Company – Porter

Stout

• Gold: Apocalypse Ale Works – 6th Seal
• Silver: Chaos Mountain Brewing – Coco Borealis
• Bronze: Three Notch’d Brewing Company – Oats McGoats Oatmeal Stout

India Pale Ale

• Gold: Starr Hill – King of Hop
• Silver: Port City Brewing Company – Monumental IPA
• Bronze: Sunken City Brewing Company – Red Clay IPA

Imperial IPA

• Gold: Three Brothers Brewing – Admiral
• Silver: AleWerks Brewing Company – Bitter Valentine
• Bronze: Triple Crossing Brewing – Street Cred

German Weizen

• Gold: Lost Rhino Brewing Company – Final Glide Hefeweizen
• Silver: Extra Billy’s – My Only Weiss
• Bronze: Smartmouth Brewing Company – Sommer Fling

Strong Ale

• Gold: Wild Wolf Brewing Company – Wolfinstein
• Silver: Triple Crossing Brewing – Yoke of Oxen
• Bronze: Old Bust Head Brewing Company – Gold Cup Russian Imperial Stout

Belgian and French Ale

• Gold: Old Ox Brewery – Saison d’Ox
• Silver: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – Singel
• Bronze: Bull and Bones Brewhaus – Sun Lit Wit

Belgian Strong Ale

• Gold: Chaos Mountain Brewing – Agents of Chaos
• Silver: Apocalypse Ale Works – Lustful Maiden
• Bronze: Blue Mountain Brewery – Marsedon

Sour Ale

• Gold: Devils Backbone Basecamp – Berliner Metro Weiss
• Silver: Champion Brewing Company – Tart Berliner Weiss
• Bronze: Strangeways Brewing Company – Uberlin Berliner Weiss

Fruit Beer

• Gold: Wolf Hills Brewing Company – Watermelon Wheat
• Silver: Devils Backbone Outpost – Pear Lager
• Bronze: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – Virginia Blackberry

Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

• Gold: Blue Mountain Barrel House – Spooky
• Silver: Ardent Craft Ales – Honey Ginger
• Bronze: Wild Wolf Brewing Company – Ginger Lager

Smoke-Flavored/Wood-Aged Beer

• Devils Backbone Basecamp – Smokehaus Lager
• Starr Hill – Bourbon Barrel Bandstand Barleywine
• Blue Mountain Barrel House – Dark Hollow

Specialty Beer

• AleWerks Brewing Company – Lover’s Greed
• Starr Hill – Whiter Shade of Pale Ale
• Devils Backbone Outpost – East/West India Pale Lager

The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild is a coalition of independent, small, commercial breweries dedicated to growing the craft beer industry in the Commonwealth. The Beer Institute reports the beer industry in Virginia accounts for 8,123 jobs with an economic impact of $623 million.