Both Fort Worth brewers
The Covey Restaurant & Brewery and
Rahr & Sons won medals at the 2009
Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition held last month in Los Angeles, California.
The breakdown of the awards is:
- American-Style Hefeweizen: Bronze for Texas Wheat from The Covey
- Belgian-Style Strong Specialty Ale: Silver for 100 from The Covey
- Münchner-Style Helles: Bronze for Rahr Blonde from Rahr & Sons
- Smoke-Flavored Beer: Silver for Smokestack Stout from The Covey
- Strong Scotch Ale (Traditional): Gold for Scotch Ale from The Covey
- Vienna-Style Lager: Bronze for Vienna Lager from The Covey
The Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition is an annual BJCP-certified competition organized by the
Los Angeles County Fair. It is open to any commercially licensed brewpub or brewery, with awards given for 69 different style categories plus a number of substyles.
A full listing of awards is available from the Los Angeles County Fair
website.
Update: Rahr & Sons also won a medal at the 2009
North American Beer Awards, an annual competition sponsored by the
North American Brewers Association. Rahr & Sons'
Ugly Pug won a bronze medal in the Schwarzbier (Black Beer) category.
The North American Beer Awards is held in conjunction with the
Mountain Brewers Beer Fest each summer in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Fort Worth's Rahr & Sons have won more medals at the recent 2009 U.S. Open Beer Championship in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Both Fort Worth brewers The Covey Restaurant & Brewery and Rahr & Sons won medals at the 2009 Los Angeles International Commercial Beer Competition held last month in Los Angeles, California.
Tuesday, June 9th, marked the fifteenth anniversary for Houston's Saint Arnold Brewing Company. As the oldest Texas microbrewery from the robust number of operations that began throughout the 1990s, Saint Arnold marked the occasion on the Saturday prior with a large anniversary party at the present brewery, as well as several smaller events planned for this week.
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