Medals from the 2022 Washington Beer Awards. (image courtesy of Victor 23 Craft Brewery)
Seattle, WA, November 4, 2022: Specialty Competitions LLC is proud to release the results of the ninth annual Washington Beer Awards®. This year 121 Washington breweries received recognition of gold, silver, and bronze medals in 77 award category groupings.
The results for this Washington-only professional beer competition were announced on November 4th at the Washington Craft Beer Summit at the Puyallup Fairgrounds where some of Washington’s best brewers received medals for their award-winning beers.
The judging for the Washington Beer Awards was held on September 10th and 11th at Elliott Bay Public House & Brewery in Lake City. The panels of trained judges had to evaluate 1,400 beers from 179 breweries spanning 142 unique styles from the Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines for technical and stylistic excellence.
The competition was held with the endorsement of the Washington Beer Commission as a way to celebrate Washington’s growing brewing culture and recognize excellence in the craft. All of Washington’s craft breweries were invited to submit entries to the competition held in a similar format to other craft beer competitions like the Great American Beer Festival® and World Beer Cup®.
Four special awards, the Very Small, Small, Mid-Sized and Large Breweries of the Year, were presented to breweries who won numerous medals in many categories. Laht Neppur Brewing Company won as the Very Small Brewery of the Year with two silver medals. Four Generals Brewing won the small brewery of the year with three gold medals and a bronze. Fair Isle Brewing again mustered a strong showing winning in the Mid-Sized Brewery of the Year category with four golds and a silver. The Large Brewery of the Year was again won by Stoup Brewing with two golds, a silver, and a bronze.
A few special awards were also providing recognizing some unique Washington brewing excellence. Everybody’s Brewing won a gold in the “Pro-Am” category for a Dortmunder Export Lager called “Natron” that was developed by Washington homebrewer Nathan Zorich and scaled up for commercial production. Scuttlebutt Brewing and Sound to Summit Brewing collaborated on a South German Hefeweizen called “Bridging The Trestle” which again won gold in this year’s “Collaboration Beer” category.
More information on the competition and the complete list of results can be found at www.wabeerawards.com/winners. Watch for Washington’s award-winning beers marked at your local craft beer bars and beer stores and get ready for the Washington Beer Awards to return in 2023 where new winners will be decided!
image of 2022 medals courtesy of the Washington Beer Awards
Complete Results:
Light German-Style Lagers:
Gold: Chuckanut Brewery – Chuckanut Chuck Light
Silver: Optimism Brewing – Hello, World!
Bronze: E9 Brewery LLC – Saturday Sunshine
German-Style Pilsners:
Gold: Brothers Cascadia Brewing – The People’s Pilsner
Silver: Fremont Brewing…
