This year’s Longshot American Homebrew Contest winners were announced this morning in Denver at a brunch hosted by the Boston Beer Co. during GABF week. Here are the winners:
- Michael Robinson — Old Ale
- Ben Miller — Barleywine
- Jeremy White (Sam Adams employee winner) — Saison
The Winners Pose with Jim Koch
Below is a short slideshow of the Longshot Winners reception. If you click on the button on the bottom right with the four arrows pointing outward on it, you can see the photos in glorious full screen.
Below is a video of Jim Koch announcing the winners of the Longshot competition.
Congrats to the winners (#s 1 & 2 are favorite “styles” of mine…can’t wait till the sampler box with the winners is released).
Kudos to Boston Brewing too, for sponsoring such a competition and supporting the world of home brewing in such a tangible way.
Boston Brewing is itself a winner…quite a success story, and they deserve a big tip of the homburg for their huge contribution in bringing good, traditional, character filled beer into the mainstream.
How odd it is to me that they are ironically beginning to take a lot of heat from sections of the ‘beer snob’ crowd because they have graduated to being such a big player in the beer game.
They may not be micro anymore, but like Sierra Nevada, will always be a “craft” brewer (in the truest and most meaningful sense of the word) no matter how big they get.
I’m so happy for Mike. He’s a friend of mine from New Hampshire and a fellow member of Brew Free or Die homebrew club, and he really deserves this. He’s an amazing brewer.
Hello Jay:
It was great talking with you at the brunch and fun to pass on the baton.
Alex Drobshoff
LongShot winner 2008
The choices are a little more bold this year. I’m just hoping the beer is better.