2014 Virginia Craft Brewers Cup Winners Announced
This past Saturday was the third annual Virginia Craft Brewers fest where 52 Virginia breweries assembled in Nelson County to celebrate their wares and take part in a friendly competition. The winners of this years Virginia Craft Brewers Cup 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 – Not My Job
- 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 Creed
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
- Gold: Devils Backbone Basecamp – Smokehaus Lager
- Silver: Starr Hill – Bourbon Barrel Bandstand Barleywine
- Bronze: Blue Mountain Barrel House – Dark Hollow
Specialty Beer
- Gold: AleWerks Brewing Company – Lover’s Greed
- Silver: Starr Hill – Whiter Shade of Pale Ale
- Bronze: Devils Backbone Outpost – East/West India Pale Lager