Verboten Brewing leads regional breweries at U.S. Open Beer

Breweries in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley took home more than a dozen medals this week at the U.S. Open Beer Championship, with Loveland’s Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project leading the pack with five total awards.

Here were the medals, categories and winning varieties for which awards were served up to local breweries at the annual Oxford, Ohio, event:

Gold

• Belgian pale ale — Belgian Pale Ale, Cellar West Brewery, Lafayette.
• English barleywine — Grow Old With You, Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project, Loveland.
• Kentucky Common — Angry Banjo, Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project, Loveland.
• Sweet stout or cream stout — Wired Greasy Grinder, Knuckle Puck Brewing, Longmont.

Silver

• Belgian and French ale — Junebug, Echo Brewing Co., Erie.
• Collaboration beer — Muncherwein, Liquid Mechanics Brewing, Lafayette, and Verboten Brewing & Barrel Project, Loveland.
• Collaboration beer (IPA) — West Coast Cartel, Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., Lafayette, and Cannonball Creek Brewing Co., Golden.
• English summer ale — Blotter, Cellar West Brewery, Lafayette.
• Oatmeal stout — Pure Imagination, Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project, Loveland.
• Spirits barrel-aged beer — Gin Barrel-Aged Stay Classy, Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project, Loveland.
• Zwickelbier/Kellerbier — Kneebone, Cellar West Brewery, Lafayette.

Bronze

• American fruit (general) — Sour Shakedown Party with Blackberry, Beyond the Mountain Brewing Co., Boulder.
• Australian-style pale ale — Polynesian Pale Ale, Cellar West Brewery, Lafayette.

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