Overall Competition Highlights
Most Medals Won
Style Categories
This year the most-entered categories were New England Style India Pale Ale (IPA) and American Light Lager which each saw 58 entries. The top five entered categories were:
Summary: 2018 New York Craft Brewers Competition and Governor’s Excelsior Cup
Category Winners:
Category 1: Belgian Farmhouse – 24 Entries
Gold: Passing Time Grisette, Threes Brewing, Brooklyn **(Governors Excelsior Cup Winner)
Silver: Summer White House, Oyster Bay Brewing Company, Oyster Bay
Bronze: Touch of Grey, Local 315 Brewing Company, Warners
Category 2: Amber and Dark Lagers – 22 Entries
Gold: Toasted Lager, Blue Point Brewing Company, Patchogue
Silver: Live and Let Lager, Lost Borough Brewing, Rochester
Bronze: Great Flats Dunkel Bock, Great Flats Brewing, Schenectady
Category 3: Amber/Red Ale (British, American, Irish, Scottish) – 22 Entries
Gold: Soda Bread Red, Bottomless Brewing, Geneva
Silver: Amber Waves of Grain, Erie Canal Brewing Company, Canastota
Bronze: Irish Red Ale, Seneca St Brew Pub, Manlius
Category 4: American DIPA – 40 Entries
Gold: Too Kind DIPA, Three Heads Brewing, Rochester
Silver: Head in the Clouds DIPA, Resurgence Brewing Company, Buffalo
Bronze: Deep Cut, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Bronze: Whoopass DIPA, Roc Brewing Co, Rochester
Category 5: American IPA – 48 Entries
Gold: IPW, Upstate Brewing Company, Elmira
Silver: Spring Fling, Seneca St Brew Pub, Manlius
Bronze: Hayburner American IPA, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Category 6: American IPA Variations – 25 Entries
Gold: Great Flats Raspberry IPA, Great Flats Brewing, Schenectady
Silver: That IPA, Community Beer Works, Buffalo
Bronze: Sundae IPA, Fifth Frame, Rochester
Category 7: Barrel Aged (non-Sour) – 18 Entries
Gold: Basking in Bourbon, Saranac Brewery, Utica
Silver: Bourbon Barrel Aged Barley Wine, Bottomless Brewing, Geneva
Bronze: Bourbon Barrel Aged Ubu, Big Slide Brewery & Public House, Lake Placid
Category 8: Barrel Aged Sour – 13 Entries
Gold: Reprise, Brown’s Brewing Company, Troy
Silver: H6 Cherry Sour, Transmitter Brewing, Long Island City
Bronze: Drie Hoofden Flemish Red, Three Heads Brewing, Rochester
Category 9: Belgian Other (Trappist, Strong, etc.) – 17 Entries
Gold: Belgian Golden Strong Anny #2, Lucky Hare Brewing Company, Hector
Silver: Biere des Chevaliers, Saint James Brewery, Holbrook
Bronze: Quad, Five Boroughs Brewing Co., Brooklyn
Category 10: Brown Ale (American , British) – 23 Entries
Gold: Trout Town Brown Ale, Roscoe Beer Company, Roscoe
Silver: The Whale, Community Beer Works, Buffalo
Bronze: Bingtown Brown, Galaxy Brewing Co, Binghamton
Category 11: Experimental – 15 Entries
Gold: Varick Street Stout, Saranac Brewery, Utica
Silver: Co-Pilot, War Horse Brewing Co., Geneva
Bronze: Blackberry Sauce, Hamburg Brewing Company, Hamburg
Category 12: Fruit and Spice Beer – over 6.0ABV – 20 Entries
Gold: Wicked With, Glenmere Brewing Company, Florida
Silver: Slice O’ Havens, Rusty Nickel Brewing Co., West Seneca
Bronze: Cinnamon Apple Amber Ale, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Category 13: Fruit and Spice Beer – 6.0ABV and lower – 37 Entries
Gold: Hidden Track, The Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill
Silver: Summer Fling, Oval Craft Brewing, Plattsburgh
Bronze: Purple Rain, Binghamton Brewing Co., Johnson City
Category 14: Golden/Blonde Ale (American, Kolsch, Cream Ale) – 39 Entries
Gold: Lake Placid Golden Ubu, Lake Placid Brewery, Lake Placid
Silver: Walter Kohlsch, New York Beer Project, Lockport
Bronze: Jetty, Great South Bay Brewery, Bay Shore
Category 15: Imperial Stout and Porter – 10 Entries
Gold: Boris the Spider Russian Imperial Stout, Spider Bite Beer Co., Holbrook
Silver: Imperial Sponge Candy Milk Stout, Resurgence Brewing Company, Buffalo
Bronze: Towpath, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Category 16: Light Lagers – 58 Entries
Gold: Bohemian Pilsner, Bottomless Brewing, Geneva
Silver: Skills Pils, The Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill
Bronze: Festbier, 12 Gates Brewing Co., Williamsville
Category 17: New England IPA – 58 Entries
Gold: Control For Smilers, Prison City Brewing, Auburn
Silver: Sparkled Up, Fifth Frame, Rochester
Bronze: Flashy Ways NEIPA, Braven Brewing Company, Brooklyn
Category 18: Pale Ale – 39 Entries
Gold: Whatsis Batch #2, Naked Dove Brewing Company, Canandaigua
Silver: Aussie Slang, The Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill
Bronze: Paramount Pale Ale, The Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill
Category 19: Porter (Non Imperial) – 18 Entries
Gold: Box’d Smok’d Porter, Glenmere Brewing Company, Florida
Silver: Lock 9 Porter, Wolf Hollow Brewing Company, Schenectady
Bronze: Karass Porter, Rare Form Brewing Company, Troy
Category 20: Stout (Non Imperial) – 17 Entries
Gold: No gold awarded
Silver: Black Meadow Bog, Glenmere Brewing Company, Florida
Bronze: Whiteface Stout, Great Adirondack Brewing Company, Lake Placid
Category 21: Strong Ale (non-Belgian) – 12 Entries
Gold: Barleywine, Naked Dove Brewing Company, Canandaigua
Silver: Doppelbock, Lucky Hare Brewing Co., Hector
Bronze: No bronze awarded
Category 22: Wheat Beer (American, Wit, Hefe) – 36 Entries
Gold: Witte, Brewery Ommegang , Cooperstown
Silver: Honey Wit, Big Alice Brewing Company, Long Island City
Bronze: Electric Hefeweizen, Mad Jack Brewing Co., Schenectady
Category 23: Wild and Sour Ale – 31 Entries
Gold: Kung Foeder Series – Jackie Batch 1, Good Nature Brewing, Hamilton
Silver: Fruit Salad, Lucky Hare Brewing Co., Hector
Bronze: Eternal Return: Sauv Blanc, Threes Brewing, Brooklyn
Category 24: New York State Beer (At least 20% NYS hops, NYS Malt and other NYS ingredients) – 264 Qualified Entries
Gold: Trout Town Brown Ale, Roscoe Beer Company, Roscoe
Silver: Great Flats Raspberry IPA, Great Flats Brewing, Schenectady
Bronze: Sundae IPA, Fifth Frame, Rochester
Bronze: Summer Fling, Oval Craft Brewing, Plattsburgh
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