2019 Results
Overall Competition Highlights
Most Medals Won
Style Categories
This year the most-entered categories was Hazy IPA with 82 entries. The top five entered categories were:
Summary: 2019 New York Craft Brewers Competition and Governor’s Craft Beer Cup 3rdyear
Category Winners:
Category 1: Amber and Dark Lagers – 35 Entries
Gold: Ice Book Bock, Resurgence Brewing Company, Buffalo
Silver: Toasted Lager, Blue Point Brewing Company, Patchogue
Silver: Fall Black, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Bronze: No Bronze Awarded
Category 2: Amber/Red Ale (British, American, Irish, Scottish) – 28 Entries
Gold: Better Red Than Dead, Dublin Corners Farm Brewery, Linwood
Silver: Jessica’s Red Ale, Red Shed Brewery, Cherry Valley
Bronze: Aviator Red, Flying Bison Brewing Company, Buffalo
Category 3: American DIPA – 32 Entries
Gold: Cannon Call, Big Ditch Brewing Company, Buffalo
Silver: Hopnami, Greenport Harbor brewing Company, Peconic
Bronze: 3XIPA, Southern Tier Brewing Co., Lakewood
Bronze: 12 Legs, Spider Bite Beer Co., Holbrook
Category 4: American IPA – 52 Entries
Gold: No Gold Awarded
Silver: DUBCO IPA, Destination Unknown Beer Co, Bay Shore
Bronze: Sticky Trees, Pressure Drop Brewing, Buffalo
Category 5: American IPA Variations– 38 Entries
Gold: True love in an arranged marriage, Arrowood Farms and Brewery, Accord
Silver: Seshquatch, Empire Farm Brewery, Cazenovia
Bronze: COASTAL IPA, Destinatination Unknown Beer Co, Bay Shore
Category 6: Barrel Aged (non-Sour)– 42 Entries
Gold: Demons on the Dance Floor, Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC), Brooklyn
Silver: FOUR, Swiftwater Brewing, Rochester
Bronze: Bourbon Barrel Aged The Newburgh Conspiracy, Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh
Category 7: Barrel Aged Sour – 14 Entries
Gold: Corvid, The Brewers Collective Beer Company, Bay Shore
Silver: Superfunk, New York Beer Project, Lockport
Bronze: Barrel Aged Grissette with Raspberries, Local 315 Brewing Company, Warners
Category 8: Belgian Farmhouse– 15 Entries
Gold: Freak Tractor 100% Brett Beer, Catskill Brewery, Livingston Manor
Silver: F4 3 x Brett Farmhouse, Transmitter Brewing, Long Island City
Bronze: Tender Moments, Thin Man Brewery, Buffalo
Category 9: Belgian Other (Trappist, Strong, etc.)– 17 Entries
Gold: Elixir, Crafty Ales and Lagers, Phelps
Silver: Good Reef, Blue Point Brewing Company, Patchogue
Bronze: Three Philosophers, Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown
Category 10: Brown Ale (American & British) – 25 Entries
Gold: Class Project Br-Br-Br-Brown, Brewery at the CIA, Hyde Park
Silver: Blinding Brown, Kings Court Brewing Company, Poughkeepsie
Silver: Messiah Brown Ale, Shmaltz Brewing Company, Clifton Park
Bronze: No Bronze Awarded
Category 11: Experimental – 32 Entries
Gold: Wham Whams, Prison City Pub & Brewery, Auburn *Governors Craft Beer Cup Winner
Silver: Love is a Soul Sucking Demon Stout, WT Brews, Baldwinsville
Bronze: Mimosa Wit, Genesee Brew House, Rochester
Category 12: Fruit and Spice Beer – sour – 38 Entries
Gold: Eternal Return: Apricot, Threes Brewing, Brooklyn
Silver: Frutetto, Captain Lawrence Brewing Co., Elmsford
Bronze: H7 Summer Berry Harvest Ale, H7 Summer Berry Harvest Ale, Long Island City
Category 13: Fruit and Spice Beer – non-sour – 68 Entries
Gold: Jalapeno Rye (Rye Whiskey Barrels), Big Alice Brewing Company, Long Island City
Silver: Chai Tea Milk Stout,Rusty Nickel Brewing Co., West Seneca
Bronze: Toasted Coconut Porter, Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co., Weedsport
Bronze: Kacey’s Kristmas Ale,Rohrbach Brewing Company, Rochester
Category 14: Golden/Blonde Ale (American, Kolsch, Cream Ale) – 30 Entries
Gold: No Gold Awarded
Silver: Kold One, Mill House Brewing Company, Poughkeepsie
Bronze: Brunette’s Revenge, Wolf Hollow Brewing, Schenectady
Category 15: Hazy IPA – 82 Entries
Gold: Logical Conclusion, Threes Brewing, Brooklyn
Silver: Ellsworth, Stoneyard Brewing Company, Brockport
Bronze: CitMo IPA, Resurgence Brewing Company, Buffalo
Category 16: Imperial Stout and Porter – 39 Entries
Gold: The Majestic Imperial Stout 2018, Three Heads Brewing Inc., Rochester
Silver: Boris the Spider, Spider Bite Beer Co., Holbrook
Silver: Russian Imperial Stout, WT Brews, Baldwinsville
Bronze: No Medal Awarded
Category 17: Kettle and Simple Sours – 12 Entries
Gold: No Gold Awarded
Silver: Franc-in-Weizen, Wagner Valley Brewing Company, Lodi
Bronze: Pun Intended, Community Beer Works, Buffalo
Category 18: Light Lagers – 39 Entries
Gold: Skills Pils, The Peekskill Brewery, Peekskill
Silver: Metric Pils, Industrial Arts Brewing Co., Garnerville
Bronze: Utica Club pilsener, Saranac brewery/FX Matt Brewing Co., Utica
Category 19: Pale Ale – 36 Entries
Gold: Whatsis #4, Naked Dove Brewing Company, Canandaigua
Silver: Illusion of Knowledge, Prison City Pub & Brewery, Auburn
Bronze: All Night IPA, Kings Court Brewing Company, Poughkeepsie
Category 20: Porter (Non Imperial) – 17 Entries
Gold: Davids Porter, Valcour Brewing Company, Plattsburgh
Silver: Naked Dove 45 Fathoms Porter, Naked Dove Brewing Company, Canandaigua
Bronze: Captain Ellis Porter, Frog Alley Brewing, Schenectady
Category 21: Stout (Non Imperial) – 27 Entries
Gold: Smugtown Stout, Sager Beer Works, Rochester
Silver: Ol Gilmartin Milk and Oatmeal Stout, Bridge and Tunnel Brewery, Ridgewood
Bronze: So You’re Wild, The Brewery of Broken Dreams, Hammondsport
Category 22: Strong Ale (non-Belgian)) – 20 Entries
Gold: Barleywine 2018, Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co., Weedsport
Silver: S.O.S. (Scotch on Seneca), WeBe Brewing, Geneva
Bronze: Reserve Tripplebock, Wagner Valley Brewing, Lodi
Category 23: Wheat Beer (American, Wit, Hefe) – 21 Entries
Gold: Mise en Place Wit – Brewery at the CIA, Hyde Park
Silver: No Medal Awarded
Bronze: Witte, Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown
Category 24: Wild and Sour Ale – 16 Entries
Gold: No Gold Awarded
Silver: Eternal Return: Sauvignon Blanc (2016 Harvest), Threes Brewing, Brooklyn
Bronze: Laser Brain, Prison City Pub & Brewery, Auburn
Category 24: New York State Beer (At least 20% NYS hops, NYS Malt and other NYS ingredients) – 353 Qualified Entries
Gold: Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co., Weedsport
Silver: Valcour Brewing company, Plattsburgh
Bronze: Dublin Corners Farm Brewery, Linwood