Ohio breweries earned 15 medals at the World Beer Cup competition. Here’s who won and for which beers.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Thirteen Ohio breweries – five from Northeast Ohio – have won 15 medals at the World Beer Cup in Minneapolis.
Locally, Fat Head’s Brewery and Hoppin’ Frog Brewery earned awards, along with first-time winners HiHO Brewing Co., Immigrant Son Brewery and Sibling Revelry Brewing.
MadTree Brewing and Columbus Brewing Co. each won two awards in the biennial competition. It was last held in 2018, when Ohio breweries won 10 awards, and canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Our independent breweries continue to show that we’re making some of the world’s best beer right here in Ohio,” Mary MacDonald, executive director of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association, said in a news release. “Exceptional beer is the foundation upon which our breweries are building up their communities, supporting jobs and contributing to local causes all over the state.”
Breweries in 17 countries won awards, with the United States earning most of the medals.
2022 World Beer Cup award-winning Ohio craft beers
Gold: Crocodile Tongue, Mixed-Culture Brett Beer Bronze: Lager, Contemporary American-Style Lager
Gold: Ziegler, American-style Amber Lager Silver: Legendary Lager, Contemporary American-Style Lager
Fat Head’s Brewery, Middleburg Heights:
Gold: Goggle Fogger, South German-style Hefeweizen
Silver: Porter’s Porter, International Dark Lager
Silver: Crazy Train, Belgian-Style Ale or French-Style Ale
HiHO Brewing Co., Cuyahoga Falls:
Silver: Touchdown Brown Ale, American-Style Brown Ale
Silver: Frogichlaus Swiss-style Celebration Lager, German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock
Silver: Common Ale, English Mild or Bitter
Wolf’s Ridge Brewing, Columbus:
Bronze: Woden’s Hunt Dunkel, European Dark Lager
Inside the Five Brewing, Sylvania:
Bronze: Megaphone, Irish-Style Red Ale
Bronze: Restless Seas, German-Style Sour Ale
Bronze: Red, Extra Special Bitter
The Brewers Association holds the competition, which dates to 1996 and evaluates beers in more than 100 categories.
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