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Beer Tue Oct 16 2012
Local Brewers Bring Home Medals at Great American Beer Festival
Seven Chicago-area breweries and brewpubs brought home medals in the 2012 Great American Beer Festival this year, Brewers Association's annual award competition. More than 600 breweries entered a total of 4,300 entries in 84 categories; local breweries and brewpubs won nine medals in eight categories.
Revolution Brewing brought home a gold medal in the English-Style Summer Ale category for its Cross of Gold, and a bronze in the American-Belgo-Style Ale category for A Little Crazy.
Piece took home silver in the American-Style Pale Ale category for its customer favorite, The Weight, while Three Floyds won bronze for its Zombie Dust.
Goose Island won gold in the English-Style India Pale Ale for its IPA.
5 Rabbit Cerveceria won bronze for its 5 Lizard Latin-style Witbier in the Fruit Wheat Beer category.
Out in the suburbs, Two Brothers won a silver in the South German-Style Hefeweizen category for its Ebel's Weiss, and a bronze in the Belgian- and French-Style Ale category. RAM Restaurant and Brewery in Wheeling bagged silver in the Pro-Am Competition category with its Pointon's Proper English Mild.
See all the medal winners here.