Figueroa Mountain Brewing wins 35th medal, extends record streak at national beer festival

THE JOY OF BEER: Every brew's beginning comes from some other brew's end

Previously, in the Joy of Beer, I wrote about the 2025 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and Category 108 - Vera Hop Beer, sponsored by Parma’s own Gooding Farms. To update, for those seeking closure to anecdotes, the following entries…

Figueroa Mountain Brewing wins 35th medal, extends record streak at national beer festival

Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. has once again brought national attention to the Central Coast, earning a silver medal at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival competition — marking the brewery’s 35th medal overall and extending its record-breaking 15-year winning streak…

Figueroa Mountain Brewing Takes Home Their 35th Medal at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival® Competition Extending Festival Record Streak to 15 Consecutive Years.

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Great American Beer Festival continues to innovate

By Lotte Peplow, European craft beer ambassador for the Brewers Association The dust has settled on another spectacular Great American Beer Festival (GABF), America’s premier beer festival, held annually in Denver, Colorado. Attracting tens of thousands of people, the festival — organised by the Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade association representing small and independent American craft brewers — continues to evolve and innovate, …

Von Ebert, Alesong Brewing, & 2 Towns Cider celebrate big GABF wins — New School Beer + Cider

At last Saturday’s 2025 Great American Beer Festival the breweries and cideries of Oregon were celebrated with 30 awards, including 29 medals and a brewery of the year accolade. With 29 out of 347 medals awarded, Oregon ranked with the third most of any state behind only California and Colorado. “Oregon is a proud craft brewing state and we have the accolades to prove we’re among the top in the world,” said Sam Pecoraro, President of the Oregon …