On Saturday September 26th the Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant won a Gold Medal at the 2009 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. The Great American Beer Festival is the largest beer competition in the world and is the National Championships for the United States.
This competition recognizes the most outstanding beers produced by all brewers, large and small, throughout the United States. The top three winners in each beer style category were announced September 26th at the 28th Annual Great American Beer Festival Awards Ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant was the Gold Medal winner in the American Style Wheat Beer category with our County Seat Wheat Beer. This beer was brewed by John Dean, Brewmaster, and Alvaro Canizales, Head Brewer, and is on tap at the Blind Tiger Brewery every day of the year.
Our County Seat Wheat beer is brewed with both unmalted wheat and traditional barley malt. John describes County Seat Wheat as smooth in character, clearly filtered, light in hops, with a slightly dry finish.
Jay Ives, majority owner of The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant, said, “The competition is incredibly stiff with amazingly great beers from many breweries across the United States. It is a real tribute to John Dean and Alvaro Canizales that the Blind Tiger beer has been chosen for such a prestigious award. Here we are, a small local organization competing with the big boys of beer, and winning! Come by the Blind Tiger Brewery and have a taste of our Gold Medal winning beer!”
The 2009 Great American Beer Festival winners were selected by an international panel of 133 Certified Beer Judges who are brewing and beer experts. Judging takes place through five rounds of blind tasting so that the judges focus on the taste, aroma, and appearance of the beer and are not influenced by the brand names.
Nancy Johnson, Festival Director with the Brewers Association said, “The Great American Beer Festival is the premier judging event for the American Craft-Beer industry. Everyone in America who has a good beer brings it here.”
Great American Beer Festival Statistics:
78 Categories
495 Competing Breweries
133 Judges from around the world
3362 Beers Judged
The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant has been brewing and serving great Hand-Crafted beer and wonderful food at 37th St. and Kansas Ave. in Topeka since May of 1995. The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant is the only Brew-Pub in Topeka and features a full, delicious menu, and about a dozen great tasting Hand-Crafted beers on tap at any given time.
John Dean has been the Blind Tiger Brewmaster since 1999. The Gold Medal awarded to him this year is in addition to ten awards from past years for a total of eleven National and International awards!
Jay Ives, majority owner of the Blind Tiger Brewery said, “John Dean is a true treasure, brewing is an art and we have Rembrandt!” John Dean is by far the most award-winning brewer in Kansas.
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