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Peninsula Brewery Wins Silver At Great American Beer Festival
The nation's largest professional beer competition awarded 273 breweries and cideries with 325 medals. Here's who took one home.
HALF MOON BAY, CA — A beer maker in Half Moon Bay left the 40th annual Great American Beer Festival with a silver medal this year.
The nation’s largest beer festival has wrapped its 2024 competition, awarding 325 medals to 273 breweries and cideries across the country. This year also marked a first for the prestigious contest with the inclusion of cider and canned cocktails.
The festival is held in Denver, Colorado every year, allowing thousands of people to try hundreds of competing beers ranging in flavor from hoppy to funky. This year, the festival hosted hundreds of breweries at the Colorado Convention Center from Oct. 10 through Oct. 12.
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Breweries earned accolades across various categories, from American pilsners to sours, coffee beers, non-alcoholic brews and beyond.
Half Moon Bay's Hop Dogma Brewing Co. earned silver in the "coffee stout or porter" category, recognized for its crowd-pleasing "Venti is Large" coffee stout. The brewery's latest piece of national acclaim comes just three months after Hop Dogma was awarded a gold medal for its "Alpha Dankopotamus" West Coast-style IPA at the 2024 U.S. Open Beer Championship.
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>> See the full list of winning brews across the country here.
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