10 FL Breweries Compete in Great American Beer Festival

FLORIDA — Ten Florida breweries will be competing in the Great American Beer Festival to be held Oct. 10-12 in Denver.

The festival is the nation’s largest for professional brewers and hands out some of the industry’s most sought-after accolades. Bronze, silver and gold medals will be awarded for dozens of styles of beer and ciders in more than 100 categories.

Beer is still the star of the competition, but organizers are casting a wider net with the addition of categories for ciders, canned cocktails, hard seltzer, hard soda, hard tea, hard kombucha, other malt-based beverages, and all non-alcoholic beverages.

The event also features competition in ciders, hard seltzers and, new this year, canned cocktails and hard teas.

In Florida, breweries competing for medals include:

• 3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg, Booth 79
• BeachFly Brewing Company, Rockledge, Booth D-10
• Cage Brewing, St. Petersburg, Booth 79
• Dade City Brew House, Dade City, Booth D-21
• Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin, Booth 79
• Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co., Orlando, Booth B-6
• Lost City Brewing Company, North Miami, Booth F-16
• Mathews Brewing Company, Fort Worth Beach, Booth C-51
• NOBO Brewing Company, Boynton Beach, Booth C-55
• Palm Folly Hard Seltzer, Santa Rosa Beach, Booth A-44