2 RI Breweries Compete in Great American Beer Festival

RHODE ISLAND — Two Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island, breweries competing for medals include:

• Narragansett Brewing Company, 271 Tockwotton St., Providence.
• Phantom Farms Brewing, 30 Martin St., Cumberland.

Narragansett will have seven beers at the festival. They include:

• Narragansett Lager - 5.0% ABV
• Narragansett Fresh Catch - 4.2% ABV
• Narragansett Bohemian Pilsner - 5.5% ABV
• Narragansett Fest - 5.5% ABV
• Narragansett Devil's reef - 4.3%% ABV
• Narragansett Gourd Reaper - 6.2%% ABV
• Narragansett Fest - 5.5% ABV - Prost.

Phantom Farms will have four beers at the festival. They include:

• Berkeley - 6.4% ABV
• Sacred Tree - 8% ABV
• 1872 - 8% ABV
• Red Moon - 5.8% ABV - Prost.

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