Breweries in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties won gold in the U.S. Open Beer Championship on Monday in Oxford, Ohio.
The festival calls itself one of the largest in the nation, and Forbes magazine described it as one of the most prestigious brewery festivals in the world. Burgeon Beer Company of Carlsbad made it to No. 10 on the list of winners with three gold medals.
Repeat winners included 1886 Brewing Company in Old Towne Orange, which received two gold medals and one silver, up from last year’s single bronze medal. Angel City Brewery in the Los Angeles Arts District, one gold, silver and bronze this year after picking up silver and bronze in 2022 . More than 9,000 brews were judged in 170 categories in this year’s competition.
There are the 2024 Southern California medal winners, listed by brewery, city, name of brew and category. Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles: Gold medal for Apple Pomace Puncheon, Barrel-aged Brett/Wild; silver medal, Trois Années Cuvée, Belgian Fruit & Gueuze Lambic; bronze medal, Eastside Export, Dortmunder/Euro-style Export. angelcitybrewery.
com 1886 Brewing Co., Orange: Gold medal for Rare Conundrum, Imperial Red Ale; gold medal, Choir of Angels, Belgian Strong Dark Ale; silver medal, Record Brown, Brown Porter. 1886brewingco.
com Evans Brewing Co., Corona: Bronze medal for Quadrupel Donker, Belgian Quadrupel. evansbrewingco.
com Athletic Brewing Company, San Diego: Gold for Free Wave, Hazy IPA, Non-Alcoholic — NE IPA; silver meda.
