2008 Fresh Hop Tastival Guide

Midway through the cramped festival, not much left aside from Hopworks, Lompoc, and Laurelwood beers

Maddening crowds depleted the Portland Fresh Hops quickly

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Das Boot!

The list of winners at this year’s Great American Beer Festival have been announced.  Check it out @ http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/pdf/winners/gabf08_winners.pdf

Here’s Brewpublic’s favorite names of the winners:

Java the Hut, CB & Potts Restaurant & Brewery (Flatirons – Westminster), Broomfield, CO

Butt Head Bock, Tommyknocker Brewery, Idaho Springs, CO

Kick in the Baltic Porter, Bluegrass Brewing Co., Louisville, KY

All Nighter, Chicago Brewing Co., Las Vegas, NV

Hip Hop Double IPA, Hollister Brewing Co., Goleta, CA

Kick-Ass Brown, C.H. Evans Brewing at the Albany Pump Station,
Albany, NY

Rock Hopera Imperial IPA, Vino’s Pizza • Pub • Brewery, Little Rock, AR

Night Rider Imperial Stout, Pizza Port Carlsbad, Carlsbad, CA

Bishop’s Tipple Trippel, Main Street Brewery, Corona, CA

Yep, Still Boneheads, The SandLot, Denver, CO

Russian Roulette, Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, Minneapolis, MN

Ryeteous Red, Amherst Brewing Co., Amherst, MA

Darth Delirium, Moose’s Tooth Brewing Co., Anchorage, AK

The Love, Starr Hill Brewing Co., Crozet, VA

Dark-n-Curvy Dunkelweizen, Piece Brewery, Chicago, IL

I’m Half the Beer I Used to Be, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery – Chandler,
Huntington Beach, CA

Second Hand Smoke, The SandLot, Denver, CO

The Detroit Dwarf, The Detroit Beer Co., Detroit, MI

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