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California is home to some of the best craft brewers in the country, so the Brewers Cup of California competition is about picking the best of the best. Read the full article here: https://www.americancraftbeer.com/the-2023-brewers-cup-of-california-winners/

San Diego County craft breweries won nearly 40 medals at the Brewers Cup of California, a statewide competition that has been held every other year since 2019. Gravity Heights and Kilowatt Brewing both won a San Diego-best two gold medals. They were among the 11 brewers in the county awarded golds. Kilowatt and Societe Brewing Company won a local high of four medals overall. Read the full article here: https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2023/04/14/gold-medal-suds-san-diego-craft-beer-comes-up-big-at-brewers-cup-with-13-wins/#google_vignette

The recent California Beer Summit offered plenty of news — ranging from cautious optimism to woeful doom — on the state of the craft beer world. But there was some very good news for the Bay Area breweries who triumphed at the summit’s 2023 Brewers Cup. Let’s start with that rosy news, because out of 246 medals awarded in 83 categories at the festivities held in mid-March in Sacramento, the champion [...]

Craig Cauwels and James Noah are well into their craft brewing adventure with Morgan Territory Brewing, Tracy’s local brewery on MacArthur Drive. Their latest stop is sure to inspire their future endeavors into the world of beer-making. Last week the local brewery was named Brewery of the Year at the California Craft Brewers Cup awards ceremony on March 21 at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento. Read the full article here: [...]

Eleven San Diego County breweries won 13 Gold Medals at the 2023 Brewers Cup of California, a statewide brewing competition in Sacramento that has been held every other year since 2019. Read the full article here: https://theresandiego.com/san-diego-county-breweries-2023-brewers-cup-california/

Several San Diego breweries were awarded gold medals at the 2023 Brewers Cup of California this week. That may not come as a surprise as America’s Finest City is known as “The Capital of Craft” with more than 150 brewery locations throughout the county, according to the San Diego Brewers Guild. Read the full article here: https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/these-san-diego-breweries-won-medals-at-the-2023-brewers-cup-of-california/

Breweries from Oceanside, Carlsbad, Vista and San Marcos had a strong showing at the 2023 Brewers Cup of California held in March. Gold and silver medals went to Black Plague Brewing of Oceanside for its Medusa under the Specialty Stout category (gold) and Supernatural in the Experimental IPA category (silver). Read the full article here: https://www.northcoastcurrent.com/carlsbad/2023/03/oceanside-carlsbad-vista-san-marcos-beer-makers-earn-brewers-cup-medals/

Rip Current Brewing (1325 Grand Ave #100 in San Marcos) is in the interesting position of being one of the most highly regarded breweries in the area, having won a slew of medals including the 2016 Small Brewery of the Year award at the Great American Beer Festival, and yet relatively little-known outside of brewing circles. What makes Rip Current so highly regarded? Both pedigree and performance. Read more: https://thecoastnews.com/craft-beer-in-north-county-award-winning-rip-current-brewing-has-pedigree-and-performance/

East Brother Beer Co. just won another big award for its beer. At the California Craft Brewers Cup in Long Beach, part of the California Craft Brewers Association’s annual conference, the Richmond-based brewery’s Bo Pils took the Gold Medal in the Bohemian-style Pilsner category. The recognition has Rob Lightner, co-founder of East Brother Beer Co., “super-excited.” Read more: https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2019/09/17/1090538/

There’s the Great American Beer Festival, the World Beer Cup, and now California has its own competition. Capping an epic two days of panels, trade shows and tastings at the CA Craft Beer Summit in Long Beach was the California Craft Brewers Cup, complete with an awards ceremony and medals awarded in 61 categories.  Read more: https://www.ocweekly.com/oc-long-beach-brewers-first-california-craft-brewers-cup-what-the-ale/

There’s a hot, new beer competition around: The California Craft Brewers Cup made its debut in August and quickly established itself as the second-largest beer competition in the U.S. Run by the California Craft Brewers Association, a trade group, the competition brought nearly 1,300 beers in 61 categories before a team of 80 judges, myself included. And the results were just announced in Long Beach during the annual California Beer Summit. [...]

It's been a busy year in California brewing. The state's craft breweries now number more than 1,000, and industry growth hasn't yet ceased, despite perpetual talk of a "craft beer bubble" burst. At this year's California Craft Beer Summit in Long Beach last weekend, hundreds of representatives from the state's breweries, malthouses and hop growers gathered to share industry insights (and beer, obviously) and to engage in a friendly competition. [...]

Today marked the first day of the California Craft Brewers Association’s fifth-annual California Craft Beer Summit. An industry conference for Golden State brewers, it is likened to a localized version of the national Craft Brewers Conference. The latter is an event by the trade organization representing independent U.S. breweries, the Brewers Association, which is also known for putting on the largest annual beer festival and competition in the country, the [...]