It began with the largest Great American Beer Festival yet, and continued with the opening of Wicked Weed’s Funkatorium and craft beer and football team pairings. Here’s a numerical roundup of the biggest headlines in craft beer last month.
5,507: The number of commercial entries at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. There were 222 beer experts from ten countries to judge these entries. They awarded medals for 145 different beer styles in ninety competition categories.
4: Breweries tied for the most medals won at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. Ten Barrel Brewing Co., Barley Brown’s Brew Pub, Devils Backbone Brewing Co.– The Outpost, and Left Hand Brewing Co. each took home three medals.
279: American-style IPAs that were entered into this year’s GABF competition. This category, by far, was the most entered category, followed by 150 entries in the Herb and Spice Beer Category, and140 entries into the American-Style Pale Ale category.
90,000: Additional square feet that next year’s Great American Beer Festival will include.
6: The number of regular issues of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine™ in 2015. Subscribe today and lock in 6 issues for the price of 3 issues.
500: Barrels are aging sour beers at Wicked Weed’s second location, the Funkatorium that opened its doors this month. The new sour house is three blocks from the original brewpub in Asheville, North Carolina, and unlike its older sister that brews hoppy and barrel-aged beers, it will focus exclusively on sours and farmhouse ales.
625,716: The dollars raised at this year’s traveling Tour de Fat festival and bike tour. According to a New Belgium press release, this year’s total is up more than $84,000 from last year. Tour de Fat traveled to ten cities between May and October 2014, attracting a total of 103,500 participants.
36: States that Oskar Blues now distributes to, according to a press release announcing the brewery’s entry into Missouri in November.
32: Craft beers were paired with 32 NFL football teams by Crave Online. Some of the pairings include:
- Tennessee Titan’s with Yazoo Brewing Co. Sue
- San Diego Chargers with Ballast Point Longfin Lager
- Kansas City Chiefs with Boulevard 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat Beer
- New Orleans Saints with Nola Brewing 7th Street Wheat
- Pittsburg Steelers with PennBrew Penn Weizen
- Cleveland Browns with Great Lakes Brewing Edmund Fitzgerald Porter
Check out the rest of the pairings and the reasons here.
Photo at top courtesy of GABF