Category 1: Wheat Beer (American, Wit, Hefe) – 39 entries

• Gold: Pearl to Pine - Wood Kettle Brewing

• Silver: Gather House - Drowned Lands

• Bronze: HOLZNOT HEFEWEIZEN - McGraw Box Brewing Co.

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Category 2: Amber and Dark Lagers – 97 entries

• Gold: Exposinator Doppelbock - Naked Dove Brewing Company

• Silver: Tmave Pivo - Swiftwater Brewing Company

• Bronze: Doppelbock - Rohrbach Brewing Company

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Category 3: Golden/Blonde Ales (American, Kolsch, Cream Ales) - 54 entries

• Gold: La Crema - Aurora Brewing Co.

• Silver: Kolsch No. 2 - EBBS Brewing Co

• Bronze: Freudian Sips - Active Ingredient Brewing Company

 

Category 4: Amber/Red Ales (British, American, Irish, Scottish) - 67 entries

• Gold: Irish Red Ale - Seneca Street Brew Pub

• Silver: Sleepy Pants Hoppy Amber - 18th Ward Brewing

• Bronze: ESB - Laurentide Beer Company

 

Category 5: Pale Ales – 33 entries

• Gold: Wayne Legitzky - Ausable Brewing Company

• Silver: Bay Bridge Pale Ale - Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co.

• Bronze: Builders Brew American Pale Ale - Heroes Brewing Company

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Category 6: American IPA – 45 entries

• Gold: Cross Section IPA - Wagner Valley Brewing Company

• Silver: Venomous Villains - Kings County Brewers Collective

• Bronze: Derailleur - Artisanal Brew Works

• Bronze: Explosible IPA - Bright Eye Beer Co.

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Category 7: Hazy Pale Ale – 50 entries

• Gold: Cultivar: Motueka - Wayward Lane Brewing

• Silver: Cosmic Juice - Great South Bay Brewery

• Bronze: Defies Logic Hazy Pale Ale - Underground Beer Lab

 

Category 8: American IPA Variations – 36 entries

• Gold: 8 Legged RyePA - Spider Bite Beer Co.

• Gold: Hyphen - ONCO Fermentations, Inc

• Silver: Prizm - Wayward Lane Brewing

• Bronze: Grass Wagon - Catskill Brewery

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Category 9: American DIPA – 21 entries

• Gold: Saber's Edge - Pearl Street Grill and Brewery

• Silver: Lean To - West Kill Brewing

• Bronze: Pacific Dawn - Captain Lawrence Brewing Co

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Category 10: Barrel Aged Sour – 19 entries

• Gold: Something, Something, Something 2022 - Prison City Brewing

• Silver: Valley Beer Vintage 2020 - Hudson Valley Brewery

• Bronze: No Bronze Awarded

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Category 11: Barrel Aged Non-Sour – 77 entries

• Gold: Double Barrel Aqueduct - Big Ditch Brewing Company

• Silver: Last of the Steam-Powered Trains - Grimm Artisanal Ales

• Bronze: Barrel-Aged Cast Iron Lager - Brewery at the CIA

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Category 12: Belgian Farmhouse – 34 entries

• Gold: Thirst Aid Kit - Community Beer Works

• Silver: Sweet Potato Farmhouse - Big aLICe

• Bronze: Daypack Saison - Liquid State Brewing Company

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Category 13: Belgian Other (Trappist, Strong, etc.) - 37 entries

• Gold: Rophenia - Spider Bite Beer Co.

• Silver: Single - Brewery Ardennes

• Bronze: Cloud Swing Belgian-Style Tripel - Liquid State Brewing Company

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Category 14: Experimental – 41 entries

• Gold: Dionysus - Seven Points Brewing Company

• Silver: ​We Made It - Willow Rock Brewing Company

• Bronze: Yule Lad - Rare Form Brewing Company

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Category 15: Fruit & Vegetable (Non-Sour) – 44 entries

• Gold: Buy The Berries Blueberry Wheat - Steelbound Brewery

• Silver: S2 Lemongrass & Ginger Saison - Transmitter Brewing

• Bronze: The One V-43: Island Addition - New York Beer Project

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Category 16: Fruit & Vegetable Beer (Sour) – 80 entries

• Gold: Delta pH - Bartlett Pear - Active Ingredient Brewing Company

• Silver: Desert Rose - Roc Brewing Co.

• Bronze: Tropical Sour - Valcour Brewing Company

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Category 17: Brown Ale (American & British) – 33 entries

• Gold: Major Trail Brown Ale - Skaneateles Brewery

• Silver: The Whale - Community Beer Works

• Silver: Brownstone Revival - Sixpoint Brewery

• Bronze: Oh, Bother - Riseform Brewing Co.

• Bronze: Bluff Point Brown - Keuka Brewing Company

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Category 18: Porter (Non-Imperial) – 30 entries

• Gold: Dark Portal - Blue Point Brewing

• Silver: Thacher - The Warbler Brewery

• Bronze: Genesee Brew House Robust Porter - Genesee Brewing Company

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Category 19: Stout (Non-Imperial) – 28 entries

• Gold: Present Absence - WT Brews LLC

• Silver: Chocolate Milk Stout - Slate Town Brewing Company

• Bronze: Bodega Cat - Kings County Brewers Collective

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Category 20: Imperial Stouts and Porters – 35 entries

• Gold: Russian Imperial Stout - Naked Dove Brewing Company

• Silver: Baltic Porter - Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co.

• Bronze: Bear Fight Stout - Strangebird

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Category 21: Strong Ales (Non-Belgian) – 28 entries

• Gold: Imperial Red Rye - K2 Brewing

• Silver: Cabin Fever - Drowned Lands

• Bronze: Winter Warmer - West Shore Brewing Company

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Category 22: Kettle and Simple Sours – 11 entries

• Gold: Creekside - West Kill Brewing

• Silver: Leipzig Gose - Big Slide Brewery & Public House

• Bronze: Berliner Style Weisse - Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co.

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Category 23: Wild and Sour Ales – 25 entries

• Gold: J'adoube - Grimm Artisanal Ales

• Silver: Abbot's Reserve - Duncan's Abbey

• Bronze: Yellowstone Wild Ale - New York Beer Project

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Category 24: Light Lagers – Modern & Contemporary - 62 entries

• Gold: Pilsner No. 2 - EBBS Brewing Co.

• Silver: L'ultima Moda - Wild East Brewing Co.

• Bronze: 4AM PILS - Kings County Brewers Collective

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Category 25: Light Lagers – Traditional - 73 entries

• Gold: Genesee Brew House Helles - Genesee Brewing Company

• Silver: Lockport Lager - New York Beer Project

• Bronze: Infinite Machine - Kings County Brewers Collective

 

Category 26: Hazy IPA – 89 entries

• Gold: Pigeon Camera - Fidens Brewing Company

• Silver: Haze On - Prison City Brewing

• Bronze: Crooked Soul - Peacemaker Brewing Company

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Category 27: Hazy DIPA – 47 entries

• Gold: Ratface Macdougall - Catskill Brewery

• Silver: Simcoe Super Fresh to Death - Aurora Brewing Co.

• Silver: Cloud Generator - Wayward Lane Brewing

• Bronze: Bright Lights, Big Kitty - Kings County Brewers Collective

• Bronze: Topology Double NEIPA - Underground Beer Lab

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Category 28: Coffee, Chocolate, Spice & Other Adjunct Beer (non-sour) – 90 entries

• Gold: Xylem - Wayward Lane Brewing

• Silver: Drink yourself a Jacket - Valcour Brewing Company

• Bronze: Neapolitan Ice Cream Stout - Blue Point Brewing

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Category 29: Coffee, Chocolate, Spice & Other Adjunct Beer (sour) – 9 entries

• Gold: No Gold Awarded 

• Silver: Super Spruce - Grimm Artisanal Ales

• Bronze: No Bronze Awarded

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Best Collaboration Beer:

• Gold: Pearl to Pine - Wood Kettle Brewing & Nine Spot Brewing

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2023 Best New York State Beer - At least 60% NYS hops & NYS Malt 

• Gold: Genesee Brew House Helles - Genesee Brewing Company

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2023 Brewery of the Year 

• Wayward Brewing Company (Schoharie, NY)

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2023 Governor’s Cup

• Genesee Brew House Helles - Genesee Brewing Company