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New York State Craft Beer Competition

2024 WINNERS

presented by Ultimate Brew Service

2024 Governor’s Excelsior Craft Beer Cup

Kingston Standard Brewing Co. (Kingston, NY)

"“Love Is Overtaking Me”

Category: Barrel Aged (Sour)

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2024 Brewery of the Year

The Brewery of the Year Award is given to the brewery who earns the highest number of points in the competition. Points are determined by number of medals won. Point system: Gold = 3pts, Silver = 2pts, Bronze = 1pt

Grimm Artisanal Ales (Brooklyn, NY)

  • 3rd “NYS Brewery of the Year” win (2021, 2022, 2024)

  • 3 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze (12 points total)

Gold: Strong Ale (non-Belgian) - "XXXXX"

Gold: Wheat Beer - "Grimm Weisse"

Gold: Wild and Sour Ale - "Ambient Fizz Koyo Berries"
Silver: Pale Ale - "Lighter than Air"

Bronze: Imperial Stouts and Porters - "Double Negative"

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Best New York Farm Beer

"Coconut Cluster"

Category: Specialty Beer: Stouts & Porters

 Heritage Hill Brewhouse (Pompey, NY)

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Competition Highlights

Top 5 Style Categories Entered

  • Hazy IPA (78)

  • Light Lager - Modern & Contemporary (77)

  • American IPA (69)

  • Light Lager - Traditional (66)

  • Fruit and Vegetable Beer - Sour (59)

2024 Competition Summary

  • 1421 beers were entered by 232 breweries - the highest # of entries in the Competition's 8 years of history.

  • 96 Medals Awarded.

  • Beers were judged in 30 style categories.

  • 2 new categories this year, “Cream Ales” and “Dark Lagers”.

  • Grimm Artisanal Ales won the “NYS Brewery of the Year” title for the 3rd time (2021, 2022, 2024).

  • Judging took place over 2-days March 2-3, 2024 in Rochester, NY

  • The industry-member-only Awards Celebration presented by Malteurop took place in-person at the Albany Capital Center and was the closing event of the NYS Brewers Conference.

  • Enthusiasts tuned-into the awards ceremony via the New York State Craft Beer YouTube Channel. Breweries throughout the state hosted remote watch parties.

Watch Ceremony

Winners by Category

Light Lagers (Traditional) - 66 entries

  • Gold: Eleven - Strong Rope Brewery

  • Silver: Bezucha Brothers - West Kill Brewing

  • Bronze: Brook & Reed - Drowned Lands


 

Light Lagers (Modern and Contemporary) - 77 entries

  • Gold: Contiguity - Threes Brewing 

  • Silver: UN1 Basmati Rice Lager - Transmitter Brewing

  • Bronze: There & Back Helles - Bright Eye Beer Company

 

Amber Lagers - 34 entries

  • Gold: Pleasantbräu Oktoberfest - Soul Brewing Company

  • Silver: Fly In Any Weather - Rising Storm Brewing Company

  • Bronze: Polotmavý Peka? - Wayward Lane Brewing

 

​Dark Lagers (NEW!)​ - 51 entries

  • Gold: Dark Encounter Druthers - Brewing Company

  • Silver: Nightfall - Wagner Valley Brewing Company

  • Bronze: Heavy Handed - Kills Boro Brewing Company

 

Wheat Beers (American, Wit, Hefe)​ - 33 entries

  • Gold: Grimm Weisse - Grimm Artisanal Ales

  • Silver: Gather House - Drowned Lands

  • Bronze: Lit Wit - Shep's Brewing Company
     

Golden & Blonde Ales​ - 32 entries

  • Gold: Prototype - Kings County Brewers Collective

  • Silver: Freudian Sips - Active Ingredient Brewing Company

  • Bronze: KOLSCH NO.2 - EBBS Brewing Company

 

​Cream Ales (NEW!)​ - 43 entries

  • Gold: Cream Ale - Prison City Brewing

  • Silver: Premium Cream Ale 18th Ward Brewing

  • Bronze: Wolves Den Cream Ale 1812 Brewing Company

 

Amber & Red Ales​ - 54 entries

  • Gold: NYS Celtic Red Ale K2 Bros. Brewing

  • Silver: Altbier Swiftwater Brewing

  • Bronze: Prince Sager-Heimer Sager Beer Works

 

Pale Ale - 27 entries

  • Gold: Moderance - Wild East Brewing Company

  • Silver: Lighter Than Air - Grimm Artisanal Ales

  • Bronze: RIP Pale Ale - Wood Kettle Brewing

 

​Hazy Pale Ale​ - 32 entries

  • Gold: Future Memory - 18th Ward Brewing

  • Silver: Kaaterskill - West Kill Brewing

  • Bronze: Particle - UNDERGROUND BEER LAB

 

American IPA - 69 entries

  • Gold: Golden Hour - Long Island Farm Brewery

  • Silver: Frisco Kid - Okay Beer Company

  • Bronze: Venomous Villains - Kings County Brewers Collective

 

Hazy IPA - 78 entries

  • Gold: Variable - UNDERGROUND BEER LAB

  • Silver (tie): Spectral Mass - UNDERGROUND BEER LAB

  • Citmo IPA (tie) - Resurgence Brewing Company

  • Bronze: The One V-56 - New York Beer Project

 

Experimental IPA - 36 entries

  • Gold: Island Addition - New York Beer Project

  • Silver: Forever Ever - Other Half 

  • Bronze: River Swell - Drowned Lands

 

American DIPA​ - 24 entries

  • Gold: 5 Cent Deposit Double IPA - Bright Eye Beer Company

  • Silver: Pacific Dawn - Captain Lawrence Brewing Company

  • Bronze: Lean To - West Kill Brewing

 

Hazy DIPA - 44 entries

  • Gold: FaultLine - Barrier Brewing Company

  • Silver: Jasper - Fidens Brewing Company 

  • Bronze: Over and Out - Wayward Lane Brewing

 

Barrel Aged (Sour) - 17 entries

  • Gold: Love Is Overtaking Me - Kingston Standard

  • Silver: Something Something Something - Prison City Brewing

  • Bronze: Brewers Reserve BA Sour Blend - New York Beer Project

 

Barrel Aged (Non-Sour) - 40 entries

  • Gold: Portuguese Squeeze - Strangebird

  • Silver (tie): Bourbon-Barrel Aged Dormancy - Grow Brewing Company

  • Silver (tie): Oak Aged Aeon - Aurora Brewing Company

  • Bronze: Double Barrel Aqueduct 2023 - Big Ditch Brewing Company

 

Belgian Farmhouse - 22 entries

  • Gold: Saison Blend One - ONCO Fermentations, Inc

  • Silver: Wandering Bine  - Threes Brewing 

  • Bronze: Starling - Arrowood Farm Brewery

 

Belgian Other - 28 entries

  • Gold: Trappist at the Track Belgian Tripel - Artisanal Brew Works

  • Silver: Man's Best Friend - New York Beer Project

  • Bronze: Duncan's Quadrupel - Duncan's Abbey

 

Experimental - 29 entries

  • Gold: Shadowtricks - Wayward Lane Brewing

  • Silver: States Of Being - Threes Brewing 

  • Bronze: El Tepache Loco - Talking Cursive Brewing Company

 

Fruit & Vegetable Beers (Non-Sour) - 32 entries

  • Gold: Crispy Boys Blood Orange - Prison City Brewing

  • Silver: Blackberry Kolsch - Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co.

  • Bronze: Kettle Lakes Coconut Cream Ale - ONCO Fermentations

 

Fruit & Vegetable Beers (Sour) - 59 entries

  • Gold: Mimosa Sour - Valcour Brewing Company

  • Silver: Collaborations: Carmenere - Greenport Harbor Brewing

  • Bronze: Key Lime Pie Sour - No BS Brew Company

 

Specialty Beer: Stouts & Porters - 52 entries

  • Gold: Coconut Cluster - Heritage Hill Brewhouse

  • Irish Coffee Stout - New York Beer Project

  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter - Horseheads Brewing

 

Specialty Beer: Light & Amber Ales, Lagers - 21 entries

  • Gold: Holiday Ale - No BS Brew Company

  • Silver: Lavel Up - Druthers Brewing Company

  • Bronze: Pumpkin Cream Ale - Keuka Brewing Company

 

​Brown Ale​ - 32 entries

  • Gold (tie): Lithology Brown Ale - Lithology Brewing Company

  • Gold (tie): Brown Ale - Watershed Brewing Company

  • Silver: Brooklyn Brown - Brooklyn Brewery

  • Bronze: Alternator - Wood Kettle Brewing

 

Porters (Non-Imperial)​​ - 36 entries

  • Gold: Hold Fire - Weiss Ferments LLC

  • Silver: Portmanteau - Wayward Lane Brewing

  • Bronze: McNally Porter - 18th Ward Brewing

 

Stout (Non-Imperial) - 37 entries

  • Gold: Carlow - Drowned Lands

  • Silver: Velvet Panda - Mill House Brewing Company

  • Bronze: STOUT NO.1 - EBBS Brewing Company

 

Imperial Stouts & Porters - 25 entries

  • Gold: EB Baltic Porter - Take Two Brewery

  • Silver: Belgian Stout - Brewery Ardennes

  • Bronze: Double Negative - Grimm Artisanal Ales

 

Strong Ales - 33 entries

  • Gold: XXXXX - Grimm Artisanal Ales

  • Silver: Biteanator - Spider Bite Beer Co.

  • Bronze: Nicnevin - Crafty Ales and Lagers

 

Kettle and Simple Sours​ - 12 entries

  • Gold: There Gose the Watermelon Farm. - Good Nature Brewing Company

  • Silver: Incandenza - Hudson Valley Brewery

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

 

Wild & Sour Ales - 13 entries

  • Gold: Ambient Fizz Koyo Berries - Grimm Artisanal Ales

  • Silver: Breaking Bird - Strangebird

  • Bronze: Family Tree 13 - Rare Form Brewing Company


 

Best Collaboration Beer
BreakingBird - Wild & Sour Ale
Strangebird (Rochester, NY) + Breakside Brewery (Portland, OR)

Best New York State Farm Beer (at least 60% NYS Hops & NYS Malt)
Coconut Cluster - Heritage Hill Brewhouse (Pompey, NY)

 

2024 NYS Brewery of the Year

Grimm Artisanal Ales (Brooklyn, NY)

  • 3 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze (12 points total)

  • 3rd “NYS Brewery of the Year” win (2021, 2022, 2024)

 

2024 Governor’s Cup

“Love Is Overtaking Me” - Barrel Aged Sour

Kingston Standard Brewing Co. (Kingston, NY)

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