This is a first for me… I’m going to try to “live blog” during the event to talk about my thoughts on this year’s GABF Awards ceremony. Stay tuned for the next little while as I figure out how this is going to work out… and good luck to all the Cincinnati/NKY breweries that are competing (I’ll also give some props to any other breweries I love while I’m doing this!)

If you want to watch this year’s awards ceremony – you can do that, right here!

This Year’s Awards

Big Ash Brewing

  • Gold Medal – Symphony – Vienna-Style Lager

Brink Brewing Company

  • Silver Medal – Zoomie – Coffee Stout or Porter

MadTree

  • Gold Medal – Happy Amber – ESB

Sam Adams

  • Gold Medal – Just The Haze – Non-Alcoholic Beer

Sonder Brewing Company

  • Silver Medal – Kato – Coffee Beer

The Live Blog

  • 12:10: Oh, man… here we go. I’ve never tried anything like this… but I really, really love the excitement of GABF, and I can’t wait to share it with you!
  • 12:12: I would be silly not to mention that this is only the second biggest award that our local breweries have to deal with this week… the Golden Gnome gets awarded on Monday – LIVE at Fretboard at 7 pm (ish) – for the best Cincinnati Oktoberfest.
  • 12:16: I’m impressed that more than 70 breweries still understand that a lot of us still LOVE Pumpkin beer.
  • 12:19: Congrats to Sonder! Silver medal for Kato in the Coffee beer category!
  • 12:20: Here we go… now a Silver to Brink for “Zoomie” in the Coffee Stout or Porter category!
  • 12:22: I just realized how chaotic it gets for a little moment when a couple of local places when right next to each other!
  • 12:23: “Just the Haze” from Sam Adams deserves a big shout-out for NA Beer Category!
  • 12:27: I love a good awards slip-up… hahaha!
  • 12:35: Both of my kids have now started chaos around me while I’m trying to do this… my oldest just shot some kind of little squishy balls all over the living room!
  • 12:38: There’s no way I’m not going to shout out Little Fish over in Athens and Dayton. I LOVE those guys, and that’s a well-deserved medal!
  • 12:45: Oh man… cream ale – we deserve to win there one of these days, again. I wonder if anyone entered theirs from Cincy?
  • 12:47: Day Donkey? Crispy Boyz II Men? I love beer names.
  • 12:51: I got really excited for a moment when they announced ‘Franz’ as an Oktoberfest winner… false alarm.
  • 12:53: This one is really, really fun… for a lot of reasons. Big Ash with a huge win with a Gold Medal for Symphony under Vienna-Style Lager!
  • 1:09: It’s never too shocking to see Fat Heads with a medal around their necks… but well deserved!
  • 1:11: Another medal for MadTree’s Happy Amber, its second Gold Medal at GABF!
  • 1:18: Another Fat Head’s medal! Congrats, guys!
  • 1:28: Big Timber from Elkins WV was a highlight of my trip there last spring… happy to see them bring one home for their Porter!
  • 1:39: Huge, huge congrats to all the winners this year, especially to those from Ohio – and especially those from Cincy! Way to bring it home for this city!

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