31th Annual Ales Open

Awards

Sponsors

Judges

Rick August, Aaron Brown, Doug Dale-Johnson, Scott Downey, Derek Fuchs, George Koutsoulis, Aaron Krywicki, Kory Lato, Walter Martin, Chad McGee, Henning Mortensen, Travis Mushanski, Arne Schmidt, Joanne Shurvin-Martin, Chris Tower, Shelley Whitehead, Yuxuan Xie, Dorian Yake

Judges - Best of Show

Aaron Brown, Walter Martin, Travis Mushanski, Chris Tower

Stewards

Garth Beatty, Glen Faubert, Alan Ilsley, Dustin Moysey, Mark Murray, Rhea Stobbs, Sarah Watt

By the Numbers

235 Entries 51 Entrants

18 Judges 7 Stewards

82 Placing Entries

Table 1: Table A - Light Lager(1A, 1B, 2A, 4A, 4B, 5C)

16 entries

Judges: Rick August, George Koutsoulis, Walter Martin, Chad McGee, Chris Tower

Table 2: Table B - Pilsner (5A, 3A, 5D, 3B, 27A6-Proh Lager, LSX5)

16 entries

Judges: Derek Fuchs, Arne Schmidt, Chris Tower, Shelley Whitehead

Table 3: Table C - Europe Amber Lager (7A, 3C, 6A, 7C, 27A1-Kellerbier)

7 entries

Judges: George Koutsoulis, Aaron Krywicki

Table 4: Table D - Dark Lager (2C,8A,3D,8B)

11 entries

Judges: Rick August, Chad McGee, Dorian Yake

Table 5: Table E - Bock (4C, 6C, 9A, 9B)

8 entries

Judges: Rick August, Derek Fuchs

Table 6: Table F - Light Hybrid (1C, 18A, 5B, 1D)

7 entries

Judges: Kory Lato, Shelley Whitehead

Table 7: Table G - Amber Hybrid (2B, 19B, 7B, 27 Ken Common)

6 entries

Judges: Aaron Brown, Joanne Shurvin-Martin

Table 8: Table H - English Pale (11A, 11B, 11C, 12A, 12B)

5 entries

Judges: Aaron Brown, Travis Mushanski

Table 9: Table I (Scottish and Irish - 14A, 14B, 14C, 15A, 17C)

8 entries

Judges: Doug Dale-Johnson, Chad McGee

Table 10: Table J - American Ales (18B, 19A, 19C)

8 entries

Judges: Derek Fuchs, Aaron Krywicki

Table 11: Table K - English Brown (13A, 13B, 27 London Brown)

7 entries

Judges: Henning Mortensen, Chris Tower

Table 12: Table L - Porter (13C, 20A, 9C, 27Prob Portor)

9 entries

Judges: Walter Martin, Arne Schmidt

Table 13: Table M - Stout (15B, 15C, 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 20B, 20C)

14 entries

Judges: Doug Dale-Johnson, Derek Fuchs, Joanne Shurvin-Martin, Shelley Whitehead, Dorian Yake

Table 14: Table N - Misc IPA (21A, 12C 22A, 21B, 21C)

20 entries

Judges: Rick August, Aaron Brown, Derek Fuchs, Travis Mushanski

Table 15: Table O - German (10A, 10B, 10C, 27-Roggen & Sahti)

5 entries

Table 16: Table P - Belgian & French (24A, 26B, 24B, 25B, 24C)

12 entries

Judges: Derek Fuchs, Chris Tower

Table 17: Table Q - Sour (23A, 23B 23C, 23D, 23E, 23F, LSX4 )

5 entries

Table 18: Table R - Strong (25A, 26B, 26C, 25C, 26D,17A, 17B, 22B, 17D, 22C, 2D)

14 entries

Judges: Derek Fuchs, Aaron Krywicki

Table 19: Table S - Fruit (29A, 29C, 29D, 29B)

11 entries

Judges: George Koutsoulis, Kory Lato

Table 20: Table T - Veg, Herb, Spice

11 entries

Judges: Rick August, Yuxuan Xie

Table 21: Table V - Smoke and Wood (32A, 32B, 6B, 33A, 33B)

7 entries

Judges: Kory Lato, Travis Mushanski

Table 22: Table V - Speciality (27A, 28A, 28B, 28C, 31A,31B, 34A, 34B, 34C

12 entries

Judges: Rick August, Scott Downey

Table 23: Table Mead A (M1A, M1B, M1C,M2A, M2B, M2C, M2D)

11 entries

Judges: Derek Fuchs, George Koutsoulis, Aaron Krywicki, Kory Lato

Table 24: Table Mead B - Spice and Speciality (M3A, M4C)

5 entries

Judges: Arne Schmidt, Yuxuan Xie

Best of Show

Beer

Judges: Aaron Brown, Walter Martin, Travis Mushanski, Chris Tower

Brewer of the Year

51 Participating Brewers [Scoring Methodology]

Homebrew Club of the Year

14 Participating Clubs [Scoring Methodology]

Thank You

Congratulations to All Medal Winners