Results of the 2008 World Beer Cup

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The results are in and again, America has a stellar showing. I sure do miss having a huge selection of beers to choose from.

2008 Results

And yes, two of the overall winners were from Oregon!

World Beer Cup Champion Brewery and Brewmaster

Large Brewpub

Pelican Pub & Brewery

Darren R. S. Welch

World Beer Cup Champion Brewery and Brewmaster

Small Brewpub

Bend Brewing Company

Tonya Cornett

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Cool, my friends at Elysian in Seattle bagged three medals. I'll have to try and find some of the Jasmine beer next time I'm there.

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This post is useless without samples

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Amazing, 91 categories! I've just e-mailed the organisers to volunteer as a judge for next year Nice to see a small Yorkshire brewer getting a prize. I'll be very near Knaresborough next week and can see a detour is now needed

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What's the "American Style" in "Category 2: American-Style Cream Ale or Lager (23 Entries)" ?

Seems there's other styles too: International, Baltic, ...

Can someone explain?

And ... Oyster Beer?

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Cream ale is actually quite nice. It's a lagered light ale.

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There are a few winners from Texas including my

favorite, Shiner.

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I was wondering why there were so many "American Style xxxxxxxx Beer" categories, till I got to the footer of the page. A bit like the baseball "World Series" for beers

It's great that there are so many breweries starting up all round the world, with so many varieties, must try them all.

I had read that the United States had a vast and varied range of brewers due to the spread of European immigrants. Then prohibition came along and sent the smaller breweries broke, with only small proportion making it through. So its been a long road to recovery! Here's an interesting article that touches on it:

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journ...007-1_beer.pdf

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Only someone who hasn't spent time in America sampling all the wonderful beers would think that American beers was sh*te.

But even for crap beer, I'd rather drinks Coors or PBR than Feldschlossen any day of the week.

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They actually do make an okay dark beer. Not amazing, but better than the yellow stuff they stream out.

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Name the film:

"Heineken? that sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

Feldscheissen Blue as it's known around our apartment

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Category 35 reminds me of high school. I can't believe these three actually won medals. Awesome.

American-Style Specialty Lager (28 Entries)

Gold - Steel Reserve

Miller Brewing Co.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Silver - Busch Ice

Anheuser-Busch Inc.

St. Louis, Missouri

Bronze - Mickey's Ice

Miller Brewing Co.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin