Reuben’s Brews named best mid-sized Washington brewery

reubenReuben’s Brews has been named the best Mid-sized Brewery of the Year at the Washington Beer Awards. The Ballard-born brewery also took home gold medals for several of their signature brews, including the Foreign Export Stout, Robust Porter, and Black Imperial IPA, and silver medals for their Cream Ale and the Marzen, which is the first lager they’ve produced. The competition including over 700 entries from roughly 100 breweries across the state.

“We are honored to be recognized amongst the great breweries of Washington State,” said Adam Robbings, Co-founder and Head Brewer of Reuben’s Brews in a statement. “It’s particularly exciting is that we won medals for a wide variety of different beer styles – hoppy, malty, light and dark beers!” Robbings says their 15-barrel brewery will allow them to continue developing new styles, with more lagers on the way and their first sour beers in the works.

Other Ballard breweries also took home awards; Populuxe won a gold medal for their Old Oddvars British Strong Ale, a bronze medal for their Citra Red, an American Amber. Ballard’s Stoup Brewing won silver for their Stoup Citra IPA in the American-style Strong Pale Ale category. For a full list of the winners, click here.

 

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