SLY FOX RAUCH BIER WINS GOLD MEDAL AT 2008 GREAT AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL
Sly Fox Rauch Bier took top honors in the Smoke-Flavored Beer category at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver today. The Gold Medal was announced during the traditional Saturday afternoon Awards Ceremony in Colorado Convention Hall.
Rauch Bier, which has proven to be one of the favorites at both brewpubs and many off-premise accounts over the past year, is brewed with imported Beechwood Smoked Malt from Bamburg, Germany, and this classic style offers contemporary beer aficionados an opportunity to taste beer the way it used to taste in the days when all malts were kilned with wood. Rauch Bier is medium bodied and smoky on the palate.
This marks the second straight Gold Medal for brewmaster Brian O'Reilly and the brewing team. Pikeland Pils took was first in the German-Style Pilsener (Instigator Doppelbock won the Bronze Medal in the Strong Bock category). Pikeland Pils won a Bronze Medal in 2003 and O'Reilly won a Gold at the short-lived New Road Brewhouse in 2000.
There were 2902 beers entered in the GABF competition this year,the largest number ever, from 472 Breweries. Judging was by 127 judges from eleven countries.
Look for more details on this story in the next Sly Fox Newsletter, due shortly.
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