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| Melvin Brewing and Charlie Papazian |
Melvin Brewing returned home from last weekend’s Great
American Beer Festival with the craft brewing industry’s top honor — the Small
Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year Award.
As Melvin’s biggest award to date, this is a tremendous
industry endorsement, showing respect for Melvin’s exceptional beers and the
experience of its brewing team. Now in its 34th year, the Great American Beer
Festival is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and one of the
most prestigious beer judging events in the country.
Melvin also brought home two Brewer Association Medals: the Gold
medal for American Style Fruit Beer and the Bronze medal for Fresh or Wet Hop
Ale.
Having won
the underground YCH Hops Alpha King Competition in both 2012 & 2013, Melvin’s
2x4 DIPA took 2nd place in 2015. Both of Melvin’s entries, 2x4 &
Drunken Master, placed among the top 15 in a field of more than 130 beers. The Alpha King contest is the top competition of
well balanced and drinkable, yet highly hopped ales.
John Fayman, a Melvin investor and craft beer authority,
said this signals Melvin is ready for the big time.
“This
is as much about the Brewers Association recognizing the incredible job that
the Melvin Team has done as it is about the Brewers Association letting Melvin
know that it’s ready for distribution in Colorado and everywhere else,” Fayman
said.
As
if on cue following the festival awards ceremony, distributors from around the
country flocked to Melvin’s table to discuss Melvin’s distribution strategy in
their territory. The success parallels the recent opening of Melvin’s new 20,000 square foot brewery in Alpine, Wyoming. Located
just a few miles from Jackson Hole, where Melvin plans to make beer from the
future. Melvin is expanding distribution
this year to Colorado and Washington and points beyond in the future.
In 2014, Melvin Brewing won two medals
at the World Beer Cup: A Gold in the Imperial India Pale Ale category for its
2x4 and a Bronze in the Fruit Beer category for its ChChChCh-Cherry Bomb. Both
beers won also medals (Cherry Bomb - Silver, 2x4 - Gold) at the 2012 Great
American Beer Festival. 2x4 is the only IPA to win Alpha King, GABF
Gold and WBC Gold.
Melvin Brewery is located in the heart
of downtown Jackson Hole at Thai Me Up Restaurant, which was started in 2000 by
Melvin founder Jeremy Tofte. The new
production facility will be up and running this fall. Melvin is currently
installing its custom built Newlands 30bbl, 4 vessel system.
The Great American Beer Festival had
its best year too . . .
Hosted by the Brewers Association this
year in Boulder, CO, The Great American Beer Festival surpassed all previous
participation records, with 6,647 entries in 92 beer categories covering 145
different beer styles. A panel of 242 judges from 15 countries awarded 275
professional medals to 242 breweries.
More than 1,500 breweries from all 50
states plus Washington, D.C., attended, including 423 first-time participants.
The 2016 Great American Beer Festival
will be held Oct. 6-8 in Denver.
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| Courtesy of Melvin Brewing Co |
About Melvin Brewing
Melvin Brewing was founded in 2009 by Jeremy Tofte and
Kirk McHale to fulfill their need to drink the biggest, most exciting
West-Coast Style IPAs in Jackson, WY. Experimenting on a 20 gallon, then
three-barrel system, they developed the Melvin IPA and 2x4 Imperial IPA, which
went on to win Gold medals at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival,
back-to-back Alpha King awards in 2012 and 2013, and a Gold Medal at the World
Beer Cup. On the strength of these and other beer brands, Melvin Brewing was
awarded the 2015 Small Brew Pub and Small Brew Pub Brewer of the year.
Melvin brewing now has more than 40 amazing beer recipes
to its name, expanding its portfolio of hoppy beers and other styles, with
brands such as ChChCh-Cherry Bomb (Fruit Beer), Killer Bees (Honey Ale), Coffee
Ruckus (Coffee Imperial Stout), Hey Zeus (Mexican Lager) to name drop a few.
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