2009 Winners!

Congratulations to everyone who entered the year's Big Beer Cup! Here are the winners:

BEST OF SHOW

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Belgian and French Ales 16C - Saison Saison 2.0 Michael Agnew
2nd Place Meads 26C- Meads Summertime Mead Gera Exire LaTour
3rd Place German Wheat and Rye Beers 15C - Weizenbock Uncle Walt's Weizenbock John Barlow

Historic - Non Hopped and Hopped

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Historic - Hopped 02 - Hopped Historic Wild Zinger Wylbur Ince
2nd Place Historic - Non Hopped 01 - Non-Hopped Historic Citrus Special John Kreimer
3rd Place Historic - Non Hopped 01 - Non-Hopped Historic Huzzah! Gruit Gera Exire LaTour

Bock

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Bock 05C - Doppelbock Verminator Jim Lindborg
2nd Place Bock 05A - Maibock/Helles Bock Maibock J. D. Ludford
3rd Place Bock 05B - Traditional bock Westerbrau Traditional Bock Nick Cucci

Kolsch and Alt

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Kolsch and Alt 07C - Dusseldorf Altbier No Fault Alt Jason Ward
2nd Place Kolsch and Alt 07B - Northern German Altbier Altbier Tim Roets, Chris Anderson & Tim Anderson
3rd Place Kolsch and Alt 06C - Kolsch Double Vision Kolsch Dan Dietzel

English Pale Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place English Pale Ales 08A - Standard/Ordinary  Bitter Comedy of Errors Bitter Eric Wentling
2nd Place English Pale Ales 08A - Standard/Ordinary  Bitter Bitter But Not Cranky Tom Urbanski
3rd Place English Pale Ales 08A - Standard/Ordinary  Bitter St Croix Century Ron Bergantine

Scottish and Irish Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Scottish and Irish Ales 09E - Strong Scotch Ale Westerbrau Scotch Ale Nick Cucci
2nd Place Scottish and Irish Ales 09E - Strong Scotch Ale Big Horny Eric Wentling
3rd Place Scottish and Irish Ales 09D - Irish Red Ale Craic Kills Eric Wentling

English Brown Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place English Brown Ales 11C - Northern English Brown Ale Mother Shipton's Nut Brown Ale Jesse Robertson
2nd Place English Brown Ales 11C - Northern English Brown Ale Queen Mother's Dirty Little Secret Tom Urbanski
3rd Place English Brown Ales 11A - Mild Old Canoe Mild Ale Ted Haland

Porters

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Porters 12B - Robust Porter BoilerMaker Porter JR Foster
2nd Place Porters 12A - Brown Porter Past Midnight Porter Tom Urbanski
3rd Place Porters 12C - Baltic Porter Honey Porter Stephen Perrier, Laura Roehl

Stouts

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Stouts 13A - Dry Stout Black Death Stout Mark Johnson
2nd Place Stouts 13C - Oatmeal Stout Bradley Street Oatmeal Stout Scott Strand
3rd Place Stouts 13C - Oatmeal Stout 4th St Stout Dan Boody and Phil Romine

German Wheat and Rye Beers

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place German Wheat and Rye Beers 15C - Weizenbock Uncle Walt's Weizenbock John Barlow
2nd Place German Wheat and Rye Beers 15D - Roggenbier (German Rye Beer) Walter's Rye Rich Walter
3rd Place German Wheat and Rye Beers 15A - Weizen/Weissbier Summer Wheat Jason Ewert, Alex Dubish, Jeremy King

Belgian and French Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Belgian and French Ales 16C - Saison Saison 2.0 Michael Agnew
2nd Place Belgian and French Ales 16A - Witbier Hockey Mom Wit Jim Lindborg
3rd Place Belgian and French Ales 16C - Saison Sawbones Saison Eric Wentling

Sour Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Sour Ales 17B - Flanders Red Ale Flanders Red Eric Swann
2nd Place Sour Ales 17F - Fruit Lambic Framboise Lambic Tim Roets
3rd Place Sour Ales 17F - Fruit Lambic Lawson's Kriek Jeremy Lawson

Belgian Strong Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Belgian Strong Ales 18C - Belgian Tripel Fool Button Brian Davis
2nd Place Belgian Strong Ales 18B - Belgian Dubbel Dubble Chris Smith
3rd Place Belgian Strong Ales 18A - Belgian Blond Ale Abbey Blonde Nicholas Alan Tillemans

Strong Ales

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Strong Ales 19A - Old Ale Old Man River Ale Michael Zellmer
2nd Place Strong Ales 19B - English Barleywine English Barleywine Ron Fitch
3rd Place Strong Ales 19A - Old Ale Ale For All Season's Alan Grams

Open Eclectic - Fruit Beers

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Open Eclectic 20A - Fruit Beer Raspberry Wheat Stout Aaron Masterson
2nd Place Open Eclectic 20A - Fruit Beer Raspberry Wheat Erik Tomlinson
3rd Place Open Eclectic 20A - Fruit Beer CherrBerr Lager Alan Grams

Open Eclectic

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Open Eclectic 16E - Belgian Specialty Ale Schoolhaus Tafelbier Dave Marley
2nd Place Open Eclectic 21A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Maple Pumpkin Ale Jim Lindborg
3rd Place Open Eclectic 23A - Specialty Beer Big Brownstone Dan Boody and Phil Romine

Wood-Aged and Smoked

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Open Eclectic 22A - Classic Rauchbier J-Dogg's Rauchbier Jason Sowards
2nd Place Open Eclectic 22C - Wood Beer Oak Aged Belgian Brown Eric Wentling
3rd Place Open Eclectic 22B - Other Smoked  Beer That's My Story Brian Davis

Meads

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Meads 26C - Open Category Mead Summertime Mead Gera Exire LaTour
2nd Place Meads 24B - Semi- sweet Mead O Blossom Eric Wentling
3rd Place Meads 26C - Open Category Mead Peachy Ginger Mead Erin Tatge

Ciders

Award Category Style Name/SubCategory Entry Name Brewers
1st Place Ciders 27A - Common Cider Ugly Apple Cider Koli Fyten -Swap , Cory Swap
2nd Place Ciders 27A - Common Cider Hunter's Press Ron and Mary Ann Bergantine