{"id":2823,"date":"2010-06-08T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2010-06-06T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T18:23:30","slug":"us_open_beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/08\/us_open_beer\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 United States Open Beer Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2010<\/p>\n

ATLANTA, Ga. <\/strong> \u2013 The 2010 United States Beer Championships will be held June 8 \u2013 June 18 with the winner being announced on July 4, 2010.\u00a0 This competition is the only one to allow award winning home brewers to compete against the best breweries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Last year, more than 500 beers were submitted for judging. Ten breweries were recognized among the top 10\u00a0based on the number of medals earned. Deschutes Brewing of Bend, Oregon was named Grand National Champion while \tSprecher Brewing of Glendale, Wisconsin and the Boston Beer finished second and third respectively. Sixty-two individual breweries won at least one medal, and 14 won two medals or more.\u00a0 Phil Ferrall of Cumming, Ga. was the only homebrewer to win a gold medal. His homebrew, The Next to Last King of Scotland Ale, won the Strong Scotch Ale category.

2009 United States Open Championship\u2019s Top Ten Breweries<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Deschutes Brewing \u2013 Bend, Oregon <\/li>\n
  2. Sprecher Brewing \u2013 Glendale, Wisconsin <\/li>\n
  3. Boston Beer Company \u2013 Boston, Massachuetts <\/li>\n
  4. August Schell Brewing \u2013 New Ulm, Minnesota <\/li>\n
  5. Maui Brewing \u2013 Maui, Hawaii <\/li>\n
  6. Anderson Valley Brewing \u2013 Boonville, California <\/li>\n
  7. Terrapin Beer Company \u2013 Athens, Georgia <\/li>\n
  8. Tallgrass Brewing \u2013 Manhattan, Kansas <\/li>\n
  9. Atlanta Brewing \u2013 Atlanta, Georgia <\/li>\n
  10. Sweetwater Brewing \u2013 Atlanta, Georgia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Call for Entries Begin June 8, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The call for entries for the United States Open Beer Championships will begin June 8, with the entry deadline set for June 18.\u00a0 Winners will be announced July 4.\u00a0 Each brewery may enter a maximum of 10 beers. In order to \thelp small brewers in these tough economic times, each brewery will be allowed to enter 2 beers with no entry fee. If a brewery wishes to enter \tmore than two beers, there will be a $50 entry fee per beer.\u00a0 A brewery must submit a minimum of five beers to be qualified to win one of the \u201cTop Ten \tBreweries\u201d.\u00a0 Entry forms and rules can found on the competitions Web site at U.S. Open Registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    More than 50 categories will be judged. Winners will receive a medal in the shape of a beer stein for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Beers placing in the top 10 of each category and Top 10 Breweries overall will be featured in America\u2019s Best<\/em> and Top 10<\/em> as well as BeerInfo.com<\/em>.\u00a0 Along with the medals awarded,\u00a0a Grand National Champion will be awarded \tbased on a point system for beers (five entered\u00a0minimum) entered in the competition.<\/p>\n

    To see last years\u2019s \u00a0individual winning brews and other winner and entrants\u2019 details, go to www.USOpenBeer.com<\/a>.\u00a0 The United States Open Beer Championship invites more than 1,000 breweries from more than 30 countries, as well as the 29 National Homebrewing Champions from the United States and Canada, to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ATLANTA, Ga. \u2013 The 2010 United States Beer Championships will be held June 8 \u2013 June 18 with the winner being announced on July 4, 2010.\u00a0 This competition is the only one to allow award winning home brewers to compete against the best breweries worldwide. Last year, more than 500 beers were submitted for judging. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[1129],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/us_open_beer_logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}