Real Ale Brewing Company Brings Home the Gold at Great American Beer Fest

[scrumptiouschef]

Gold Medal

Category 52: Ordinary or Special Bitter (47 Entries)

Rio Blanco Pale Ale
Real Ale Brewing Co.
Blanco, TX

http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival....

Real Ales' Rio Blanco Pale is one of the great beers of Central Texas. Nice to see the crew from Blanco take a break from eating chicken fried steaks at Blanco Bowl long enough to head up to Denver and capture a gold medal.

[explosivo]

Great Beer, well deserved.. I also like Devil's Backbone and Fireman 4

[dexmat]

That’s my favorite Real Ale beer. Never tried it with CFS though.

Some other Texas beers did well also. Two other Golds:

Category 25: German-Style Pilsener (48 Entries)
Gold
Trumer Pils
Trumer Brauerei Berkeley
San Antonio, TX

Category 41: German-Style Kölsch (46 Entries)
Gold
Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower Beer
Saint Arnold Brewing Co.
Houston, TX

St. Arnold also pulled in two Silvers:

Category 53: Extra Special Bitter or Strong Bitter (42 Entries)
Silver
Saint Arnold Elissa IPA
Saint Arnold Brewing Co.
Houston, TX

Category 54: Scottish-Style Ale (22 Entries)
Silver
Saint Arnold Oktoberfest
Saint Arnold Brewing Co.

And one Bronze:

Category 27: Munich-Style Helles (42 Entries)
Bronze
Cowboy Lager
The Covey Restaurant & Brewery
Fort Worth, TX

Those are the only Texas ones I saw on the list.

[scrumptiouschef]

Hey Dex
Thanks for the additional info. I believe that Trumer Pils is actually produced in California although "owned" in Texas.

At any rate it is delicious.