Votes have been tallied and below are the winners from this year’s Great Taste of Cottage Grove. Thanks to everyone that participated!
Oktoberfest
Gold Medal – Great Lakes Oktoberfest
Silver Medal – Three Floyds Munsterfest
Bronze Medal – Third Tier Turnertoberfest
Other Participants – New Glarus Staghorn, Ayinger Oktoberfest
Old Ale
Gold Medal – Smuttynose Really Old Brown Dog
Silver Medal – North Coast Old Stock
Bronze Medal – Hair of the Dog Adam
Other Participants – Founder Curmudgeon, Bells Third Coast Old Ale
Oatmeal Stout
Gold Medal – Weiser Brewing Baby Drop
Silver Medal – Samual Smiths Oatmeal Stout
Bronze Medal – Ale Asylum Big Slick
Other Participants – New Holland The Poet, Rogue Shakespear
Wet Hopped IPA/APA
Gold Medal – Three Floyds Broo Doo
Silver Medal – Third Tier Pick Your Own
Bronze Medal – Town Hall Fresh 100
Other Participants – Surly Wet, Deschutes Chasin Freshies
Scotch Ale
Gold Medal – AleSmith Wee Heavy
Silver Medal – Lake Louie Reserve Scotch
Bronze Medal – Third Tier Neat
Other Participants – Founders Dirty Bastard, Leinenkugels Big Eddy Wee Heavy
Best in Show
Three Floyds Broo Doo with an average score of 4.05 out of 5
Weiser Brewing Baby Drop was second with an average score of 4.0 out of 5
Worst in Show
Leinenkugels Big Eddy Wee Heavy with an average score of 1.85 our of 5
Points by brewery
Three Floyds – 5 points
Third Tier – 4 points
Weiser Brewing – 3 points
Great Lakes – 3 points
Smuttynose – 3 points
AleSmith – 3 points
North Coast – 2 points
Samual Smiths – 2 points
Lake Louie – 2 points
Hair of the Dog – 1 point
Ale Asylum – 1 point
Minneaspolis Town Hall – 1 point