Thanks be to Robin for allowing me to post this PR tidbit on the Forum:
Flanagan’s Ale House is hosting us for a special pint night tomorrow (11/20) at 7PM to unveil our single-batch Kentucky IPA in Louisville. This hoppy, English-style ale was our Pro-Am entry at this year’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver. As with all of Flanagan’s Pint Nights, each pint ordered wins you a free collectible glass while supplies last.
More info on the GABF Pro-Am competition:
The GABF Pro-Am competition celebrates the deep connections that have always existed between homebrewers and professional craft brewers by teaming up amateur and professional brewers in a competition held during the Great American Beer Festival.
This year, over 60 craft breweries selected award-winning homebrew recipes from American Homebrewers Association (AHA)/Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) sanctioned homebrew competitions. Kentucky IPA was the winning selection at this year’s Kentucky Brew-off, an annual spring homebrewing competition hosted by Alltech’s Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co.
The professional brewer scaled up the winning homebrew recipe and brewed a commercial-sized batch in their brewery. The brewery then submitted their entry into the GABF Pro-Am Competition to be judged in a Best-of-Show style judging against all the other GABF Pro-Am entries. The top three beers are awarded first, second, and third place, and both the winning breweries and their partner homebrewers receive gold, silver, and bronze GABF Pro-Am medals (respectively). The medals are presented during the GABF awards ceremony on October 11, 2008 in Denver.
In 2007, Bill Caldwell of Paris, Kentucky won the Pro-Am silver medal with his Kentucky Hefeweizen, a Bavarian-style wheat beer. This year’s English-style IPA was formulated by Kevin Patterson of Lexington.
There are only a handful of kegs of Kentucky IPA allotted for Louisville, and it will never be produced again. It will be available at The Pub, Cumberland Brews, and the Hurstborne & Springhurst locations of Liquor Barn in the coming days.
Hope to see you there,
Jeremy
Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.