Gainesville Breweries Rack Up Awards at Best Florida Beer Competition

On March 3rd, 2019 the Best Florida Beer Professional Championship winners were announced during the Annual Brewer’s Ball held at Water Works Park in Tampa. This year saw 825 judged entries in 46 Medal Groups. The Best Florida Beer Professional Championship is an AHA and BJCP sanctioned professional beer, mead, and cider competition sponsored by Best Florida Beer. This is the most prestigious professional beer competition in the state of Florida.

3 Gainesville breweries won awards and brought home some hardware.

Swamp Head Brewery

GOLD for Land Manatee, Juicy/Hazy Double IPA
SILVER for Swamp Fest, Oktoberfest/Dopplebock

First Magnitude Brewing Co.

SILVER for URSA, American IPA

Blackadder Brewing Company

GOLD for Warm Cockles, Field Beer

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WINNER WINNER The 2019 Best Florida Beer Competition was last weekend and we took home some hefty hardware: 🥇Gold Medal in the Double NEIPA category with Land Manatee 🥈Silver Medal in the Oktoberfest/Dopplebock category with Swamp Fest ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We hold our product to a high standard. Our production team works very hard make sure that when you choose to have a Swamp Head Brewery beer, you are drinking the highest quality brew out there. We look forward to the rest of 2019 which will have more incredible beer releases and more great times with you all. Congrats to our local brew buddies @blackadderbrewing @fmbrewing @bigtopbrewgville @infinitealeworks for their respective medal wins. There is a lot of talented brewing in our area! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #competition #craftbeer #bestfloridabeer #gnv #whyilovegnv #brewersball2019 #brewersball

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That's a silver medal for our Ursa IPA at the #bestfloridabeer competition! We couldn't be prouder of our brew team for their accomplishments over the past year. Add a medal for the big 🐻 to the list! Stop by The Source and celebrate with us by having an ice cold bear! 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 🐻 #beer #craftbeer #ipa #AmericanIPA #beernerd #beerstagram #bestofgainesville #tampa #gainesville #gainesvilleflorida

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What a great day at the Best Florida Beer competition in Tampa! We won our first professional medal and it was gold🏅 for Warm Cockles. Huge shout outs to our friends & fellow brewers for their medals: @halpatterbrewing @fmbrewing @swamphead @bigtopbrewgville @infinitealeworks

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