All About Beer Magazine - Volume 28, Issue 6
January 1, 2008 By

Nothing shows how far organic beers have come like winning medals at the Great American Beer Festival in direct competition with non-organic brews. Here’s a six-pack of medal winners worthy of your attention:

Mothership Wit Organic Wheat Beer, New Belgium Brewing, CO: Bronze Medal 2007

Organic Farmhouse Ale, Bison Brewing, CA: Gold Medal 2006

Organic Pilsner, Butte Creek Brewing, CA: Gold Medal 2006

Organic Zwickelbier, Redrock Brewing, UT: Gold Medal 2007

Organic Deranger, Laurelwood Brewing, OR: Gold Medal 2006 & 2007

Squatters Organic Amber Ale, Utah Brewers Cooperative, UT: Silver Medal 2007

And here’s a sampling of just a few of the breweries making some of the best organic beers across the country:

Bison Brewing; Berkeley, CA

Blackfoot River Brewing; Helena, MT

Butte Creek Brewing; Chico, CA

Eel River Brewing; Fortuna, CA

Elliott Bay Brewing; Seattle, WA

Fish Brewing; Olympia, WA

Laurelwood Brewing; Portland, OR

North Coast Brewing; Fort Bragg, CA

Peak Organic Brewing; Portland, ME

Pisgah Brewing; Black Mountain, NC

Roots Organic Brewery; Portland, OR

Wolaver’s Certified Organic Ales; Middlebury, VT

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing; Santa Cruz, CA

Ukiah Brewing; Ukiah, CA