


Gold, silver and bronze medals were presented in 28 style categories.Ī complete list of 2015 National Homebrew Competition winners can be found here. Mark Schoppe won the Ninkasi Award as the winningest brewer in the competition. Winners of this year’s National Homebrew Competition include Oskar Norlander, Peter Salmond and Erik Norlander as Homebrewer of the Year with their Geuze Brett Glenna as Cidermaker of the Year with his Common Cider and Donald Boyle and Stephen Boyle as Meadmaker of the Year with their Semi-Sweet Blueberry Honey Traditional Mead. The first competition, held in 1979 in Boulder, Colo., judged 34 beers. Over its 37-year history, the National Homebrew Competition has evaluated 118,911 brews. In the final round of competition at the National Homebrewers Conference, 949 entries were evaluated by some of the top beer judges in the country. Recognizing the most outstanding homemade beer, mead and cider produced by homebrewers worldwide, this year’s competition saw 7,663 entries from 3,170 homebrewers located in 50 states, the District of Columbia and 12 other locations around the world entered in the first round of the competition. A confluence of incredible beer, creativity and community, the conference culminates with the world’s largest beer competition: the AHA National Homebrew Competition. JSome 2,700 homebrewers and beer enthusiasts gathered at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego for the 37th annual AHA National Homebrewers Conference presented by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA).National Homebrewers Conference and Competition Wrap in San Diego
