Best in Beer – Farm Show Awards (2023)

The 107th Annual Farm Show

On Friday – January 6th, 2023 – the 107th Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show kicked off at the (historic?) Farm Show Arena / Expo Hall / Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The annual event brings people from all across the states in various agricultural industries to Harrisburg; to showcase, to compete, to interact, intermingle, and have a good time.

It also usually brings bad weather as well. Which knock on wood, all we’ve gotten is a little bit of light snow this morning so far.

Friday was primarily just the food market and a few other events (a rodeo, and a few others being examples). The milkshakes were out, the talk of all the land, as always, and there was also free parking Friday so the food court was absolutely jammed pack.

Farm Show – Best of Beer Awards

The Farm Show introduced the Best of Craft Beer Awards in 2019. This makes it the fourth year of them doing the awards (the awards went virtual in 2020).

You can read the rules for entry here: Department 34 – Beer Awards Rules and Entry Information.

Over the years there has been numerous winners from across the state. Some notables being Troegs Independent Craft Brewing, Liquid Hero Brewing, Wallenpaupack Brewing, Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery, and many more.

Let’s get to this year’s winners:

Best in Beer Winners – 2023

First, you can see the full list of entries and winners directly from the Farm Show’s site here: Department 34 – Craft Beer Entries (PDF). The PDF page is a bit confusing and shows all entries, how many points they received, if they are PA Preferred, and if they won a medal. No mention of categories or anything.

I will help you out here and break down the categories (best that I can) and show who won what place, and will list if it’s PA Preferred (more on what that is afterwards).

Category:	Brewery:	Beer:	Award:	PA Preferred:
Lager / Light Beer	LoveDraft’s Brewing	Grim	1st Place / Best in Show	No
Lager / Light Beer	Warwick Farm Brewing	Czech Pils	2nd Place	No
Lager / Light Beer	Logyard Brewing	It started with a Spark Lager	3rd Place	Yes
Lager	Aldus Brewing Co.	Red Flannel Logger Amber Lager	1st Place	No
Lager	Wolf Brewing Co	Czech The Forest	2nd Place	No
Lager	Pour Man’s Brewing	House Lager	3rd Place	No
Darker Lager	Wallenpaupack Brewing	For the Love of Lager- Munich-Style Dunkel	1st Place	No
Darker Lager	Bru Daddy Brewing	Black Sheep	2nd Place	No
Darker Lager	Lost Tavern Brewing	Doppelbanger	3rd Place	No
Wheat Beer	Allusion Brewing Co	Smocze Pragnienie	1st Place	No
Wheat Beer	Forbes Trail Brewing	Wheat Dreams	2nd Place	No
Wheat Beer	Cohops Brewery & Cannery	DWZN	3rd Place	No
Pale Ale	Bent Run Brewing	Red, White, and Bent	1st Place	No
Pale Ale	Cohops Brewery & Cannery	All to Pot	2nd Place	No
Pale Ale	Logyard Brewing	Belly-Pan Pale Ale	2nd Place / PA Preferred	Yes
IPA	Levity Brewing	Haze Freshley	1st Place	No
IPA	Our Town Brewery	Press On	2nd Place	No
IPA	C + D Ventures DBA Ottos Brewery	Green Weenie IPA	3rd Place	No
IPA – New England	Dock Street Brewery	King Juice	1st Place	No
IPA – New England	Lavery Brewing	Balaclava	2nd Place	No
IPA – New England	Rough Edge’s Brewing	Temptation’s Wing	3rd Place	No
Rye	C + D Ventures DBA Ottos Brewery	Zemo’s Rye	1st Place	No
Rye	Dock Street Brewery	Rye IPA	2nd Place	No
Rye	Liquid Art Brewing	Step Your Game Up IPA…	3rd Place	No
Stout	Lost Tavern Brewing	Slashing Pumpkins	1st Place	No
Stout	Conyngham Brewing Company	Into Darkness	2nd Place	No
Stout	CoHops Brewery & Cannery	Goblin King	3rd Place	No
Porter	Saucony Creek Brewing Company	Nordic Wind Bactic Porter	1st Place	No
Porter	Dock Street Brewery	Man Full of Trouble Porter	2nd Place	No
Porter	Boom City Brewing	Falling Maple Brown Ale	3rd Place	No
Belgian	Stokers Brewing Company	DIVINE	1st Place	No
Belgian	Isaac’s Craft Kitchen & Brewery	Hart Van Glas	2nd Place	No
Belgian	Locust Lane Craft Brewery	Belgian Style Wit Ale	2nd Place	No
Belgian	Deer Creek Malthouse	PA Pride Multigrain Saison	3rd Place	Yes
Fruited	Allusion Brewing Company	Down on Duval	1st Place	No
Fruited	Cartel Brewing	Geometric Fruit	2nd Place	No
Fruited	Wallenpaupack Brewing	Lichtenhainer	3rd Place	No
Sour	Allegheny City Brewing	Nova Gose Watermelon	1st Place	No
Sour	Mcallister Brewing	Gerardus Mercartor	2nd Place	No
Sour	Aldus Brewing Co	Wild Berry Sour	3rd Place	No
Barrel	Big Bottom Brewing	The Discipline of Fire and Demise	1st Place	No
Barrel	Cartel Brewing	Obscurity	1st Place	No
Barrel	Conyngham Brewing Company	Shipwreck II	2nd Place	No
Barrel	Aldus Brewing Co	Red Rye Revival Barrel	3rd Place	No
Barrel	Shy Bear Brewing	Ultra Ryeligiously	3rd Place	No
Wit / Wheat / Saison	Spring House Brewing Company	Technicolor	1st Place	No
Wit / Wheat / Saison	McCall CoBeer	Hay, Gris, Hay	2nd Place	No
Wit / Wheat / Saison	McCallister Brewing	Belgian Style Peach Wit	3rd Place	No

Whew that was a workout. Needless to say there’s no rhyme or reason to their PDF layout (if you click the link above you’ll see what I mean). Its also rife with spelling errors (of both beer names and breweries). But hopefully I made enough heads and tails for you to know who won and what they won.

PA Preferred

PA Preferred is a big deal, but even a bigger deal around Farm Show time. The breweries and brewers who do it make a big mention of it and a big “to – do” about it. The point of it is to use all Pennsylvania products, from the malt and grain to the hops and to the water and everything else in between. There is becoming more and more of a bigger push to go “all Pennsylvanian” with breweries. Troegs Brewing, Wallenpaupack Brewing, Logyard Brewing, Boneshire Brew Works, Hemauer Brewing, and several others are striving to make more and more of their beers this way.

For More Information on the Farm Show

• Farm Show Documents: Department 34 – Beer Awards
• Farm Show Documents: Department 34 – Entry Rules
• Farm Show Schedule
• Local 21 News: Getting ready for the 2023 PA Farm Show: What you need to know
• Farm Show.gov

For More of our Award Articles

Looking for more articles about breweries and brewers winning awards? Check these out:

• 2022 NAGBW Awards
• 2021 NAGBW Awards
• 2020 NAGBW Awards
• 2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania
• 2021 GABF Winners: Pennsylvania
• 2020 GABF Winners: Pennsylvania
• Allusion Brewing Company Wins Two Top Awards
• The Battle of the Breweries (2022) Winner Is…..

Thanks For Reading

Tomorrow I’ll do a break down of this article and give better statistics of the winners from the Farm Show. Running out of time this morning and have to get ready for work. So look for that tomorrow.

Hope everyone has gotten a chance to go to the Farm Show and support Pennsylvania and their local community. Plus – you might as well get a milkshake, everyone else is.

Cheers All!

-B. Kline

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