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2023 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: District of Columbia (DC)

B. Kline — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 01:55:00 +0000

The Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the 2023 Great American Beer Festival from Denver, Colorado.

The Great American Beer Festival

Tonight at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver Colorado they announced their yearly winners. The Great American Beer Festival (or GABF for short) started in 1982 and has been a staple event of the craft beer community, running every year (going virtual during the COVID – 19 pandemic). Making this the fortieth annual event.

For those unaware, The Great American Beer Festival, is thee annual event for craft breweries across the country. Every year, hundreds / thousands of breweries and brewers meet up in Colorado for the annual event, showcasing their goods, and hoping to bring home some of the illustrious medals. Getting a gold, silver, and even bronze at the GABF means a big deal to the brewer, and to the brewery itself.

It helps solidify yourself as a top brewery, it helps to get you recognition, and showcases the merits of the brewers involved.

Past Winners

Medalists and Winners

The District of Columbia breweries received just one medal this year at the Great American Beer Festival.

Bronze

Bronze Medal at the Great American Beer Festival

Category: Stout
Brewery: Atlas Brew Works
Beer: Silent Neighbor
City: Washington D.C.

Congratulations

Congratulations to the Maryland breweries that medaled this year.

For more information on the competition, judging, and voting, you can go straight to the Great American Beer Festival’s page on ‘competition’: Great American Beer Festival – Competition.

Great American Beer Festival Wrap – Up

For more information, you can go to the Great American Beer Festival pages here:

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2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania

B. Kline — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 03:56:00 +0000

The Great American Beer Festival Medals

The Great American Beer Festival

It helps solidify yourself as a top brewery, it helps to get you recognition, and showcases the merits of the brewers involved.

Five breweries from Pennsylvania came out and poured their beers at the event. They were: Troegs Independent Craft Brewing, Yards Brewing Company, 2SP Brewing Co, Conshohocken Brewing Co, and Lion Brewery Inc.

Having your beers pouring at GABF is big enough, but coming home with a medal is even bigger, and this year unfortunately, Pennsylvania came up a little bit light for their trophy case.

Past year’s winners:

Medalists and Winners

Unfortunately this year, Pennsylvania only took home two medals. Down from last year’s five medals (two gold, two silver, and one bronze), and in 2020 when they had three medals (one gold, two silver), and 2019 where they had seven medals (three gold, three silver, and one bronze). (I’ve only been keeping track here on the site since 2019 when I started the blog.)

Hopefully in 2023 Pennsylvania can rebound and reclaim some glory.

But in the meantime, here are the winners from the 2022 Great American Beer Festival:

The Great American Beer Festival – GOLD

Category: Wood – and Barrel – Aged Strong Stout
Brewery: Grist House Craft Brewery
Beer: 8th Anniversary Reserve

The Great American Beer Festival – BRONZE

Category: Munich-Style Helles
Category Sponsor: Wyeast Laboratories
Brewery: New Ridge Brewing Company (Philadelphia, PA)
Beer: Roxboro Gold

Congratulations

Congratulations to both of the Pennsylvania breweries that medaled this year. Hopefully in 2023 we get more than just two medals for my homestate. Fingers crossed.

For more information on the competition, judging, and voting, you can go straight to the Great American Beer Festival’s page on ‘competition’: Great American Beer Festival – Competition.

Great American Beer Festival Wrap – Up

This year here on the blog, I am going to be posting the results of several states, unlike just doing Pennsylvania like I have in past years. (Now that we’ve been out traveling to more local states.) So look for Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, and Ohio articles in the coming days. (Probably be doing one per day.)

For more information, you can go to the Great American Beer Festival pages here:

Past Articles

For other Great American Beer Festival articles, you can check out:

2019 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania
2020 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania
2021 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Pennsylvania
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: New Jersey
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Delaware
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Maryland
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: Ohio
2022 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Winners: DC

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Thanks for reading everyone. Getting this out pretty late, and pretty drunkenly after coming home (don’t worry Amy drove me home) from Drew’s. Phillies won and are moving on to the second round, we watched Cannibal The Musical (Matt and Trey from South Park’s college film), we had a lot of high end ABVs. (World Wide Stout Utopias barrel aged, Karak by Human Robot, and two other stouts). Was a good Saturday overall. Tomorrow night sees Bengals vs. Ravens as the Sunday night game, and we’ll see if the despised Mets move on in the playoffs. I will hopefully get out the next of the states series of these articles.

Until then, thanks for reading everyone. We appreciate it!

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-B. Kline

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Book Review: The Physics of Baseball (Robert K. Adair)

BKline — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:55:00 +0000

The Physics of Baseball by Robert K. Adair

America’s Game

Its start of the season, its springtime, flowers are blooming, people are getting vaccinated, and for the first time in what feels like forever, people are getting to watch baseball in person, ahhhh what a glorious time it is, its baseball season! America’s game! The Phillies have started off 3-0 against the Braves and then quickly dovetailed into their normal season low. Ahhh what a great time!

Whats better than baseball? Thinking about baseball like a nerd! And no I don’t mean the sabermetrics like in Moneyball…. I mean even nerdier…. deep…. gritty…. nerdism….. I’m talking about….

PHYSICS! Everybody’s least favorite science!

So what’s better than combining our favorite sport with our least favorite subject right?

Physics

You can’t do baseball without physics. As Jesse would say (from Breaking Bad) “Yea… Science bitches!” I love science, but more in the “thats cool how it works” kind of way, and not so much in the “forms” and “figures” and “equations” kind of way. It all looks Greek and Hebrew and Gibberish to me when looking at X – r/1 (n/200) = v/3 or some such. I dunno…. that was purely made up contrivance there on my part, so take it for what it is. But this book is … somewhere between a layman’s work and a bit too heavy on jargon and equations.

So, needless to say then, some parts flew over my head, whilst other parts were in my wheelhouse. (When he talks like he would to a third grader, its in my wheelhouse, when he speaks to an educated academician … yea… definitely not in my wheelhouse.)

Spoiler before getting into the review – I think there is still plenty in this quick (106 pages or so, before footnotes, bibliography, and index) book for any baseball (and if there is such a thing as a ‘physics’ fan) fan.

Robert K. Adair

Sadly, it appears we just recently lost (last September) Robert K. Adair. I didn’t know of him or anything about him prior to reading the book, and the book doesn’t give a whole lot of history on his past either, but for the review I looked him up and he has his own Wikipedia page. (Though, at this point who doesn’t? ….oh wait… I don’t….) The book gives a few indications of his qualifications and expertise but not much else and not a whole lot of history of the man himself.

The lead-in for him on Wikipedia page: “Robert Kemp Adair (August 14, 1924 – September 28, 2020) was an American physicist. He latterly held the position of Sterling Professor Emeritus of physics at Yale University.^[3][4][5]” (The Emeritus position for Yale was mentioned in the book.)

Adair served in the European theatre after volunteering for World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze star. After achieving a doctorate in experimental nuclear physics at the University of Wisconsin he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Yale, serving as chair of the Department of Physics and director of the Division of Physical Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 where he served as Chairman of the Physics Section 1986-1989 and Chairman of the Class of Physical Sciences 1991-1994. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997,^[1] after a distinguished career in, among many other subfields of physics, weak-interaction (Kaon) physics at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at BNL.
Later, in his retirement, he studied the effects of extremely low frequency (weak) electromagnetic fields on human health and among other responsibilities served on the Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) established to investigate the APS Statement on Global Warming in 2007, which was not without its own internal controversy. He died in September 2020 at the age of 96.^[6]
Robert Kemp Adair Wikipedia

He wrote two baseball related works: The Physics of Baseball and The Crack of the Bat: The Acoustics of the Bat Hitting the Ball.

The Physics of Baseball

The Physics of Baseball by Robert K. Adair

Book: The Physics of Baseball
Author: Robert K. Adair
Published: January 1st, 1990 (First Printed)
Edition: Second Edition, Paperback, Published January 20th, 1994
Pages: 160
The Physics of Baseball on GoodReads

The book is mainly broken down into a few main categories (there’s a few others that are brief and just tie in to the overall theme of physics and the book, rather than particulars) and they are: the flight of the baseball, pitching, batting the ball, and the properties of bats.

I liked the pitching segment the best because it discussed the differences in sliders, fastballs (depending on seam and style), curve balls and knuckle balls. I found it fascinating learning the different affects small things like rotation, air flow, humidity, etc, has on the ball’s speed, velocity, trajectory, etc.

The other segments were interesting as well. The flight of the ball was impressive, and is kind of funny in retrospect how he mentions if they ever play in Denver that they would have to change the balls they use. (Spoiler alert – the Colorado Rockies were founded in 1991, and they do not change the balls when playing there.)

The last segment about properties of bats is also interesting, especially as it discusses the various ways of cheating and tampering with bats. He claims (through his equations and physics) that corking bats actually doesn’t provide any benefits to the player and that there is no real benefit to cheating this way. He mentions several other ways in the past they cheated – hammering nails into the bat, cutting the bats, slicing the bats, different things other than corking, etc.

The equations and formulas are a bit hard to follow – for someone like me at any rate. I’m not the biggest formula and equation and nerd on that end, despite my love for science. I like seeing science in work, not doing the work for it, if that makes any sense. I think someone with a good (or recent) high school physics class or college course could do well enough with the formulas and equations, whereas for me, most went right over my head.

Overall this is a fun book for any fan of baseball and physics (and double win if your a fan of both). There is certainly a lot to learn here, especially if you are an active player, mostly for high school or college age, as a professional probably already knows all this – just without the science behind it; they just know it from learned behavior, by playing, by experience.

My GoodReads Rating: ***
My LibraryThing Rating: ***
Global Average GoodReads Rating: 3.70

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Also be sure to check out my hike review:

Hike Review: Rattling Run to Water Tank Trail (Dauphin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania)

Cheers and thanks for reading everyone! Hope you enjoyed. Let us know your thoughts on the book and hike reviews! Thanks!

-B. Kline