The best lagers made in the U.S. in 2025 have been named by the judges at The Great American Beer Festival. The festival ran Oct. 8-10 in Denver, Colorado. The festival’s competition results were announced on Saturday.
The Brewers Association (BA) awarded 347 medals to 273 breweries and cideries Saturday during the trade group’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver.
“Year after year, the Great American Beer Festival sets the bar for American brewing (and for the second year in a row, cidermaking),” BA competition director Chris Williams said. “The 2025 competition was no exception.
The 39th annual Great American Beer Festival concluded Saturday with the 2025 GABF awards ceremony. The GABF is the largest and most prestigious beer-judging competition in the nation. Washington and Oregon breweries brought home 48 medals this year. I share the winners below. (Pictured above: Grains of Wrath Brewing and Von Ebert Brewing celebrate.)
Von Ebert Brewing continues to cement its reputation as one of Oregon’s premier craft breweries, taking home two prestigious gold medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. The wins for Drink Me Potion Raspberry Tart Ale and Clubhaus Lager highlight the brewery’s dedication to quality, innovation, and year-round offerings that celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s flavors.
Von Ebert Brewing continues to cement its reputation as one of Oregon’s premier craft breweries, taking home two prestigious gold medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival. The wins for Drink Me Potion Raspberry Tart Ale and Clubhaus Lager highlight the brewery’s dedication to quality, innovation, and year-round offerings that celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s flavors. With expanded production and a new N. Mississippi location, Von Ebert is poised to bring its award-winning beers to even more fans across the region.
Denver, Colorado • October 11, 2025— The Brewers Association (BA) revealed the 2025 award-winning beers and ciders at this year’s Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) competition ceremony. Expanding on last year’s introduction of cider categories, the 2025 competition featured a special, one-time-only Vera Hop category.
Oregon breweries and cideries took home 29 medals at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival on Saturday, October 11th. The brand new UPP Liquids led the way with 5 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze) tying with Colorado’s Westbound & Down for the most medaled brewery of the competition which also earned Upp the brewery of the year (251-500 barrels).
Von Ebert Brewing’s announcement that they have transformed its 20,000-gallon grain silo into a hand-painted replica of its Volatile Substance IPA can is more than a playful piece, it can be an example in experiential marketing.
At its core, this project converts an otherwise functional piece of infrastructure into a 26-foot-tall billboard that will captures attention (both with consumers already family and with whoever walks or drives by) and it can spark social media activity.
There are big beer cans. And then there’s Von Ebert’s new silo on North Mississippi Avenue in Portland — a 12-foot wide, 26-foot tall fermentation tank now painted to look like a can of Volatile Substance NW IPA. If you could actually walk by and crack it open, it could serve roughly 158,000 pints.
Von Ebert Brewing is making a bold visual and flavorful statement in Portland’s N. Mississippi Ave. neighborhood. With the reveal of a towering beer can silo and the launch of a surprise fresh hop IPA, the brewery blends artistry, community, and craft innovation. The installation marks a milestone in Von Ebert’s growth—and a toast to the local spirit that fuels it.
Dear Client: Top IPA brand Voodoo Ranger has always been about outside-the-box marketing, from the Napa Valley Voodoo Ranger IPA Action Park gag to their recent Roulette IPA collaboration with infamous Chicago liqueur Malort [see CBD 05-09-2025]. The brand’s latest stunt is the Voodoo Ranger Tanker Tour, featuring a literal 21-foot tanker shaped like a giant can of Juice Force IPA that will make the rounds across several states, challenging drinkers to “empty the tanker one tallboy at a time.”
September is ON, and American craft brewers are looking to fall with an ever-evolving roster of beers you’re gonna want to have around.
Fresh Hop Season Arrives in The Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR) – It’s fresh hop season Von Ebert Brewing is celebrating Northwest breweries’ favorite time of year, with a whole slew of these uber-fresh exotics.
There will soon be more Vice’s to indulge in as the Vancouver, Washington-based Vice Beer greatly expands production, increases their food options, and installs a permanent all-weather year-round patio. The big upgrades are thanks in part to new owners and investors helping power exciting new plans and collaborations, and the new free-play retro Atari arcade games at the taproom may be a little preview of what is yet to come …
