Call it one last hurrah for Flying Basset Brewing.
The 5-year-old Gilbert brewery, which is closing permanently next Saturday, won Arizona’s only gold medal at this weekend’s prestigious Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
Its Citrus Snack, a Gose-style ale packed with tangerine, grapefruit, and blood orange with a hint of Himalayan pink sea salt on the finish, took the Contemporary Gose category.
Other Arizona breweries that won medals:
In Bloom from Basin+Range in Tucson won the silver in Contemporary Gose.- Railhead Red from Lumberyard in Flagstaff won the silver in Extra Special Bitter.
Fate Single Hop Sour from Fate in Scottsdale won the bronze in American Sour.- Hooks & Dun from Wren House in Phoenix won the bronze in Extra Special Bitter.
- Blue Quad Roller Skates from Wren House won the bronze in Juicy or Hazy Imperial IPA.
GABF is the world’s largest professional beer competition. A panel of 250 judges from 10 countries evaluated 9,298 beers.
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