6 MA Breweries Compete in Great American Beer Festival

MASSACHUSETTS — Six Massachusetts breweries will be competing in the Great American Beer Festival to be held Oct. 10-12 in Denver.

The festival is the nation’s largest for professional brewers and hands out some of the industry’s most sought-after accolades. Bronze, silver and gold medals will be awarded for dozens of styles of beer and ciders in more than 100 categories.

Beer is still the star of the competition, but organizers are casting a wider net with the addition of categories for ciders, canned cocktails, hard seltzer, hard soda, hard tea, hard kombucha, other malt-based beverages, and all non-alcoholic beverages.

The event also features competition in ciders, hard seltzers and, new this year, canned cocktails and hard teas.

In Massachusetts, breweries competing for medals include:

• Antimony Brewing, Lee
• Dogfish Head, Boston
• General Admission, Boston
• Jack's Abby, Framingham
• Samuels Adams, Boston
• Sun Cruiser, Boston