Atlanta Brewery Named 2nd Best in Nation at US Open Beer Championships

ATLANTA – Several metro Atlanta breweries took home big prizes at the U.S. Open Beer Championships.

With four gold medals and four bronze medals, Atlanta’s Monday Night Brewing placed second overall in the Ohio-based competition.

The brewery has won gold medals for its Spoken Wisdom, Tears of Our Enemies, Madrigal and Simple Illusion beers.

Monday Night Brewing is no stranger to competition, having finished in the Top Ten of US Open breweries multiple times.

Halcyon’s Cherry Street Brewery took fifth place, earning top marks for its Totes McOats oatmeal stout and Grease Monkey barleywine.

Other gold medalists in the competition were Cherry Street Brewing’s Strumberry brandy barrel-aged ale in Vickery Village and Co-opel Doppel barrel-aged lager, River Remedy Brewing Company’s Sabrewtage Altbier and Oostanaula Great White Ale in Rome, Bold Monk Brewing’s The Way Begian triple and All is Vanity barrel-aged ale.

The 2024 Grand National champion was Third Eye Brewing of Hamilton, Ohio, which won four gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

You can see the other winners from Georgia below.

• Citrus Haze – SweetWater Brewing – bronze in a hazy pale ale

• Juice Raptor – Monday Night Brewing – bronze in the fruity IPA category

• Brother Ivan – Bold Monk Brewing Co – Silver Medal in the British/Russian Imperial Stout Category

• Bartow Brown – Drowned Valley Brewing Company – silver in an American brown ale

• Braunschweiger Weizenbock – Silver Bluff Brewing Company – Bronze Medal in German Wheat Beer

• Carte Blanche – Line Creek Brewing Co. – Bronze in Belgian Fruit and Lambic Gueze

• 404 – Monday Night Brewing – Bronze Medal in American Blonde Beer

• Oktoberfest – Round Trip Brewing Company – bronze in German Maerzen/Oktoberfest style

• If I Could Change Bock Time – Line Creek Brewing Co. – Money Into a Traditional German-Style Bock

• Brothers of the Sword – Cherry Street Brewpub in Halcyon – silver in a Baltic style porter

• Excursion – Monday Night Brewing – Bronze Medal in American Style White Beer

• Bluebird – Line Creek Brewing – Silver in American Fruit Wheat Blueberry

• Rye OASIS – Cherry Street Brewpub in Halcyon – silver in a barrel-aged brown ale or porter

• Give Me All the Bacon – Akademia Brewing Co – Oak Aged Breakfast Brown Ale

• Toffee Coffee Barleywine – Cherry Street Brewing in Vickery Village – Bronze Medal in Barrel-Aged Specialty Barleywine

• Quad VIP – Cherry Street Brewpub at Halcyon – Silver in a Belgian Barrel Aged Quad

• Tie XII – Monday Night Brewing – Bronze Medal in the Barrel Aged Beer Category

• Well Done – StillFire Brewing – Money in Aged Beer

• Atomic Funk – Cherry Street Brewpub in Halcyon – Silver Medal in Brett Beer

• Sooper Froot – PBJ Strawberry – Pontoon Brewing Company – bronze peanut/peanut butter

• Wayne Grodzky – Line Creek Brewing Co. – Bronze Medal in Grodziskie

You can see all the winners here.