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Florida Beer Company Wins Award at National Competition
Florida Beer Company’s Kelly’s Hard Cider takes home Bronze Medal
Melbourne, FL– June 26, 2008 – For the sixth time, in as many tries, Florida Beer Company’s Kelly’s Hard Cider has won a medal at the prestigious North American Brewers Association Competition. This year a bronze medal was awarded to the Florida based brewery for its multi- award winning hard cider.
The competition was held in early June and Kelly’s Hard Cider won the bronze medal in the Draft Cider category of the competition. The North American Beer Awards competition is limited to commercially produced beers from active breweries. Beer entered in this event was judged by the traditional method of determining how closely the beer meets the style definition for the category in which it is entered. (Detailed style guidelines are available at http://www.northamericanbrewers.org/ The event is conducted as a blind sampling followed by rank ordering of the entries within a category.
“Once again, it feels great to be acknowledged, by your peers for producing a high quality, great tasting product,” said Jim Massoni, President of Florida Beer Company. “Next year we are looking to claim the top spot again.”
ABOUT FLORIDA BEER COMPANY
The Florida Beer Company, located in Melbourne, Florida, is the largest brewer of premium, handcrafted beers in Florida. Its many styles of beer are distributed by a network of distributors, not only in the state of Florida, but also in Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Virginia, Illinois, Nebraska, South Carolina and New York. Florida Beer Company also conducts business in the Bahamas and Virgin Islands.
The Florida Beer Company portfolio of Florida lifestyle beers includes Key West, Hurricane Reef, Ybor Gold, Beachside, La Tropical, Indian River Shoal Draft and Amberjack and Kelly’s Hard Cider. Along with production of these equity brands, Florida Beer Company’s production also includes contract beers.
ABOUT THE NORTH AMERICAN BREWERS ASSOCIATION™
The North American Brewers Association™ (NABA) is a non-profit foundation. The NABA mission is to secure beer’s role in our culture and society through the advancement of brewing quality and consumer education. The North American Brewers Association™ was founded in late 1996. Since that date, NABA has undertaken the organizational development of corporate policies, procedures, memberships, as well as the sanctioning of beer awards, beer festivals, and a beer judging and evaluation course. NABA has over 40 members.
NABA holds an annual, prestigious brewing competition. Judges at the annual NABA sanctioned beer awards include brew masters from major national breweries as well as experts from small, independent breweries. Also judging are beer journalists and certified judges. Evaluation and judging of beers are conducted in sessions which lead to the award of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. Since 1997, hundreds of competitors have participated.
Judging is performed in a blind format competition with beers poured in a separate room and provided to the judges in style flights. Judging in teams of four, minimum, the judges rank order the top three beers and in some instances award honorable mentions. All proceeds from the Competition are directed to charity as per the foundation’s charter. For additional information on membership, sanctioning, beer awards, judging and upcoming events, contact info@northamericanbrewers.org. http://www.northamericanbrewers.org
Florida Beer Company
2500 South Harbor City Blvd.
Melbourne, FL 32901
Ph. 321-728-3412
http://www.floridabeer.com/
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