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Australian International
Beer Festival
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2006 L.A. County Fair
We decided to enter quite a
few of our beers into the increasingly prestigious L.A.
County Fair, and the judges responded with a resounding
verdict in favor of the taste of Milwaukee's original
micro-brewery. Here are the Medals:
Special Amber: Gold
Medal - Vienna Style Lager
Oktoberfest: Gold
Medal - German-Style Marzen/Oktoberfest
Dopplebock : Gold
Medal - Dopplebocks
Black Bavarian: Gold
Medal - Robust Porter
Irish Stout : Gold
Medal - Foreign(Export) Style Stout
Imperial Stout : Gold
Medal - Imperial Stout
Winter Brew : Silver
Medal - European-Style Dark/Munchnerdunkel
Sprecher Micro-Light: Silver
Medal - English Summer Ale
Piper's Scotch Ale : Silver
Medal - Scotch Ale
Mai Bock : Bronze
Medal - Bock Beers
Barleywine: Bronze
Medal - Barleywines
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2004 Wisconsin
Manufacturer of The Year Special Award for Quality and Tradition
Special Awards are presented to companies for achieving
excellence in any one area, honoring the unique values these Wisconsin-based
manufacturers exemplify. This award for Quality and Tradition acknowledges
our ongoing effort to stay true to the brewing craft and produce
products not only high in quality and rich in flavor, but also
which carry on in the same traditions that inspired them in the
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Milwaukee’s
Original Microbrewery,
Sprecher Brewery,
took top honors at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival® in
Denver, Colorado.
The 23rd anniversary of the GABF was also the largest ever, with 398 national
breweries and brewpubs offering more than 2000 beers in competition
for the most prestigious awards in the brewing industry.
Sprecher Brewery won several awards, which will probably
come as no surprise to its many loyal fans. Out of 102 entries
for Small Brewing Company of the Year, Sprecher won:
2004 Small Brewing Company
of the Year
2004 Small Brewing Company of the Year Brewmaster (Craig Burge)
2004 Gold Medals
Sprecher won gold medals for two of its beers in
the 2004 competition:
Oktoberfest – took
top honors out of 52 entries in the German-style/Oktoberfest
category
Scotch Ale – took
top honors out of 23 entries in the 2004 Scotch Ale category
2004 Bronze Medal
Sprecher won a bronze medal for one beer in the
2004 competition:
Mai Bock– garnered
a bronze medal out of 15 entries in the Bock category
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Other Awards
- Milwaukee Press Club, Order of Knight
of Bohemia presented to Randal Sprecher for his “Pioneering
work in building Milwaukee’s microbrewing industry, and
because of his outstanding concern for the community”
- 2004 World Beer Cup, Bronze Medal in
the European-Style Dark/Munchner Dunkel to Sprecher Winter
Brew (out of 29 entries)
- RateBeer.com, Top 50 American Breweries,
January 2004 Rankings
- Beverage Tasting Institute, 91/100, Abbey
Style Trippel
- Beer Advocate.com, Top 50 American Breweries
- 2002 World Beer Cup, Gold Medal in the
European-Style Dark/Munchner Dunkel to Sprecher Winter Brew (out
of 23 entries)
- Beverage Tasting Institute, 90/100, Sprecher
Winter Brews
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year , 2000Finalist
Wisconsin, awarded to Randal Sprecher, Sprecher Brewing Company
- Glendale Association of Commerce, Appreciation
Award presented to Sprecher Brewing Company, Inc., “In
recognition of excellence in manufacturing”
- Beverage Tasting Institute, 93/100, Sprecher
Mai Bock
- Beverage Tasting Institute, 90/100, Sprecher
India Pale Ale
- Beverage Tasting Institute, 86/100, Sprecher
Black Bavarian
- Milwaukee Press Club, Order of Knight of Bohemia presented
to Randal Sprecher for his “Pioneering work in building Milwaukee’s
microbrewing industry, and because of his outstanding concern for
the community”
- Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year, Special
Award for Quality and Tradition presented to Sprecher Brewing
Company
- 2004 World Beer Cup, Bronze Medal in
the European-Style Dark/Muncher Dunkel to Sprecher Winter Brew (out
of 29 entries)
- RateBeer.com, Top 50 American Breweries,
January 2004 Rankings
- Shepard Express, Milwaukee’s Best Locally-Brewed
Beer, 1994 Readers’ Choice Winner
- Chicago Beer Society, Award
of Merit- Sprecher Mai Bock, 1994 Spring Beer Tasting
- Metro Milwaukee Future 50, 1993 Future 50.
Sprecher Brewery was elected to the 1993 Future 50 for its “Outstanding
Contribution to Metropolitan Milwaukee through Sales and Employment
Growth”
- Shepard Express, Milwaukee’s Best Locally-Brewed
Beer, 1993 Readers’ Choice Winner
- Chicago Beer Society, Best
of Show-Sprecher Mai Bock, 1993 All American Beer
Tasting
- Chicago Beer Society, Silver
Award, Lager-Sprecher Mai Bock, 1991 All American Beer Tasting
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Certificate
of Nomination presented to Randal G. Sprecher. “To Honor
Those Individuals and Companies Whose Ingenuity, Hard Work, and
Innovation Have Created Successful and Growing Business Ventures”
- Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Certificate
of Nomination presented to Randal G. Sprecher. “To Honor
Those Individuals and Companies Whose Ingenuity, Hard Work, and
Innovation Have Created Successful and Growing Business Ventures”
- 1988 Great American Beer Festival
- Bronze Medal, Bocks -- Sprecher Mai Bock
- Bronze Medal, European Darks – Sprecher Black
Bavarian
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