Hopworks Urban Brewery Medals at the National Organic Craft Beer Competition
14 Nov 2014 --- Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) recently won seven awards for their world-class, certified-organic beer. Six of the awards came from the 8th annual National Organic Craft Beer Competition, including Best In Show and three other first place medals.
Additionally, HUB won a bronze medal at the international Brussels Beer Challenge.
National Organic Craft Beer Competition
The National Organic Craft Beer Competition is organized by Seven Bridges Cooperative Brewing Supply, the only all-organic brew supply shop in the world. Seven Bridges is a CCOF certified production facility and carries only organic hops, malt, sugars, spices and green coffee from all over the world. The competition was held at ThirstyBear Brewing Company, San Francisco’s sole organic certified brewery and included certified organic beers from around the country.
“It’s awesome to see the increased production and awareness of organic beer. As more breweries produce beers that don’t contain GMOs and are free of chemical contamination we see that there’s a model here that is viable in the industry, said Hopworks Brewmaster/Founder Christian Ettinger.
In addition to being a Certified Organic brewery, Hopworks prides itself in building a more sustainable environment by building green through conserving materials and energy, having 100% carbon and water neutral operations, being renewably powered, and practicing a zero-waste initiatives that prevents waste and protects natural resources.
