It's official: bacon and beer are the best together. We know because the Great American Beer Fest says so, in the form of the gold medal they sent home with
Right Brain Brewery's Corey Wentworth for the Mangalitsa Pig Porter they've been brewing.
It started out as a specialty, and maybe even a bit of a novelty, as it uses cold-smoked heads and bones from Mangalitsa pigs raised by farmers for Cherry Capital Foods. (You can read more about the
offbeat breed here.)
Right Brain's brewing team entered the smoky, bacon-y porter in the beer festival's experimental category, where it won gold against 82 competitors.
The Great American Beer Festival was held in Colorado and saw 3,930 beer entries from 526 breweries worldwide. A total of 248 medals were awarded across all categories, and gold medals like the one on Right Brain's mantel are awarded for those beers which establish the best examples of their style.
Right Brain Brewery was one of five Michigan breweries to win medals, and one of two to win gold. The other gold medal winner was Bell's Brewery in the aged beer category. Silver medals came home with the New Holland Brewing Co. in the Belgian style lambic and sour ale category, and Redwood Brewing Co. in the sweet stout category. Bastone Brewery also took a bronze medal in the Belgian and French style ale category.
Writer: Sam Eggleston
Source: Right Brain Brewery
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