More than 46,000 people attended and participated in the 2008 Great American Beer Festival this past weekend in Denver. One hundred and twenty seven judges from 11 countries judged the beer competition that featured 2,902 beers from around the country.
There were 222 medals awarded in 75 beer style categories.
Lakefront Brewery won a silver medal for New Grist in the Gluten-Free Beer category, while Coors Light, now owned by MillerCoors, won gold for American-Style Light Lager. In the American-Style Light Lager category that Coors Light won, Old Milwaukee Light took the silver while Keystone Light (also owned by MillerCoors) took the bronze.
Other MillerCoors products like OE 800, Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Pale Ale, Hamm's and Henry Weinhard's Hefeweizen also took home awards.
Old Scratch Barley Wine ‘99, from Madison's Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co. took the bronze in the Old Ale or Strong Ale category.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
