Three Pyramid Breweries Beers Earn Top Honors at LA County Fair.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Pyramid Breweries Inc. (Nasdaq:PMID PMID PubMed-Indexed for MEDLINE PMID Portable Multispectral Imaging Device PMID Process Management Improvement & Deployment PMID Physical Media Id PMID Performance Metric Identifier ) announced today that their award winning flagship Pyramid Hefe Weizen[TM], America's leading fruit ale Pyramid Apricot Weizen, and summer seasonal Curve Ball[TM] KElsch each took home gold medals at last month's LA County Fair beer competition. Fifty judges from the LA home brewing community, most of them certified beer judges, selected Pyramid Hefe Weizen best American Wheat Ale or Lager with Yeast and Pyramid Apricot Weizen best Fruit Beer, while Curve Ball won for best KElsch-Style Ale. The 5th annual beer competition operated by the fair and the California Fermentation Society featured 36 breweries and 200 beers battling for medals in 60 categories. The LA County Fair is the largest in the nation, attracting more than one million visitors each year during the month of September. Fair-goers had a chance to sample Pyramid's gold medal selections and other winning beers with proceeds benefiting various charities. "Southern Californians are embracing our American-style unfiltered Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since wheat beers," said Scott Barnum, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Pyramid Breweries Inc. "These awards are a big deal for our team and our momentum in this market. Only in LA could you earn top honors and introduce more than one million people to a new style and taste that's become hugely popular up and down the West Coast. We are stoked stoked adj. Slang 1. Exhilarated or excited. 2. Being or feeling high or intoxicated, especially from a drug. !" About Pyramid Breweries Inc. Pyramid Breweries Inc. is a leading brewer of specialty, full-flavored beers and sodas produced under the Pyramid, MacTarnahan's and Thomas Kemper Thomas Kemper is a brewer of root beer, ginger ale, and other craft brewed sodas under the Thomas Kemper Soda Co. label. Formerly owned by Pyramid Breweries, Inc., it was sold in 2007 to Adventure Funds of Portland, Oregon, which is running the company under the Kemper Co. brands. The independent company owns two alehouse restaurants adjacent to its full-production breweries under the Pyramid Alehouse and MacTarnahan Taproom brand names in Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. , and Portland, Oregon, respectively, and three alehouse restaurants in Walnut Creek and Sacramento, California, and Seattle, Washington. More information about Pyramid Breweries is available at www.pyramidbrew.com. |
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