Ohio
Fat Head’s, Third Eye win ‘Brewery of the Year’ honors at Great American Beer Festival
Ohio breweries set a state record at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival with a combined 21 medals and two breweries taking home “Brewery of the Year” awards in their divisions.
Eleven Ohio breweries won medals at the event, held each year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The awards were announced Oct. 11. This year’s competition featured more than 1,500 breweries from across the country and 8,315 beer and cider entries.
“This is a banner day for Ohio craft beer,” Mary MacDonald, executive director of the Ohio Craft Brewers Association, said in a prepared statement. “Our breweries deserve so much recognition for the high-quality, world-class and award-winning beers they brew, as well as their innovation beyond beer and the ways they positively contribute to their local communities.”
The previous record for Ohio was 12 breweries winning 19 medals in 2023. Since 1987, 65 Ohio craft breweries have combined to win 230 medals, including 81 gold, at the event.
“Year after year, the Great American Beer Festival sets the bar for American brewing (and for the second year in a row, cidermaking). The 2025 competition was no exception,” Chris Williams, competition director for the Brewers Association, said in a prepared statement. “There were extremely strong showings from numerous breweries and cidermakers across the U.S., maximizing the level of competition among the entire competition community.”
Fat Head’s Brewery wins 2025 Brewery of the Year award at Great American Beer Festival
Fat Head’s Brewery won “Brewery of the Year” in the 15,001- to 100,000-barrel division. Fat Head’s — which has brewing locations in Middleburg Heights, North Olmsted and Plain Township — won five medals.
Goggle Fogger and Battle Axe earned gold medals in the South German-style hefeweizen and strong porter categories, respectively. It was the third gold medal for Goggle Fogger in the past six years.
Meanwhile, Bone Head (strong red ale) won silver; and Excursion Journeyman (specialty non-alcohol beer) and Hop JuJu (imperial India pale ale) won bronze medals.
“In a field packed with world-class breweries and unforgettable beers, we’re humbled to stand among them,” the brewery said in a Facebook post. “Huge shout-out to all the other winners, especially our fellow #OhioCraftBeer friends!”
The brewery has now won 35 medals at the competition since 2009, the association noted.
Third Eye Brewing wins Brewery of the Year award at 2025 Great American Beer Festival
Third Eye Brewing in Cincinnati also took home a “Brewery of the Year” award in the 2,001- to 5000-barrel division.
Third Eye won two gold medals and a silver, as well as two collaboration beer medals: a gold with Municipal Brew Works in Hamilton and a bronze with Narrow Path Brewing in Loveland.
Higher Consciousness and Gourd Darn It! won gold medals in the scotch ale and pumpkin beer categories, respectively. Wired Euphoria (coffee stout or porter) won silver.
“We are so incredibly proud of this team for their dedication and hard work to continuously to create high quality award-winning beers,” Third Eye Brewing posted on Facebook.
Which Ohio beers won medals at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival?
Eleven Ohio breweries combined to win 21 medals at the Great American Beer Festival. Here are the winners, categories and medals:
Fat Head’s Brewery
- Battle Axe: strong porter, gold
- Goggle Fogger: South German-style hefeweizen, gold
- Bone Head: strong red ale, silver
- Excursion Journeyman: specialty non-alcohol beer, bronze
- Hop JuJu: imperial India pale ale, bronze
Third Eye Brewing
- Gourd Darn It!: pumpkin beer, gold
- Higher Consciousness: scotch ale, gold
- Route 4 Revive-ALE: collaboration beer (with Municipal Brew Works), gold
- Wired Euphoria: coffee stout or porter, silver
- Mounds of Importance: collaboration beer (with Narrow Path Brewing), bronze
Brewing Brewing (Cincinnati)
- Lil Zoomie: coffee stout or porter, gold
- Moozie: sweet stout or cream stout, gold
Gemut Biergarten (Columbus)
- Helheim Helles: Munich-style helles, silver
- Woden’s Hunt: Munich-style dunkel, bronze
Rhinegeist Brewery (Cincinnati)
- Ring of Kerry: Munich-style helles, silver
- Ghost Pils: classic non-alcohol ale or lager, bronze
Forbidden Root (Columbus)
- Festhalle: Munich-style helles, gold
Streetside Brewery (Cincinnati)
- Sofa King: strong red ale, gold
Inside the Five Brewing (Toledo)
- Prepare for Glory: English Ale, silver
Narrow Path Brewing (Loveland)
- Polar Bear: coffee beer, silver
JAFB Wooster Brewery (Wooster)
Hefeweizen: South German-style hefeweizen, bronze
Ohio
Ohio Lottery Powerball, Pick 3 Midday winning numbers for Dec. 20, 2025
The Ohio Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Dec. 20, 2025, results for each game:
Powerball
Powerball drawings are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m.
04-05-28-52-69, Powerball: 20, Power Play: 3
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Pick 3
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 8-0-3
Evening: 9-4-0
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Pick 4
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 3-6-4-3
Evening: 8-4-9-9
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Pick 5
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at 12:29 p.m. and 7:29 p.m., except Saturday evening.
Midday: 5-6-4-7-5
Evening: 6-3-6-3-9
Check Pick 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Rolling Cash 5
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 7:05 p.m.
23-28-30-35-36
Check Rolling Cash 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Classic Lotto
Drawings are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, at approximately 7:05 p.m.
26-30-35-38-44-47, Kicker: 2-2-3-2-3-9
Check Classic Lotto payouts and previous drawings here.
Lucky For Life
Drawings are held daily, seven days a week, at approximately 10:35 p.m.
08-21-30-41-47, Lucky Ball: 15
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Ohio
Protesters blast music outside Columbus hotel where ICE was staying
Columbus City officials press conference on ICE
Columbus City officials press conference on ICE
Dozens of people gathered in below freezing temperatures Friday night, Dec. 19, to protest U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement officials’ presence in Columbus.
Protesters discovered where ICE officials were staying locally and showed up outside their hotel to blast music and disrupt their sleep, according to reports from social media, a witness, police and a hotel employee.
The music, mostly electronic dance music with heavy beats, began around 9 p.m. and didn’t cease for hours, said Brandon Baker, 36, who happened upon the scene after hearing and seeing activity.
He took a video and posted it on Facebook as he stood outside the Embassy Suites hotel on Corporate Exchange Drive on the Northeast Side near Westerville around 9:30 p.m.
“It’s important to recognize that Columbus is a melting pot and we’re not going to tolerate this kind of intolerance,” Baker said, of why he posted the video. He was also hoping more people might come.
In the nearly hour he was on scene, Baker said he saw approximately 50 people gathered outside grow to a group closer to 150. There were also people in parked cars honking their horns and five to seven police cars there, though he said police weren’t interacting with protesters. He also witnessed people leaving the hotel.
Columbus police said they were called around 9:20 p.m. on Dec. 19 due to noise complaints, but said there was no further information.
The protest followed several reports of increased ICE activity and arrests Dec. 17, 18 and 19 in Columbus, as well as a small group protest outside the Westerville ICE office earlier on Friday.
The increased ICE activity prompted responses from city officials, advocates and more earlier in the week. The response included Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther and Columbus police Chief Elaine Bryant saying no city resources would be used to help federal agents in immigration enforcement operations.
“It was a good symbol and a good thing to see Columbus kind of fighting back against this group of indivdiuals who have pretty much taken it upon themselves to terrorize people,” Baker said of the protest. “If we’re so anti-terrorism in the United States, why are we allowing something like this to even happen?”
On Dec. 18, an ICE spokesperson said in a prepared release: “ICE officers continue to arrest criminal illegal aliens and immigration violators in the city of Columbus, across Ohio, and throughout the United States.”
“These enforcement actions are part of ongoing efforts to uphold public safety and enforce federal immigration laws,” the statement said.
Some advocates said they feared the increased activity in Columbus in the past few days – including an estimated 15 to 20 arrests each day on Dec. 17 and Dec. 18 – might be the beginning of raids in other U.S. cities. In Chicago, ICE’s “Operation Midway Blitz” ended with 1,600 to 1,900 people arrested beginning in September, according to news reports.
The hotel had to refund at least a few guests, a hotel employee said. He confirmed ICE was staying at the hotel, but emphasized they are open to the public and do not have control over who stays there.
Baker’s video pans as someone states that people are blaring music outside the hotel to keep ICE awake.
“Everyone was doing everything they could to make noise,” Baker said. “The idea is to play the music and stuff as loud as possible to keep them from sleeping.”
It appeared that the music was coming from a bus with speakers attached, Baker said, but people were also playing trombones and trumpets and ringing cow bells.
People Baker spoke to said they were trying to “drown” out ICE and get them to leave.
“Columbus is done with this,” Baker said.
Underserved Communities Reporter Danae King can be reached at dking@dispatch.com or on X at @DanaeKing.
Ohio
$50K Powerball ticket sold in Northeast Ohio; jackpot reaches $1.5B
CANFIELD, Ohio (WJW) – Nobody took home the massive Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, but one Canfield man is still celebrating after purchasing a winning ticket worth $50,000.
According to Ohio Lottery, Bryan decided to try his luck after realizing the Powerball jackpot was over $1 billion. He bought a ticket from the Meijer grocery store on Boardman-Canfield Road in Boardman.
The next morning, Bryan woke up and checked the ticket, stunned to discover that he won $50,000.
After mandatory state and federal taxes, the lucky winner will take home more than $36,000.
Bryan told lottery officials that he doesn’t have specific plans for money yet, but the big win will certainly make for “a very good Christmas.”
It has been months since someone won the Powerball jackpot, which now sits at a massive $1.5 billion. There is also a cash option worth $689.3 million up for grabs.
The next drawing will be Saturday night at 11 p.m. Learn more about the Powerball right here.
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