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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
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.
A mom searching for answers about her son’s death in a car wreck won a victory on Dec. 19 when the Ohio Supreme Court ordered the Richland County Sheriff to release records to her.
The court ruled in a unanimous decision that Andrea Mauk is entitled to three sets of records withheld by the sheriff, with only Social Security numbers being redacted. Mauk will be awarded $2,000 in damages but will not receive attorney fees.
On June 23, 2023, 18-year-old Damon Mauk lost control of his 1998 Ford Mustang and slammed it into a tree. His mother wanted to piece together what happened, collect his belongings and grieve the loss of her child. She didn’t think she’d have to fight for public records and take her case to the Ohio Supreme Court.
Following the crash, Richland County Sheriff’s deputies, a township fire department and the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded.
During the investigation, a trooper told a deputy to leave Damon’s iPhone and wallet in the car, according to Mauk’s court filings. Instead, the deputy took the belongings to the hospital and handed them off to someone who said he was Damon’s dad.
Mauk didn’t understand. Damon’s father was largely absent from his life. How could he have been there to pick up the wallet and phone?
A few weeks after the fatal crash, Mauk asked for records, including: the sheriff’s report and inventory of items taken from the car, body camera footage from deputies who gave away the belongings, the report, photos and videos created by the patrol and more.
Mauk, of the Mansfield area, received some but not all of the requested records. Mauk hired attorney Brian Bardwell to pursue records she believes exist but weren’t provided or were improperly redacted.
The sheriff’s office claimed that some of the requested records were exempt from disclosure because they are confidential law enforcement records or personal notes. The court privately reviewed the records withheld from Mauk and determined that they should be released.
The decision in favor of releasing records runs contrary to recent rulings from the high court.
In 2024, the court held that the cost of sending troopers to protect Gov. Mike DeWine at a Super Bowl game weren’t subject to disclosure and that the Ohio Department of Health should redact from a database the names and addresses of Ohioans who had died, even though that death certificate information can be released on an individual case basis.
In 2025 the court ruled that police officers’ names may be kept confidential if they’re attacked on the job, giving them privacy rights afforded to crime victims.
State government reporter Laura Bischoff can be reached at lbischoff@usatodayco.com and @lbischoff on X.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kylee Kitts scored 13 points, Jaloni Cambridge added 11 and No. 21 Ohio State rolled past Norfolk State 79-45 on Thursday night for its eighth straight win.
Dasha Biriuk added 10 points for Ohio State, which is 10-1 overall and 7-0 at home.
Kitts was 6 of 12 from the field, and grabbed 10 rebounds to go with two steals and two blocks. Cambridge was 4-of-8 shooting and had eight rebounds and two steals.
Cambridge scored seven points in the first quarter as the Buckeyes jumped out to a 20-10 lead and built a 43-21 halftime advantage. Kitts and Cambridge each scored nine first-half points.
Ohio State outrebounded Norfolk State 55-32 and scored 21 points off 17 turnovers.
Jasha Clinton scored 18 points to lead Norfolk State (5-9). Ciara Bailey had 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Up next
Norfolk State plays at Elon on Sunday.
Ohio State hosts Western Michigan on Mondahy.
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