CLEVELAND, Ohio –Ohio distilleries brought home 29 medals in the 25th annual San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC). Northeast Ohio winners included Gervasi Spirits in Canton and Towpath Distillery in Akron.
Ohio has 74 distilleries of varying sizes. Not all entered spirits into the competition. Of those entered by Ohio distillers, nine received double gold, seven received gold, 12 received silver and one received bronze.
“The SFWSC is a particularly important competition for American whiskey producers; more than 1,600 whiskeys were judged this year, two-thirds of them American,” said The Tasting Alliance in a press release. “Those include classic categories such as bourbon and rye as well as more emergent ones, such as American single malt and blended whiskey.”…