Two of the top honors in the New York State Craft Beer Competition may have gone to Brooklyn-based breweries, but craft brewers in Rochester and the Finger Lakes also took home medals in a number of hotly contested categories.
Judging for the competition in Rochester took place Feb. 28 and March 1. Awards were presented March 20 during the New York State Brewers Conference in Albany.
Grimm Artisanal Ales won its fifth New York State Brewery of the Year Award, which is awarded to the brewery that earns the highest point total based on the number of medals earned in the overall competition. This is the third-straight honor for the Brooklyn-based craft brewer…