This weekend is the Oscars of beer in Denver, CO–the Great American Beer Festival. GABF medal winners were just announced and here’s how we did:First, CONGRATULATIONS to Chuckanut Brewery in Bellingham for being Small Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year!!!!!! A special award is given to a brewery of small, mid-sized and large size based on how many medals each brewery won in the overall competition. This is one helluva coup for NKOTB Chuckanut and master brewer Will Kemper. Everybody road trip! (Here’s my article on Chuckanut from earlier this year.)2009 Washington GABF Medal Winners:Chuckanut Brewery (Bellingham): Two gold medals for their Dunkel and Vienna Lager, Two silver medals for their Schwarzbier and PilsnerPyramid Breweries (Seattle): Two gold medals, one for the Haywire Hefeweizen and another for Mactarnahan’s AmberThe Ram Restaurant and Brewery (will update with specific locale, Lakewood I think): One silver medal for the Clearwater KolschRedhook Ales (Woodinville): Gold for its iconic ESB and a silver for the barley wine TreblehookSilver City Brewery (Silverdale): Golds for the Old Scrooge 1998 and the Ridgetop Red Ale and a bronze for the Gold Mountain PilsnerSnipes Mountain (Sunnyside): Bronze for the English style Coyote MoonWashington won 13 medals, with our breweries entering over 160 beers.