Cincinnati continues to be a medal hog at major beer awards, as four Cincinnati area breweries are bringing home five medals from the 2025 World Beer Cup.
Brink Brewing won two medals, while Third Eye, Wandering Monsters, and Fretboard each picked up one.
Brink won a gold medal in the Sweet Stout or Cream Stout category for Moozie, marking the 13th award just for that beer alone. It’s the most awarded beer in Cincinnati. They also won a bronze for Zoomie in the Coffee Stout or Porter category. Brink has now won more than 50 total medals in major competiton.
Joining Brink with a gold medal was Third Eye, which picked up the top award for Higher Consciousness in the Scotch Ale category. Third Eye is no stranger to medals themselves, as the same beer has won multiple times at the US Open and the barrel-aged version just won at the Festival of Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beers.
Anderson’s Wandering Monsters earned a silver for their Viator Obscura: Triple Chocolate in the Chocolate Beer category. It’s the first World Beer Cup award for Wandering Monsters, but they’ve now won at the World Beer Cup, GABF, and US Open despite being open less than two years.
And also picking up a medal is Cincinnati’s second-most awarded beer in Crazy Train, as the Fretboard beer won once again in the Belgian-Style Ale or French-Style Ale category, this time taking home a bronze.
Overall, a total of eight Ohio breweries took home 11 awards this year. Joining the Cincinnati breweries were the likes of Middleburgh Heights’ Fat Head’s, Akron’s Eighty-Three, Kettering’s Eudora, and Fresno’s Wooly Pig Farm.