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Each year, Mile High Beer Festival attendees vote on their favorite beers! Check out the winners from the 2025 event below.
Meet the Judges
I’m the Colorado Beer Hunter, on the hunt to have a beer in every brewery in Colorado. My love for great beer started in Germany and continued when I returned home. I’m a Cicerone Certified Beer Server working on becoming a Certified Cicerone. I love supporting local beer and so far I’ve visited over 350 Colorado breweries.
Aron Beatty is one of the leaders of the popular beer drinking club, Colorado Beer Hounds. He is a proud Denver native and third generation Colorado native. He especially loves long walks in the park, the best local craft beers and Denver sunsets.
Dev is a 19-year veteran of the craft beer industry and was the second woman (and 28th person overall) to become an Advanced Cicerone. She is a BJCP judge who has judged local, regional, national, and international beer competitions and travels extensively for judging, education, and the joy of tasting beer. She is one of a handful of people who has visited every brewery in Colorado and has visited almost 1,200 breweries overall. She is currently studying in hopes of becoming one of the first 50 people in the world to earn the title of Master Cicerone.
2025 Winners
Judges' Choice
Best IPA: WeldWerks Juicy Bits
Best Lager: Black Sky Brewing 666
Best Sour: Wiley Roots Brewing Blueberry Cheesecake
Best Wheat: Blue Moon Kristal Moon
Best Stout/Porter: Deschutes Black Butte
Best Cider: 2 Towns Bright Cider
Best Seasonal: Tightknit BBA Barleywine
Best NA: Ceria Belgian White
Best Innovative: Atrevida Basil Leaf Blonde
People's Choice
Best IPA
1st place: Voodoo Brewing Lil Vibes IPA
2nd place: TightKnit Brewing Co Hop Phantom West Coast IPA
3rd place: A Bit Twisted CIA Hazy IPA
Best Lager
1st place: Cohesion 12 Pale Lager
2nd place: Bambei Brewing Ass in the Sand Mexican Lager
3rd place: Wibby Brewing Sakusaku Japanese Rice Lager
Best Sour
1st place: Elizabeth Brewing Shadowberry
2nd Place: Voodoo Brewing Lacto Kooler Sour
3rd place: Wiley Roots Brewing Blueberry Cheesecake County Fair Cobbler
Best Wheat
1st place: Blue Moon Kristal Moon
2nd place: WeldWerks Brewing Hefeweizen
3rd place: Satire Brewing Monkey Spank Wheat
Best Stout/Porter
1st place: Voodoo Mint Cowbell Stout
2nd place: Crabtree Brewing Frambozen Raspberry Brown Ale
3rd place: Prost Brewing Dunkel German-Style Dark Lager
Best Cider
1st place: Waldschanke Prickly Pear Punch
2nd place: 2 Towns Ciderhouse Apricot Cosmic Crisp Imperial Sour
3rd place: 2 Towns Ciderhouse Pacific Pineapple
Best Seasonal
1st place: Wiley Roots Blueberry Cheesecake
2nd place: Strange Craft Beer Company Cherry Kriek
3rd place: TightKnit Brewing Number B Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
Best NA
1st place: Best Day Brewing Electro Lime Cerveza
2nd place: Gruvi Golden Era
3rd place: Best Day Brewing Kolsch
Best Innovative Beer
1st place: A Bit Twisted Vanilla Cheesecake
2nd place: MeadKrieger Oak Barrel Aged Mead
3rd place: Wibby Brewing Lightshine Radler
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