Congratulations to Cory King of Side Project Brewing that nailed the number 8 spot in the Top 100 Brewers in the World category January 30th at the RateBeer Best Awards for 2015 held in Santa Rosa, California.
King and Side Project won with a summary score based on reviews during the past year. The summarization was based on ten different weight scales that included historical all-around performance, performance across styles, and other factors that allowed for a comparison of older and newer, larger, and smaller brewers using a single method of processing. The top ten winners were ordered by rank; the remaining 90 breweries, unordered in the list, included Perennial Artisan Ales. The winners came from a pool of 22,500 top-performing breweries listed at RateBeer.
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In the catergory for Best Beer, Best Brewer, and Best New Brewer in a Sub-region, three St. Louis breweries made a clean sweep for St. Louis in the Missouri Sub-region. Woot!
Best Beer: Barrel Aged Abraxas from Perennial Artisan Ales
Best Brewer: Side Project Brewing
Best New Brewer: Earthbound Beer
In the category of World’s Top 50 New Beer Releases (judged from a field of more than 60,000 beers), Side Project scored a hat trick with Derivation Blend #1, Framboise du Fermier, and Side Project Thicket.
Earlier this month, the City of Maplewood issued a conditional use permit to Cory King, greenlighting his plan to move Side Project Brewery to a free-standing building at 7458 Manchester, allowing increased production and availability of its oak barrel aged beers.
A well-timed expansion, indeed.
