The tri-county region's breweries came home from the 2022 Great American Beer Festival in Denver with gold medals in five different categories and a handful of silver and bronze medals, too. The Great American Beer Festival is one of the world's top beer competitions, and the 2022 edition ended Oct. 8. Seven breweries based in the Tri-Counties won medals, three of them winning two each. Wild Fields Brewhouse in Atascadero was the biggest winner, with two gold medals. Both were for relatively malty beers, at a time when California microbrews are still generally hop-heavy: Its Pine Mountain Monolith won gold in the English-Style Brown Ale category, and its Magic Swirling Sip was the festival's best in the Scottish-Style Ale category.

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