Washington Brewery Wins International “Best in Show” Award Schooner Exact Brewing Company wins the COMAC AWARD for Best Beer in the competition with Hopvine IPA
Seattle, WA – Brussels Beer Challenge is an international beer competition. In its fourth year of competition, there were 75 judges and over 1,100 entries. American craft breweries won 57 awards, 7 Certificates of Excellence and Schooner EXACT Brewing took the COMAC AWARD of Best Beer in the competition for its Hopvine IPA. The COMAC AWARD is the second international recognition for Schooner EXACT; they received a silver and bronze medal for 3-GRID IPA and King Street Brown, respectively, at the International Beer Cup in 2014.
Hopvine IPA is brewed in a post-modern Northwest IPA fashion; the beer’s lightly-sweet malt base balances the Chinook and Columbus hops and huge late additions of Citra hops for flavor and aroma. Full of flavor, this beer is like drinking straight off the hopvine. Schooner EXACT is pleased to announce that after securing additional Citra hops, Hopvine IPA will transition from a seasonal IPA to a year-round offering.
Schooner EXACT Brewing Company began as a nanobrewery in 2007. Today the brewery brews on a 20 bbl system in the SODO neighborhood. Schooner EXACT produces over a dozen varieties of beer including seasonals, barrel-aged imperials, and sour ales. In addition to our on-site restaurant, our beer is available throughout the state of Washington, Oregon and is exported to Japan. The brewery itself is named for the first ship of non-indigenous settlers to arrive in Seattle’s harbor: the schooner EXACT carried the Denny party to Alki Point in late 1851.
