Duluth’s Ursa Minor Brewing won a bronze medal for its Equanimity Irish Style Red Ale at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver on Oct. 12. It’s the brewery’s second bronze medal at the festival; the first came in 2019 for Thistle Dew in the Scottish-Style Ale category.

Equanimity also won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2022 and another gold at the World Beer Cup in 2023.

Duluth and Superior breweries have collected 16 medals in the past 21 years at the Great American Beer Festival, including a run of six gold medals in six years from 2017 to 2022.

In total, the Brewers Association awarded 326 medals to 273 breweries and cideries across the United States at this year’s competition. A group of 285 beer experts evaluated 8,836 commercial beer entries.

Below is a full list of Great American Beer Festival winners from the Duluth area over the years.

Gold
2022 | Bent Paddle Brewing | Dunkel Lager | German Dark Lager category
2022 | Ursa Minor | Equanimity | Irish-Style Red Ale category
2020 | Hoops Brewing | Pineapple Chili | Chili Beer category
2019 | Earth Rider Brewery | Duluth Coffee Pale Ale | Coffee Beer category
2018 | Bent Paddle Brewing | Saison | Classic Saison category
2017 | Bent Paddle Brewing | 14° ESB | Extra Special Bitter category

Silver
2021 | Warrior Brewing | Barbarian | Imperial Stout category
2020 | Earth Rider Brewery | Royal Bohemian Pilsner | Kellerbier or Zwickelbier category
2020 | Earth Rider Brewery | North Tower Stout | Oatmeal Stout category
2015 | Bent Paddle Brewing | 14° ESB | Extra Special Bitter category
2015 | Fitger’s Brewhouse | Procrastination Dopplebock | German-style Dopplebock or Eisbock

Bronze
2024 | Ursa Minor | Equanimity | Irish-Style Red Ale category
2019 | Ursa Minor | Thistle Dew | Scottish-Style Ale category
2014 | Bent Paddle Brewing | 14° ESB | Extra Special Bitter category
2012 | Fitger’s Brewhouse | Fitger’s Framboise | American-Style Sour Ale category
2004 | Fitger’s Brewhouse | Farm House Reserve | French- and Belgian-Style Saison category

(Note: This story initially omitted results from 2022, which have now been added.)