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Local brewers brought their best to Jacktoberfest’s craft beer competition this year. Here’s who placed in each category:

IPA/American Ale


  1. Jonas Outlaw’s Left Coast Double IPA



  2. Craig Hendry’s Big DIPA



  3. Mason Meek’s MPA8



  4. Brad Justice’s RIP Ale


Lager/Hybrid


  1. Sandy Brasfield’s Darkness on the Edge of Town



  2. Nathan Harms’ Tale Horse Kolsch



  3. Nathan Harms’ Ida Red



  4. Nathan Harms’ Harmtoberfest


Stout Porter


  1. Nathan Harms’ Porter? I Barely Know Her!



  2. Craig Hendry’s Stout, and Then Some



  3. Thomas Crawford’s Little Hannah’s Voluptuous Porter


Wheat


  1. Jeremy Wickham’s Roggen Your Face Off



  2. Thomas Crawford’s Tesla Wheat



  3. Zeb O’Bryant’s Cottonfield D’Saisson



  4. Andrew Spiehler’s The Unthinkable


Miscellaneous


  1. Brad Justice’s Sinister Dark Ale



  2. David Komendanchik and Ashlyn Harmon’s Bourbon Barrel Chocolate Hazelnut Porter



  3. Nathan Harms’ Big Bad Leroy Brown



  4. David Komendanchik and Ashlyn Harmon’s Acadian Dark Ale


People’s Choice Winner

Fred Ezelle and Charles “Bo” McEuen