Lakefront Brewery’s Growing Power Ale Honored at 6th Annual Good Food Awards
Lakefront Brewery was one of 14 breweries recognized at the event.
SAN FRANCISCO (January 16, 2016) – For the fourth straight year, Lakefront Brewery has garnered a Good Food Award. This year’s winning product, Growing Power Farmhouse Pale Ale, is a Belgian-style beer made with organic barley and organic hops. Its recipe was developed in collaboration with Growing Power, Inc., a Milwaukee-based non-profit that provides sustainable vegetables and protein for inner city residents and advocates for sustainable farming and food production. Growing Power receives a portion of the proceeds from sales of the new brew.
Lakefront Brewery was one of 14 breweries recognized at the event, held Friday at Herbst Pavilion in San Francisco. Now in its 6th year, the Good Food Awards honors food/drink producers and the farmers whose products are judged to be authentic, responsibly produced and good tasting. Speaking on behalf of all brewery category award winners, Lakefront President Russ Klisch and Growing Power CEO Will Allen discussed their 15-year relationship and the importance of delivering locally-sourced, sustainably-produced products that consumers enjoy.
“These days, brewers need to do more than just make great beer. I believe every brewer has a duty to be socially responsible and promote sustainability,” said Lakefront Brewery President Russ Klisch. “The Good Food Awards recognizes brewers – and other food producers – that combine good products and good practice. I’m honored to win this award.”
Nearly 2,000 foods/drinks were entered across 13 categories for the Good Food Awards in 2016. A blind tasting panel of 203 judges chose winners in September 2015. Following a rigorous vetting process to ensure that sustainability and social responsibility criteria were met, 263 finalists were announced in November.
Lakefront’s Growing Power Farmhouse Pale Ale is a Belgian-American hybrid that features organic Cascade, Centennial and Calypso hops, as well as clove esters and spicy phenols. Citrus and clove greet the palate first, with organic caramel and Munich malt rounding out the flavors, adding balanced sweetness and a medium mouthfeel.
In the 1970’s, Will Allen played pro-basketball in Belgium for three years. When he learned that Russ Klisch and Lakefront Brewery wanted to partner on a beer that promoted sustainability and also had a Belgian component, it just added to the excitement. Will Allen commented that “the partnership between Growing Power and Lakefront Brewery is an example of how two organizations can work together to foster sustainability and develop good products to not only the local community, but throughout the world.”
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