From the Denver Post:
Yester announced Tuesday he is returning the silver medal he won at last month’s Festival of Barrel and Wood-Aged Beers in Chicago after discovering it went to a beer that did not meet category guidelines.
Trinity received a silver medal in the fest’s Wild/Brett category for Easy Swinger, a low-alcohol wild IPA brewed with Brettanomyces yeast and aged in French oak chardonnay barrels. The only problem: that was not the beer Trinity shipped. Yester said the brewery mistaken sent Swing Se Pliser, a beer based on the same IPA recipe but brewed only with Lactobacillus, without a hint of Brett.
The whole turn of events stings Yester because the whole point of the series of beers at issue was to demonstrate the differences between beers brewed with Brett, which brings funkiness, and Lacto, which brings acidity. To mark its sixth anniversary this year, Trinity released six interpretations of its Swingline IPA, including Brett-only, Lacto-only, a beer with both and another with neither.
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