See the 4 Cincinnati breweries won medals at the 2018 World Beer Cup

Mallorie Sullivan | Cincinnati Enquirer

Show Caption Hide Caption Taft's Brewing Company taking shape in Spring Grove Village The owners of Taft's Ale House are gearing up to open Taft's Brewing Company, which will feature a tap room and pizza restaurant. The brewery is already producing beer on site.

Moozie. Gustav. Vlad the Impaler. 10&2 Barleywine.

No, these aren't names of Kentucky Derby horses.

Rather, they're names of the beers that fetched medals for Brink Brewing Company, Taft's Ale House, Fretboard Brewing Company and Fifty West Brewing Company this week at the biannual World Beer Cup Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.

Three of the beers (Fifty West's 10&2, a barleywine-style ale; Fretboard's Vlad, an international-style pilsener; and Taft's Gustav, a Vienna-style lager) won silver. Brink's Moozie, a sweet stout or cream stout, took home bronze.

The beers were among 8,000-plus entries from 66 countries evaluated over three days, according to the association. Only 302 of those beers won awards, 242 of them being from the United States. Canada was second with 14, and Germany had nine.

The four Cincinnati breweries learned of their wins Thursday and quickly took to social media to celebrate.

2017 US Open: Gold

2017 GABF: Gold

2018 World Beer Cup: Bronze



DAMN PROUD pic.twitter.com/uG97rq6ILB — BrinkBrewing (@BrinkBrewing) May 4, 2018

Two of the winning entries — Fifty West's 10&2 and Taft's Gustav — also recently won gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival. Brink also won a gold medal during that festival, but with a different beer: Hold the Reins, an English-style India pale ale.

They weren't the only big winners from Ohio, or even from the Tristate.

Here are the other familiar names that placed this year:

Gold

• Fat Head's Brewery (North Olmstead, Ohio): AlpenGlow, a South German-style Weizenbock

• Upland Brewing Company (Bloomington, Indiana): Raspberry, an American-style sour

Silver

• Bier Brewery (Indianapolis): Pumpkin beer

• Fat Head's Brewery: Midnight Moonlight, an American-style black ale

Bronze

• Columbus Brewing Company (Columbus, Ohio): TBD Peach Sour, a mixed-culture Brett beer

• Little Fish Brewing Company (Athens, Ohio): Petit Poisson, a wood- and barrel-aged sour beer

• Millersburg Brewing Company (Millersburg, Ohio): Pope's Imperial Pumpkin Ale, a pumpkin beer

• Platform Beer Company (Cleveland, Ohio): Panic Switch, a rye beer

• West Sixth Brewing Company (Lexington, Kentucky): Pennyrile Pale Ale, an American-style pale ale

To see the full list of winners, click or tap here.