A Birmingham brewery brought home a national honor at this year's Great American Beer Festival.

The Brewers Association presents the competition each year, and it's the largest commercial beer competition in the world. TrimTab Brewery is the only Alabama Brewery to win a prize this year.

The TrimTab Paradise Now took home the bronze prize in the Fruit Wheat Beer category. Minnesota and Illinois breweries took home the top honors in this category, for which there was 90 entries total.

"This has really been what we're striving for: to make the best beer we can and be competitive on a national level, even if we're just focused on the regional level for now," Owner Harris Stewart said.

Paradise Now began as a seasonal beer at TrimTab, but the brewery added it as a core offering after sales blew up. The team began selling it in cans last year, and it quickly became its best seller, even being recognized as the second-highest of any new craft seasonal brand.

"(Paradise Now) means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. This beer has been something that has broadened people's horizon's in a couple of different directions. Some people don't think they like sour beers, but finds this one a little more approachable, or for people who don't think they like beer at all. We've got some wine drinkers who love it," Stewart said. "It's broken a lot of barriers and boundaries for a lot of people, in terms of what people preconceive to be their preferences."