TrimTab Brewing Co. is in the mood to celebrate.

Winner of the 2018 Birmingham Magazine "Best of Birmingham" award

for "Best Brewery," TrimTab is releasing its newest year-round beer this week as a thank you.

"205" takes it name - or number - from the original statewide area code for Alabama, still in use for the central part of the state. It is described as a "pale ale by style with a bright, citrusy, and easy-drinking flavor."

The beer will start being distributed across the state beginning this week. The beercan will feature the brewery's "Best Of" award, and will be the first sustained packaged beer release from the brewery this year.

The name was chosen in honor of the people of Alabama, Harris Stewart, TrimTab founder and CEO, said.

"Winning this award is incredibly special to our entire team," Stewart said. "Over the last four years we have grown from an unknown Birmingham company into now being considered its best brewery.

"For our home market to award us this is both humbling and rewarding to our team that has worked so hard to get to where we are. We aren't the oldest, we aren't the biggest, but we're proud to be called the best," Stewart said.

The award marks a year when TrimTab went full-tilt, having put out 32 different beer releases in bottles and cans, a number which includes everything from full

distribution releases to brewery-only availability.