BJ's Restaurants Adds to Its 150 Handcrafted Beer Awards With Two Gold Medal Wins at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival
October 05 2015 - 6:00PM
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) today announced that it
received gold medals for two of the Company's proprietary craft
beers at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver,
Colorado. Each year, GABF brings together brewers and diverse beers
that make the U.S. the world's greatest brewing nation. It
represents the largest collection of U.S. beer served in a public
tasting event.
The winning beers are:
- BJ's Magnolia's Peach®, which won in the Fruit Wheat Beer
category
- BJ's LightSwitch® Lager, which won in the Session Beer
category
This year's competition was the largest to date, with 6,647 beer
entries judged in 92 categories. Only 91 gold medals were awarded.
These two awards bring BJ's gold medal count at the GABF to 16 and
total GABF medals to 32 since first participating in this
prestigious festival in 1996. To date, BJ's has won over 150 medals
at various festivals and competitions since it opened its first
brewery location back in 1996 in Brea, California.
"The medal-winning BJ's LightSwitch® Lager was brewed in our new
Temple, Texas brewery," said Alex Puchner, BJ's Senior Vice
President of Brewery Operations. "We couldn't be more proud of our
Temple brewing team for earning gold at their first Great American
Beer Festival. Our second gold medal was for BJ's Magnolia's Peach®
which was brewed at our Chandler, Arizona brewery, where we have
quite a track record of brewing award-winning beers. With the
addition of our two newest GABF gold medals, I am more confident
than ever in our ability to create unique, handcrafted beers for
guests to enjoy in our restaurants. We appreciate the opportunity
to participate at the GABF each year and look forward to delighting
our guests with award-winning beers like BJ's Magnolia's Peach® and
BJ's LightSwitch® Lager."
BJ's has been committed to formulating and serving
award-winning, carefully crafted beers since 1996. We believe that
high-quality beer can make the world a better place. BJ's
Magnolia's Peach® is a seasonal beer that will be back on tap in
spring 2016. BJ's LightSwitch® Lager is part of our signature
lineup and is on tap year round.
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. currently owns and operates 169 casual
dining restaurants under the BJ's Restaurant & Brewery®, BJ's
Restaurant & Brewhouse®, BJ's Pizza & Grill® and BJ's
Grill® brand names. BJ's Restaurants offer an innovative and broad
menu featuring award-winning, signature deep dish pizza
complemented with generously portioned salads, appetizers,
sandwiches, soups, pastas, entrees and desserts, including the
Pizookie® dessert. The Company operates several microbrewery
restaurants in addition to using independent third-party brewers to
produce and distribute BJ's critically acclaimed craft beers. The
Company's restaurants are located in the 22 states of Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and
Washington. Visit BJ's Restaurants, Inc. on the Web at
http://www.bjsrestaurants.com.
Certain statements in the preceding paragraphs and all other
statements that are not purely historical constitute
"forward-looking" statements for purposes of the Securities Act of
1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. The
"forward-looking" statements contained in this press release are
based on current assumptions and expectations and BJ's Restaurants,
Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or alter its
"forward-looking" statements whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. Investors are referred to
the full discussion of risks and uncertainties associated with
forward-looking statements contained in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent
reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K.
For further information, please contact Greg Levin of BJ's
Restaurants, Inc. at (714) 500-2400 or JCIR at (212) 835-8500 or at
bjri@jcir.com.
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