Over the weekend, the Brewers Association held its 30th Great American Beer Festival, bringing tens of thousands of craft beer lovers to Denver for a three-day tasting extravaganza. In addition to drinkers who came to have fun, a panel of professional beer judges came to the city and spent a week judging hundreds of entries in the annual beer competition.

When it was first held, in 1987, the competition had entries in just a dozen categories — this year there were 84, broken down further into 135 sub-genres. Winners were announced on Saturday morning, and there were quite a few local winners.

Troegs took home an amazing three golds, for Hopback Amber Ale in the American-Style Amber/Red Ale cagtegory, Sunshine Pils in the German-Style Pilsner group and DreamWeaver Wheat (South German-Style Hefeweizen). The Hershey, PA brewery was also awarded Mid-Sized Brewery and Brewer of the Year awards.

Silvers went to three area brewpubs: Dock Street for Dock Street/Thiriez Table Saison (Session Beer); Nodding Head for George’s Fault (Specialty Honey Beer); and Iron Hill Lancaster for Rauchtoberfest (Smoke Beer).

Snagging Bronze were Yards Brewing for Extra Special Ale (Extra Special Bitter); Dock Street for ABT 12 (Belgian-Style Abbey Ale); Nodding Head for George’s Phunk (Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer); Iron Hill Media for Russian Imperial Stout (Imperial Stout) and Iron Hill Phoenixville for Roggenbier (Rye Beer).

Check out a full list of this year’s winners (and past winners) here, and let us know, do you agree with the judges’ decisions? Who would you have picked to win?