Oregon craft beer’s prestigious Oregon Beer Awards were announced at another sold-out ceremony at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, April 4th 2024. This was the 9th annual Oregon Beer Awards, which started as a much smaller event first held at the Doug Fir Lounge before expanding into the double-blind judged competition that has inspired similar awards across the country with their high competition standards and gala awards show inspired by the Oscars.
The 2024 Oregon Beer Awards succeeded despite the ongoing challenges the industry is facing and record recent closures. In the 2024 OBA competition there were 1,088 entries from 124 breweries across the state, this was only a small decrease from the previous year which saw 1,113 entries from 126 brewing companies.
