Judge Luther

Here’s a bit of a follow up to the post I had the other day about Gary Luther, the former brewmaster for Miller who hails from Oshkosh. 

The story below (click the image to enlarge it) is from 1993 when Luther was a judge at the Great American Beer Festival. I suspect he is the only Oshkosh native to ever have judged at the GABF (if anyone knows otherwise, I’d love to hear about it). 

After reading that I went looking through the GABF medal winners of 1993 and got hit with a wave of nostalgia. The list is filled with beers like Berghoff Dark, Liberty Ale from Anchor, Downtown Brown from Lost Coast, Burning River Pale Ale from Great Lakes, Old Crustacean from Rogue, and of course Point Special which won bronze in 1993 in the American Premium Lager category. Go Point!