They’ve claimed 24 of the 282 awards given out at this year’s Great American Beer Festival, which took place Thursday through Saturday of last week.

The winners were chosen from 6,647 entries from 1,552 breweries.

A total of 15 breweries, large and small, from the Santa Barbara area through the Inland Empire were awarded.

Head over the jump to see the list.

Gold

Bottle Logic Brewing, Anaheim

• Lagerithm (American-Style Dark Lager)
• Cobaltic Porter (Baltic-Style Porter)

Figueroa Mountain Brewing, Santa Barbara

• Stearns Stout (Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout)

Garage Brewing Co. & Pizzeria, Temecula

• Bucket Seat Blonde (Munich-Style Helles)

Pabst Brewing Co., Los Angeles

• Rainier Lager (American-Style Cream Ale)

Ritual Brewing Co., Redlands

• Big Deluxe (Aged Beer)
• Fat Hog (Barley Wine-Style Ale)

TAPS Fish House & Brewery, Corona

• The Velvet Hog (Chocolate Beer)
• TAPS Irish Red (Irish-Style Red Ale)

Silver

Beachwood BBQ & Brewing, Long Beach

• Mocha Machine (Coffee Beer)

Firestone Walker Barrelworks, Buellton

• Feral One (Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale)

Heroes Restaurant and Brewery, Riverside

• Boxcar Blonde Ale (Golden or Blonde Ale)

Karl Strauss Brewing Co., Costa Mesa

• Singularity (American-Style Black Ale)

Pabst Brewing Co., Los Angeles

• Olympia (American-Style Cream Ale)

Smog City Brewing Co., Torrance

• Kumquat Saison (Belgian-Style Fruit Beer)

TAPS Fish House & Brewery, Brea

• TAPS Kellerbier (Kellerbier or Zwickelbier)
  

Bronze

Aftershock Brewing Co., Temecula

• Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Ale (Herb and Spice Beer)

Dale Bros. Brewery, Upland

• Nuff (American-Style Cream Ale)

Firestone Walker Barrelworks, Buellton

• Sour Opal (Wood- and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer)

Institution Ale Co., Camarillo

• Restraint (American-Style Brown Ale)

Noble Ale Works, Anaheim

• Nose Candy (Session India Pale Ale)

TAPS Fish House & Brewery, Brea

• Amend This! (American-Style or International-Style Pilsener)

In addition, TAPS Fish House & Brewery in Corona took home a win for Mid-Size Brewpub and Mid-Size Brewpub Brewer of the Year and Pabst Brewing Co. (Los Angeles) won for Large Brewing Company and Large Brewing Company Brewer of the Year.

Cheers to all the winners!

For a searchable list of all the GABF winners, click here.

Would you rather be consumed by zombies or cannibals?

Since the end result really isn’t all the desirable for the victim, the answer obviously would be: neither. However, if a person is up for offering an either/or answer, the better option might be the cannibals. After all, zombies just unceremoniously rip apart and devour victims raw — no thought put in at all for a zesty table presentation. Cannibals, or at least the ones featured in “The Green Inferno,” do take time to prepare their entrees so that the victim can go out with style and taste.

Zombies have overshadowed cannibals in recent years, although cannibalism became elegant and cerebral in the hands (and mouth) of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Still, good old gory cannibal movies seemed to have lost their way.

Well, leave it Eli Roth to set them on the right path again.

Roth, an actor, writer and director, has built a reputation through his “Cabin Fever” and “Hostel” for for not holding back in his explicit depictions of horrendous violence. While some have claimed his “The Green Inferno” may not be as horrifying as Ruggero Deodato’s “Cannibal Holocaust” (1980), it is definitely an homage to the genre and delivers on the blood and guts that hard core horror fans demand.

It takes a while before “The Green Inferno” gets into the crunch time (sorry), as the first half of the film is devoted to building the story and developing the characters.

The featured character is Justine (Lorenza Izzo, who despite all that director Roth put her through in this movie married him anyway last November), a college freshman who finds herself drawn into the campus activism. She is particularly attracted to Alejandro (Ariel Levy), a charismatic activist, and joins his group as it plans a risky protest in Peru.

The group is targeting developers who are bulldozing through the rain forest in the Amazon, not only killing vegetation but also threatening to exterminate a tribe that has been living in the forest for thousands of years. The activists have no weapons but are armed with mobile devices to record any possible violence and make sure any ugly incidents go viral.

So there is the usual build-up to this, along with an opportunity to inject some personality into the characters.

During the protest, Justine learns that the romanticism of activism can be easily crushed by brutal reality, not to mention cynicism by the people pulling the strings. But her troubles — along with everyone else’s — are just beginning.

Flying out of the Amazon after the protest that ends with them all of being rounded up and put back on their plane, the rickety aircraft crashes, and one can immediately sense that those who died in the crash were the lucky ones.

Traumatized by the crash, the survivors soon find themselves surrounded by members of a primitive tribe in which all but the top two leaders are wearing a red body paint. Tied up and taken to the village, where they are caged, the activists soon get an explicit preview of what is in for them.

Those familiar with Roth’s style will not be surprised at the brutal scene in which the first activist is prepared as a meal. It is cringe-inducing.

Roth does not pour it on with showing other victims as they are sliced and diced and set to be oven-baked. Instead he focuses on the dehumanization of the activists, whose interaction among themselves reveal the serious flaws in character.

The unnerving aspect of “The Green Inferno” is that the tribe members are not really evil. They simply are a product of their culture. They go about their bloody business with a serene sense of community. Ultimately, Justine is the only one of the prisoners able to make any connection with some of the villagers.

A wonderful aspect of Roth’s movies is that you cannot be assured there will be a happy ending or a chance at redemption. Justine appears to be The Final Girl, but given what Roth likes to do in his films, there is no guarantee of her survival.

An Eli Roth movie is not one for the mass audience. Even fans of horror movies have to really be engaged in viewing brutal and terrifying violence. Roth dares you to watch and and not squirm in your seat. One wonders, however, if Roth is deliberately slow in getting to the gore in his movies in order to allow people in the audience a chance to finish eating their popcorn before the blood and guts become the main attraction.

Both breweries won silver medals at the 27th annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver with Smog picking up an honor for its Kumquat Saison in the Belgian-style Fruit Beer category and Beachwood for its Mocha Machine, a 9.2 percent ABV Porter.

The GABF medal was old hat for Beachwood BBQ, which has won 10 medals since 2012, but this was only Smog’s second in its young existence.

Incidentally, you can taste the saison for yourself Saturday when Smog releases it in limited bottles and on draft at its Del Amo Boulevard tasting room.

After six years in a cozy, but cramped Telo Avenue industrial space, original Torrance production brewery Strand Brewing will shut down Sunday and move to larger quarters in Old Torrance.

A soft opening should come next week with a grand opening set for next month in what is a huge space — there’s room for two rows of 10 picnic tables — that will accommodate a canning line, special events and the like.

Falling Leaf — a bourbon barrel-aged version of the brewery’s pumpkin-and-spice infused Gourdgeous imperial porter — was first released last year. Hangar is also releasing a Falling Leaf variant made with added cacao nibs, vanilla, chipotle and arbol chiles: The Mexican Cacao Edition.

That’s not the only twist, however.

For this release, the brewery is requiring customers to purchase the limited-edition brews online beforehand. On Saturday — and only on Saturday — the beers can be picked up at the tasting room.

On one hand, this is a good thing. No more getting up early on a Saturday and standing in line in the 100° heat to purchase your bottles, hoping to get to the front of the line before they sell out.

On the other hand, it’s a bad thing. If, for whatever reason, you can’t make it to the brewery on Saturday to pick up your bottles, you’ve just thrown away your money. And at $20 (Falling Leaf) and $25 (Falling Leaf Mexican Cacao Edition) per bottle, that’s not chump change. However, if you realize in advance that you won’t be able to make it to the tasting room on Saturday, at check-out, you can designate someone to do pick up your purchase.

If any bottles remain from the pre-sale, they will be available for sale beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

A limited amount of the beers will be available on tap at the brewery beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Also on the schedule for Saturday: The release of the brewery’s Wet Hop IPA and a set from the blues band 60 Grit beginning at 7 p.m.

Falling Leaf and Falling Leaf Mexican Cacao Edition are available now. To purchase, click here.

For more information, click here.

Hangar 24 Craft Brewery is at 1710 Sessums Drive in Redlands.

At the time, brewery co-founder Ed Parker noted that he had hoped to open the tasting room in about a year.

Well, he wasn’t that far off.

The tasting room is set to open today (September 25).

Brew Rebellion’s San Bernardino location is at 195 N. Leland Norton Way, across the parking lot from the Norton Air Force Base Museum, in the spot that was once the Hangar Inn Cafe.

The brewery’s original location at 13444 California St. in Yucaipa will remain open, with both locations open 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and Monday, noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.

BTW: bottles of seasonal powerhouse brew Power Plant, released last weekend, are still available at El Segundo Brewing Co.

Upland’s Dale Bros. Brewery is celebrating the beginning of the 500th batch of its award-winning, flagship lager, Pomona Queen, with an all-day (noon to 9 p.m.) celebration today (September 15).

The celebration will include food (Corazon Azul will serve three-cheese quesadillas and Pomona Queen-marinated steak tacos starting at 5 p.m.), dessert (the Suite 106 Cupcakery truck arrives at 5 p.m.) a performance by Claremont Voodoo Society (whose song gave the beer its name) at 6 p.m., and special keepsake glasses.

Congratulations to Curt, Andy and the rest of the black sheep!

If so, you’ll want to head to The Pub at Chino Hills on Thursday (September 17) for the eatery’s Firestone Dinner.

Attendees will enjoy a four-course pairing dinner, with each course featuring culinary delights such as beer-braised lamb belly and beer-infused panna cotta paired with select Firestone beers.

Cost is $49 per person.

The Pub at Chino Hills is at 5771 Pine Ave., Suite A. For information, call 909-597-2224.

We’ve been waiting patiently for the brewery to get all the necessary approvals in order to finally open its doors.

Well, that day has come…the brewery opens today (September 11).

Current tasting room hours will be 3 to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 1 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday.

Old Stump is at 2896 Metropolitan Place.