04/02/2026
Meet our professional judges: Dan Ryan and Kevin Collins
Kevin Collins: I have been in food and beverage for over 20 years. My passion is craft beer and supporting local beer. I am the General Manager at Barley's Kitchen + Tap and have been the beer director for almost 10 years. Collaborating with local breweries to bring exclusive beers to Barley's and it's craft enthusiast! Curating a wall with 99 beers from all around the world has been a passion and reward alike. I enjoy craft lagers, traditional American IPAs, Sours and imperial balanced stouts. I have enjoyed thousands of beers and traveled to a few hundred breweries over the years always looking for a new beer to enjoy.
Dan Ryan has been homebrewing for 28 years, and has won awards for his Porters, Stouts, and Belgian beers, and had one of his beers "scaled up" at the legendary 75th Street Brewery. He has traveled to Plzeň, Dublin and Brussels to visit renowned breweries, but believes that the most exciting beers in the world are being created by homebrewers. He is a Certified Beer Judge in the Beer Judge Certification Program, and long ago lost count of the contests he has judged in.
