Stoker’s Brewing Company in Tamaqua has done it again.

The microbrewery on Mauch Chunk Street came home with two awards from the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show, marking Stoker’s fourth year of consecutive wins.

You might say that Stoker’s brewmaster and owner Doug Drost was “stoked” to accept the awards from Cheryl Cook, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

“I would like to thank both the PA Farm Show and Brewers of Pennsylvania organizations,” Drost said. “But I would especially like to thank our awesome loyal customers who make all of this possible.”

Stoker’s Kindling Kwad — named “Best in Show” last year — received a second place award in the Belgian beer category, and its Myrtille Wild Blueberry Lambic took home a bronze in the Sour and Wild Beers category.

It’s the first win for the Myrtille.

“Growing up in the Coal Region of northeastern Pennsylvania, picking wild blueberries — aka ‘huckleberries’ or ‘swampers’— in the summertime was a common thing for my family to do,” Drost explained.

He noted that “Myrtille” is the French word for blueberry, and the brew is a complex, fruity and pleasantly sour wild ale with a distinctive countryside barnyard character.

“It’s open-fermented with a variety of native Belgian microbiota, and patiently aged in our cellar for many months. It is then re-fermented and aged for several more months over a bed of hand-picked, Pennsylvania Coal Region wild ‘huckleberries,’” Drost said.

As for the Kindling Kwad, which also took home a first place ribbon for Belgian style beer at the 2024 farm show, it is brewed with dark Belgian candi sugars and ingredients sourced directly from Belgium.

“Kindling Kwad was inspired by a poem I wrote and published in 2020 entitled ‘Kindling’— or at 11.0% ABV, perhaps the beer was the inspiration for the poem?,” Drost quipped.

Kindling Kwad is available year round at Stoker’s Brewery, both on draft and in 750 milliliter bottles.

But because of the lengthy brewing and fermentation process, along with the limited production capabilities of Stoker’s brewery, Drost said Myrtille is only available on tap during the summertime months.

“To everything there is a season, I suppose. But that’s what makes Myrtille so special too,” he said.