Wicked Warren’s Kitchen Manager Misty Sandagata places a beer cheese pizza in a wood-fired brick pizza oven. Sandagata’s creation is one of 13 finalists in the JTM Beer Cheese Throwdown. P-J photo by Michael Zabrodsky

WARREN, Pa. — When Misty Sandagata was notified, she was as surprised to find out that her beer cheese pizza recipe was a finalist.

Because it’s a national contest, she didn’t give any more thought to her recipe entry, and went about her usual routine.

But then the news came.

Wicked Warren’s Beer Cheese Pizza was chosen as one of 13 finalists in the JTM Beer Cheese Throwdown.