The Great American Beer Festival is finally back! With the insane multitude of beers being served on the festival floor, it can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. So PorchDrinking is once again here to help you navigate that lineup and help with planning your route at the fest. As part of that research, we’ve sifted through every beer pouring at this year’s fest to curate a series of themed routes to help you plan for your GABF based on various styles and flavors.

This year’s brightest producers of spontaneous, wild, sour beers, as well as mixed fermentation saisons include Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Russian River, Firestone Walker, and Dogfish Head to name a few.

 

2024 GABF Routes: Select a routeLagersHoppy BeersBarrel-Aged / High ABVSpontaneous / Wild / SourFruit-Forward / Cider / NA Beer

 

Now we invite you to check out some of the can’t miss spontaneous, wild, mixed-culture, sour beers and Saisons pouring at this year’s fest.

Spontaneous / Wild / Mixed Fermentation / Sour Beers to Try at GABF

Allagash Brewing – Booth C-8

• Curieux – 10.2% ABV

Almanac Beer Company – Booth C-9

• Strawberry Sunshine & Opportunities – 5.6% ABV

Antimony Brewing – Lee, MA – Booth E-6

• No Rules Plum Gose – 4.9% ABV

Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Heavy Metal

• Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale

cova Brewing – Booth C-28

• Aloha State of Mind: passionfruit and hibiscus gose – 5.0% ABV

Dogfish Head – Booth I-1

• SeaQuench Ale – 4.9% ABV
• Le Rouge: Belgian-style Saison fermented with raspberries and Montmorency cherries & a mixed-culture Golden Ale aged 3 years in French oak wine barrels – 7.5% ABV

Explorer Brewing – J-244

• The Booster: Mixed Fermentation Farmhouse Ale – 6.1% ABV

Firestone Walker Brewing – Booth H-10

• Primal Elements Pink Guava – 6.0% ABV
• Framboise – 5.7% ABV

Hailstorm Brewing – Booth J-36

• Key Lime Forklift Training: Pastry sour with key lime, graham cracker, vanilla and milk sugar – 8% ABV

The Lost Abbey Brewing – Booth C-65

• Peach Afternoon: French Oak-aged sour with Masumoto Peaches and Peach tea – 7.0% ABV
• Ghosts in the Forest: Foeder-aged Brett Blonde Ale – 6% ABV

Maplewood Brewing – Booth A-39

• Softcore Mutation: Tropical Foeder – American Oak Foeder Ale – 5.5% ABV

milieu fermentation – Booth C-53

• Smol: Barrel Aged Mixed Culture Table Beer – 2.7% ABV

Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery – Booth B-7

• Spanish Holiday Sangria Sour – 5.2% ABV

Odell Brewing – Booth G-7

• Friek – 5% ABV

Odell Brewing – Booth G-7

• La Vie En Gose – 5% ABV

Our Mutual Friend Brewing – Booth C-57

• Biere Ovale: Mixed-culture, foeder-aged Saison – 4.7% ABV

Pure Project – Booth C-62

• Mount Eden: Oak barrel-aged Saison featuring kiwis and quince along with Nelson Sauvin Cryo hops – 6.9% ABV

Russian River Brewing (Santa Rosa) – Booth C-84

• Intinction – Petite Sirah: Wild Ale aged in Sirah Barrels with Petite Sirah Grapes – 10.15% ABV

Russian River Brewing (Windsor) – Booth C-85

• Supplication: Brown ale aged in Pinot Noir wine barrels for one year with sour cherries – 7.75% ABV

Something Brewery – Booth C-72

• Top of the Muffin To Ya: Blue Muffin Cream Kettle Sour – 7% ABV

Strange Craft Beer – Booth H-8

• Cherry Kriek – 5% ABV

Strangebird Beer – Booth A-59

• Rode Vogel: Flanders Red – 6.5% ABV

Sun King Brewery – Booth B-17

• Cherry Busey: Flanders-style Red – 6.9% ABV

Timnath Beerwerks – Booth A-62

• Catharina Sour – 5.9% ABV

Trap Door Brewing – Booth D-73

• UNTITLED #8 – 6.7% ABV

True Anomaly – Booth D-74

• Small Giant: Grissette – 4.4% ABV

Une Année Brewery – Booth B-19

• Framboise – 6.5% ABV
• Le Grand Monde 2024-2: Barrel Aged American Wild Ale – 7% ABV
• Le Grand Mond 2024-4: Barrel Aged American Wild Ale – 7% ABV

Upslope Brewing – Booth 2568

• Upslope Open Space Terroir Project: Wild Ale – 5.8% ABV

Urban South Brewery – Booth B-20

• Lime Cucumber Gose – 4.2% ABV
• Blue and Bean: Barrel-Aged Sour with Coffee and Blueberry puree – 6% ABV

Von Ebert Brewing – Booth D-63

• Alma: Oak-aged farmhouse ale with brettanomyces & organic peaches – 6.2% ABV

Voodoo Brewing – Booth H-16

• Lacto Kooler: Fruited Berliner Weisse – 5.5% ABV

Wynkoop Brewing – Booth 52

• Triple Play Fruited Sour – 5.2% ABV
• jolie petite pêche – 5% ABV

WeldWerks Brewing – Booth H-1

• Soy Sauce Barrel Aged Sushi Gose – 6.5% ABV
• Bamm Bamm Rubble Rubble: NOW WITH RAINBOW SHERBET! – 5.2% ABV

Wicked Weed Brewing – Booth FC2

• Pernicious – 7.3% ABV
• Black Angel – 8.7% ABV
• Red Angel – 5.7% ABV
• White Angel – 8.1% ABV

---

Can't visit the site everyday like us? Bummer! No worries, we've got you covered. Submit your email below to receive our monthlyish newsletter on reviews, tours, events and more!

Email address:

Leave this field empty if you're human: