2025 GABF Guided Routes | Hoppy Beers to Try at GABF

The Great American Beer Festival is finally upon us. With the sheer magnitude 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 heaviest hitter hop producers include Comrade Brewing, Three Floyds, Dogfish Head, Ghost Town Brewing, Firestone Walker, Pinthouse, Radiant Beer, Russian River, Sierra Nevada, Toppling Goliath, and WeldWerks Brewing. Other can’t-miss hop producers flying a bit more under the radar include Phantom Farms, Trap Door Brewing, Cannonball Creek, milieu fermentation, and Wren House.  Hop heads unite for these dank, piney, citrus, hazy, and hoppy beers.

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3 Floyds Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 2

• Zombie Dust – 6.5% ABV
• Permanent Funeral – 10.5% ABV

3 Sons Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 1

• Dopealicious: Hazy IPA – 7.2% ABV

Avery Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 3

• Hog Hell: Imperial Red IPA – 8.7% ABV

Bird Creek Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 4

• Lamborghini Truck: Hazy IPA – 6.5% ABV

BlackStack Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 6

• Local 755 Hazy IPA – 6.8% ABV
• DIPA – 8.4% ABV

Boneyard Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 49

• RPM – 6.5% ABV
• Notorious Triple IPA – 11.5% ABV
• Holy Bones West Coast IPA – 6.66% ABV

Bootstrap Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 9 

• Insane Rush – 7.6% ABV
• Wreak Havoc – 8.5% ABV – Heavy Medal Section

Bow & Arrow Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 10

• Scenic West Hazy IPA – 6.5% ABV

Breakside Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 10

• Breakside Fresh Hop Wanderlust – 6.5% ABV
• Breakside Freshmen XV – 6.3% ABV

Cannonball Creek Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 12

• Trump Hands: Session IPA – 4.6% ABV
• Featherweight: Pale Ale – 5.6% ABV
• Project Apha – 6.8% ABV

Comrade Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 13

• Superpower IPA – 7.3% ABV
• Honeyman IPA – 6.2% ABV
• Dankonomics – 6.7% ABV

Creature Comforts Brewing – Score Section – Booth 18

• Tropicalia – 6.6% ABV
• Flash Cat – 8.0% ABV

Danico Brewing Company – Meet the Brewer – Booth A-16

• Pacific Tendencies: West Coast IPA with Nectaron & Strata hops and a dash of Citra – 7.2% ABV

Deschutes Brewery – Meet the Brewer Section – Booth A-5

• Fresh Squeezed IPA – 6.4% ABV
• Fresh Haze IPA – 6.5% ABV
• General Juiciness – 6.8% ABV
• Fresh Hop Centennial IPA – 7% ABV
• Fresh Hop King Crispy – 4.9% ABV
• Nectar Trip – 5.3% ABV
• Enchanted Trellis – 6.5% ABV

Dogfish Head – Booth D-13

• 30 Minute Light IPA – 4% ABV
• 60 Minute IPA – 6% ABV
• 75 Minute IPA – 7.5% ABV
• 90 Minute IPA – 9% ABV
• 120 Minute IPA – 20% ABV

Fat Heads Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 19

• Head Hunter IPA – 7.5% ABV
• Hop JuJu – 9.0% ABV
• Bone Head – 9.0% ABV – Heavy Medal Section

Fiction Beer Co. – Meet the Brewer Section – Booth A-24

• Madame Psychosis Hazy IPA – 7.2% ABV

Firestone Walker Brewery – Featured Brewery Booth 1

• Firestone IPA – 6.5% ABV
• Diesel Thunder West Coast IPA – 8.8% ABV
• Mind Haze – 6.7% ABV

Fort George Brewery – Score Section – Booth 25

• Vortex IPA – 7.2% ABV
• City of Dreams Hazy Pale Ale – 5.5% ABV
• Mirrored Realities West Coast IPA – 7% ABV

Full Frame Beer – Blast Off Section – Booth 10

• Obscura: Australian Pale Ale – 5.4% ABV
• Waka: New Zealand Pale Ale – 5.7% ABV

Future Primitive Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 21 T

• hunderpussy Hazy IPA – 6.9% ABV

Ghost Town Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 16

• Nose Goblin: Imperial IPA with Strata, Nelson, Mosaic hops – 9.2% ABV
• Pale Horse: West Coast IPA with Nelson and Mosaic hops – 6.8% ABV
• Slow Cure: Fresh Hop IPA with Citra – 7% ABV

Icicle Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 26

• Alpenhaze: Hazy IPA – 6.3% ABV
• Dragontail: West Coast IPA – 6.7% ABV

La Cumbre Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 28

• Elevated IPA – 7.2% ABV
• Project Dank – 7.5% ABV

Lawson’s Finest Liquids – Featured Brewer – Booth S-9

• Double Sunshine – 8% ABV
• Sip of Sunshine – 8% ABV
• Freestyle IPA – 6.8% ABV
• Little Sip IPA – 6.2% ABV
• Hop Wired – 7% ABV

Maplewood Brewery & Distillery – Fright Section – Booth 27

• Melting Mosaic IPA – 7% ABV

Meanwhile Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth B-22

• Secret Beach – 6.2% ABV – Heavy Medal Section

Melvin Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 31

• Melvin New IPA – 7% ABV
• Melvin IPA – 7.5%% ABV
• 2×4 – 9.9%% ABV

Milieu Fermentation – Chill Section – Booth 21

• Be Dope. Vera – 7% ABV
• Lil’ Dope. – 5% ABV

Monolith Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 22

• Masamune West Coast IPA – 6% ABV

More Brewing Company – Score Section – Booth 37

• Morever: Hazy IPA with Citra, Motueka, & Simcoe hops – 6.5% ABV

Odd Muse Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 24

• Silver Spaceship: Hazy IPA with Citra and Mosaic hops – 6.9% ABV

Odell Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-6

• Odell IPA – 7.0% ABV

Odyssey Beerwerks – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-9

• Ghost Drifter Pale Ale – 5.5% ABV
• Clarity Kills IPA – 6.5% ABV

Old Irving Brewing Co. – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-11

• Beezer: Citra & Mosaic hopped Hazy IPA – 6.9% ABV

Original Pattern Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 42

• Throw Us a Bone: American IPA with Simcoe 702, Simcoe, Mosaic, NZ Nectaron, and Columbus Cryo – 7% ABV

Our Mutual Friend Breiwng – Prost Section – Booth 44

• Stingray Jesus: West Coast IPA with Riwaka, Strata and Centennial hops – 7.5% ABV
• Inner Light: Pale Ale w/ Mosaic, Cryo Mosaic and Amarillo hops – 6.5% ABV

Pax Verum Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 25

• Velvety Krush: Session IPA – 5.3% ABV
• Nectar of the Night: Black IPA – 9.2% ABV
• Tremendously Chill: Cold IPA – 7.0% ABV

Peticolas Brewing Company – Score Section – Booth 41

• Sit Down or I’ll Sit you Down: Imperial IPA – 10% ABV
• Velvet Hammer: Imperial Red Ale – 9% ABV

Phantom Farms Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 47

• Elegant Viking: Hazy IPA Dry-Hopped with Nectaron, Strata, Galaxy – 6.8% ABV
• Cooper’s Dream – Red IPA – 6.7% ABV
• Warp & Weft: Black IPA – 7% ABV

Pinthouse Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 48

• Electric Jellyfish Hazy IPA – 6.5% ABV
• Fresh Drops Fresh Hop IPA – 6.7% ABV
• Mosaic Takedown DDH West Coast IPA – 7.2% ABV

Pizza Port Brewing – Featured Brewer – Booth BY-5

• Ultimate Rush: American IPA – 7% ABV

Radiant Beer Co. – Prost Section – Booth 51

• Make it Count – TDH WC DIPA – 8.7% ABV
• The Speed of Now – Fresh Hop IPA – 6.5% ABV
• Wall of Color – Hazy IPA – 6.8% ABV

Russian River Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 57

• Pliny the Ellder – 8.0% ABV
• Simcoe 25 – 7.0% ABV
• Hop Grower Tribute Series (Mac Hops) – 6.5% ABV
• DDH Pliny the Elder – 8.0% ABV – Booth 58
• Row 2 / Hill 56 (Simcoe Pale Ale) – 5.40% ABV – Booth 58
• Docta-Ron: New Zealand IPA – 7.0% ABV – Booth 58

Sam Adams – Featured Brewer – Booth SA-1

• Samuel Adams Just the Haze – .26% ABV

Second Dawn Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 35

• West Coast IPA – 7.0% ABV

Sierra Nevada – Featured Brewer – Booth BG 22

• Pale Ale – 5.6% ABV
• Hazy Little Thing – 6.7% ABV
• Celebration Ale – 6.8% ABV
• Northern Hemisphere Harvest Wet Hop IPA – 6.7% ABV
• West Ghost IPA – 7.2% ABV

StormBreaker Brewing – Score Section – Booth 47

• Extra StormBreaker: English Pale Ale – 5.8% ABV
• Triple Double: Imperial IPA with Mosaic, Citra, and Amarillo hops – 8.5% ABV
• Fresh Hop Oregon IPA – 6.4% ABV

Strangebird – Blast Off Section – Booth 32

• Unfettered Soul: Hazy Imperial IPA dry-hopped with Mosaic and Australian Galaxy – 7.5% ABV

Toppling Goliath Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth D-10

• DDH Pseudo Sue – 5.8% ABV
• King Sue – 8.2% ABV
• Cyber Sue – 7.2% ABV

Trap Door Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 69

• Trap Door IPA – 6.5% ABV
• Glowed Up: Double Dry-Hopped Hazy IPA with Citra, Simcoe, and Amarillo hops – 6.8% ABV
• Fresher than Fresh: Fresh Hop IPA – 7% ABV

Upslope Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 40

• Upslope Hop-Boosted IPA – 6.6% ABV

Von Ebert Brewing – Score Section – Booth 50

• Volatile Substance – 6.9% ABV
• Tiki Twist New Zealand IPA – 6.6% ABV
• Poetic Alchemy: American IPA with terpenes – 6.9% ABV

WeldWerks Brewing – Featured Brewer – Booth H-18

• Juicy Bits – 6.7% ABV
• Extra Extra Broccoli: Hazy Double IPA – 8.3% ABV

WestFax Brewing – Score Section – Booth 52

• Urban Lumberjack IPA – 6.5% ABV
• Western Lumberjack IPA – 6.8% ABV

Wren House Brewing Company – Blast Off Section – Booth 48

• Spellbinder: Hazy IPA – 6.9% ABV
• Wrenovation: American IPA – 6.5% ABV