2025 GABF Guided Routes | Spontaneous / Wild / Sour Beers to Try at GABF

The Great American Beer Festival returns THIS THURSDAY! 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, mixed-fermentation, sour beers and saisons include entries from major names like Allagash, Crooked Stave, Russian River, Sun King, The Bruery, The Lost Abbey, and Wicked Weed, to name a few. But also don’t sleep on a few under-the-radar picks from Peach Barn Farmhouse & Brewery, Strangebird, and Von Ebert. And of course, each year WeldWerks Brewing brings the weird with some sort of culinary-inspired Gose. This year, they’ve gone with a Gyro Gose, which we’re guessing will likely be paired with some sort of pita bite or falafel, so be sure to hit their booth early

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Allagash Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 2

• Curieux – 10.2% ABV

Antimony Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 4

• No Rules Hibiscus Plum Sour Ale

Barebottle Brewing – Score Section – Booth 5

• Double Mango Flossi – 8.1% ABV

BlackStack Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 6

• Uncut Jams – 5.3% ABV

Bow & Arrow Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 10

• Funksloth Rustic Farmhouse Ale- 6.3% ABV

Brewery Vivant – Score Section – Booth 58

• Farm Hand Rustic Farmhouse – 5% ABV

Crooked Stave Brewing Co. – Blast Off – Booth 7

• Nightmare on Brett – 9.666% ABV

Firestone Walker Brewery – Featured Brewery Booth 1

• Primal Elements – Pineapple POG – 6.0% ABV

Odell Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-6

• Sippin’ Pretty – 4.5% ABV

Original Pattern Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 42

• Renegade Lemonade – 5.9% ABV

Our Mutual Friend Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 44

• Weirding Way: Citra dry-hopped Brett Saison – 7.0% ABV

Peach Barn Farmhouse & Brewery – Chill Section – Booth 25

• Where Harry Met Sally: Farmhouse Ale – 4.5% ABV
• Silo Sisters: Peach Fruited Sour – 6.0% ABV

Phantom Farms Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 47

• Sacred Tree: Saison with Patagonian Pepper – 8% ABV

Ratio Beerworks – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-18

• King of Carrot Flowers: Carrot Elderflower Saison – 5.9% ABV
• Dear You: French Saison – 5.5% ABV

Russian River Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 57

• Damnation – 7.5% ABV
• Small Batch Intinction Sauvignon Blanc – 10.80% ABV

Second Chapter Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-21

• Good Beer-y Farm Sour with aronia berries – 4.6% ABV

Strange Craft Beer Company – Meet the Brewer – Booth D-4

• Cherry Kriek – 5.0% ABV

Strangebird – Blast Off Section – Booth 32

• Infinite Cosmos: Kettle sour wit brewed with pear puree, orange zest, coriander and ginger – 5.1% ABV
• Rode Vogel: Flanders Red – 6.8% ABV

Sun King Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 33

• Stupid Sexy Flanders – 6.5% ABV

The Bruery – Meet the Brewer – Booth D-7

• Mango Charm’d: Sour Rye Ale with Mango, Vegan Marshmallows, and Natural Flavors. – 8.1% ABV 

The Lost Abbey – Prost Section – Booth 67

• Carnevale – 8.5% ABV
• Duck Duck Gooze – 7.0% ABV

Timnath Beerwerks – Fright Section – Booth 42

• Catharina Sour w/ Cherry & Lime – 5.9% ABV

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

• Berry Patch Fandango: Kettle Sour with blueberry, mulberry & raspberry – 5.3% ABV

True Anomaly Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 39

• Small Giant: Grisette – 4.4% ABV

Une Année Brewery – Blast Off Section – Booth 40

• Le Grand Monde 2025-1: Wine Barrel Aged Wild Ale with Black Currant and Vanilla Beans – 7% ABV

Upslope Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 40 

• Upslope Blackberry Lemon Sour Ale – 4.5% ABV

Verboten North Brewpub- Prost Section – Booth 71

• Changes in Latitude- Mango Tajin Sour – 5.2% ABV 

Von Ebert Brewing – Score Section – Booth 50

• To Ellie with Love: Blended of foudre-aged mixed culture beers with Gewurztraminer and Riesling grapes  – 6.8% ABV

Wicked Weed Brewing – Featured Brewery – Booth D-1

• Serenity – 5.4% ABV
• Succession – 7.3% ABV
• Black Angel – 8.7% ABV
• Red Angel – 5.7% ABV

Woods Boss Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 42

• Bosque Loco: Blended Barrel-Aged Saison – 9.1% ABV

WeldWerks Brewing – Featured Brewer – Booth H-18

• Gyro Gose – 4.3% ABV