The Great American Beer Festival is nearly upon us! And as we always do, each year at PorchDrinking, we’re here to help you navigate the vast lineup of beers to help with planning your route at the fest. As part of that research, we’ve sifted through every beer pouring at this year’s event to bring you a series of themed routes to help you plan for your GABF based on various styles and flavors.

To ease into the week, we thought we’d start with the most intriguing crispy bois, Marzens, Session IPAs, table beers, and general crushers that we know will be pouring at GABF. Because after drinking barrel-aged Stouts and enamel stripping Sours you’re going to need a palate cleanser. Also while not every single one of these are under 5% ABV like the technical definition of a session beer, they’re pretty dang close and they’re all sessionable in mindset. Stay tuned as we’ll be bringing you more guided routes throughout the week.
 

2022 GABF Routes: Select a routeLagers & Session BeersChocolate BeersHoppy Beers

 
Special thanks to our friends at On Tap Credit Union for their support this year to make this GABF Coverage Possible!

Lager & Session Beers Route

21st Amendment 

• El Sully – Mexican Lager

Abnormal Beer Co.

• Karasu – Schwarzbier Collab w/ Eppig

Altstadt Brewery

• Altstadt Lager
• Alstadt Pils
• Oktoberfest

Anchor Brewing

• Crisp Pilsner

Beachwood Brewing

• Pairs Well With Pizza

Cannonball Creek Brewing 

• Cannonball Lite – American Light Lager
• Trump Hands – Session IPA

Chuckanut Brewery

• Kolsch – 2021 GABF Gold
• Pilsner
• Helles
• Dunkel
• Chuck Light

Community Beer Works

• Let’s Go Pils

Dogfish Head 

• Un’Ora – Continually-hopped Italian-style pilsner brewed with flint corn polenta, dry-hopped with Spalt & Tettnanger

Figueroa Mountain 

• I Dunkeled In My Pants – Munich Dunkel
• Danish Red Lager – 2021 GABF Silver Vienna-style Lager

Firestone Walker & Russian River 

• STiVO – Keller style Pilsner Collab – The ultimate collaboration pairing two of the most iconic nationally recognized Pilsners in Firestone Walker’s Pivo Pils & Russian River’s STS Pils 

Fritz Family Brewers

• Cuckoo for Kolsch
• Czech Yourself Pilsner
• Twice is Nice Pilsner

Gravely 

• Sprockets 

Howdy Beer

• Howdy Beer -Western Pilsner

Joyride Brewing

• Ice Cutter Kölsch – 2022 World Beer Cup Gold for German-style Koelsch

Live Oak Brewing 

• Pre-War Pils
• Grodziskie
• Oaktoberfest
• Pilz

Living Waters Brewing

• Sieg – Kolsch
• Triberg – German-style Pilsner

Moontown Brewing

• 40th Parallel – 2021 GABF Bronze for Bohemian-style Pilsner
• Moonlite – 2020 GABF Gold – American Cream Ale

Morgan Territory Brewing

• The Cushman – 2021 GABF Gold Munich Helles Lager
• Metalmark Marzen

Narragansett 

• Bohemian Pilsner

Odell Brewing 

• Five Points Pilsner

Pollyanna Brewing

• Pollyanna Pils
• Lite Thinking

Port City Brewing

• Downright Pilsner
• Oktoberfest

Ratio Beerworks

• Lucky Lighter – Kolsch

Real Ale 

• Oktoberfest

Russian River Brewing

• STS Pils

Seedstock Brewery

• Seedstock Munich Helles

The Austin Beer Garden Brewery 

• Rocket 1000 – Pilsner
• Industry – German Pilsner

Tucker Brewing

• Tucker Lager – 2021 GABF Gold Light Lager
• TKR Pilsner

Von Ebert Brewing

• Pils
• Helles

Wayfinder Beer

• Hell – Helles

Wren House Brewing

• Kellerbier
• Little Spill Pils

 

2022 GABF Routes: Select a routeLagers & Session BeersChocolate BeersHoppy Beers

 
Special thanks to our friends at On Tap Credit Union for their support this year to make this GABF coverage possible!

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