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, and saisons include Crooked Stave, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Perennial, Russian River, The Bruery, and The Lost Abbey to name a few. A few things to note, don’t sleep on some absolute bangers being poured in the United in Beer (State Guild), Heavy Medal, and Collab/Pro-Am sections, as there are beers/breweries that aren’t available anywhere else at the fest including some super hype breweries. 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.

 

2023 GABF Routes: Select a routeLager RouteHoppy Beers RouteBarrel-Aged/High ABV RouteSour/Wild/Saison RouteChocolate Beers RouteNon-Alcoholic Beers Route

 

Spontaneous/Wild/Sour/Saisons to Try at GABF

Barebottle Brewing – Booth 14-8

• The Unsinkable Tartanic

Buried Acorn – Booth 6-4

• Ghoster Blanc – wine barrel-aged mixed fermentation golden ale
• Vincent – Barrel-aged dark sour single variety beer/wine hybrid

Crooked Stave – Booth 1-20

• Spon
• Nightmare on Brett

Destihl Brewery – Booth 11-17

• Wild Sour Series: Dragonfruit Mango

Dogfish Head – Booth 11-11

• SeaQuench Ale
• Bendy Parts – Kombucha Tea Sour Ale

Fieldwork Brewing – Booth 15-2

• Guardians Of A Loveless Isle Sour Ale with Passionfruit and Kumquats aged in Oak Barrels

Great Divide Brewing – Booth 2-5

• Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Ale 

GhostHawk Brewing – Booth 6-7

• Saison d’Automne – Belgian Saison with

Maplewood Brewing – Booth 10-9

• Softcore Mutation – Flanders Red

Modern Times Beer – Booth 15-17

• Fruitlands Sangria Fruited Gose

Narrow Path Brewing – Booth 10-5

• Prickly Pear Gose

Nebraska Brewing – Booth 9-7

• Peach Around

New Belgium + Oud Beersel – Collab / Pro-Am (Saturday Day Session Only)

• Transatlantique Kriek 

Our Mutual Friend Brewery – Booth 3-7

• Bier Ovale Mixed Culture Saison
• The Consul Mixed Culture Sour with Apricot

Perennial Artisan Ales – Booth 7-23

• Saison de Lis 
• Poolside Breeze – Berliner with hibiscus, passionfruit, mango, lemongrass, orange peel and rose

Ratio Beerworks – Booth 3-15

• King of Carrot Flowers – Carrot Elderflower Saison

Right Proper Brewing – Booth 11-8

• Ornithology Foeder Aged Grisette
• Foveal Vision Foeder Aged Farmhouse with Fruit

Rowley Farmhouse Ales – United in Beer New Mexico Guild (Saturday Session Only)

• Germophile Berliner

Russian River Brewing – Booth 17-5

• Small Batch- Intinction Sauvignon Blanc
• Peach Beer
• Jannemie Brett finished Saison

Snake River Brewing – Booth 3-24

• Le Serpent Framboise

Strange Craft Beer – Booth 12-5

• Cherry Kriek

Sun King Brewing – Booth 10-19

• Cherry Busey Flanders Red

Sun King + 18th Street Brewery – Collab / Pro-Am (Thursday Only)

• Up for Anything -Specialty Saison fermented with Belgian Saison yeast aged in previously held wild beer barrel with chamomile

The Bruery – Booth 12-4

• Terreux Bae Oak Barrel-Aged Imperial Sour Ale with ube, coconut, and vanilla

The Lost Abbey – Booth 15-1

• Duck Duck Gooze 2022
• Peach Afternoon – French Oak-aged Sour with Masumoto Peaches and Peach Tea

Wild Fields Brewhouse – Booth 17-22

• Past Concepts Lambic-style

 

2023 GABF Routes: Select a routeLager RouteHoppy Beers RouteBarrel-Aged/High ABV RouteSour/Wild/Saison RouteChocolate Beers RouteNon-Alcoholic Beers Route

 

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