2025 GABF Guided Routes | Best Lagers to Try at GABF

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 most prolific lager producers at the festival include Firestone Walker Brewing, Live Oak, The Austin Beer Garden Brewery, Russian River, Schilling Beer, pFriem, and Von Ebert Brewing. However, there are also several risers that shouldn’t be slept on, including Cohesion Brewing, which is pouring for the first time at GABF, Beer Street Brands’ rapid riser in Small Beer Lager, clocking in at a super sessionable 2.5% ABV,  Meanwhile Brewing and Odd Muse, Now we invite you to explore some of the crispiest Lagers that we know will be pouring at GABF.

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Best Lagers to Try at 2025 GABF

3 Floyds Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 2

• Munsterfest – 6.2% ABV

Avery Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 3

• Cold Front Bock-style Lager – 5.5% ABV

Beer Street Brands – Blast Off Section – Booth 49

• Small Beer Lager – 2.5% ABV

BlackStack Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 6

• Slopes Pilsner – 4.6% ABV

Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant – Prost Section – Booth 7

• Capital City Kolsch – 4.6% ABV
• Maibock – 6.8% ABV
• Munich Dunkles – 5.2% ABV
• Smokey the Beer – 5.8% ABV
• Blind Tiger Helles – 5.5% ABV

Boneyard Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 49

• Eloquent Profanity Pilsner – 5.6% ABV

Bow & Arrow Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 10

• Easy Cactus Dark Mexican Lager – 5% ABV

Branch & Bone Artisan Ales – Prost Section – Booth 9

• Gorlami Italian Pilsner- 5.5% ABV
• Microcastle German Pilsner- 5% ABV

Cohesion Brewing – Score Section – Booth 16

• ​​Cohesion 12° – 4.8% ABV
• Cohesion 10° – 3.7% ABV
• Cohesion Tmavé – 5.1% ABV

Creature Comforts Brewing – Score Section – Booth 18

• Classic City Lager – 4.2% ABV
• Bone Church Czech Amber Lager – 5.2% ABV

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

• Kirkland Lager – 4.6% ABV

Ex Novo Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 18

• 2024 Nevermore Black Barleywine – 11.7% ABV

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

• Alternate Present Dark Lager – 5.2% ABV

Firestone Walker Brewery – Featured Brewery Booth 1

• Pivo Pils – 5.3% ABV

Future Primitive Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 21

• pilsner – 5.4% ABV

Icicle Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 26

• Premium Pilsner – 4.9% ABV

Joyride Brewing – Score Section – Booth 26

• Ice Cutter Kölsch – 5.2% ABV

Lady Justice Brewing – Score Section – Booth 28

• Ski Jorts Pale Lager – 4.5% ABV

Lakefront Brewery – Meet the Brewer – Booth B-15

• My Turn Opis: Vienna Lager – 5% ABV

Live Oak Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 31

• Pilz – 4.7% ABV
• Pre-War Pils – 5.0% ABV
• Oaktoberfest – 5.8% ABV
• Grodziskie – 3.0% ABV

Meanwhile Brewing – Meet the Brewer – Booth B-22

• Pilsner – 4.8% ABV
• Helles – 4.9% ABV
• Oktoberfest – 5.9% ABV

Milieu Fermentation – Chill Section – Booth 21

• De Luz – 5% ABV

Moonlight Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 35

• Death & Taxes Black Lager – 5.3% ABV
• Reality Czeck-style Pilsner – 4.9% ABV

Morgan Territory Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 36

• The Cushman: Dortmunder Lager – 5.2% ABV

Narragansett Brewing Company – Blast Off Section – Booth 24

• Narragansett Lager – 5% ABV
• Narragansett Bohemian Pilsner – 5.5% ABV

New Terrain Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 23

• Rise and Climb – 5.4% ABV

Odd Muse Brewing – Chill Section – Booth 24

• 500 Pesos: Mexican Lager – 5% ABV

Odell Brewing Sloan’s Lake Brewhouse – Meet the Brewer – Booth C-8

• Perry St Pilsner – 5% ABV

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

• Della: Kolsch – 5.2% ABV

Original Pattern Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 42

• Yamagata: Japanese Rice Lager – 5.4% ABV

pFriem Family Brewers – Chill Section – Booth 26

• Pilsner – 4.9% ABV
• Pacific Coast Pilsner – 6.0% ABV
• Oktoberfest – 6.1% ABV
• Japanese Lager – 4.9% ABV

Pinthouse Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 48

• Cold Classic Series Pilsner – 5.3% ABV
• Riata West Coast Pilsner – 6.2% ABV

Radiant Beer Co. – Prost Section – Booth 51

• The Time is Right – Helles – 4.6% ABV

Russian River Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 57

• Russian River 110 – 5.2% ABV
• STS Pils – 5.35% ABV

Schilling Beer Co. – Prost Section – Booth 56

• Alexandr: Czech Pilsner – 5% ABV
• Wet-Hopped Hanse: Wet Hopped Keller Pils – 5% ABV
• Sudek 10˚: Tmavé Dark Lager – 3.9% ABV
• Jalowetz: Světlé Czech Pale Lager – 4.7% ABV

Seapine Brewing – Blast Off Section – Booth 29

• PILSNER – 5.5% ABV
• LIGHT LAGER – 4% ABV

Second Dawn Brewing – Fright Section – Booth 35

• Steel Horse: Italian Pilsner Dry-hopped with Saaz, Huell Melon and Barbe Rouge – 5.1% ABV
• Tijuana Champion: Mexican Lager – 4.5% ABV

Sierra Nevada – Featured Brewer – Booth BG 22

• PILs – 4.7% ABV
• Oktoberfest – 6.0% ABV

SKA Brewing – Featured Brewer – Booth H7

• Lime Logger with Salt – 5.0% ABV
• Mexican Logger – 5.0% ABV
• Ska Oktoberfest – 6.0% ABV
• West Coast Pilsner-Vera Hop beer – 6% ABV

Strangebird – Blast Off Section – Booth 32

• Bird Light Yuzu: American Lager with Yuzu – 4.5% ABV

The Austin Beer Garden Brewery – Prost Section – Booth 65

• Hell Yes: Helles – 4.9% ABV
• Industry Pils: German-style Pilsner – 5.0% ABV
• Rocket 100: Pre-Prohibition Lager – 5.5% ABV
• Velvet Revolution: Czech Pilsner – 5.5% ABV
• Lighten up, Francis: Schwarzbier – 5.5% ABV

Trap Door Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 69

• Birra Di Famiglia: Italian Pilsner – 5% ABV
• Fresh Hop Day Beer: Fresh Hop West Coast Pilsner – 5.8% ABV

Von Ebert Brewing – Score Section – Booth 50

• Pils – 5.0% ABV
• Clubhaus Lager – 4.0% ABV

Von Trapp Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 72

• Helles – 4.9% ABV
• Oktoberfest – 5.6% ABV
• Dunkel – 5.7% ABV

WestFax Brewing – Score Section – Booth 52

• Pillieve: Pilsner – 5.3% ABV
• Lager Series: Schwarzbier – 4.8% ABV

Wibby Brewing – Prost Section – Booth 76

• Lightshine Helles – 5.5% ABV
• Volksbier Vienna – 5.5% ABV
• Wibby Jibby – 6.5% ABV
• Moondoor Dunkel – 5.5% ABV
• Wibtoberfest – 5% ABV