GABF
2014 GABF Pour List Preview *UPDATED 9/26*
September 23, 2014 | Tristan Chan 1
The Great American Beer Festival has always meant so very much to us. We were granted credentials to the festival in our first year of existence, and since then we’ve vowed … Read More
2014 GABF Fantasy Brewery Draft (Live at 6pm MST)
September 21, 2014 | Tristan Chan
Live Blog 2014 GABF Fantasy Brewery Draft
It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally arrived at year two of the GABF Fantasy Brewery Draft! True to the nature of PorchDrinking, … Read More
GABF | DMV Takeaways
July 29, 2014 | Stacey Goers
This post was written in conjunction with Erin Russell (Petrey).
The DMV should be proud of its representation at the Great American Beer Festival this year. There will be 27 … Read More
2014 GABF Breweries in Attendance and Missing
July 29, 2014 | Tristan Chan 3
692 Breweries. 4 Sessions. 3 Days. Over 3,000 beers. Denver, CO. And so the stage has been set. Earlier this week, The Brewers Association released the lineup of breweries who … Read More
2014 Great American Beer Festival Tickets on Sale Tuesday
July 28, 2014 | Tristan Chan 2
Header image created by: Erin Horn
It is upon us. Take shelter. Boost your internet bandwidth. Update your ticketmaster information. Begin training your livers. 2014 Great American Beer Festival tickets go on pre-sale to AHA members at 10 a.m. MDT Tuesday, July 29.
General Public tickets are available to the general public on Wednesday morning, July 30 at 10 a.m. MDT. through Ticketmaster.
2013 GABF Fantasy Brewery Final Results
October 16, 2013 | Tristan Chan
Last week we introduced PorchDrinking.com’s Inaugural GABF Fantasy Brewery Draft. We assembled a tremendous collection of national and local writers who selected breweries and earned points from medals won by those breweries during the GABF awards ceremony which took place on Saturday. Here was the scoring guide we went by:
GABF A Prospectus
October 15, 2013 | Tristan Chan 2
What do New Glarus, The Bruery, Three Floyds, Sun King, Surly, Bells, Destihl, The Lost Abbey, Cigar City, Funky Buddha, and New Holland all have in common? Aside being a tremendous lineup of breweries in their own right, they also served as one of the most ridiculous 20 minute murderer’s row starts to a Great American Beer Festival I’ve ever encountered.
GABF Winners Announced
October 14, 2013 | Gabe Bellegard Bastos
Saturday we live tweeted the 2013 Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony where breweries were recognized by the Brewer’s Association for their accomplishments by style in this year’s competition. … Read More
2013 GABF Must Try Beer List
October 9, 2013 | Philip Joyce 1
From our extensive pour list, a few of our resident beer geeks have put their heads together to compile a list of “must-try” beers at GABF. These are beers that we have either tried ourselves and give the highest praise or are from breweries that we have come to know and love who’s beer intrigues us enough to hype it up! So here we go, make sure you taste your way through some of these beers at GABF, and if you manage to catch one of our staff at the same booth, be sure to throw up a high-five! Read More
2013 GABF Fantasy Brewery Draft Results
October 8, 2013 | Tristan Chan 5
2013 GABF Pour List – Full Regional Breakdown
October 7, 2013 | Tristan Chan
For the past month we’ve been calling and e-mailing breweries in order to provide you with a list of what your favorite breweries will be pouring at this weekend’s … Read More
2013 GABF Fantasy Brewery Live Draft
October 6, 2013 | Tristan Chan 1
Welcome to the 2013 PorchDrinking.com 2013 GABF Fantasy Brewery Live Draft.
A few details:
The draft will run very much like a fantasy football snake style draft, meaning that the last person to pick in … Read More
PorchDrinking.com 2013 GABF Events Guide
October 3, 2013 | Cory Pelc
For a little over a week each year, beer fanatics from across the globe descend on Denver, CO in honor of the Great American Beer Festival. They say the week’s … Read More
GABF App: There’s an app for that
September 25, 2013 | Cory Pelc
Finding your way around the festival will be a breeze
With 600 breweries and 3,000 beers at GABF (Great American Beer Festival for all of those folks that aren’t privy to the acronym lingo of the Brewer’s Association), it can be a little daunting to find what you’re looking for, or even decide where to begin. Who would have thought that sampling beer would be so difficult! No worries good friend, there is a delightful little app that will help you. And you can do it all with one hand!
GABF sells out in record time- Here’s how the BA can improve the process to bring access to more.
August 6, 2013 | Justin Hatfield
The Great American Beer Festival sold out this year in a record 23 minutes. If you were lucky enough to get tickets, then congratulations – you are holding a golden … Read More
2013 Great American Beer Festival Breweries Breakdown
July 30, 2013 | Tristan Chan 6
After several weeks of sifting through duplicate entries and moving breweries off the waiting list, the Brewers Association announced last night their full list of 2013 Great American Beer Festival breweries who will be attending the festival.
GABF Finds and Must Tries!
October 20, 2012 | Tristan Chan
One of the best things about attending GABF is the ability to try a ton of rare, completely off the wall or just hard to get beers. As such we’ve got some solid takeaways. If you happen to cross paths with these beers, you should probably jump at the chance to give them a taste. Read More
Great American Beer Festival General Recap
October 17, 2012 | Tristan Chan 1
The Great American Beer Festival is the closest thing to a real-life, adult version of that “kid in a candy shop” moment. Experiencing the full gambit of everything beer related that surrounds the festival culminated in one of the more amazing weeks I’ve ever experienced. Read More
Vine Street Pub and Brewery- Denver, CO
October 15, 2012 | Coit Stevenson 1
OK, I’ll admit it, I’m not a Colorado native. I came up for school at Colorado State from New Mexico and only moved down to the capital a little over a year ago. That means, like so many other migrant Coloradans, I’m still discovering all that the Mile High City has to offer, and it’s a lot. So many pubs, clubs, breweries, hangouts, bars and so much more that this self-proclaimed beer snob is sure that funds will dry up well before my thirst for something new does.
PorchDrinking.com -New Belgium Brewing Company GABF Booth Set Up
October 15, 2012 | Tristan Chan 1
Ever wonder what goes into setting up a major booth, or as the industry calls them, an endcap booth at the Great American Beer Festival? New Belgium Brewery out of Fort Collins, Colorado was nice enough to allow us to shadow their Thursday morning set up. We condensed that approximately two hour process into one and a half minutes. A big thanks to New Belgium Brewing!
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