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Great American Beer Festival 2014

September 6, 2014 by Ryan Steadman

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The Great American Beer Festival is the supreme craft beer festival in the country. The average attendee has access to over 3,500 beers from 700 breweries across the nation, and 49,000 people come to Denver, CO to experience at least one session of the 3 day festival.

Lately the festival is receiving some complaints of becoming too busy, being overrun with “frat boys” just trying to get drunk, and problems with ticketing because the tickets sell out in less than half an hour. Despite some complaints, GABF is still a tremendously well-run festival, especially considering the logistics of bringing so many people and craft beer options to a large convention center in the middle of the country.

The line wraps around the building an hour before the doors open, but you won’t have to wait for more than 20 minutes after people are allowed in. While very popular beers may draw a crowd or run out early, you can still sample many beers from different breweries without waiting in long lines. In fact, except for some prize winning beers that need to be sampled, I highly recommend that you make a point to visit breweries that you have never heard of, in a place of the country that you are unlikely to visit in the near future. One of the main points of GABF is to try beers from places you haven’t been to before, talk with the brewmasters that make them, and learn a little insight from their experience and how their region can influence the beers they make.

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Coloradans are very spoiled by the local craft beer scene. We have over 200 breweries in our state, and 39 Colorado beers took home awards this year. Here is the list of 2014 Colorado GABF winners, sorted by medal:

Medal Beer Name Brewery Name Beer Style
(GABF Category)
Gold Colorado Native Amber Lager AC Golden American-Style Amber Lager
Gold Black IPA Cannonball Creek Brewing Co. American-Style Black Ale
Gold The Weasel CB & Potts Restaurant & Brewery – Highlands Ranch Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest
Gold ‘Rado’s Red Ale Crow Hop Brewing Co. Irish-Style Red Ale
Gold Laimas Kolsch FATE Brewing Co. German-Style Kolsch
Gold Raspberry Provincial Funkwerks Belgian-Style Fruit Beer
Gold Golden Export Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Munich-Style Helles
Gold True Blonde Ale Ska Brewing Co. English-Style Summer Ale
Gold Face Down Brown Telluride Brewing Co. American-Style Brown Ale
Gold Jean-Claude Van Blond Wit’s End Brewing Co. Belgian-Style Blonde Ale or Pale Ale
Silver Colorado Native Golden Lager AC Golden American-Style Amber Lager
Silver The Kaiser Avery Brewing Co. German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock
Silver Glutart Bonfire Brewing Gluten-Free Beer
Silver Loch BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats Scotch Ale
Silver Sleepyhead Passion Fruit Coda Brewing Co. American-Style Fruit Beer
Silver Fresh Hop Superpower IPA Comrade Brewing Co. Fresh or Wet Hop Ale
Silver Coors Light Coors Brewing Co. American-Style Lager or Light Lager
Silver Braggarts Brown Ale Diebolt Brewing Co. American-Style Brown Ale
Silver Shaft House Stout Dostal Alley Brewpub & Casino Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout
Silver Black Jack Porter Left Hand Brewing Co. Brown Porter
Silver Smokejumper Smoked Imperial Porter Left Hand Brewing Co. Smoke Beer
Silver Milk Stout Left Hand Brewing Co. Sweet Stout or Cream Stout
Silver Patio Pounding Pilz LowDown Brewery + Kitchen Bohemian-Style Pilsener
Silver Death By Coconut Oskar Blues Brewery Chocolate Beer
Silver Peachy Peach Pagosa Brewing & Grill Fruit Wheat Beer
Silver Gumps Platt Park Brewing Co. Vienna-Style Lager
Silver 3 Pepper Ale Rock Bottom Breweries Field Beer
Silver Howdy Beer The Post Brewing Co. American-Style or International-Style Pilsener
Bronze Blue Moon Honey Grand Cru Blue Moon Brewing Co. Specialty Honey Beer
Bronze Coors Banquet Coors Brewing Co. American-Style Lager or Light Lager
Bronze Apricot Dry Dock Brewing Co. – North Dock American-Style Fruit Beer
Bronze S.S. Minnow Mild Ale Dry Dock Brewing Co. – South Dock English-Style Mild Ale
Bronze Black Project #1 Former Future Brewing Co. Experimental Beer
Bronze Liberation Gluten Free Shine Brewing Co. Gluten-Free Beer
Bronze Colorado Cream Ale Station 26 Brewing Co. American-Style Cream Ale
Bronze Backside Stout Steamworks Brewing Co. Oatmeal Stout
Bronze Move Back The Sandlot Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest
Bronze Elektrick Cukumbahh Trinity Brewing Co. Field Beer
Bronze Upslope Brown Ale Upslope Brewing Co. American-Style Brown Ale

If you haven’t been to GABF, you must go at least once in your lifetime. The 2015 GABF is scheduled for September 24-26, 2015 and they are reportedly adding 90,000 square feet (another hall) worth of space. Whether or not this will also open up more tickets is yet to be seen. However, until you are fortunate enough to get tickets, there are so many breweries and festivals in our state to visit. The festival season may be over, but there are always new beers to try and new breweries opening every month. We will continue in our mission to provide accurate information about all of Colorado’s breweries, to help you explore the immense diversity of beers our state has to offer.

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