The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is the premier U.S. beer festival and competition, serving more than 2,400 different beers, in one-ounce tasting portions, from over 450 U.S. breweries to the event’s 49,000-plus attendees. GABF brings together the brewers and beers that make the U.S. the world’s greatest brewing nation. This event showcases the diverse beers that make craft brewing one of the fastest-growing segments of the beer, wine and spirits industry.

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The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is the premier U.S. beer festival and competition, serving more than 2,400 different beers, in one-ounce tasting portions, from over 450 U.S. breweries to the event’s 49,000-plus attendees. GABF brings together the brewers and beers that make the U.S. the world’s greatest brewing nation. This event showcases the diverse beers that make craft brewing one of the fastest-growing segments of the beer, wine and spirits industry.

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The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is the premier U.S. beer festival and competition, serving more than 2,400 different beers, in one-ounce tasting portions, from over 450 U.S. breweries to the event’s 49,000-plus attendees. GABF brings together the brewers and beers that make the U.S. the world’s greatest brewing nation. This event showcases the diverse beers that make craft brewing one of the fastest-growing segments of the beer, wine and spirits industry.

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Well known around Portland, OR for his Examiner poll declaring Asheville, North Carolina as “BeerCity USA” for three consecutive years, American Brewers Association president Dr. Charlie Papazian admits to fixing the results. As it turns out, Papazian was originally drawn to the ten brewery NC town in 1985, shortly after writing the popular The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, due to a secretive love affair with beer cocktails.

You see, not only is Asheville the birthplace of craft beer, it also happens to be that of the increasingly popular beer cocktail. Despite some initially harsh words on Twitter discounting the idea of such mixology, Papazian Read More…

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This Sunday, April 1, 2012 Breakside Brewery and local ice cream maker Salt & Straw will be sharing the last of their collaboration projects in a charity event at Breakside’s NE Portland Pub. The ‘ice cream beer social’ will feature beer floats made with Breakside’s Salted Caramel Sweet Stout and Salt & Straw’s Bailey’s with Irish Stout ice cream. The two foodstuffs are both collaborations between Breakside brewmaster Ben Edmunds and Salt & Straw churnmaster Tyler Malek. Malek based the recipe for the ice cream on Breakside’s award winning Dry Stout and used the same malted and roasted barleys that the brewery uses in the beer. For the sweet stout, Edmunds blended a traditional export stout with a salted caramel syrup based on Salt & Straw’s sea salt with caramel ribbon ice cream. Read More…

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A silver medal for Breakside’s classic Irish-style Dry Stout at GABF, and some exciting upcoming seasonals on the horizon. Go Breakside, keep up the great work. Here’s the info from their press release:

Breakside Brewery (820 NE Dekum) recently claimed a silver medal for its classic Irish-style Dry Stout at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival competition, the largest national beer competition recognizing the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The top three winners in the competition’s 83 beer-style categories were announced October 1 at the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. Read More…

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Here’s a complete list of 2011 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) winners from Oregon:

Silver – Session Black Full Sail Brewing Co. OR American-Style Dark Lager 2011

Bronze- Legacy Lager Silver Moon Brewing OR American-Style or International-Style Pilsener 2011

Bronze - Ching Ching Bend Brewing Co. OR American-Style Sour Ale 2011

Bronze - Disorder Stout Barley Brown’s Brew Pub OR American-Style Stout 2011

Silver Shredders Wheat Barley Brown’s Brew Pub OR American-Style Wheat Beer 2011

Silver - MacTarnahan’s Amber Ale MacTarnahan’s OR Classic English-Style Pale Ale 2011

Silver - Breakside Dry Stout Breakside Brewery OR Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout 2011

Bronze - Down ‘n’ Dirty IPA Deschutes Brewery OR English-Style India Pale Ale 2011

Gold - Dark Side Stout Silver Moon Brewing OR Foreign-Style Stout 2011

Bronze Organic Deranger Laurelwood Brewing Co. OR Imperial Red Ale 2011

Bronze Radiant Ninkasi Brewing Co. OR International-Style Pale Ale 2011

Gold - Smoke Ale Rogue Ales OR Smoke Beer 2011

Gold - Hazelnut Brown Nectar Rogue Ales OR Specialty Beer 2011

Bronze - Pinot Jubel Deschutes Brewery OR Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer 2011

Gold - Bourbon Murder Deschutes Brewery OR Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Stout 2011

…and, here’s the list of winners from Washington:

Bronze - Brave American American Brewing Co. WA American-Style Brown Ale 2011

Gold - Leavenworth Boulder Bend Dunkelweizen Fish Brewing Co. WA American-Style Wheat Beer With Yeast 2011

Bronze - Leavenworth Whistling Pig Hefeweizen Fish Brewing Co. WA American-Style Wheat Beer With Yeast 2011

Gold - Clear Creek Pale Ale Silver City Brewery WA Classic English-Style Pale Ale 2011

Bronze - Prime Time Pale Ale Big Time Brewery WA Classic English-Style Pale Ale 2011

Silver - Chuckanut Dunkel Chuckanut Brewery WA European-Style Dunkel 2011

Bronze - Chuckanut Alt Chuckanut Brewery WA German-Style Altbier 2011

Gold - Chuckanut Kolsch Chuckanut Brewery WA German-Style Kölsch 2011

Gold - Blonde Ram Restaurant & Brewery – Seattle WA Golden or Blonde Ale 2011

Gold - Chuckanut Helles Chuckanut Brewery WA Munich-Style Helles 2011

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Back again at Great American Beer Festival, day two. So many beers to try and so little time. It’s shaping up to be one of the best brew festivals of all times, unquestionably.

Before we got things started, we rolled west to Boulder, Colorado to one of the best breweries of all time – Avery. Last year we visited Avery during the first annual Beer Bloggers Conference and were instantly amazed. Even before visiting the actual brewery, we have held their brews in high esteem.

Avery, like Great Divide, packs in a ton of great beer into a relatively small facility. Located in an unassuming industrial park, the tap lineup at Avery is staggering. The front bar features more than Read More…

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Day two in Denver brought the opening day of the Great American Beer Festival and the first of four sessions occurring throughout the extended weekend. After getting our media credentials and before heading into the fest at 5:00PM, we settled in across from the Colorado Convention Center at Row 14 (on 14th Avenue) where we enjoyed the tapping of a handful of fresh hopped seasonals. Unique fresh hop favorites of the day included Crabtree Chunkin Pumpkin and Breckenridge Palisade Peach Wheat. Other tasty fresh hop brews pouring were from jockeyboxes such as the grubbin’ Steamworks Colorado Proud Pale. Left over from an earlier event were the beers of Bull & Bush like their Hop Carl session IPA and Captain Midnight Black Saison.

As soon as 5:00PM came, we Read More…

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