Episode 243 – GABF 2018

For our fifth straight year at the Great American Beer Festival, we drank all of the beers in Denver so you didn’t have to. This episode is our full recap of this year’s fest, including discussions on the medal winners, our favorite beers at the fest, the hazy IPA takeover, and our inability to navigate the new layout. We also have a bunch of interviews from the festival floor featuring brewers we admire and beer people we respect. And if that isn’t enough, we drink and review three Denver-area beers from our hotel room against the will of our exhausted bodies and brains. We share some good unsolicited advice we received, introduce Craig’s new workout buds, and get interrupted by the drunkest 22 year-old at the fest.

ABV Chicago Episode 234 – GABF 2018

Beers Reviewed

Declaration Brewing – Hardtack Copper

Outer Range Brewing Co. – Trail No. 4 (Quandary Peak)

Ursula Brewery – Imperial Crustless

Interviews from GABF 2018

James and Melissa Priest of The Referend Bier Blendery (Pennington, NJ) –  00:12:18 – 00:20:51

Tony Corder and Drew DeWees of Columbus Brewing Co. (Columbus, OH) – 00:25:39 – 00:32:45

Mike Donovan of The Oozlefinch Craft Brewery (Fort Monroe, VA) – 00:43:04 – 00:51:13

Jason Pellett of Orpheus Brewing (Atlanta, GA) – 00:56:42 – 01:04:30

Marty Nachel (author and beer judge) – 01:13:35 – 01:18:19

Blake Arrowood of Arrowood Farms (Accord, NY) – 01:29:15 – 01:34:39

Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey/Port Brewing Co./The Hop Concept (San Marcos, CA) – 01:40:31 – 01:45:54