Tag: GABF

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Where is everybody?

That’s right. The beer world has converged on Denver, Colorado for a massive amount of beer, people, breweries, events and fun. And why is the Search Party not there?

Well, dear reader, I had to make a choice. GABF now or the 1st Beer Bloggers conference (again in Colorado, this time Boulder). I chose the latter because I hope that interacting with the blogging world and learning more tech-ese will allow me to improve how I convey to you why I love the world of craft beer and why you should love it too.

In the meantime, the place to go to get your GABF fix when you can’t be in Denver is right here FoodGPS. Celebrator columnist Tomm Carroll is covering the action and you will learn all you will need to know.

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new from the HUB

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Hopworks Ace of Spades (Gold Medal winner in the Imperial IPA category at the 2009 Great American Beer Festival) was released in bottles on April 13th at the awesome Belmont Station.

The label says, “This hopped out beast had Amarillo, Cascade and Centennial hops, added at every point; mash tun, first wort, kettle, and dry hop. All the green goodness results in a beer with a huge citrus hop aroma, flavor and deep clean bitterness.”

AS if that wasn’t enough for organic beer lovers, Hopworks is releasing another IPA called Google Gigabit as a pitch for the company to choose Portland as its destination for new high-speed fiber optics lines. Check out The New School blog for the complete story.
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Chuckanut Brewery

If I needed another reason to kick myself, here is another brewery that I missed while at GABF. Then it went and won major awards!

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Here is their address:
601 W Holly St.
Bellingham, WA
98225
(360) 75-Beers

They have an Autumn beer dinner coming up. It might be a great time to check out their award winning beer.

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Beers I missed at GABF

Top 10 beers that I should have tried…

Ommegang – Adoration
Alpine – Willy Vanilly
Cascade – Vlad the Imp Aler
Hollister Brewing – The Pope
Oakshire – Collaborative Evil
Pizza Port /Carlsbad – 547 Haight
Short’s – Strawberry Short’s Cake
Surly – Coffee Bender
Weyerbacher – Double Simcoe IPA
Chuckanut – Vienna Lager

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Great American Beer Festival – Winners (part 3)

2009 GABF Top Medal Winning States
State – Number of Medals won
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Colorado 45 19% 459 14%
California 39 16% 594 18%
Oregon 22 9% 172 5%
Washington 13 5% 162 5%
Pennsylvania 12 5% 126 4%
Michigan 9 4% 138 4%
New York 8 3% 117 4%
Virginia 8 3% 58 2%
Illinois 7 3% 93 3%
Maryland 7 3% 63 2%

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Buzz Breweries

There were many beers that I wanted to have while in Denver but what is also great is hearing about breweries that are popular at home and praised for great beer that are brand new to me.

Here are three breweries to watch:

They had beer at the rare beer event and their booth was very crowded.
They had beer at the rare beer event and their booth was very crowded.

Michigan is the place to watch for beer. This booth had lines as big as Dogfish and New Glarus.
Michigan is the place to watch for beer. This booth had lines as big as Dogfish and New Glarus.
Twice I overheard fellow GABF'ers tell people to try their beers. Plus, love that logo.
Twice I overheard fellow GABF'ers tell people to try their beers. Plus, love that logo.