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Beer gets on the bike at Denver Convention Center. As a veteran of the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) visiting the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) for the first time, you’re inevitably drawn to make comparisons. And the one that comes spontaneously to my mind is that the GABF is, well, sexier. Although the GBBF is [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.2% Tröegs Troegenator Doublebock Beer Most of the more celebrated American craft brews are warm fermented ales, but here’s an East Coast microbrewer making a very convincing fist of an original European extreme lager style, the Doppelbock. The name of the brewery exemplifies the delightfully dilettantish multiculturalism [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 9% SweetWater Dank Tank Magnum IP Imperial Pilsner If the beers I tried from below the Mason-Dixon Line at the GABF are anything to go by, the craft breweries of the Deep South are quickly catching up with their northern colleagues — although the Dixie credentials [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 5.7% Maui CoCoNut PorTeR I’ d been wanting to try this celebrated speciality beer since I met its brewer, the charming Garrett W Marrero, at the Rake in London earlier this year, when he was over to brew a cask version of it for the Wetherspoons beer festival. [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 9.75% Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout If this beer is anything to go by, craft brewing in the US has gone south with a vengeance. A small production brewpub with a penchant for cask ale and a nifty line in bold poster-style graphics, Foothills opened in 2005 [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 7.5% Cigar City Humidor Series As the crowds poured into the Colorado Convention Centre on the opening night of the Great American Beer Festival, the queues soon began to form at some predictable locations, such as Lost Abbey and Russian River. But I also noted a long [...] Great American Beer Festival 2010 ABV: 8.5% Boulevard Smokestack Series Saison Brett Boulevard, founded by John Macdonald on Kansas City’s historic Southwest Boulevard in 1989, now claims to be the biggest speciality brewer in the Mid-West and the second largest brewer of any type in Missouri. Impressively, though, it’s built this success on [...] |
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