Our guide to Denver craft beer events during the 2016 Great American Beer Festival

No tickets to GABF? No worries! From special tappings, collaborations, food pairings, and top takeovers, there are more than enough craft beer events around Denver during GABF week to quench the thirsts of the most hard core craft beer enthusiasts! Here’s our list of Great American Beer Festival 2016 beer events around Denver.

Mon 10/3

Freshcraft

Wild & Sour Monday

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Trinity Brewing Koelerado Currant, New Belgium Brewing NBB Love Blackberry Oskar, Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales, Cascade Brewing Black Cap,
    Wicked Weed Brewing La Bonte Plum, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project Mama Bear’s Sour Cherry Pie, Avery Brewing Company Certatio Equestris, Jester King Brewery Detritivore
  • 7pm – Close
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)
 

Tue 10/4

Denver Museum of Nature and Science

  • 2001 Colorado Blvd.
  • 30 breweries. Beers Made By Walking invites brewers to go on nature hikes and make new beers inspired by plants observed on the trail. Each beer is a unique, drinkable portrait of the landscape. Baere, Black Project, Bonfire, Burial (NC), Cerebral, Crazy Mountain, Crooked Stave, Dry Dock, Elevation, Fiction, Fieldhouse, Fonta Flora (NC), Great Divide , Happy Leaf Kombucha, Hopworks (OR), Horse and Dragon, Living The Dream, Mockery, Odd 13, Odell, Our Mutual Friend, Paradox, Ratio, Riff Raff, Scratch (IL), Spangalang, Stem Cider, Strange Craft, TRiNiTY, TRVE, Wild Woods and Goldspot + The Grateful Gnome.
  • 5:30 – 8:30pm
  • $35 | Buy Tickets
  • 3.7 miles (15 minute drive)

Freshcraft

Local Showcase Tuesday

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • TRVE Brewing Currant Mouth, Horse & Dragon Brewing Company Rum Barrel Aged Coconut Porter, Ratio Beerworks New Wave, Comrade Brewing Company Super Power, WeldWerks Brewing Company Juicy Bits, Lost Highway Brewing Company Golden Ghost, Cerebral Brewing Rare Trait, City Star Brewing Imperial Saison
  • 7pm – Close
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Trve Brewing Co.

Burial Tap Takeover

  • 227 Broadway
  • Burial Brewing, Asheville, NC
  • 7:06pm
  • 1.9 miles (7 minute drive, 40 minute walk)
 

Wed 10/5

McNichols Center

Offensively Delicious
A Craft Beer & Comedy Show

  • 144 W Colfax Ave
  • 10 Breweries and 4 comedians. Breweries: Alpine Dog, Brooklyn Brewery, Fort Collins Brewery, Great Divide, Lakefront Brewery, Liquid Mechanics, New Holland, Renegade, Shmaltz, Spangalang. Comedians: Beth Stelling and Matt Braunger. A nonprofit fundraiser for the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
  • 6pm – 10pm
  • $30-75 | Buy Tickets
  • .5 miles from Convention Center (10 minute walk)

Blake Street Vault

  • 1526 Blake Street
  • Perrin tap takeover (12 taps)
  • 3pm – Close
  • 1 mile from Convention Center (22 minute walk)

Stoney’s

  • 1111 Lincoln Street
  • Odell and New Belgium tap takeover
  • 7pm – close
  • .7 miles from Convention Center (15 minute walk)

Freshcraft

Upslope Brewing

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Upslope Lager, Upslope x Freshcraft Smell My Hand Long Pepper Black IPA, Upslope Bourbon Barrel Pumpkin Wine, Upslope Presidents Beer (barrel aged dark Belgian), Upslope Citra Pale
  • 7pm – Close
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

The Hi-Dive

Breast Friends
A Night of Revelry in the Name of Mammaries

Featuring live music by Cloud Catcher, Space In Time, Major Sports, Cheap Perfume

$10 Cover

  • 7 South Broadway
  • Burial Brewing, Trve Brewing, Ratio Beerworks, Revolution Brewing
  • Doors: 8:30 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
  • 2.1 miles (10 minute drive)
 

Thur 10/6

Hops & Pie

Casey Brewing & Blending and Cascade Brewing Tappings

  • 3920 Tennyson Street
  • From Casey – Cherry Cut : Balaton, Cherry CFP :Attika,  Apricot Cut, East Bank, Cherry CFP : Golden Cherry. From Cascade – Elderberry, Black Cap Raspberry, 2014 Project : Noyaux, Sang Noir, Manhatten Project
  • 11:30 AM – 11 PM
  • 4.3 miles from Convention Center (15 minute drive, 38 minute bike ride)

Freshcraft

Casey Brewing and Blending

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Raspberry Fruit Stand, The Cut: Balaton Cherry, The Cut: Danube Cherry, The Cut: The Red (Cherry Blend), The Cut: Apricot, Casey Family Preserve: Apricot
  • 7pm – Close
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Ska x Telluride Spirit Animal Night

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Ska Autumnal Molé Stout, Ska Pils World, Ska Euphoria, Ska x Telluride x Freshcraft Sea Kitten, Telluride Fishwater DIPA, Telluride BA Facedown Brown,
    Telluride Russell Kelly
  • 6pm – 10pm
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Cigar City Brewing

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • On Tap: Guayabera Citra Pale Ale, Jai Alai IPA, Lager, Outskirts Imperial Porter (aged in Bourbon barrels)
  • 7pm – 10pm
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)
 

Fri 10/7

Hops & Pie

Casey Brewing & Blending and Cascade Brewing Tappings

  • 3920 Tennyson Street
  • From Casey – Cherry Cut : Balaton, Cherry CFP :Attika,  Apricot Cut, East Bank, Cherry CFP : Golden Cherry. From Cascade – Elderberry, Black Cap Raspberry, 2014 Project : Noyaux, Sang Noir, Manhatten Project
  • 11:30 AM – 11 PM
  • 4.3 miles from Convention Center (15 minute drive, 38 minute bike ride)

Freshcraft

Odell x Wicked Weed

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Odell Hand Picked (Fresh Hop), Odell Jolly Russian, Odell Crossover Sour Blonde, Odell Barrel Aged Lugene, Wicked Weed Juiceless IPA, Wicked Weed Barrel Aged Xibalba, Wicked Weed Oblivion, Wicked Weed Montmarreto
  • 4pm – 7pm
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Left Hand Warrior Firkin Tapping

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Left Hand Warrior (fresh hop IPA)
  • 7pm – 10pm
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Green Flash, Station 26, and Melvin

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Green Flash Blanc Tarte Barrique, Green Flash Adambier (collaboration with Great Divide, Cigar City, Uinta, and Spiegelau), Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker,
    Stone Barrel Aged Saison with Blackberries, Stone XS, Stone Xocveza Charred, Station 26 Juicy Banger, Station 26 Bourbon Barrel Aged BarleyWayne, Station 26 Single Hop Citra IPA, Melvin 2×4, Melvin Thaiger Style, Melvin Ch Ch Cherry Bomb
  • 10:30pm – 1:30am
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)
 

Sat 10/8

Freshcraft

Breakfast with The Bruery and Bruery Terreux

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Join CEO & Founder of The Bruery & The Bruery Terreux Patrick Rue, along with his merry band of Bruers for breakfast and special beers from both their sour and non sour breweries. On Draft: The Bruery White Chocolate, The Bruery Poterie 8th Anniversary Ale, Bruery Terreux Frambulous, Bruery Terreux Filmishmish, Bruery Terreux Humulus Terreux. Very limited bottles available of: Bruery Terreux Mélange No. 1, The Bruery Chocolate Rain
  • 8am – 11am
  • Reservation to enter the event is required
    Reservations can be made here
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Altbiers w/ Blue Blaze Brewing & CB&Potts Westminster

  • 1530 Blake Street
  • Tom Herber head brewer CB&Potts Westminster, CO and Steve Turner head brewer Blue Blaze Brewing Charlotte, NC have produced two different German Altbiers. Both will be tapped at Freshcraft right after the GABF Award Ceremony on Saturday October 8th. Come and check out these brews! There are differences in yeast, malts and hops while still staying true to the altbier style. It will be fun to taste these beers side by side.
  • 4:30pm – 7pm
  • .8 miles (18 minute walk!)

Freshcraft

Surly Brewing

 

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