Tag Archive 'Great American Beer Festival'

GABF: Kicking Ass and Taking Names

The jealousy has finally subsided.     After a few weeks of dark, introspective depression and nursing myself with chicken soup to ease my wounded soul, I can finally write about the Great American Beer Festival.  I wasn’t there.     This simple fact, alone, is one that I was reminded of again and again via Facebook status updates, […]

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The GABF: Get the F Out of Its Way

It’s concluded.  For the 27th year in a row, the Great American Beer Festival overtook Denver in sudsy force. Although not in attendance myself, nor having ever seen the madness firsthand (insert mini violin here), I’m always amazed by the festival statistics because they’re just too damn staggering to believe.  Plus, Colorado is my home […]

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Spicy Devils: the Beers of Fall

Its about that time.  Spices, baby, spices.  As the mercury begins to drop, I always become strangely nostalgic.  Oh, Fall, you mischevious devil.  How do I count the ways I love you?  And oh, how you taunt my beer glass with your seasonal delights. I popped into my local store a couple of weeks back […]

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