The Great American Beer Festival is finally back! With the insane multitude of beers being served on the festival floor, it can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. So PorchDrinking is once again here to help you navigate that lineup and help with planning your route at the fest. As part of that research, we’ve sifted through every beer pouring at this year’s fest to curate a series of themed routes to help you plan for your GABF based on various styles and flavors.
This year’s heaviest hitter hop producers include Three Floyds, California’s Ghost Town Brewing, Pure Project Brewing, Firestone Walker, Radiant Beer which won big at both Alpha King AND GABF last year, Roadhouse Brewing, and pretty much every big name out of the Pacific Northwest. A few things to note, don’t sleep on some absolute bangers being poured in the United in Beer (State Guild), Heavy Medal, and Collab/Pro-Am sections, as there are beers/breweries that aren’t available anywhere else at the fest including some super hype breweries like Other Half and Fidens. Also don’t miss this year’s Black is Beautiful entries which all fall within the Hazy IPA category. Now we invite you to explore some of the best hoppy that we know will be pouring at GABF. Hop heads unite, for these dank, piney, citrus, hazy, and hoppy beers.
Hoppy Beers to Try At GABF
3 Floyds Brewing – Booth 5-18
Abnormal Beer + Mother Earth Brew – Collab / Pro-Am (Saturday Afternoon Session Only)
Accomplice Beer Co. – Heavy Medal
Boneyard Brewing – Booth 4-20
Bootstrap Brewing – Heavy Medal
- Wreak Havoc
- Stick’s Pale Ale
Breakside Brewing – Booth 4-21
- Breakside Fresh Hop Wanderlust
Breakside + Ghost Town – Collab + Pro-Am (Thursday Night Only)
- Thriving Metropolis West Coast IPA
Buck Wild Brewing – Booth 14-15 & Heavy Medal
- Rogue Wave
- Alpenglow – Hazy IPA (Heavy Medal)
Cannonball Creek + Westbound & Down – Collab / Pro-Am (Saturday Day Session Only)
Cloudburst + Garage Project – Collab / Pro-Am (Friday Only)
- Welcome to Cloudland NZ IPA
Creature Comforts Brewing – Booth 9-22
- Tropicalia
- Bigger Dreams Hazy IPA
Deschutes Brewery Public House – Booth 4-25
Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House – Booth 4-26
Fat Head’s Brewery – Booth 5-21
- Head Hunter IPA
- Bone Head Imperial Red Ale
Fiction Beer Company – Booth 1-22
- Madame Psychosis Hazy IPA
Fidens – United in Beer (Saturday Sessions Only)
- Jasper with Nelson Double IPA
Figuroa Mountain Brewing – Booth
Firestone Walker Brewing – Booth 17-12
- No Vacancy West Coast IPA
- C-Hops American Pale Ale
Fort George Brewery – Booth 5-4
Ghost Town Brewing – Booth 15-5
- Nose Goblin Double IPA
- Skullvanized IPA
- Scissor Hash Fresh Hop Strata IPA
Ghost Town Brewery + Breakside – Collab / Pro-Am (Saturday Evening Only)
- Wandercrust West Coast IPA
Icicle Brewing – Booth 5-5
- Alpenhaze Hazy IPA
- Dragontail West Coast IPA
- Enchantments Hazy IPA
Maui Brewing – Booth 15-16
Melvin Brewing – Booth 127
Migration Brewing – Booth 5-7
NB2A – Black is Beautiful – Booth 6-15
- Weathered Souls – Black is Beautiful Vol. 2 Hazy IPA
Odell Brewing Production – Booth 3-3
Old Irving Brewing – Booth 7-22
Other Half Brewing – United in Beer (Thursday and Friday Sessions Only)
Peculier Ales – Booth 3-9
Pure Project Brewing – Booth 17-8
- Pure West West Coast IPA
- Diamond Dust Murky IPA
Radiant Beer – Booth 17-7
- Worth Repeating – DDH DIPA
- Show Me A Sign – Hazy IPA
- Azul in the Infield – West Coast IPA
Reuben’s Brews – Booth 5-9
Rhinegeist – Booth 10-15
- Titanoboa Imperial IPA
- Saber Tooth Tiger Imperial IPA
Roadhouse Brewing – Booth 124
- Superdelic Kush
- The Walrus Hazy IPA
Russian River Brewing – Booth 17-5
Sierra Nevada Brewing – Booth 16
- Northern Hemisphere Harvest IPA
Sunriver Brewing – Heavy Medal
Von Ebert Brewing – Booth 5-13
Von Ebert + Ghost Town – Collab / Pro-Am (Friday Only)
- Everywhere Means Nowhere West Coast IPA
Wayfinder Beer – Booth 5-16
WeldWerks Brewing – Booth 46
- Juicy Bits IPA
- Extra Extra Juicy Bits
Wren House Brewing – Booth 16-24