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 brightest producers of spontaneous, wild, sour beers, and saisons include Crooked Stave, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Perennial, Russian River, The Bruery, and The Lost Abbey to name a few. 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. Now we invite you to check out some of the can’t miss spontaneous, wild, mixed-culture, sour beers and Saisons pouring at this year’s fest.
2023 GABF Routes:
Spontaneous/Wild/Sour/Saisons to Try at GABF
Barebottle Brewing – Booth 14-8
Buried Acorn – Booth 6-4
- Ghoster Blanc – wine barrel-aged mixed fermentation golden ale
- Vincent – Barrel-aged dark sour single variety beer/wine hybrid
Crooked Stave – Booth 1-20
Destihl Brewery – Booth 11-17
- Wild Sour Series: Dragonfruit Mango
Dogfish Head – Booth 11-11
- SeaQuench Ale
- Bendy Parts – Kombucha Tea Sour Ale
Fieldwork Brewing – Booth 15-2
- Guardians Of A Loveless Isle Sour Ale with Passionfruit and Kumquats aged in Oak Barrels
Great Divide Brewing – Booth 2-5
- Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Ale
GhostHawk Brewing – Booth 6-7
- Saison d’Automne – Belgian Saison with
Maplewood Brewing – Booth 10-9
- Softcore Mutation – Flanders Red
Modern Times Beer – Booth 15-17
- Fruitlands Sangria Fruited Gose
Narrow Path Brewing – Booth 10-5
Nebraska Brewing – Booth 9-7
New Belgium + Oud Beersel – Collab / Pro-Am (Saturday Day Session Only)
Our Mutual Friend Brewery – Booth 3-7
- Bier Ovale Mixed Culture Saison
- The Consul Mixed Culture Sour with Apricot
Perennial Artisan Ales – Booth 7-23
- Saison de Lis
- Poolside Breeze – Berliner with hibiscus, passionfruit, mango, lemongrass, orange peel and rose
Ratio Beerworks – Booth 3-15
- King of Carrot Flowers – Carrot Elderflower Saison
Right Proper Brewing – Booth 11-8
- Ornithology Foeder Aged Grisette
- Foveal Vision Foeder Aged Farmhouse with Fruit
Rowley Farmhouse Ales – United in Beer New Mexico Guild (Saturday Session Only)
Russian River Brewing – Booth 17-5
- Small Batch- Intinction Sauvignon Blanc
- Peach Beer
- Jannemie Brett finished Saison
Snake River Brewing – Booth 3-24
Strange Craft Beer – Booth 12-5
Sun King Brewing – Booth 10-19
- Cherry Busey Flanders Red
Sun King + 18th Street Brewery – Collab / Pro-Am (Thursday Only)
- Up for Anything -Specialty Saison fermented with Belgian Saison yeast aged in previously held wild beer barrel with chamomile
The Bruery – Booth 12-4
- Terreux Bae Oak Barrel-Aged Imperial Sour Ale with ube, coconut, and vanilla
The Lost Abbey – Booth 15-1
- Duck Duck Gooze 2022
- Peach Afternoon – French Oak-aged Sour with Masumoto Peaches and Peach Tea
Wild Fields Brewhouse – Booth 17-22
- Past Concepts Lambic-style
2023 GABF Routes:
