GABF 2022: The return to an in-person Valhalla after the long dark winter

DENVER — Oh, yeah, it feels good to put a dateline on a story again. After the COVID pandemic limited the Great American Beer Festival to just two years of awards ceremonies and no actual festival, we are back in the belly of the beast for a full in-person fest.

Everything has returned to normal, so to speak. There will be four sessions again, an in-person awards ceremony, and all the extra events surrounding the main fest. For all of you that cannot attend, you can follow the awards ceremony online here. It starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and hopefully New Mexico sees its breweries bring home another haul of medals.

Erin and I will be up here for the whole thing. This will be her first GABF, so while we can all joke about praying for her liver, she will be providing that first-time view of all things, as opposed to this jaded veteran going to his sixth. We will have coverage of the awards ceremony,

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