Locals in the Spotlight at GABF

We’re just two weeks out from the Great American Beer Festival, the biggest beer festival/competition/bacchanal in the U.S.  As we wrote a month ago, there’s a strong DMV contingent heading to Denver, so the devout souls making the pilgrimage have the chance to see a lot of familiar faces amongst the 60,000+ attendees.  Maybe.  Brewery folks who come to the main sessions have the tendency to do a little wandering, snagging the occasional taste and shooting the breeze with their compatriots.  Can you blame them?  So if you’re looking to catch up with some of your favorite locals or see them bask in the spotlight, here are a few opportunities that should prove a lot less hectic than the main hall.

Meet the Brewer Section

“New in 2015, the Great American Beer Festival will dedicate roughly 30,000 square feet of hall space to a new section called Meet the Brewer. Just under 100 breweries will fill this area, and each brewery’s booth will be staffed entirely, exclusively, by their employee