Get tuned up for next week's Great American Beer Festival with a special beer tasting at Wynkoop Brewing Company from 5:00-8:30 p.m. September 11th.
The state of Colorado's best brewers bring their best brews to the Wynkoop at 18th and Wynkoop to help kickoff Denver Beer Fest. Great COntenders will features over twenty breweries serving taster portions of previous GABF medal winners, some of the favorites for medals at the 2010 GABF, and other special, rare or pre-release brews.
Tickets are available online at www.ticketalternative.com. Online buyers are automatically entered into a drawing for two tickets to the 2010 GABF. Tickets are $30 and limited to 300 people.
A few of reasons to attend
* Asher Brewing: Greenade Organic Double IPA
* Avery Brewing: The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest Lager
* Boulder Beer: Planet Porter (Gold 1992, Bronze 2007), Flashback IBA
* Breckenridge Brewery: Regal Pilsner, Lucky U IPA, Autumn Ale
* Bull & Bush: Tower ESB (Gold 1998), Man Beer (Silver 2003), The Legend of the Liquid Brain (Silver 2008), Big Ben Brown Ale,
* Dostal Alley - Shafthouse Stout (Silver 2008), Pub Ale (Silver 2003)
* Dry Dock Brewing: Bismarck Alt (Gold 2009) U-Boat Hefeweizen (Silver 2009), Docktoberfest (Silver 2009)
* Durango Brewing: Derail Ale (Gold 2007, 2008), Dark Lager
* Golden City Brewery – Standup Double IPA, Goldener Gose
* Great Divide Brewing: Hoss (Bronze 2009), Yeti (Silver 2005/09, Bronze 2008), DPA (Gold 1999, Bronze 2006),Rumble IPA
* Left Hand Brewing: Sawtooth Ale (Bronze 2008, Gold 1994) Milk Stout (Silver 2008), Oxymoron Teutonic India Pale Lager
* New Belgium Brewing: Abbey Ale (8 GABF medals) Mothership Wit (Gold 2009), Trippel (Gold 2001)
* Odell Brewing: IPA (Gold 2007), Isolation Ale, Bourbon Barrel Stout
* Pints Pub: Lancer IPA in firkin
* Pug Ryan’s Brewery & Pub: Pallavicini Pilsener (Gold 2005, Silver 2004/7/8), Morning Wood Wheat (Silver 2003), Pug Damit Porter, Helles Good Bock
* Pumphouse Brewery & Pub: 4 Alarm Copper Ale (Silver 2004), Citra Pale Ale, Hot Shots Harvest Ale
* Sandlot Brewery: Most Beer Judges are Boneheads Pils (Silver 2005, Bronze 2008), Second Hand Smoke (Silver 2005, Bronze 2008), Goat Rancher Bock (Silver 2005, Gold 2008)
* Ska Brewing: True Blonde (Bronze 2006, 2009), Buster Nut Brown (Gold 2003, 2004, Silver 2009), Steel Toe Stout (2006 Silver,2009 Bronze), Clancy’s Black Beer
* Strange Brewing: IPAphany India Pale Ale, Liquid Resume Pale, Paint It Black Honey Coffee Stout, Le Bruit Du Diable
* Twisted Pine - American Amber (Gold 1996), Big Shot Espresso Stout (Silver 2008), Honey Brown
* Upslope Brewing: IPA, Pale Ale, Tap Room Special
* Wynkoop Brewing: B3K Schwarzbier (Gold 2008), Wixa Weiss (Gold 2008), Orville Belgian-style Sour, Belgorado Harvest IPA
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