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, as well as mixed fermentation saisons include Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Russian River, Firestone Walker, and Dogfish Head to name a few.
2024 GABF Routes:
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.
Spontaneous / Wild / Mixed Fermentation / Sour Beers to Try at GABF
Allagash Brewing – Booth C-8
- Curieux – 10.2% ABV
Almanac Beer Company – Booth C-9
- Strawberry Sunshine & Opportunities – 5.6% ABV
Antimony Brewing – Lee, MA – Booth E-6
- No Rules Plum Gose – 4.9% ABV
Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Heavy Metal
- Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale
cova Brewing – Booth C-28
- Aloha State of Mind: passionfruit and hibiscus gose – 5.0% ABV
Dogfish Head – Booth I-1
- SeaQuench Ale – 4.9% ABV
- Le Rouge: Belgian-style Saison fermented with raspberries and Montmorency cherries & a mixed-culture Golden Ale aged 3 years in French oak wine barrels – 7.5% ABV
Explorer Brewing – J-244
- The Booster: Mixed Fermentation Farmhouse Ale – 6.1% ABV
Firestone Walker Brewing – Booth H-10
- Primal Elements Pink Guava – 6.0% ABV
- Framboise – 5.7% ABV
Hailstorm Brewing – Booth J-36
- Key Lime Forklift Training: Pastry sour with key lime, graham cracker, vanilla and milk sugar – 8% ABV
The Lost Abbey Brewing – Booth C-65
- Peach Afternoon: French Oak-aged sour with Masumoto Peaches and Peach tea – 7.0% ABV
- Ghosts in the Forest: Foeder-aged Brett Blonde Ale – 6% ABV
Maplewood Brewing – Booth A-39
- Softcore Mutation: Tropical Foeder – American Oak Foeder Ale – 5.5% ABV
milieu fermentation – Booth C-53
- Smol: Barrel Aged Mixed Culture Table Beer – 2.7% ABV
Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery – Booth B-7
- Spanish Holiday Sangria Sour – 5.2% ABV
Odell Brewing – Booth G-7
- Friek – 5% ABV
Odell Brewing – Booth G-7
- La Vie En Gose – 5% ABV
Our Mutual Friend Brewing – Booth C-57
- Biere Ovale: Mixed-culture, foeder-aged Saison – 4.7% ABV
Pure Project – Booth C-62
- Mount Eden: Oak barrel-aged Saison featuring kiwis and quince along with Nelson Sauvin Cryo hops – 6.9% ABV
Russian River Brewing (Santa Rosa) – Booth C-84
- Intinction – Petite Sirah: Wild Ale aged in Sirah Barrels with Petite Sirah Grapes – 10.15% ABV
Russian River Brewing (Windsor) – Booth C-85
- Supplication: Brown ale aged in Pinot Noir wine barrels for one year with sour cherries – 7.75% ABV
Something Brewery – Booth C-72
- Top of the Muffin To Ya: Blue Muffin Cream Kettle Sour – 7% ABV
Strange Craft Beer – Booth H-8
- Cherry Kriek – 5% ABV
Strangebird Beer – Booth A-59
- Rode Vogel: Flanders Red – 6.5% ABV
Sun King Brewery – Booth B-17
- Cherry Busey: Flanders-style Red – 6.9% ABV
Timnath Beerwerks – Booth A-62
- Catharina Sour – 5.9% ABV
Trap Door Brewing – Booth D-73
- UNTITLED #8 – 6.7% ABV
True Anomaly – Booth D-74
- Small Giant: Grissette – 4.4% ABV
Une Année Brewery – Booth B-19
- Framboise – 6.5% ABV
- Le Grand Monde 2024-2: Barrel Aged American Wild Ale – 7% ABV
- Le Grand Mond 2024-4: Barrel Aged American Wild Ale – 7% ABV
Upslope Brewing – Booth 2568
- Upslope Open Space Terroir Project: Wild Ale – 5.8% ABV
Urban South Brewery – Booth B-20
- Lime Cucumber Gose – 4.2% ABV
- Blue and Bean: Barrel-Aged Sour with Coffee and Blueberry puree – 6% ABV
Von Ebert Brewing – Booth D-63
- Alma: Oak-aged farmhouse ale with brettanomyces & organic peaches – 6.2% ABV
Voodoo Brewing – Booth H-16
- Lacto Kooler: Fruited Berliner Weisse – 5.5% ABV
Wynkoop Brewing – Booth 52
- Triple Play Fruited Sour – 5.2% ABV
- jolie petite pêche – 5% ABV
WeldWerks Brewing – Booth H-1
- Soy Sauce Barrel Aged Sushi Gose – 6.5% ABV
- Bamm Bamm Rubble Rubble: NOW WITH RAINBOW SHERBET! – 5.2% ABV
Wicked Weed Brewing – Booth FC2
- Pernicious – 7.3% ABV
- Black Angel – 8.7% ABV
- Red Angel – 5.7% ABV
- White Angel – 8.1% ABV
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