GABF 25th Year Beer, $3.99 per 18-ounce bottle
The 25th annual Great American Beer Festival, featuring 1,600 beers from 380 breweries, takes place Thursday through Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center.
The silver celebration will be marked with - what else? - beer. Charlie Papazian, president of the Boulder-based Brewers Association and an accomplished home brewer, concocted 25th Year Beer, a single-batch brew "celebrating the flavor & diversity of American beer."
Papazian says it's a variation on an IPA he's made several times, dry hopped with a rarely used New Zealand hop for aroma. It was brewed and bottled at Boulder Beer Co., one of three brewers at the first GABF still taking part. Sierra Nevada and River City Brewing in California are the other two.
The 25th Year Beer will be available at Brewers Association tables at the GABF, Falling Rock in LoDo, Old Chicago outlets and in limited quantities in area retail outlets in 18-ounce bottles.
