Alternatives to the Great American Beer Fest

Don’t say we didn’t warn you that the Great American Beer Festival (Oct. 11–13) would sell out fast. In record time, as a matter of fact. But don’t despair, the Denver Beer Fest
(Oct. 5–3) have again served up a worthy alternative.

Check out the Website—denver.org/denverbeerfest—for a full list of events, including special beer dinners, beer release parties, food pairings, beer cocktail tastings and rare keg tappings at tap houses and tap rooms in and around Denver. The quantity and quality of Denver Beer Fest events keeps getting better and better—beer and butterflies at the Butterfly Pavillion, anyone?—so much so that it (almost) takes the sting out of not getting tickets to the GABF.