At the 38th Annual Great American Beer Fest
By Dave Thomas
When the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) was only four years old in 1981, a quiet, unassuming nuclear engineer and homebrewer named Charlie Papazian visited his first GBBF in London. After he returned to Colorado from that eye-opening experience he thought, “That was a cool thing, maybe we could do something like that here.”He discussed the possibilities with legendary UK beer writer Michael Jackson who replied “That’s a great idea Charlie, but where will you get the beer?” ─ and the rest, as they say, is history. The 38th Annual Great American Beer Festival (GABF) was held at the Colorado Convention Center October 3-5, 2019.
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