Great American Beer Festival (Denver)

The Great American Beer Festival stands as American craft beer's Super Bowl, featuring 800+ breweries and 4,000+ beers in a medal competition whose winners see immediate nationwide distribution spikes. This is nearly 5x the breweries at #3 Great British Beer Festival, and the total beer count is about 10% higher than Oktoberfest's entire volume offerings. With a typical attendance of 60,000, the GABF's density of craft varieties per attendee is unmatched—1 beer for every 15 people, a ratio that outperforms #2 on any other US festival.