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GABF 2019

Last Updated: Oct. 01, 2019 · 11:57 a.m.

Beer! (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

First night finds: A dozen beers to check out at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival

It’s worth your while to do at least a little homework.

Ann Obenchain, the marketing director for the Brewers Association, poses for a portrait outside of the Great American Beer Festival grounds at the Colorado Convention Center, Oct. 2, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Q&A: Great American Beer Fest’s Ann Obenchain on ticket sales, hard seltzers and more

"We had a brewery ask the other day, ‘Do you mind if we bring a seltzer?’ I said, yeah, we do."

Chris Bell of Call to Arms Brewing Company poses in his bar on Tennyson Street, Oct. 1, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Experimentation, expansion and flat growth: This is the Denver brewery scene in 2019

The skills of survival are changing, so breweries like Call to Arms and Liberati are adapting.