GABF Recap: Looking for our Japanese friends!

Anyone who recognize yourself at this misserable photo taken during the GABF week over at Falling Rock?

Well we met a bunch of japanese beer lovers during the week, both over at Fort Collins Brewer and Odells and then later at Falling Rocks. I think you were a couple home brewers and someone connected to the Popeye bar in Tokyo.

Anyway I remember that we succeeded in getting our photographer taking a additional picture with a real camera (not through my cell phone) that seemed to go ok. If you ever get to my simple little blog, it could be quite fun if you could share this photo with me.

Thanks, and you never know if we will turn up at Popeyes in a distant future, or the Real Ale Festival in Tokyo, :-).

GBTD-07: The tour and the beers

View Album

Get your own

Our beer tour in Colorado during the GABF was mostly about the beers, so what did we have?.

But it is always a bit tricky to keep track of everything you drink, so I have probably missed some of the beers during the trip (mostly during the massive number of strange brews we had or did not have at the Falling Rock during the late nights in Denver).

Any way here is the "complete" nerd list;

Saturday October 6
1. Boulder Beer Cold Hop
2. Mountain Sun Illusion Dweller
3. Mountain Sun I&IPA

Sunday October 7
4. Pumphouse Kilt lifter
5. Pumphouse Flashpoint IPA
6. Pumphouse Red Alert
7. Pumphouse Pyro Porter
8. Pumphouse Igniter Pale Ale
9. Avery Elites Brown Ale
10. ODells 90 Shilling Ale
11. Left Hand Milk Stout
12. Avery IPA
13. ODells 5 Barrel Pale Ale
14. Redfish Treehugger Organic IPA
15. Boulder Beer Hazed & Infused
16. Redfish Big Easy Pale Ale
17. Walnut Seasonal Wheat Beer
18. Walnut Buffalo Gold
19. Walnut Indian Peaks Pale Ale
20. Walnut St. James Irish Red Ale
21. Walnut Big Horn Bitter
22. Walnut Old Elle Brown Ale
23. Walnut Devils Thumb Stout
24. Bj Tatanka Stout
25. Bj Piranha Pale Ale
26. Bj PM Porter
27. Stone Black IPA (Old Chicago)

Monday October 8
28. Avery Hog Heaven
29. Avery The Reverend (oaked)
30. Avery Dramant
31. Avery Breezes Bad Karma oaked (cask)
32. Avery The Beast 07
33. Oskar Blues Tenfidy Stout
34. Oskar Blues IPA
35. Oskar Blues Pale Ale
36. Estes Park Renegade IPA
37. Estes Park Samson Stout
38. Estes Park Trail Ridge Red
39. Estes Park Porter
40. Estes Park Raspberry Wheat
41. Estes Park Stinger
42. Estes Park Gold
43. New Belgium Fat Tire
44. CooperSmiths Sigdas Green Chilli
45. CooperSmiths Not Brown Ale
46. CooperSmiths Oktoberfest
47. CooperSmiths Kölsch
48. CooperSmiths Punjabi Pale Ale
49. ODells 5 Barrel Pale Ale
50. ODells Cutthrout Porter
51. Full Sail IPA
52. Stone IPA

Tuesday October 9
53. New Belgium 1554
54. New Belgium Lips of Faith
55. New Belgium 2 Below
56. La Folie Sour Brown
57. Abbey
58. Fort Collins Brewery Major t p Wheat
59. Fort Collins Brewery Retro Red
60. Fort Collins Brewery Rocky Mountain IPA
61. Fort Collins Brewery Z lager (rauch bier)
62. Fort Collins Kidd Lager
63. Fort Collins Chocolate Stout
64. ODells Hillbilly Hefeweissen
65. ODells Double Pilsner
66. ODells Isolation Ale
67. ODells cutthroat Stout (nitro)
68. ODells Easy Street
69. ODells Levity Amber Ale
70. ODells 5 barrel Pale Ale
71. ODells 90 Shilling Ale
72. ODells IPA
73. Cutthroat Porter
74. Rock Bottom (Longmont) Double Barrel Pale Ale
75. Dry Dock SS Mirror Pale
76. Dry Dock Mild
77. Dry Dock Enterprise IPA (nitro)
78. Dry Dock Breakworker Pale Ale
79. Green Flash West Coast IPA
80. Summit Extra Pale Ale
81. Boulder Beer Hazed & Infused
82. Arrogant Bastard
83. Great Divide Titan IPA (Cask)
84. Victory Hop Devil
85. Oskar Blues Gordon Double IPA

Wednesday October 10
86. Boulder Beer Mojo IPA
87. Boulder Beer Mojo Risin Double IPA
88. Boulder Beer Stout
89. Left Hand Milk Stout
90. Left Hand Imperial Stout
91. Pumphouse Pyro Porter
92. Oskar Blues Oaked Gordon
93. Oskar Blues Pale Ale
94. Oskar Blues tenfid Imperial Stout (canned)
95. Lagunitas IPA
96. Lagunitas Undercover Shutdown

Thursday October 11
97. Great Divide DPA
98. Great Divide Titan IPA
99. Great Divide Hibernation
100. Great Divide Barley Wine
101. Great Divide Belgian IPA
102. Breckenridge Amber
103. Breckenridge Pale Ale
104. Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout
105. Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
106. Breckenridge R220 Red
107. Breckenridge 471 IPA
108. Breckenridge Lager
109. Avery Uber Schwein (oaked hog heaven)
110. Summit Pale Ale
111. Stone Double Bastard 05
112. Stone Imperial Stout 03
113. HeBrew Jewelation Whiskey Oaked
114. HeBrew Lenny On Rye (RIPA)
115. HeBrew Anniversary 11
116. Stone Anniversary 11
117. Stone Vanilla Porter

Friday October 12
118. Flying Dog Double Dog Pale
119. Flying Dog Doggie Style Pale Ale
120. Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Stout
121. Flying Dog Horn Dog Barley Wine

Saturday October 13
122. ??? IPA (pitcher)
123. Anchor Steam (cask)

Sunday October 14
124. Great Divide DPA

This was the beer that I tested myself and is not connected to the actual GABF festival, which is an other story.

GBTD-07 (GABF): A tribute to the best bartender in the World

This is a simple and very short tribute to a bartender at the Falling Rock tap house in Denver. Thanks for being the coolest bartender in the world and thanks for making the beer moments at Falling Rocks during the GABF week a amazing time that we will not forget in a very long time.

Difficult to explain but we really like the Falling Rock establishment, it had everything you want in a bar. A rough place with simple rules, meaning serving the best beers in the world as fast as possible.

Sometimes it was difficult to get a beer, but when you finally learned that you got your single second of reconition with you and you succeed in knowing exactly want you want it turned out well and you got your beer in a second. Did you miss it you had to wait for the next turn, if you got one!.

It is not easy when 100 people are all screaming we want beer and you simply answer back; "What do you want?, give it to me?, What do you want?". Myself had not served a single beer with that pressure, really cool, simply outstanding.
Hope you can handle the silence now when the GABF is over and everything go to normal.

If you have never been to Falling Rock and do not know how a good bar should be, according to me, here is the shortlist of my best rough beer bars in the USA that play in the same league as the Falling Rock.

1. Barcade, Brooklyn
2. Toronado, San Fran
3. Bukowski's Tavern, Boston