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Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Beer Festival
January 4-6, 2024
USA Today 10Best Beer Festival

10Best Beer FestivalBig Beers, Belgians & Barleywines has TWICE been voted one of the 10Best Beer Festivals!

 

We're thrilled you all think so much of us. Thank you festival-goers!

 

2024 Event

 

Join us for the 21st anniversary event!

 

January 4-6, 2024

 

 

2023 Homebrew Competition

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See all the winners >>

 

BEST OF SHOW: Mark Boelman, "Please Scream Inside Your Heart" (Specialty Smoked Beer)

 

 

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"One of the most fine festivals for beer on the planet Earth."

- Julia Herz, Brewers Association Craft Beer Program Director

“Always one of my favorite events of the year... it rules!”

- Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery  

“The benchmark of what all other beer festivals strive to be.”

- Tristan Chan, Porch Drinking  

Big Beers Festival

 

The 21st Anniversary of a World-Class Beer Festival

Patrick Pouring Beer for Tristan Chan

The perfect combination for a Winter Wonderland getaway: A world-class beer festival in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Meet renowned brewmasters and brewery owners, taste hundreds of big, Belgian style, and experimental beers, explore beer and food pairings, and learn from an impressive array of brewmasters and industry experts over an action-packed three day weekend.

 

As a novice, an aficionado, or an advanced homebrewer, you can enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to discuss beer with the amazing people who make it happen. Dig in further to learn more about this little festival in the mountains that the beer industry has held in such high esteem for 21 years!

 

The 21st Anniversary of a World-Class Beer Festival

Patrick Pouring Beer for Tristan Chan

The perfect combination for a Winter Wonderland getaway: A world-class beer festival in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Meet renowned brewmasters and brewery owners, taste hundreds of big, Belgian style, and experimental beers, explore beer and food pairings, and learn from an impressive array of brewmasters and industry experts over an action-packed three day weekend.

 

As a novice, an aficionado, or an advanced homebrewer, you can enjoy an unprecedented opportunity to discuss beer with the amazing people who make it happen. Dig in further to learn more about this little festival in the mountains that the beer industry has held in such high esteem for 21 years!

Small Plates Pairing Dinner

Brewmasters' Dinners

If you love craft beer, you must come have dinner with us!

 

The celebrity beer pairing dinners show off the ultimate flexibility of beer with food. The Traditional Brewmasters’ Dinner shows off our Featured Brewmasters for this year’s event, and our Small Plates and Craft Beer Pairing is equally delicious on a smaller scale.

This year we will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary with a celebratory late night Big Beers 20 Year Reunion showcasing the first twenty years of Big Beers' Featured Brewmasters - dessert style.

 

BREWMASTER'S DINNER | 20 YEAR REUNION | SMALL PLATES PAIRING

 

Brewmasters' DinnersSmall Plates Pairing Dinner

If you love craft beer, you must come have dinner with us!

 

The celebrity beer pairing dinners show off the ultimate flexibility of beer with food. The Traditional Brewmasters’ Dinner shows off our Featured Brewmasters for this year’s event, and our Small Plates and Craft Beer Pairing is equally delicious on a smaller scale.

This year we will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary with a celebratory late night Big Beers 20 Year Reunion showcasing the first twenty years of Big Beers' Featured Brewmasters - dessert style.

 

BREWMASTER'S DINNER | 20 YEAR REUNION | SMALL PLATES PAIRING

 

Sour Beer Seminar

Beer & Brewing Seminars

The educational component of our festival weekend has grown over twenty years and now attracts as much attention as the Commercial Tasting itself.

 

Start out with stand alone seminars featuring the Cicerone Program, sensory exercises, food pairing, and yoga on Friday and Saturday morning. Dive in deeper with Experimental Brewing, and finish with four seminar tracks on Saturday afternoon: the Brewmasters Track, Technical Track, Sensory Workshop Track, and the eclectic Random Track.

 

BEER & BREWING SEMINARS

 

Beer & Brewing Seminars
Sour Beer Seminar

The educational component of our festival weekend has grown over twenty years and now attracts as much attention as the Commercial Tasting itself.

 

Start out with stand alone seminars featuring the Cicerone Program, sensory exercises, food pairing, and yoga on Friday and Saturday morning. Dive in deeper with Experimental Brewing, and finish with four seminar tracks on Saturday afternoon: the Brewmasters Track, Technical Track, Sensory Workshop Track, and the eclectic Random Track.

 

BEER & BREWING SEMINARS

 

Commercial Tasting at the Big Beer Festival

Commercial Tasting Event

“One of the best collections of beer ever seen in one place.”

 

This international slice of beer is extremely diverse; Belgians, lambics and sours highlight the lighter end of the spectrum, while the Barleywines and Strong Ales dominate the other, with specialty beers from some of the most creative commercial brewers in the world. Enjoy nearly 600 amazing beers from 175 different breweries, some only available at the Big Beers Festival!

 

BEER TASTING EVENT

 

Commercial Tasting Event
Commercial Tasting at the Big Beer Festival
“One of the best collections of beer ever seen in one place.”

This international slice of beer is extremely diverse; Belgians, lambics and sours highlight the lighter end of the spectrum, while the Barleywines and Strong Ales dominate the other, with specialty beers from some of the most creative commercial brewers in the world. Enjoy nearly 600 amazing beers from over 170 different breweries, some only available at the Big Beers Festival!

 

BEER TASTING EVENT

DigitalPour
CraftBeer.com
ABS
Basecamp
Falling Rock
Craft Beer & Brewing
BSG
Breck Hospitality
Mtn Town Mag
Welk Resorts
River Drive
Not Your Hobby
Natalie's Orchid Island Juice
Apres-Ski
Briess
Brewtography Project
Prairie/Cargill
Bon Voyage
Tahoe Kitchen
Thirst
Yakima
DoubleTree
Brewery Finance
White Labs
Five Star
Lallemand
Antigo Zeon
Malteurop Malting
Wild Tonic

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