New Belgium Brewing Company is a regional brewery located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It opened in 1991 after Jeff Lebesch, the brewery's founder, took his home-brewing passion commercial. In 2009, it produced over 582,000 barrels of its various labels.[1] As of 2010, it was the third-largest craft brewery and seventh-largest overall brewery in the United States.[2]
According to the Guinness Book of World RecordsĀ®, there is no other place on earth where a beer aficionado can find more beers on tap. The Great American Beer Festival is the American brewing industry's top public tasting opportunity and competition. Tasting sessions will offer attendees the opportunity to tour America's brewing landscape, one ounce at a time, by sampling more than 2,000 different beers from more than 450 of the nation's finest breweries. The GABF gathers practically every type of beer from all of the regions of the country, and they are arranged geographically on the festival floor. The festival allows visitors to taste the largest number and the widest variety of hand-crafted products in the American beer industry.