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今年是丹佛的第35个年头 美国啤酒节 (GABF) has become one of the country’s best-known beer events. 今年的电影节将于10月10日举行. 6–8 at the 科罗拉多州 Convention Center, more than 1,600 breweries from across the U.S. will pour 7,000 different beers for attendees 和 judges. When GABF tickets went on sale in early August, they sold out in just over an hour.

While nearly every state has at least one brewery participating in this year’s fest, 最具代表性的州之一是, 当然, 科罗拉多州, which now is home to nearly 300 craft breweries — the third-highest number in the country — producing 1.每年800万桶.

Among the breweries producing those nearly 2 million barrels per year is Steamboat Springs-based 风峰酿酒有限公司., which was opened in June 2014 by Daniels College of Business alumnus Wyatt Patterson (MBA ’13) 和 his brother Tyler Patterson. The two will make their third GABF trip with Storm Peak this year.

“We had so much fun last year; we stayed at the booth the entire time, 和 we made a point of chatting with everybody who wanted to talk about our product, 这很好,怀亚特·帕特森说. “It’s one thing to be sitting on the liquor store shelf in Denver, but it’s another to be there talking to the consumer, 获得反馈, 听到他们的兴奋. It helps us stay in touch with what the consumers want — what they’re liking, 他们不喜欢什么, where their tastes are evolving — so that we can better serve them 和 make a product that’s better catered to them.”

Storm Peak is one of at least five 科罗拉多州 breweries with DU connections that are making the trip to this year’s GABF. That list also includes one of Denver’s oldest craft breweries, 大分水岭酿酒公司., which was started by alumnus Brian Dunn in 1994 — long before there was a brewery on every block. Dunn received a master’s degree in environmental policy 和 management from University College in 1992.

“In the early years it was pretty hard,” Dunn told the University of Denver Magazine in 2014. “I worked for a long time without getting paid, 但即使没有钱, 我们还在给员工发工资, 购买原料, 购买玻璃, 因为你没得选. But it’s my passion, it’s what I wanted to do, 和 damn it, I was going to make it go.”

多年来, 《新MG线上电子游戏》获得了18个GABF奖项, including silver medals for its Yeti Imperial Stout 和 Colette Farmhouse Ale 和 gold medals for its Hibernation Ale, 丹佛淡啤酒和老痞子大麦酒.

“我喜欢它，”邓恩谈到这个节日时说. “There are 55,000 people who are madly crazy about beer. 我们去那里倒啤酒, 人们关心啤酒, 和 they want to talk to you about making beer, they want to come in here 和 see the place — it’s awesome.”

Other alumni-owned breweries planning to attend this year’s GABF include:

Two22酿造 (纪念), owned by former DU athletes Paige Schuster (BS ’08) 和 her husb和, 马库斯·克里斯蒂安森(08级). The two started the business with the intent of giving back to the community, 和 $2.22 out of every $10 the brewery makes is donated to 科罗拉多州 nonprofits.

鼻子酿造公司. (Broomfield), owned by alumni Tommy Bibliowicz (BSBA ’10) 和 his wife, Megan (BA ’10, JD ’15). A true family affair, 4 Noses was started by Tommy 和 Megan along with Tommy’s father 和 brother. 他妈妈帮他写了商业计划书.

CO-Brew (Denver), owned by Janna Williams (BS, MA ’97) 和 her husb和, Jamie Williams. The business combines a homebrew supply store with a learn-to-brew experience, 它自己酿造啤酒.