The Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am (GABF Pro-Am) competition is an opportunity for commercial breweries to team up with homebrewers to vie for top honors. The GABF Pro-Am entries are served during the Great American Beer Festival at the Pro-Am booth.

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How It Works

Brewers Association member breweries are eligible to submit one entry into the GABF Pro-Am competition. Entries must be based on a homebrew recipe from American Homebrewers Association (AHA) members that have won an award in an AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition*. Pro-Am competition judges come from the same professional panel of world-class judges that evaluate all the beers at the Great American Beer Festival competition. However, the Pro-Am competition is separate from the GABF competition, and therefore the Pro-Am medals do not count towards GABF Brewery and Brewer of the Year awards. Review the Pro-Am Competition Rules for more information.

 

2016 Pro-Am Competition Winners

Pro-Am Awards	Beer	Brewing Company	Professional Brewer	AHA Member Brewer
Gold	Just Rye’te	Panther Island Brewing Co.	Panther Island Brewing Team	Clifton Ellis
Silver	Vernal Equinox	Starr Hill Brewery	Starr Hill Brewing Team	Gary Layton
Bronze	The Kolsch Experiment	Altitude Chophouse and Brewery	Jesse Brown	Shawn Miller

Questions?

Contact AHA Project Coordinator John Moorhead.

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