Each year one of the most exciting aspects of the Great American Beer Festival is the ability to explore and sample some of the country’s best new breweries that have emerged on the scene. Additionally, it can be equally as rewarding to revisit some familiar faces you may only get to try once each year at the country’s largest beer showcase. However with the growing nature of the festival, and the Brewer’s Association’s move to a lottery system, we also tend to lose some familiar friends. As we’ve done each year, we’ve broken down the new / returning breweries as well as those who sadly aren’t coming back for this year’s Great American Beer Festival.

2017 New/Returning Breweries

This is the complete list of breweries who are attending GABF in 2017 who did not attend last year. Notable new and returning breweries that you shouldn’t miss include: Amplified Ale Works, Boomtown Brewery, Captain Lawrence Brewing, Cascade Brewing, Cellarmaker Brewing, Council Brewing Company, Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, DC Brau Brewing, FiftyFifty Brewing Co, Forager Brewing, Funkwerks, Kuhnhenn Brewing Co, Ladyface Ale Company, Resolute Brewing Company, Scofflaw Brewing Co, Speciation Artisan Ales, The Wrecking Bar Brewpub, Three Floyds Brewing Co and Toppling Goliath.

Brewery Name 13 Stripes Brewery 2nd Story Brewing Company 8th Wonder Brewery Abnormal Beer Company AC Golden Brewing Company Accomplice Beer Company Actual Brewing Company, LLC Adelbert's Brewery LLC Alliance Brewing Company Altamont Beer Works Altstadt Brewery American Harvest Brewpub At Schoolcraft College Amplified Ale Works Angry Horse Brewing Armadillo Ale Works Arrowhead Ales Brewing Company Artifex Brewing Company Bad Lab Beer Co. Bandon Brewing Company Bar Hygge / Brewery Techne Barley Creek Brewing Co Barnaby Brewing Company Barrage Brewing Co Bauhaus Brew Labs Baxter Brewing Co, LLC Bay City Brewing Co. Bbgb Brewery And Hop Farm Beara Brewing Co. Bearded Fox Brewing Co. Belleview Brew House LLC Berryessa Brewing Co Big Beach Brewing Company Big Storm Brewing Co. Black Shirt Brewing Co Blackrocks Brewery Blue Skye Brewery & Eats Boomtown Brewery Bootstrap Brewing Co Boulevard Brewing Co Bravery Brewing Brewability Lab BrewDog Brewing Company, LLC Brewery At Simmzys Burbank Briar Common Brewery Brieux Carre Brewing Company Brink Brewing Company Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative Brouwerij West Brown Truck Brewery Brues Alehouse Brewing Company Building 8 Brewing Bull Island Brewing Company C.B. and Potts/Big Horn Brewery - Westminster Calicraft Brewing Co Cambridge House Brew Pub - Granby Canyon Creek Brewing Captain Lawrence Brewing Co Cascade Brewing Cellarmaker Brewing Company Central Waters Brewing Co Channel Brewing Co. Cheluna Brewing Company Chula Vista Brewery Colorado Plus Commonwealth Brewing Co. Community Beer Works Confluence Brewing Co CooperSmiths Pub and Brewing Council Brewing Company Craft Brewing Company Crestone Brewing Company Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project Crow Peak Brewing Co Crystal Lake Brewing Co. Cueni Brewing Co. Damgoode Pies Danville Brewing Company Dayton Beer Co Production Brewery & Bierhall DC Brau Brewing Dialogue Brewing Dionysus Brewing Co. Double Mountain Brewery Dragoon Brewing Co Drekker Brewing Company Eddyline Brewing LLC Elk Mountain Brewing Co Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub Evergreen Tap House Evil Genius Beer Co Fat Bottom Brewing Fegley's Brew Works Ferguson Brewing Co FiftyFifty Brewing Co Finch Beer Company Florence Brewing Company Forager Brewing Company Fossil Cove Brewing Co Four Saints Brewing Four Sons Brewing Production Friendship Brewing Company Funkwerks Funky Buddha Brewery Gatlinburg Brewing Company Georgetown Brewing Co Gilgamesh Brewing Co Good Neighbor Brews GoodLife Brewing Company Goshen Brewing Company Gravity Brewlab Great Beer Co Great Central Brewing Company Great North Aleworks Green Cheek Beer Company Green Mountain Beer Company Greenbush Brewing Co Guanella Pass Brewing Company, LLC Haint Blue Brewing Company Happy Basset Brewing Company Helio Basin Brewing Company Hermitage Brewing Company Hi Sign Brewing Hi-Wire Brewing South Slope Specialty Brewery HopSaint Brewing Company Hourglass Brewing Humble Sea Brewing Co Hysteria Brewing Company Idle Vine Brewing Company Immersion Brewing Independent Brewing Company Indiana City Brewing Intersect Brewing Ironclad Brewery Ix Craft House Jellyfish Brewing Company Jessup Farm Barrel House Kern River Brewing Company Back Yard Kros Strain Brewing Company Kuhnhenn Brewing Co Kulshan Brewing Co Lady Justice Brewing Company Ladyface Ale Companie, LLC Lakes & Legends Brewing Company Lancaster Brewing Co Latitude 33 Brewing Co Lewis & Clark Brewing Co Lion Brewery Inc, The Lo-Fi Brewing Loma Brewing Company Lone Pine Brewing Company Loowit Brewing Lost Cabin Beer Co. Loveland Aleworks Lucky Star Brewery Lupulin Brewing Mad Beach Brewing Main Street Brewery Manifest Beer Company Maplewood Brewing Company Marin Brewing Co Masthead Brewing Co Mastry's Brewing Co. Maxline Brewing McCoy's Public House Medusa Brewing Company Metazoa Brewing Co. Middleton Brewing Co Mike Hess Brewing - Miramar Minglewood Brewery Mirror Twin Brewing Missouri Beer Company Moon River Brewing Co Moonlight Pizza Municipal Brew Works Napa Smith Brewery & Winery Nashville Brewing Company New Bohemia Brewing Co New District Brewing Company New Sarum Brewing New Terrain Brewing Company NOBO Brewing Company North By Northwest Restaurant and Brewery - Slaughter North Mountain Brewing Co North Park Beer Co. On Tour Brewing Co. Open Door Brewing Company Pair O' Dice Brewing Company Paradise Creek Brewery Pariah Brewing Company Parkers Hilltop Brewery Parkersburg Brewing Co Parts & Labor Brewing Company Peak To Peak Tap & Brew Peaks N Pines Brewing Company Phantom Canyon Brewing Co Pleasure House Brewing Prairie Krafts Brewing Company Pumphouse Brewery and Restaurant Quarter Celtic Brewpub Rails End Beer Company Red Horn Brewing Co. Reprise Brewing Resident Brewing Resolute Brewing Company Revision Brewing Company Right Brain Brewery Rough Draft Brewing Rouleur Brewing Company Round Guys Brewing Co Sanitas Brewing Co Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing Schulz Brau Brewing Company Scofflaw Brewing Co Seaside Brewery Second District Brewing Co. Seismic Brewing Co. Shipwrecked Restaurant and Brewery Shoe Tree Brewing Co. Silva Brewing Silver Moon Brewing Single Speed Brewing Co Solvang Brewing Company - Lompoc Southern Sun Pub and Brewery SouthNorte Beer Co. Speciation Artisan Ales Square Peg Brewerks St. Elmo Brewing Company St. Pete Brewing Company Stable 12 Brewing Company Standard Deviant Brewing Starr Brothers Brewing Co. State 48 Brewery Steady Habit Brewing Company Stonehome Brewing Company Sudwerk Brewing Co Tattered Flag Brewery The Bold Missy Brewery The Collective Brewing Project The Explorium Brewpub The Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project The Knuckle Brewing Company The Wrecking Bar Brewpub Thorn Brewing Co Three Floyds Brewing Co Tonewood Brewing Toppling Goliath Brewing Co Town In City Brewing Co, LLC Twisted Spur Brewing U4ic Brewing, Inc. Uncommon Brewers Uptown Market Brewing Uturn BBQ Vanessa House Beer Company Ventura Coast Brewing Company Victor 23 Craft Brewery Vision Quest Brewing Company Walking Tree Brewery Water Street Brewery Westallion Brewing Company Westbound & Down Brewing Company WestFax Brewing Co. Whiner Beer Company Wiens Brewing Co Woods Bar & Brewery WopsHops Brewing Company Working Class Brewery Wren House Brewing Company Zaftig Brewing Co. Zion Canyon Brewing Co Zuni Street Brewing Company

2017 Missing Breweries

This is the complete list of breweries who attended last year’s fest, but will not be in attendance this year. The biggest disappoints include absences by J Wakefield, Jester King and New Glarus. Also interesting to note is that all Coors-owned craft-y breweries including Blue Moon, Terrapin, Saint Archer, Hop Valley and Revolver are notably absent with AC Golden and Coors Brewing as the only exceptions, as well as a majority of Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned The High End entities absent as well, excluding Four Peaks and Blue Point as the exceptions.

Brewery Name 10 Barrel Brewing Co 1781 Brewing Company 1940's Brewing Company 2nd Shift Brewing Co 38 State Brewing 4 Hands Brewing Co 4th Tap Brewing Cooperative 5 Rabbit Cerveceria Inc Alameda Brewing Co All Rise Brewing Co Alltech's Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co Alpine Dog Brewing Co Alvarado Street Brewery Anthem Brewing Co Arrogant Brewing Auburn Alehouse B-52 Brewing Backcountry Brewery Band Of Bohemia Barebottle Brewing Company Bayou Teche Brewing Beer By Design Brewery Bend Brewing Co Big Bend Brewing Co Black Diamond Brewing Co Black Hammer Brewing Black Hog Brewing Co Black Star Co-op Black Tooth Brewing Co Blue Moon Brewing Company Blue Mountain Brewery BNS Brewing & Distilling Co. Bolo Beer Co Branchline Brewing Company Brenner Brewing Brew Hub, LLC Brewed By Gnomes Brewery Rickoli BridgePort Brewing Co Bubba Brew's Brewing Company Busted Sandal Brewing Company Butcher's Brewing Campbell Brewing Co Carbondale Beer Works Carbondale Craft Beer - Makers of Little Egypt Beer Castle Rock Beer Company Catawba Brewing Co CH Evans Brewing Co/Albany Pump Station Chama River Brewing Company Chimera Brewing Company Christian Moerlein Brewing Co Church Street Brewing Company Clouds Brewing Colorado Boy Pub & Brewery Cooperstown Brewing Co Copper Club Brewing Co Craft Brew Alliance - Kona Brewery Crooked Can Brewing Co Crystal Springs Brewing Co Dad & Dudes Breweria Dark City Brewing Company Declaration Brewing Company Desert Barn Brewing Co. Devil's Canyon Brewing Company Devils Backbone Brewing Co - Basecamp Double Shift Brewing Dude's Brewing Co Due South Brewing Co E.J. Phair Brewing Co. El Segundo Brewing Co Elevation Beer Company Elevator Brewing Co - Production facility Elysian Brewing Co Evil Czech Brewery Excel Brewing Co Fall Brewing Company Fifth Street Brewpub Flat Branch Pub and Brewing Florida Beer Co Flyers Restaurant and Brewery Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery Flying Dog Brewery Foolproof Brewing Company Fort Collins Brewery & Tavern Frothy Beard Brewing Co Full Sail Brewing Co Ghost Runners Brewery Golden Road Brewing Good City Brewing Company Goose Island Beer Co / Fulton St Grapevine Craft Brewery Half Moon Bay Brewing Co Hall Brewing Company Hanson Brothers Beer Company Harpoon Brewery Heavy Seas Beer Helton Brewing Company Highland Brewing Co Hoppin' Frog Brewing Co Humperdinks Restaurant & Brewery - Dallas (NW Hwy) J Wakefield Brewing J Wells Brewery Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co Jester King Brewery Johnson City Brewing Co Karbach Brewing Co Kindred Artisan Ales Kinetic Brewing Company King Harbor Brewing Co Labrewatory, The Lagunitas Brewing Co Last Name Brewing Laurelwood Public House and Brewery - NE Lightning Brewery Linden Street Brewery Little Harpeth Brewing Co Logboat Brewing Co Lowdown Brewery + Kitchen Magic Hat Brewing Co Main And Mill Brewing Company Mammoth Brewing Mark Twain Brewing Company Marker 48 Brewing LLC Mazama Brewing Co MBF Brewing Co McFate Brewing Company Metal Monkey Brewing LLC Midnight Jack Brewing Company Mikkeller Brewing San Diego Mitten Brewing Co Moccasin Bend Brewing Co Mockery Brewing Moerlein Lager House Mother Road Brewing Co Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery Mystery Brewing Co New Glarus Brewing Co New Glory Craft Brewery New Orleans Lager and Ale Brewing (NOLA Brewing) New Planet Beer Co Newburyport Brewing Co Nighthawk Brewery No Clue Craft Brewery Noble Rey Brewing Company North Loop Breiwng Co O'Connor Brewing Co Oak Highlands Brewery Oceanside Ale Works Oceanside Brewing Company Ohio Brewing Company Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, The Oliver Brewing Company Ordnance Brewing Pagosa Brewing & Grill Palmetto Brewing Co Pateros Creek Brewing Pedernales Brewing Co Pennsylvania Brewing Co Perch Pub & Brewery, The Phantom Ales Pigeon Head Brewery Pikes Peak Brewing Pinellas Ale Works Pints Brewery and Sports Bar Pizza Port Ocean Beach Port Brewing Co Port Huron Brewing Co Portland Brewing Post Falls Brewing Pro Re Nata Brewery PT's Brewing Co. Pug Ryan's Brewing Company Pure Project Rabbit Hole Brewing RAM/Big Horn Brewery - Lakewood RAM/Big Horn Brewery - Wheeling Red Lodge Ales Brewing Redemption Alewerks Rentschler Brewing ReUnion Brewery Revival Brewing Revolver Brewing Rick Tanner's Grille & Bar/Cherry Street Brewing Cooperative River North Brewery Roughtail Brewing Rusty Rail Brewing Saint Archer Brewing Company San Diego Brewing Co Sanctuary Brewing Company Second Line Brewing Shine Brewing Co. Slanted Rock Brewing Co SLO Brewing Co Smog City Brewing South Austin Brewery Southbound Brewing Co Spangalang Brewery Spoetzl Brewery Squatters Craft Beers State Brewing Co LLC Stevens Point Brewery Stewbum & Stonewall Brewing Co. StoneyHead Brewing LLC Stoudts Brewing Co Stoup Brewing Strangeways Brewing Swamp Head Brewery Taft's Ale House Tampa Bay Brewing Co Taos Mesa Brewing Co Tap It Brewing Co Temblor Brewing Company Terrapin Beer Co The Livery Thirsty Dog Brewing Company ThirstyBear Organic Brewery Thomas Creek Brewery Thorn Street Brewery Three Notch'd Brewing Company Titletown Brewing Co Toolbox Brewing Company Tractor Brewing Co Trumer Brauerei Twin Lakes Brewing Co Upstream Brewing Co (#2) Virginia Beer Company, The von Trapp Brewing Waddell's Brewing Co. Waikiki Brewing Company Walter Brewing Company Wander Brewing Wasatch Brewery Waverly Brewing Company Wicked Weed Brewing - Asheville Wicked Weed Brewing - Candler Wicked Weed Funk House Winchester Brew Works LLC Wolf Creek Brewery Wolf Tree Brewery Woodfour Brewing Company Woods Beer Company Worthy Brewing Company Yee-Haw Brewing, LLC. Zephyr Brewing Co