Festival registration for ALL makers is open May 13 at 10:00 am – July 11, 2025 at 5:00 pm
If you wish to enter the competition you will need to complete an application at GABFRegistration.com between June 10-27, 2025. GABF festival registration utilizes a new registration platform and will be open on May 13, 2025.
If you own the rights to a brand, but your beer is produced by another brewery, you are still eligible to register those beers for the festival. The brewery producing your beers must meet the brewery eligibility requirements. Enter the beers under the name of your brand, not the name of the brewery at which your beers are produced.
Enter the TTB Basic Permit/Brewers Notice number of the brewery producing the beer on your registration entry.
Festival registration takes place online from May 13 – July 11, 2025. Only beverage producers who meet both beverage & company eligibility requirements may register.
Yes! You can register to participate in the festival without having any entries in the competition. You might not come home with a medal, but you will gain new fans.
Pricing depends on what you’re doing, and if you’re a member of the Brewers Association. Brewers Association members can register for an in-line booth at the festival between May 13 and June 3, 2025 to secure a free space ($250 value) and a comped entry in the 2025 GABF competition ($185 value). Brewers Association members that register after June 3 will pay $150 for a pouring space (competition entry not included). Non-members will pay $300 to register for a pouring space after June 3. That cost includes up to four badges for company representatives to attend all festival sessions. Sponsorship pricing for endcap spaces varies depending on production volume.
Yes! All booth spaces can register to pour “beyond beer” beverages (packaged only) as part of their booth lineup. All pouring booths can serve up to 6 different beverages at their space. Up to five of those beverages can be alcoholic beer poured via draught equipment. All other non-alcohol beer or non-beer products must be served as packaged product.
If you are planning to send draught beer or cider, we recommend using the free MicroStar keg program to have kegs shipped directly to you. You can then drop those full kegs or packaged product at one of our 25+ festival drop off points and we will take care of the shipping from there.
If you register for a booth at the festival, you receive up to four (4) comped badges with that registration. If you opt for a Meet the Brewer booth we require that you have brewery staff working the space during all festival sessions and therefore include up to seven (7) comped badges with any Meet the Brewer booth registration. You can also purchase additional badges as part of the festival registration process. More information additional badges available here.
We invite all makers to decorate their booths and compete for the annual festival flair award. We do ask that you review our guidelines for displays and promotional materials as well as our Code of Conduct and Marketing & Advertising Code while planning your booth space, as we strive to provide an environment free of offensive language or booth décor that perpetuates any harmful stereotypes. The Brewers Association retains sole discretion to determine eligibility for the Great American Beer Festival.
We offer several options that allow makers to send beverages to have featured at the festival including the Wish We Were Here Taproom, The Heavy Medal Taproom, a Gluten-Free Taproom, and a state guild pavilion to name a few. More information on these options is available here.
A full refund is given only in the event that you cancel by July 26. No refunds will be given for any cancellations after this date.
The company admin person for your BA membership can log in to the company account at BrewersAssociation.org to view this information. If you are not the admin or do not know who your company admin person is, please request this from our member services team by emailing info@nullbrewersassociation.org or by calling 303-447-0816 ext. 2.
The company admin person for your brewery’s BA Membership cam log in to the company account at BrewersAssociation.org to view this information. If you are not the admin or do not know who your company admin person is, please request this from our member services team by emailing info@nullbrewersassociation.org or by calling 303-447-0816 ext. 2.