2023 Tasting Session Beer Styles

The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is excited to announce over 70+ styles of craft beer that will be poured at this year’s Tasting Sessions as part of the Brewer Showcase. From easy drinking pilsners and classic IPAs to big, barrel aged stouts, the eclectic variety from these 21 brewers will satisfy every kind of beer drinker, from casual fans to enthusiasts.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Hazy Little Thing, Strainge Beast Hard Kombucha Mimosa, Torpedo IPA, Pale Ale

  • High ABV Session - Big Little Thing IIPA

Ska Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Mexican Style IPA, Lager, Oktoberfest
  • High ABV Session - Nefarious Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, Double Modus Hoperandi

Telluride Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Cold Feet Cold IPA, Russell Kelly IPA, Suero Lime Pilsner

  • High ABV Session - Fishwater DIPA, Batch 1000, Sleeper Pow Day Burbon Barel Aged Stout

Firestone Walker Brewing Co

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - 805 Cerveza, 805, Mind Haze, Cali Sqeeze Blood Orange
  • High ABV Session - Parabola

Aspen Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Ajax Pilsner, Cloud Nine Saison, This Season's Blonde, Gold Level Dry Hop Lager, Independence Pass IPA, Excess In Moderation IPA
  • High ABV Session - 10th Mountain Coconut Imperial Stout, Cloud Nine Saison

4 Noses Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Rio Lento, Pumpaction Pumpkin Ale, Noice, Emphatic IPA, Peachopotomus Ale, Michelada Picante
  • High ABV Session - Dear Dahlia 3X IPA, Wild Provisions Metes and Bounds Wild Ale

Carver Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Lightner Creek Lager, Her Majesty (blueberry and lemon sour, Yankee Boy New England IPA
  • High ABV Session - Big Bike Double IPA

Odell Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Hazer Tag, Big Sippin', Oktoerfest,
  • High ABV Session - Friek

Crooked Stave

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Sour Rose, NZ Pilsner, Juicy East
  • High ABV Session - Camera Obscura BBA Stout

Guanella Pass Brewery

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Shmoke and a Pretzel - Cherrywood Smoked Marzen,Hawt Mama - Jalapeno Raspberry Blonde, Georgetown Jack-O, Pumpkin Ale,
  • High ABV Session - Two Teef - 2023 Silver Medal Winning Kentucky Common

Jagged Mountain Brewing

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Four Pass - Pilsner, Let’s Go Girls - Dry Hopped Pale Ale, Wolfpack - Hazy IPA, Grouse Mountain - Blood Orange Gose
  • High ABV Session - Double Vision - Hazy Double IPA

Melvin Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - • Miss Defy Kolsch, Killer Bees, Melvin IPA

  • High ABV Session - Back in the Haze Hazy IPA

Smugglers Brew Pub

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Palmyra Pils, Chanterelle Ale - Belgian Golden, Citra - West Coast IPA, Oktoberfest, Chilly Goat - Wet Hopped Cold IPA, Pumpkin Plunge - Spiced Belgian
  • High ABV Session - Simcoe - DIPA, Farewell Spaceman - Dessert Stout

Big B's Hard Cider

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Peach Pickin Time, Orchard Original, Cherry Daze, Lazy Daze, Harvest Apple, Sangria Spritz
  • High ABV Session - Tepache Fuerte (Spiced Pineapple)

High Trestle Brewing Co.

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Durango Dark Lager (a dark lager), Colorfest (our Autumn seasonal – Marzen style), Hop Hugger IPA (a west coast IPA)

  • High ABV Session - Derail Ale (an Imperial Golden Ale)

Grand Canyon Brewing

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - American Pilsner, Prickly Pear IPA, Prickly Pear Weat, Overnight IPA
  • High ABV Session -What the Funk, Just the Tip

Roahouse Brewing Co

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Phlow, HighwayMan, Mountain Jam

  • High ABV Session - Walrus Hazy IPA

Stronghouse Brewpub

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Leaf-Peeper Lager Oktoberfest, Coconut Porter, ColdFire Pale
  • High ABV Session - Wet Hop Dream Fresh hop

Strainge Beast

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Mimosa

Horse & Dragon Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - New England Style IPA, Off-Script - Pilsner, Neko — Yuzu & Red Chili Blonde Rice Ale
  • High ABV Session - Malice and Darkness Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout

Oskar Blues Brewery

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Dales Pale Ale, Dales Light Lager, Hazy Blues

  • High ABV Session - Double Dales Pale Ale

Palisade Brewing Company

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Let it Grow IPA, Mexican Lager, Pilsner
  • High ABV Session - Imperial Stout, imperial Porter

Athletic Brewing Co.

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Upside Dawn Golden Ale, Free Wave Hazy IPA, Run Wild IPA

White Claw

  • Regular Tasting Sessions - Black Cherry Hard Seltzer, Mango Hard Seltzer, Vodka + Soda Peach, Vodka + Soda Pineapple

Colorado Brewer's Guild Tasting Session Styles

New for this year, the Colorado Brews Guild will join attending breweries to showcase fresh hop beers with local hops from Montrose based Billy Goat Hop Farm, Oktoberfest style beers and more during the Brewer Showcase Tasting Sessions. Stop by the Colorado Brewers Guild Tent to meet folks from the guild and to try some craft beers that represent some of the state’s best breweries not in attendance at the event.

FRIDAY TASTING SESSIONS 1 & 2

Fresh Side Story | Base Camp Brewing & Ramblebine Brewing - A fresh take on a classic Cold IPA style. Utilizing Billy Goat Hops Farm Cascade & Chinook Hops, fermented on a lager yeast, and cold dry hopped.

Fresh Hop IPA | 6 and 40 Brewery - 10lbs of wet hops Chinook and Multihead hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm went into creating this Fresh Hop IPA.

Oktoberfest | WestFax Brewing Co - Rich in malt with a balance of clean, hop bitterness, this collaboration was brewed by the entire WestFax staff.

Oktoberfest | Odyssey Beerwerks - Märzen, a traditional German-style amber lager with slight toasted malt sweetness and a dry, crisp finish.

SATURDAY TASTING SESSION 1 & SUNDAY TASTING SESSION 1

Heather’s Ale | Strange Craft Beer Company - This Fresh Hop American IPA 75# of fresh Cascade hops from Billy Goat Farms are used in this fresh-hopped version IPAphany. Celebrating and named after our friend Heather Clarke who passed Sept 2014 from breast cancer.

Hop Kid | Elevation Beer Company - Coper Hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm in Montrose, CO. We named this beer "Hop Kid: in homeage to Billy Goat Hop farm in Montrose, as kid is the term for baby goat.

Oktoberfest | Crystal Springs Brewing Company - This German-Style beer is balanced and well-attenuated. It is slightly bitter yet still malty, clean, smooth, and very drinkable.

Union Maid Oktoberfest | OCC Brewing - Classic Oktoberfest Märzen with bready malt notes, finishing dry with a hint of melanoidins.

SATURDAY TASTING SESSION 2

Méthode Traditionnelle Spontaneous Beer | Primitive Beer - Multihead is an indigenous variety of hops to New Mexico and Colorado. We're cold steeping these hops from Billy Goat Farms in 2-year mature spontaneous beer (also all ingredients grown in Colorado).

 
 

Tasting Sessions

The Brewers Showcase will feature five tasting sessions in a new Beer Garden on the festival grounds located in between the Main Stage and the Blues Stage. These sessions will host fewer attendees and breweries than the traditional Grand Tasting, providing attendees with the opportunity to interact with the brewers on a more intimate level than in years past.

Two of the sessions will be held on Friday afternoon, two on Saturday afternoon and one on Sunday. Four of the sessions will offer attendees a tasting experience with 23 breweries pouring over 60 styles of craft beer. Each session will run for two hours in length and is sold out.

The late Saturday session will feature 25 or more special, high ABV, barrel-aged, rare, wild and non-traditional craft beers. This session will also run for two hours in length and is sold out.

  • Friday, September 15 from 1-3 pm

  • Friday, September 15 from 4-6 pm

  • Saturday, September 16 from 1-3 pm

  • Saturday, September 16 from 4-6 pm (special, high ABV, barrel-aged, rare, wild and non-traditional craft beers)

  • Sunday, September 17 from 12 am - 2 pm

Patrick ShehanTelluride Blues & Brews Festival, Telluride, Colorado, Music, Live Music, Festival, Music Festival, Brewers Showcase, Tasting Sessions, Beer, Brews, Craft Beer, Craft Brews, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co, Ska Brewing, Telluride Brewing Company, Firestone Walker Brewing, 4 Noses Brewing Co, 2023