For the seventh year running, the Great Australian Beer Festival (GABF) returns to Geelong this weekend (Saturday, February 16) with both craft beer lovers and non-beer drinkers rejoicing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis festival is for absolutely everyone, it\u2019s not an exclusive club and it\u2019s not just for a certain type of person,\u201d GABF founder Kieran Blood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really celebrating a concept, which is the craft concept \u2013 quality, passion, ability and skill; there\u2019s some really great beers and ciders out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geelong\u2019s GABF is a social day of street food, live music, DJs, and over 200 different beers from more than 40 national breweries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also the only festival in the world that has all Geelong and regional brewers attending the one single event \u2013 spend a part of your day getting around to these local beauties and the other tasting beers from across the nation,\u201d fellow co-founder Mike Ward said.<\/p>\n
Mr Ward said this year after listening to the feedback from patrons of previous events, they\u2019ve added larger tasting cups and beers by the can.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also do extensive surveys after and the overwhelming feedback we got was the tasting cups were too small.<\/p>\n
People had to keep getting back up, so this years we\u2019ve made them bigger to ensure people can relax and socialise on the lawn for longer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Other changes include the introduction of cans for breweries that have them, once again addressing customer\u2019s desire to be able to sit, drink and talk for longer periods.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will also have live brewing, Andy\u2019spiano bar, the whacky races again and various games we\u2019ve added to the program,\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re leading the pack and continue to evolve and be more innovative every year. We\u2019re the only beer festival that has a keg rolling competition and, we\u2019ll be serving up beer cocktails with Gorge Camorra –\u00a0 once again in the first beer festival offering that.”<\/p>\n
For tickets and more information go to gabfgeelong.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the seventh year running, the Great Australian Beer Festival (GABF) returns to Geelong this weekend (Saturday, February 16) with both craft beer lovers and non-beer drinkers rejoicing. \u201cThis festival is for absolutely everyone, it\u2019s not an exclusive club and it\u2019s not just for a certain type of person,\u201d GABF founder Kieran Blood said. \u201cIt\u2019s […]<\/p>\n