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Great American Beer Festival, Denver, Colo.
© 2007 Jason E. Kaplan

Great American Beer Festival, Denver, Colo.

Since being founded in 1982, this extravaganza has morphed into America's most prestigious beer festival. Each year, nearly 46,000 enthusiasts descend onto the mile-high city's Colorado Convention Center to sample some of the nearly 2,800 stouts, IPAs, lagers and porters poured by more than 450 breweries. But the main event is the professionally judged competition, in which breweries vie for coveted gold, silver and bronze medals that can transform a little-known brewery into a world-class powerhouse.

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