The New Original Amateur Hour
Cigar City Brewing

Among all the goings-on at the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, our favorite has always been the Pro-Am competition. It’s an opportunity for professional brewers to work with an active member of the American Hombrewers Association to make an amateur brewer’s dream a reality by brewing their recipe on a commercial scale. At Cigar City, we use the Best Florida Beer Competition’s Homebrew Contest as our selection process and partner with the gold medal winner to brew our GABF Pro-Am entry. 2016’s BFBC Winner and Cigar City’s collaborative partner is Gregory Brown, a massively talented brewer who created the recipe for a high alcohol wheat wine that deftly blurs the lines between barleywine-style ale, wheat ale and high-alcohol hoppy beers.