GABF 2015 Discussion & Info

were you able to buy all 6 tickets using the same ticketmaster account? i also had three codes (affiliate members on my aha membership), and would have preferred to handle buying the tickets myself rather than try to walk my father through it, but i didn't want to risk having them all cancelled.

 

Crossing my fingers for CBS. That is the one beer that has eluded me.

 

Nope. 3 different accounts.

 

I bought tickets using different AHA codes and the same Ticketmaster account. My coworker was denied using a PC and IE; I was able to use his number on the iPhone App while standing at his desk.

I also had better luck with Choime than he had with IE.

 

Anyone remember when they release the beer list?

 

It's a few days before the fest, I think the Monday before last year.

 

I had my assistant on a Mac using Safari and she got all the way through to confirming credit card info with 1 account / 1 code and it kicked her out. I used a second account and code with Chrome and had no issues and then got in again with her account / code. My GF was able to get in with a 3rd account at work. I then successfully purchased Thursday tickets with my first code, although it's claimed they'll deny it later.

 

You can buy the limit for each session with the code. So if you bought 2 for the members you can still buy 4 for Thursday and 4 for Friday.

 

Also the GABF app is pretty handy for marking favorite breweries or beers you want to try.

I did find out though you can't have two windows open and try to add all the tickets you want for multiple sessions at once. Otherwise it kicks you out of both and ZERO tickets end up being in your cart and you have to start over. Buy tickets for one session at a time. Kind of a PIA.

 

Wow... it never ceases to disgust me seeing so many tickets already up on stubhub so quickly after the on-sales

 

This played out just about how I thought it would. Lol.

 

Maybe we need to organize a three-stop (Stem, CO Cider Co. and C Squared) cider crawl, too?

 

A little fruit, a little exercise... it'll be a healthy afternoon!

 

Its not worth trying to buy them from Ticketmaster. Be patient and you can find tickets for less than face value closer to the event. I bought Friday Evening and Sat Afternoon tickets last year from a desperate scalper for less than $40 a piece.

 

Hey everyone,
Im super pumped to have gotten tickets to my first GABF this year. Im proud to know alot of great breweries but many of the up and comers Im still learning. Does anyone have recomendations for the other readers and myself of must tries or rare releases from some of the less popular breweries that will be on tap.

Ill start it off with a recomendation for everyone: Kane Brewing-A night to end all dawns!! Local brewery that took home gold with this beer last year and they have it on their tap list for this year!!

Hope to see a ton of you there and cheers!!

 

I'm also going for my first time this year, really stoked. Is there an actual list that is printed out before the event? That would be really helpful - I'll definitely be in line for ANTEAD

 

You can look up prior year medal winners on the website. That can be a good place to start formulating a list.

 

Ehh...so I hate to be "that guy"...but since I am....

Ciders are great, but they ain't beer. The infusion of craft cider into the craft beer industry/market just confuses things. "Do you have any cider beers?" Different processes and to me it disrespects the efforts of brewers.

 

so... even though GABF "officially" sold out of tickets to the Friday session in about 50+ minutes, they were immiadately unavailable. I tried for about 15-20 minutes to continuously buy one damn ticket, but gave up. How is this fair to the general public? Tickets of course were immediately for sale at $125+ fees through thieving third party vendors with hundreds of tickets available.

Can't say I'm every trying again. -oh and I'm never signing up for an AHA membership ever again either- Ticketmaster is terrible, but you can't help but pass most of the blame directly on the AHA for allowing the whole process to get so pathetic.

I'm sure the rest of you are having a similar experience.