Great American Beer Festival 2023 tickets on sale today — and, yes, there will be seltzer this year

The Great American Beer Festival returns to Denver on Sept. 21-23, roughly two weeks earlier than last year’s dates, for just its second iteration since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tickets, which cost $95 — the same price as last year — go on sale to the general public today at 10 a.m., but it’s anyone’s guess how quickly they will sell. Between 2012 and 2017, they were one of the hottest tickets in town, selling out within hours, even minutes, online. That began to change in 2018, though, as beer festival fatigue set in. Last year, the first post-pandemic GABF since 2019, tickets were still on sale for some sessions until the days of the event.

The Boulder-based Brewers Association, which hosts GABF, didn’t release ...