According to the “Guinness Book of World Records,” there is no other place on earth where a beer aficionado can find more beers on tap than at the Great American Beer Festival. The festival is the American brewing industry’s top opportunity for public tasting and competition. Tasting sessions will offer attendees the opportunity to tour America’s brewing landscape, one ounce at a time, with access to more than 2,200 different beers from more than 450 of the nation’s finest breweries. The Great American Beer Festival gathers practically every type of beer from every region of the country and arranges them geographically on the festival floor. The festival allows visitors to taste the largest number and the widest variety of handcrafted products in the American beer industry. The Great American Beer Festival has been an annual event every year since 1982 and is presented by the Brewers Association, a not-for-profit educational and trade organization that is devoted to making quality brewing and beer information available to anyone. The Brewers Association also promotes and protects American craft beer, American craft brewers and the community of brewing enthusiasts.