For the first time in three years, on Thursday, the American craft-beer industry and the beer-drinking public gathered in Denver at a Great American Beer Festival, where beer trends showed the impact of the pandemic.
The first of the four public sessions of the largest gathering of brewers in the U.S. — the event continues Friday and then again Saturday afternoon and evening — was expected to be the smallest of the weekend, with brewers pouring for die-hard aficionados. And while the crowd grew…
