PR - ORBITZ RECOGNIZES GABF

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orbitz.com Lists Great American Beer Festival® as Most Fun Event Boulder, Colo. • Sept. 20, 2002—Orbitz.com listed the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), the nation’s largest beer festival, as one of the “most fun events on planet earth.” To celebrate its first anniversary, Orbitz is giving people a chance to win airfare travel to the top 10 most fun worldwide events by voting for the events on line. The GABF was nominated as the top 20 most fun events. Some of the other nominated events include Australia Gay Games, Australia; Tomato Throwing Contest, Spain; Valentine’s Day in Paris, France; Carnaval, Brazil; St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland. Visit: http://clients.eprize.net/orbitz/anniversary/phase1/. Orbitz is a travel web site by the world’s leading airlines. Orbitz was designed to give people access to low fares on airline tickets, rental cars, hotels, vacation packages and other travel products. The Great American Beer Festival is celebrating its 21st birthday Thurs., Oct. 3 through Sat., Oct. 5, 2002. The festival offers attendees the opportunity to taste America’s brewing landscape by choosing one-ounce samples from more than 1,200 different beers served by 300 of the nation’s finest breweries. Tickets are on sale now. Event details and ticket information can be found at the official web site www.beertown.org. More than 22,000 beer enthusiasts are expected to celebrate during this three-day festival at downtown Denver’s Colorado Convention Center. Sponsors of the 2002 Great American Beer Festival includes: Anheuser-Busch. Inc, Westword, The Mountain 99.5 FM, Pabst Brewing Company, Colorado Lottery, AT&T Broadband, Pete’s Brewing Company, MicroStar Keg Management, L.L.C., Beer Institute, Pepsi, Vail Resorts, Boston Beer, Briess Malting Co., Great Western Malting, Yakima Chief and beertown.org. The Great American Beer Festival has been held every year since 1982 and is presented by the Association of Brewers, a not-for-profit educational and trade organization founded in 1978 that is devoted to making quality brewing and beer information available to anyone. The Association of Brewers also hosts the bi-annual World Beer Cup and is based in Boulder, Colo., U.S.A. # # # Cindy Jones Sales and Marketing Director Association of Brewers 303.447.0816 x 144 cindy(a)aob.org The Great American Beer Festival October 3-5, 2002 Colorado Convention Center Visit www.beertown.org for details!