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Craft beer’s most important industry gathering, the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® is kicking off in Indianapolis, Indiana today. And If you’re in the craft beer biz, have friends in the industry, or hope to work in it yourself one day, you need to be there.

Presented by the Brewers Association, the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) is the world’s largest beer and brewing event and 10,000 brewing professionals and some of the biggest names in the biz have already arrived.

The CBC is held in different cities annually. Last year it took place in Las Vegas, And in 2025 it will be making its first heartland visit to Indianapolis, Indiana (April 28 – May1).

First launched in Boulder, Colorado in 1996, the Craft Brewers Conference has grown massively in scope and scale over the years…The 2025 CBC will showcase more than 70 seminars and a vast array of industry voices, across nine different educational tracks.

Indianapolis Convention Center

CBC 2025 will also present BrewExpo America, the nation’s leading trade show for craft brewers featuring hundreds of exhibitors and a great opportunity for professionals to explore the newest products and services that the industry has to offer.

The Craft Brewers Conference will conclude on May 1 with the awards ceremony for the 2025 World Beer Cup, the biggest and most prestigious beer competition in the world—coined the “Olympics of Beer.”

Developed in 1996 to celebrate the art and science of brewing, the now annual competition continues to generate global awareness about different beer styles and flavor profiles while promoting international brewing excellence.

This year’s competition is expected to be unforgiving, as craft brewing continues to attract an even broader universe around the globe.

So yeah, it is On!

Our team is already in town and looking forward to sharing a beer with as many of you as we can. So please give a shout-out if you see us misbehaving everywhere. The American Craft Beer crew will admit to having had too much fun at last year’s CBC,  but we’re not apologizing  for anything.

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(All photographs courtesy of Craft Brewers Conference and Brewers Association)