March is filled with beer events all over Denver; here are our choices for the ten best craft beer events for the month.

Here’s our list of the top craft beer events, deals and tappings in Denver and beyond through Saturday, March 10.

USA Today’s 10Best readers’ choice survey is underway online, and once again, it includes a category for the best new brewery. That’s a hot contest considering the fact that hundreds of new breweries open each year across the country (there are now more than 6,000) and that the survey covers…

The beer is the thing at Colorado’s four hundred or so breweries, but if you like presentation as well — and most of us do — then you’re going to appreciate the extra mile that some breweries go to make their suds look good. From custom-built metal taster trays in…

The owners of Denver Beer Co are planning to “create a bridge, rather than a wall” with their latest concept, a craft-beer bar serving ten Mexican-style beers and collaborations with Mexican breweries. Cerveceria Colorado, at 1635 Platte Street, will be located next door to Denver Beer Co in the space that…

It’s Valentine’s Day, and there is nothing more romantic that two souls finding each other and working together to create something bigger than the sum its parts — and by “something,” I mean…beer! The fifth annual Collaboration Fest takes place on March 31 at the Hyatt Regency downtown, when breweries…

Almost every brewery in Colorado makes an IPA, but that doesn’t mean every brewery makes a great IPA. Only a few of them brew IPAs that truly stand out, or stand above the rest. While much of that judgement is subjective, some of it is bolstered by numbers. Beer Advocate,…

Frisco’s Backcountry Brewery, which closed last November before being sold to a new owner, will get a new name, a new look and new beers when it reopens sometime this spring.

Craft breweries have been experimenting with IPAs for decades, adding and subtracting hop varieties and malt bills, as well as changing up yeast strains and adjunct ingredients like fruit and spices. There have been Belgian-style IPAs, Cascadian (black) IPAs, red IPAs, wild IPAs, oak-aged IPAs, fruited IPAs (which was a…

High Hops Brewery in the northern Colorado town of Windsor just got its own canning line, and the beer makers there are wasting no time putting it to good use. The brewery plans to become one of the first — if not the very first — craft brewery to sell…

Coffee beers are nothing new. Breweries in Colorado have increasingly focused on coffee as an ingredient over the past few years, widening the breadth and deepening the depth of their knowledge — and then producing some seriously geeky concoctions based on the origin, variety and local roaster of the beans…

Most craft brewery owners thought Oskar Blues was idiotic back in 2002 when the company became the first to regularly package its beer in cans. They said it destroyed the image of good beer and that it wouldn’t work. But those brewers have all since come around to idea that…

February comes pre-loaded with two beer-friendly holidays: Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day (or Anti-Valentine’s Day, as the case may be). But the shortest month of the year is also special in Colorado because of Stout Month, which was started by the Mountain Sun Pub 25 years ago and which is…

It’s often difficult to find a seat at 105 West Brewing in Castle Rock, which has been growing in popularity since it opened in late 2015. But that will change over the next few months as the brewery expands. Immediate plans call for moving the adjacent Castle Rock Homebrew Supply…

In the beginning, at the dawn of the craft-beer era in Colorado, there was free beer. And it was good. Anyone who was interested in checking out breweries like New Belgium, Odell and Great Divide could stop by, learn about the brewing process and sample the beer for free. If…

There have been big changes recently among the ranks of Denver’s brewers. Among them is the temporary departure of Little Machine Beer’s co-founder and head brewer Brett Williams, who is taking a leave to live in Mexico with his wife. Although Williams will work remotely on several aspects of Little…

Charlie Papazian, the man whose energy and words inspired tens of thousands of homebrewers and helped create the craft brewing industry, has said he will step down from the Brewers Association in exactly one year, on January 23, 2019, his seventieth birthday. Papazian made Colorado the center of the world for…

Not everyone likes to have their picture taken. Some people — grumpy brewers in particular — would rather toil away in peace or solitude, and not as the subject of a photographer. Others enjoy the spotlight, even trying to pose for pictures instead of being themselves in front of the…

The Colorado Brewers Guild has elected four new members to its eleven-member board of directors — all of whom will get a lesson in civics as the legislative session begins at the state capitol this month. They are Carrie Knose of Living the Dream Brewing, Mike Lawinski of Fate Brewing,…

Nothing gives us a warmer, fuzzier feeling than the thought of trying brand-new beers from some of Colorado’s 350-plus craft breweries — especially when the weather is cold and the nation’s mood is stormy. From coffee beers to hazy, New England-style IPAs to even a sake beer, there is a…

Since founding Casey Brewing & Blending in 2014, owner Troy Casey has focused primarily on the “Blending” part of his company’s name. Casey makes his wort — unfermented beer — at other mountain breweries, including Bonfire, Roaring Fork and Capital Creek, and then trucks it back to Glenwood Springs, where…

Crazy Mountain Brewery, which opened its pioneering Vail Valley taproom in 2010, closed the Edwards taproom suddenly over the weekend, saying it has plans to open a new location nearby. “Crazy Mountain’s location in Edwards, Colorado is now permanently closed. We are relocating our brewing production and will be opening…