TRVE Brewing, which has always eschewed trends in favor of doing things their own way, will release one of the company’s most unusual bottled beers to-date on Saturday, December 2. Wavering Radiant is a wild/sour ale that was spontaneously fermented using yeasts and microbes that are floating in the air…
On Tuesday, Boulder’s Avery Brewing announced that it had given up a thirty percent stake in the company to Spanish brewing giant Mahou San Miguel. The sale keeps Avery founders Adam and Larry Avery in charge of the brewery’s future, but it means that the beer maker, founded in 1993,…
Dive Bar Beer will take a bit part in a new TV comedy series from writer-director Peter Farrelly (Dumb And Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and Emmy-winning writer Bobby Mort (The Colbert Report). The show, Loudermilk, which airs on the Audience Network, stars Ron Livingston as Sam Loudermilk, a recovering alcoholic and…
Avery Brewing, which has been one of Colorado’s most unconventional beer makers for the past 25 years, has sold a minority stake of its business to Spanish brewing conglomerate Mahou San Miguel. The billion-dollar company also owns a thirty percent stake in Michigan’s Founders Brewing, which it bought into in 2014…
Location, location….locations. Wayne Burns and Laura Worley have seen them all. A professional brewer for more than two decades, Burns has spent time in Michigan, at Kuhnhenn’s Brewing and Bell’s Brewery, and after moving to Colorado, at the Vine Street Pub & Brewery. In 2013, he and two friends founded Jagged…
If Left Hand Brewing’s lawsuit against craft-brewing yeast supplier White Labs ever goes to trial, the court room is going to look more like a lab than a legal proceeding, with all the microbiology expert witnesses showing up. Colorado’s fourth largest independent brewery has accused White Labs of selling faulty…
Two years ago, Renegade Brewing founder Brian O’Connell posted a treatise on his website calling for an end to the use of the word “craft” to describe, well, craft beer. “The moniker of craft is now being used as a tool by the macro brewers to marginalize and set aside…
Brewers carefully craft their beer recipes so that when someone drinks the finished product, they notice specific flavors, aromas, textures and colors. If the beer is paired with food, other flavors can come out, or the beer can bring out new flavors in that food. But for the most part,…
The Colorado-founded C.B. & Potts Restaurant and Brewery chain has closed its longtime location in Broomfield, leaving behind the building and all of the restaurant and brewery equipment. “We are unfortunately closing our doors at Flatiron Crossing and want to thank all of our loyal team members and guests for…
Sometimes you have to go back to go forward, left to go right, east to go west. That’s the case for Leadville’s Periodic Brewing — the highest-elevation brewery in North America and the second highest in the world — which has taken over the 5,000-square-foot space and bought the brewing…
Two small, homegrown breweries — both founded in Denver in 2012 — have teamed up on a new distribution arrangement. TRVE Brewing, which started a distribution arm last year to help sell beer for some of its brewery friends in other states (like Burial Beer, Finback Brewry and 7venth Sun),…
The craft-beer industry prides itself on collaboration and congeniality, so it’s always disheartening to see two small companies, especially those in Colorado, go after each other in court. But in the end, business is business. On November 3, Epic Brewing, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, filed suit in US. District Court…
The Colorado Brewers Guild is hosting the first Colorado Craft Brewers Summit, a conference and trade show on Monday, November 13, at Metro State University. The goal is to get brewers to learn from each other, as well as from experts in fields with which they may not have much familiarity.
Two Colorado breweries landed on Outside Magazine’s annual list of the 100 Best Places to Work this year, and while New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins has been in the list before, this is the first time for Durango’s Ska Brewing. The company, which has 72 employees making an average…
Renegade Brewing, which was founded in 2011 amid a wave of new taprooms, has sold a large stake of its business to an investment company called Silver Fox Partners, run by former Xerox CEO Ann Mulcahy. The change will allow the brewery to expand its barrel-aged beers offerings, add to…
Frisco’s Backcountry Brewery, which has been a fixture in Summit County for more than two decades, closed its doors last week, just as the ski and snowboarding season began. Charlie Eazor, who has owned the brewpub since 2010 with his brother, Joe, told the Summit Daily that he is thinking…
Wait, what? I could swear it was just the middle of summer and I was drinking juicy IPAs. But, no, we’ve blazed right through pumpkin-beer season, fresh hops and Oktoberfest, landing squarely in the realm of dark beers: winter, that is. But November may be one of the best months…
Lady Justice Brewing, the tiny Mountain View brewery that donates the majority of its profits to organizations that support “the status of women and girls” in Colorado, is introducing a new series of American strong ales that will be sold through the brewery’s membership model. Lady Justice will sell 150 memberships…
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.” Those are the words of Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. Brewing beer in Colorado could be said to be much the same, especially these days, when creative…
Boulder entrepreneur Ira Leibtag wasn’t that surprised last year when he started getting cold calls from breweries around the country asking for the liquefied chocolate he sells under the name Cholaca: After all, “chocolate is the most popular flavor in the world,” he says. But he was taken aback at…
Oskar Blues has set a date in late November for the opening of its third new Colorado location — this one is the two-story former Croc’s space at 1630 Market Street in LoDo. The 10,636 square-foot Oskar Blues Grill & Brew will offer traditional restaurant and bar service upstairs, along with…
Two of the founding fathers of Denver’s current brewery taproom scene will join forces at the end of the year when Wit’s End Brewing closes its taproom and moves into Strange Craft Beer Company’s space at 1330 Zuni Street, where both companies will operate side by side. Tyler Bies, who…
