No, this isn’t a geography quiz. New England-style IPAs are the hottest and most controversial thing to hit craft brewing in a long time, and Colorado breweries are making some of the best examples in the country. The “style,” which isn’t yet recognized by the Brewers Association, showcases tropical, citrusy…
Peaches and peppers tend to get the most play when it comes to Colorado crops. For craft breweries, many of whom have developed close relationships with growers over the past few years, particularly on the Western Slope, grapes, cherries and apricots, not to mention fresh hops, are also highly sought…
Summer is over, but the canned beers never stop rolling off the lines in Colorado. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to try at least five new canned beers from three breweries: Spice Trade, Good River and Lone Tree. The first two are canning their beers for the…
Brewers have always loved to hang out together, to travel, to talk shop, to raise a pint — and another. And in the morning, those same brewers will often lend each other equipment, ingredients, advice, even employees. It’s part of what has made the craft-beer industry special for so long,…
Skiers and snowboarders think about snow all winter and fall, and they know when its’s getting close because there are gear and season-pass sales all over the place. Beer lovers think about rich, high-gravity treats all winter and fall, and they know when they’re getting close because labels like these…
If you’ve seen a photo of a brewery on Facebook anytime in the past two years there’s a good chance that it was captured by Dustin Hall, the creator of The Brewtography Project. Hall has been traveling the state, taking pictures — behind the scenes and in front of them…
If you like light beers, then great ready to be thrilled. Or irritated. Or maybe just confused. Dive Bar Brewing is making a light American lager for Denver, and the owners will knock it out of your hand if you try to sniff it. “The whole idea is to drink…
I love pumpkin beers. There, I said it. I love a sweet, malty, gourd-based ale layered over with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and maybe some honey. Ramp up the alcohol content and put the whole thing in a rum barrel, and I’ll wait up all night in the pumpkin…
Colorado’s biggest little beer festival returns to Breckenridge for the second time on January 4-6, 2018, with some upgrades and improvements. Tickets for the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival go on sale today at 10 a.m. at bigbeersfestival.com — and they will sell out very, very quickly. Here’s a…
Did you feel that? It was a slight breeze on a hot day, but it carried with it just a tiny hint of cold temperatures, and it made you shiver. And that shiver set off a chain reaction in your brain that let you know fall is on its way…
Brian O’Connell has never been a big fan of pumpkin beers, a popular but polarizing fall beer, and he hadn’t had time to brew a New England-style IPA, which has become one of the most controversial, most talked-about new styles to hit the craft-beer world in a while. But the…
Maybe it’s because the United States only imports foreign holidays that involve a lot of drinking. Maybe it’s because there’s now a direct flight between Denver and Munich, Germany. Or maybe it’s because craft-beer drinkers are tired of relying on pumpkin brews for their seasonal fall treats. Whatever the reason,…
As competition for shelf space heats up in the world of craft beer, bigger breweries are endeavoring to stay nimble, trying new things — and occasionally throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks. Odell Brewing, which is Colorado’s third largest craft-beer maker, has released a slew of new…
You probably haven’t heard of the second-largest brewery in Denver, but you definitely know the beers brewed there: Station 26 Brewing’s Citra IPA, Black Shirt Brewing’s Stringbender Saison, the Post Brewing’s Townie Ale, and the brand-new Weldwerks Brewing’s Alpha Bits New England-Style IPA, among others. Sleeping Giant Brewing, which was…
The year was 2014. The sun was shining, the flowers were blooming and Ska Brewing was getting ready to introduce a new year-round beer, Rudie Session Ale, a 4.5 percent ABV IPA made with Galaxy and El Dorado hops. Rudie — which Ska tagged with the line “Rudie can’t fail,”…
Beer can grease a lot of wheels in this country, but it’s not magic. So, members of the Colorado Brewers Guild have been hosting a program called Hop the Vote for the past four years to help get to know their elected officials in the Colorado General Assembly. The program invites legislators…
For the first time since it was founded in 1991, Breckenridge Brewery won’t have a table at the Great American Beer Festival — at least, not according to current plans. Neither will Elysian Brewing, Wicked Weed, 10 Barrel or Goose Island, which are all missing from the GABF list of participating breweries that…
For craft-beer lovers who live inside Denver’s city limits, there’s not a lot of motivation to drive to a suburban brewery. For starters, there are dozens of terrific choices close by. There is also traffic, which gets worse every week, and the fact that no one wants to drive a…
The town of Windsor lost a little piece of its history and a little bit of its soul on August 6 when someone set fire to a 118-year old former flour mill that locals had described as being like an old friend. Built in 1899, the four-story mill had managed…
While the majority of breweries in Colorado have patios — some of them open rain, snow or shine — the action of ordering a beer usually takes place inside. But in the last month, two Denver breweries have added outdoor bars, an uncommon amenity, in an effort to add some…
New Belgium has been making tiny batches of one-off sour beers for years, but it hasn’t ever packaged them, focusing instead on its larger sour creations, like La Folie and Transatlantique Kriek. But last month, the Fort Collins-based brewery revealed that it had put an end to its acclaimed Lips…
You can find most Coors products everywhere, but Barman, a special pilsner named after the hometown of brewery founder Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, is tougher to locate. It’s brewed at AC Golden, and sold at only sixteen bars in metro Denver.
