There are plenty of new canned Colorado craft beers hitting the market this month, including Oskar Blues Fugli Yuzu & Ugli Fruit IPA, Ska Brewing Pink Vapor Stew, Telluride Brewing Russell Kelley Pale Ale and Denver Beer Co. Maui Express. But it’s hard to beat the refreshing, can-tastic artwork on…
Once upon a time (about four years ago), the owners of Colorado’s medium-sized and larger craft breweries faced a choice: use some of the cash they were earning from double-digit sales growth to take a major leap in size and keep up with the demand for their beers, or make…
Gordon McKennon doesn’t mind being judged. In fact, he welcomes it. Late last month, he and his wife, Joy, realized a longtime goal when they opened a small brewery inside of their three-year-old Aurora craft-beer bar, Peak to Peak Tap & Brew. With that change, Their customers can now do…
Peter Bouckaert, the renowned Belgian beer maker responsible for New Belgium Brewing’s groundbreaking sour-beer program and many of its other recipes, is leaving the nation’s fourth largest craft brewery after 21 years to launch a tiny — and mysterious — new project in Fort Collins called Purpose Brewing and Cellars…
Punch your round-the-world ticket tomorrow when Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project, Denver’s newest brewery, opens its doors for the first the time at 925 West Eighth Avenue in the Art District on Santa Fe. Founded by Ben Gettinger and former 105 West brewer Andrew Moore, the brewery will have thirteen of Moore’s beers…
Love them or hate them, New England-style IPAs are only growing in popularity, which means that the beers and their attendant qualities — and adjectives, like hazy, turbid, juicy and lush — are going to be around for a while. Over the past eighteen month, since Odd13 Brewing, Cerebral, Weldwerks…
Named in honor of the legendary Manitou Incline, Pikes Peak Brewing’s latest limited release is just as big as the 2,700 steps themselves — and might also make your knees buckle. Incline Imperial IPA, at 10.5 percent ABV and 185 IBUs, is “a study in hopping,” says Chris Wright, founder and…
When Denver Beer Co. opens its new Old Town Arvada brewery and tap room in mid-June, the third location for the company, there will be no need for a food truck outside. That’s because the truck — or, trailer, rather — will be parked inside the brewery. Denver Beer Co. owners Patrick…
Like a good mom, the RiNo Art District is rallying around Ratio Beerworks starting at noon on Mother’s Day to help the brewery while it faces what could be a three-week-long closure due to a licensing problem. The nonprofit organization is basically taking over the taproom during that time, buying…
Boulder Beer Company is Colorado’s oldest craft brewery — founded in 1979 — but it has never been the city’s most prominent. The brewery’s beautiful restaurant and taproom are hidden in an out-of-the-way east Boulder business park on Wilderness Place. That will change in July though, when Boulder Beer takes…
He came, he saw, he ate some chicken and brewed some GABF-award winning beers, and now he’s leaving. Bryan Selders, who became the founding brewmaster at The Post Brewing in Lafayette in 2013 after nine years as the head brewer and reality-TV star at Dogfish Head Brewing, is heading back…
Ratio Beerworks, which opened its doors in February 2014, has temporarily closed those doors while it sorts out a paperwork issue with both the city and the state licensing authorities. The intensely popular River North brewery didn’t say how long it intends to be closed or whether it will reopen…
Oskar Blues Brewery, which purchased Florida craft-beer darling Cigar City Brewing last year, will begin rolling out Cigar City’s beers in Colorado next week. Oskar Blues and its financial backer, Fireman Capital Partners, also own Michigan’s Perrin Brewing and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries, both in Utah. Colorado is the…
Every week is craft-beer week in Colorado — but it wasn’t always like that, and some states are still fighting against laws that limit homebrewers, taprooms and other pillars of the independent beer company. Which is why it’s good to remember, even in taproom-loaded Denver, that American Craft Beer Week…
The palette of Denver’s palate deepens and broadens today when Goed Zuur opens in Five Points, serving not just a vast spectrum of complex sour and wild ales, but a sophisticated range of small plates and unusual dishes. Set inside a 120-year-old brick building with a carefully restored 1930s-era mural…
Troubadour Maltings doesn’t supply huge quantities of malted barley to Colorado’s craft breweries, but the grain it does provide them still makes a big difference. Take Oskar Blues, for example, which sells a Mexican-style lager called Beerito in all fifty states and overseas. While the state’s second largest craft brewery…
The news came as a shock to beer lovers in Colorado yesterday. Wicked Weed Brewing, the five-year-old North Carolina-based superstar in the world of craft brewing, revealed that it had become the tenth independently owned craft brewery to be consumed by Anheuser Busch InBev, the maker of Budweiser and Bud…
A pair of Colorado breweries will put some new cans on the shelves this week, one with a new beer and the other with a new look. Both will be around all summer for your warm-weather drinking pleasure. The first can is Oskar Blues’s new summer seasonal, Fugli Yuzu & Ugli…
Pug Ryan’s Brewery, which has been a mainstay in the town of Dillon for decades, was sold by its longtime owners Travis and Annie Holton this week to another couple, John and Judy Jordan. John Jordan had been a brewer at Breckenridge Brewery for seventeen years. Originally a steakhouse, Pug’s…
May is a busy month for Colorado — and especially for Colorado breweries. Not only is it the beginning of festival season — several examples of which you can see below — but you have Cinco de Mayo, May the Fourth, Memorial Day and American Craft Beer Week, a national…
Here’s a bit of local knowledge: When Great Divide Brewing opened in 1994, owner Brian Dunn was taking a huge risk. Although it seems strange to think about now, there weren’t any breweries in Denver back then that didn’t also serve food. There were no brewery taphouses or craft-beer bars…
Elevation Beer Company is revamping its packaging again. This time, the Poncha Springs brewery will phase out twelve-ounce glass bottles in favor of cans for its core lineup, which includes 8 Second Kolsch, Wave Wheel Wit, First Cast IPA and Little Mo Porter. The brewery will also add a fifth canned…
