Denver, get ready for garlic beer. Next month, Andrew Moore and Ben Gettinger plan to open the Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project, a brewery that will specialize in “internationally inspired twists on traditional beer styles.” That means the Belgian-style tripel will be made with lavender, the stout will be brewed with…

When Kelissa Hieber and Bess Dougherty first began talking about Makin Noise: A Pussy Riot Beer, it was as a way to help support women and GLTBQ causes and to stand up for all of the people who are underrepresented or belittled and who are in danger because of the…

It’s April 20, but Mason Hembree isn’t celebrating. Instead, the owner of Dad & Dudes Breweria will be fighting the federal government over a beer brewed with non-psychoactive CBD. Last September, Dad & Dudes was the talk of the town when it became the first brewery in the country to…

Elite Brands of Colorado, which has specialized is distributing craft beer in Colorado for nearly fifteen years, won the Craft Beer Wholesaler of the Year award from the Brewers Association at the annual Craft Brewers Conference trade show, which took place last week in Washington, D.C. “The national award recognizes…

Chad and Branden Miller’s father always told his sons to do one thing and do it better than anyone else. It was advice that stuck with them, so when they opened Black Shirt Brewing in 2011, that one thing was to make amazing ales, all of them in shades of…

Brewing beer can be fun for the people who love it. But it can also be dangerous. Last week, Charlie Gottenkieny, head brewer and part owner of Bruz Beers in north Denver, was severely burned when a batch of beer he was making boiled over the top of the mashtun and…

Things are little quiet on the beer scene this week. That’s because hundreds of Colorado brewery owners and representatives are in Washington, D.C. for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which takes place in a different city each year. Because of its location this time around, the trade show and conference,…

The makers of Budweiser and Coors have been coming after independent craft breweries for years, turning out beers that compete in the “craft” category without saying who brews them. Head to just about any Major League ballpark, for instance, and you’ll find Shock Top Belgian White or Blue Moon lurking…

With a thundering noise that will strike fear into the hearts of small beer makers in the River North neighborhood, Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing, the state’s third largest independent craft brewery, will take a King Kong-sized step into Denver next year, opening a huge, two-story taproom and pilot brewery at…

Oskar Blues, which was founded in Lyons and is now headquartered in Longmont, has been looking for a spot in Boulder for at least five years. The state’s second largest craft brewery thought it had found one in 2012 in a historic Union Pacific train depot there, but the deal…

As competition heats up in the craft-beer world, medium-sized and large breweries continue to look for ways to stay relevant and to ring up sales. Sometimes that means producing beers that you might not expect. Such is the case with two new beers that were revealed in the past few…

It’s mud season — that awkward time of year between skiing and camping when the skies don’t know whether to snow or shine, and locals keep a pair of flip-flops next to their boots by the front door. But don’t be fooled: April is a great month to drink craft beer in the Denver. Here are your ten best bets.

Andres Gil Zaldana is a beer enthusiast, but hasn’t worked in the beer world. He’s been commuting back and forth to Colorado over the past year but hasn’t lived here. He knows how to work with people, but doesn’t know most of the players in the state’s craft beer industry…

The craft-beer industry has begun feeling the effects of a long-awaited competitive shakeout — layoffs, mergers, declining numbers — but the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which represents the nation’s small and independent craft breweries, was still able to report mildly encouraging numbers for 2016. Also encouraging: the events in our beer calendar.

Big beer fests aren’t easy to pull off. They require enormous logistical coordination, adherence to strict alcohol regulations, management of a huge number of people and deep understanding of a niche audience. Over the years, the granddaddy of these events, the Great American Beer Festival, fought with these issues as…

In previous years, the Colorado Brewers Guild had asked the breweries participating in Collaboration Fest to hold off on tapping their beers until after the festival — in order to keep the surprise. But in its fourth iteration, the nonprofit, which represents more than two hundred Colorado craft breweries, decided…

Seven months after longtime Colorado Brewers Guild director John Carlson stepped down in the midst of a dispute among its brewery members, the nonprofit organization has hired a new leader. Washington, D.C. attorney Andres Gil Zaldana will take over as executive director of the Guild, which advocates for and represents…

With an amazing depth and breadth of breweries, Fort Collins is one of the oldest and best craft beer towns, not just in Colorado, but anywhere in the United States. There are roughly twenty breweries in operation there, including New Belgium and Odell, which are among the top fifty largest…

Liz Thomas lives on the trail. An extreme athlete, she is one of the most accomplished long-distance hikers in the United States, traveling fast and traveling light. Over the past ten years, she’s backpacked more than 15,000 miles and completed the the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, and the 3,100-mile Continental…

For the first time in its history, Boulder’s Avery Brewing is listed among the fifty largest craft breweries in the nation, according to the Brewers Association. There are five Colorado breweries in the top fifty. The list has changed significantly over the past few years as several large craft brewers…

Colorado Craft Beer Week, an annual celebration of Colorado’s single greatest industry, kicks off Saturday, March 18, with a variety of events continuing through the week until Collaboration Fest, which takes place March 25 at the National Western Complex. The beery week is organized by the Colorado Brewers Guild and…

With 112 beers on the menu, it’s going to be extremely difficult for the giddy attendees of the fourth annual Collaboration Fest to know where to begin. This year’s version of the event, which takes place March 25, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the National Western Complex, is the…