The IPA is still king in the craft beer world. Although some beer writers and brewers continue to bemoan the style’s popularity, the truth is that it represents more than 25 percent of all craft beer sales. No other style even comes close. And rather than declining, IPA’s power is…

Please excuse the dust at Black Shirt Brewing: The nearly five-year-old River North Brewery has finally converted its manufacturing license into a brewpub license — a process that took more than a year — and is working on its long-anticipated kitchen, one that will focus on artisan pizza, salads and…

Four years ago, when I was researching a story profiling ten women brewers in Colorado, it was hard to find at least ten. While there were plenty of women in other facets of the industry — from marketing and management to finance and front-of-the-house — there just weren’t that many…

The new owners of Durango Brewing and Joseph James Brewing (of Las Vegas) are getting ready to open Dean & Co., a new brewery in the small town of La Junta that will serve as a production facility for a major brand push and eventually as a taproom for the eastern…

Arvada’s first craft brewery, the Arvada Beer Company, closed just over a year ago, becoming one of the only Denver metro area breweries to shut down in the past decade. Since then, however, the beer scene in this northwestern suburb has flourished rather than faltered: There are now four thriving…

After a long, hot hike in the mountains, most people just want a shady tree and a comfortable rock where they can sit (a sit’n rock) — oh, and a cold beer. That’s idea behind Zuni Street Brewing, which is testing out its systems this week before hosting a grand…

Left Hand Brewing in Longmont and River North Brewery in Denver are both releasing major new beers in their year-round and seasonal portfolios over the next few days and weeks. Left Hand will debut three seasonals. Hard Wired Nitro is part of the brewery’s nitrogenated bottle series and has flavors…

This could be the most Colorado story you’ve ever heard. Skier Jake Minturn was flying through the trees near Radical last winter at Arapahoe Basin when he emerged onto the High Divide Terrain Park and slammed directly into snowboarder Doug Hyndman, who was bombing the hill. “We took each other…

As Colorado begins to emerge from the long, cold (short, mostly warm) winter, the festival season is stirring, and there is no better way to wake up than with Collaboration Fest, the state’s marquis event. Hosted by the Colorado Brewers Guild, the fest features more than 110 beers, each made…

After five years in Broomfield, Big Choice Brewing will pick up and hop across the freeway, opening a much larger tap room in a former Buddhist temple in Brighton. Although brewery owners Nathaniel and Andrea Miller are being forced to move because their current building is for sale, the couple…

Over its 23 years in Denver, Great Divide Brewing has seen a lot of beers come and go, with  a lineup that has changed with the times. But some of those beers are missed more than others, and now the brewery is giving people a chance to vote on which…

A pair of small breweries had some big news this week. Caution Brewing in Lakewood began canning and selling a beer called The Earl for the first time. An English mild, this taproom favorite is brewed with lots of Earl Grey tea and a small amount of vanilla. It joins Lao…

Two local breweries had big years in 2016 and are hoping for even more in 2017. Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project “saw the culmination” of its $3 million customized brewery — one that includes a coolship; a new hard-piped, stainless-steel fermentation cellar; twice as many wooden foeders; and new packaging…

In the three weeks since Donald Trump became president, the United States has seen protests by millions of people in dozens of cities who disagree with Trump’s policies and views — and there are many more protests that have been scheduled for the future. In Denver, part of that protest…

After just two and half years on Colfax Avenue, in the heart of Aurora’s Cultural Arts District, Mu Brewery will close its doors for good later this month. It is one of just a very few Denver-area craft breweries to shutter in the past decade, but in all likelihood, it…

Good River Beer Company, which began brewing and selling beer in Denver in September 2015, will finally be able to open a taproom of its own. The owners said Thursday that they have secured a location in a 7,300-square-foot former warehouse at 1790 South Bannock Street, where they will build…

Every year, millions of beer lovers around the world take to the Internet — on sites like BeerAdvocate and RateBeer — to rate, read up on or learn about the beers they are drinking or want to drink. Earlier this week, RateBeer compiled a state-by-state list of the beer and…

Food fans come from all over Colorado to try the unusual combination of brewery and Nepalese restaurant at Arvada’s venerable Yak & Yeti. “As a result, we get a lot of requests for our beer,” says Jeff Tyler, who took over as head brewer there last summer. So on February…

Hemp can’t get you high, but its association with marijuana is exciting to plenty of people in the craft beer industry, which has been swept up in the nationwide interest in all things cannabis. In February, a Colorado Springs hemp supplier called Major Hemp, in partnership with Denver’s Sleeping Giant…

With its short days and frigid nights, February can be a little dreary in Colorado. But not at Denver’s craft breweries and taprooms, which know just how to warm things up. Although there are only 28 days, the month is absolutely packed with brewery anniversaries, celebrations, tappings and small festivals, all of which you can find in our weekly Beer Calendar, which is posted online every Wednesday. In advance of that, here are ten sure bets for the month ahead.

As Crazy Mountain Brewery continues to grow into its newish Denver location — Breckenridge Brewery’s former headquarters at 470 Kalamath Street — the brewery is making significant changes to the missions of both that space and to its original brewery and taproom in Edwards. In December, the Crazy Mountain moved…

Despite their higher alcohol content and the fact that they resemble regular porters or even stouts, in both look and flavor, Baltic porters are not a common style in Colorado. Perhaps it’s because they are lagers, which means they can take up to twice as long to ferment. In Poland,…