December often sees some of the biggest, baddest-ass beer releases in Colorado. Maybe it’s because of the weather and way people get in the mood for heavier beers with a higher alcohol content. Maybe its the chill or even the need for something to smooth over holiday stress. Whatever the…
Everyone needed a beer in 2016. Luckily, there are 5,005 breweries in the United States, so finding one isn’t really an issue. That was just one of the things that the Boulder-based Brewers Association — the trade group representing small and independent craft breweries — mentioned in its look back…
How can a brewery that specializes in sour beers explain to customers that it has made something that isn’t sour? Simple: call it “sourless.” That’s what Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project did a couple of months ago when it tapped Sourless IPA for the first time in its taproom. Since…
A Boulder-based company making liquid cacao has scored some sweet deals recently with craft brewers around Colorado and in other states, too. Cholaca mixes up its own beverages from the organic cacao, coconut sugar and water, but the product also works well for breweries making chocolate beers. Breweries that have…
You can get just about anything at the drive-thru these days, from tacos, burgers and shakes to hotdogs, custard, coffee and paninisSo why not craft beer, made on site? In January, a Boulder County family plans to open Uturn BBQ, a brewery and barbecue joint that will serve up six-packs…
Once upon a time (a few years ago), craft beer lovers looked forward to Black Friday, not because of the sales and Christmas shopping, but because it was the day that Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company released its Bourbon County Brand Stout — one of the most delicious, most sought-after…
Colorado’s beer cellars and basement refrigerators will be a little more forlorn in coming years, as Avery Brewing has decided to discontinue seven of its pioneering mainstays, including some much-loved beers that are particularly valued because of how well they age. The Boulder brewery said last week that it will…
When it comes to believing or not believing this time of year, Santa Claus is the mythical character who gets the most play. But there is another seldom-seen creature who stirs debate: the Yeti. As a result, Great Divide Brewing, which makes a line of Yeti beers, has declared November…
Construction on the outside of the Stanley Marketplace still isn’t finished, but on the inside at least one business is already bubbling away. Cheluna Brewing Company has made six batches of beer over the past few weeks — beer that is just waiting to be poured into glasses. Owned by…
Denver’s Chain Reaction Brewing has been quietly growing by leaps and bounds over the past year. The brewery signed a distributor and is planning to expand distribution. To help do that, Chain Reaction got a some shiny new equipment last week, including two twenty-barrel fermentation tanks, one twenty-barrel brite tank…
The nation made its choice yesterday, but Colorado’s craft breweries have also been casting ballots of a different nature — voting last week in favor of reconciliation between two craft beer groups that had been at odds with one another since June. The outcome of the votes is that the Colorado…
Tim “Barrel Man” McKernan, who died in 2009, was probably the most famous super fan that the Denver Broncos ever had; bearded and somewhat heavy-set, he attended every home game (missing only four) for thirty years. Banded Oak Brewing, which also has a love of barrels, had decided to honor…
“Are you tired of this election? Have you had to block friends on Facebook? Are the polls, ‘rigged’?” asks Boulder’s Fate Brewing. Then it’s time to vote — with your beer. The brewery has concocted two choices and will use sales of the beers to predict the winner of the…
Naming a beer these days is the kind of thing that keeps brewers up at night. Should they just call their latest creation by its style — Odell IPA, for example — or should they try to give it a name that will stand out? If they do, will the…
“Park Hill is probably one of the most tightly knit neighborhoods in Denver,” says Chris Cunningham. But unlike the west side of town, where there are plenty of small business strips woven into the neighborhoods, Denver’s east-side is mostly just houses. So when Cunningham and his businesses partners found a…
Colorado is so chock full of breweries that it seems like a beer drinker could head in any direction and find a few of them without even trying. Almost any direction, anyway. Head east out of Greeley or Aurora or the area around Colorado Springs, and you won’t find a…
Repairs are underway at Comrade Brewing, which was hit by a large pickup truck last week, smashing into the front of the building, destroying two garage doors, damaging the brewery’s beer tanks and rupturing the gas and water lines. On Tuesday, the broken doors were removed and the brewhouse was…
Colorado recycling bins, already stuffed with empty craft beers cans are going to be pushed to their limits over the next few months as a slew of breweries begin canning or add to their existing lineups. Some of the most anticipated offerings, though, will come from Lafayette’s Liquid Mechanics Brewing,…
Hall Brewing has closed its taproom at 10970 South Parker Road, posting a note on Facebook that it plans to reopen at a future date in downtown Parker. “Thank you for your support at our current location. Be sure to watch our Facebook page for our new brewery and Tap Room in…
If publicity was money, the owners of Dad & Dude’s Breweria in Aurora would be millionaires: the brewery has been the recipient of intense national media coverage since it received federal approval in September to make a beer infused with cannabidiol, an extract of hemp. Publications and web sites from…
Tiffany Fixter doesn’t know what to expect when she opens Brewability Lab tomorrow inside Caution Brewing’s old space in east Denver. She has a brand new brewer, an eager staff of developmentally disabled adults working the bar, and a location in a mostly industrial neighborhood off the freeway. The goal…
Crazy Mountain Brewing has opened a tasting room inside the trendy Latincity food hall in downtown Chicago. The Colorado brewery, which has operations in Denver and Edwards, “is partnering with internationally renowned chef Richard Sandoval to open a Crazy Mountain Cervezeria inside of Latinicity, a sprawling food hall featuring a…
