Comrade Brewing took enemy fire yesterday afternoon when a large pickup truck smashed into the front of the building, destroying two garage doors, damaging the brewery’s beer tanks and rupturing the gas and water lines. The brewery was open at the time, but no one was hurt in the accident…
Tickets for the fifth annual Festivus — a festival for Denver-only breweries — went on sale last week; this year, more than 65 breweries have been invited to participate. Organized by Two Parts, the festival takes place December 17 at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Lowry…
Four months after the Colorado Brewers Guild was ruptured by a dispute over leadership, membership and direction, the two sides have agreed, at leasts in principle, to reconcile their differences. But first, the CBG will need to get at least 51 percent of its 220 or so members to agree to the…
New breweries in Denver face a lot of peaks and valleys. But for 14er Brewing, which only began brewing and canning in July, it’s been mostly peaks: On Saturday, the brewery, which is still searching for a taproom location, won a gold medal for its chile beer at the Great…
While the United States is doing more losing than winning when it comes to politics these day, the Great American Beer Festival, which wrapped up its 35th year in Denver on Saturday night, is a clear winner. The fact that a beer called Trump Hands, from Cannonball Creek, won a…
Maybe this is your first time; maybe it’s your 31st. Either way, you are going to biggest, best beer festival in the world. This year, the Great American Beer Festival celebrates its 35th anniversary, and although many things have changed, many others have stayed the same. Here are few things…
Great American Beer Festival week in Denver is special to beer drinkers for many reasons, but one of the biggest is because they can sip suds from breweries from around the country — beers that aren’t sold in Colorado. In the past, you needed a ticket to GABF to get…
Out-of-state breweries get a lot of attention during Great American Beer Festival week: after all, many of them don’t distribute in Colorado, so the only time locals can try a beer from one of these breweries is at the festival or at one of the events that take place around…
Like most people who make their living off beer, Greg Matthews worries about what’s happening to the craft-brewing industry, which is suddenly overflowing with infighting, trademark disputes and buyouts. Anheuser Busch InBev, in particular, has made waves by purchasing craft breweries such as Breckenridge Brewery, 10 Barrel and Elysian, and…
Do you believe? Great Divide does. The brewery believes so strongly in the power of its Yeti line of beers that it has decided to brew and sell a lower-alcohol version for the first time. Velvet Yeti, which goes on tap today at both the taproom and the Barrel Bar,…
Get ready to welcome back to the most wonderful week in Denver, a time when people from all over the country — and the world — descend on the Mile High City to drink beer together. The Great American Beer Festival will return for its 35th iteration October 6 through…
Denver International Airport has brought back Beer Flights, its temporary beer garden, to Level 5 between the Jeppesen Terminal and Westin Denver International Airport. This is the third year in a row that the airport has used the beer garden to toast both the Great American Beer Festival, which begins next…
The first Great American Beer Festival took place in Boulder in 1982. There were 24 breweries, 47 beers and about 800 attendees. Oh, how things have changed. This year, the Brewers Association, which hosts the annual event, expects more than 800 breweries, 3,800 beers and 60,000 attendees. But after 35…
Belgian-style beers may be royalty when it comes to their history, variety, flavors and technique, but in America, IPAs are king. Last week, River North Brewery, which has brewed primarily Belgian-style beers like saisons, quadrupels and wild ales, since its inception in 2011, said it will “broaden its malty world view”…
Although consumers may not notice much of a difference, many Colorado breweries, bars and liquor stores were rattled this week when longtime local craft-beer distributor C.R. Goodman revealed that it has been acquired by nationwide liquor distribution giant Breakthru Beverage. Founded by Chuck Robertson and Ken Goodman, who have been…
Not very many people can lay claim to having attended the very first Great American Beer Festival in 1982. After all, there were only 800 people there, drinking a measly 47 different beers. Charlie Papazian is one of them, of course. The founder of the festival, he was also the…
Dad & Dudes Breweria created a huge buzz last year at the Great American Beer Festival when it introduced Sativa IPA, the first commercial beer made with cannabis oil. Although the hemp extract used in the beer isn’t the psychoactive kind — meaning it can’t get you high — people…
Beer recalls are never fun — for the brewery or the beer drinker — particularly when it’s a brewery’s best-selling beer. But earlier this week, Left Hand Brewing in Longmont had to issue a recall for certain batches of Milk Stout Nitro because of a yeast strain that was changing…
What do you get when you combine home brews, entrepreneurship and charity? The answer is Colorado Startup Brews, a quintessentially Colorado networking event. Here’s how it works: Participating startup companies each home-brewed a beer that was then judged last month by numerous beer experts, writers and credentialed beer judges (including…
Later this month, Black Shirt Brewing will bring four canned beers back to the market with a new look, new names and updated recipes. The four-year-old brewery had been forced to pull out of stores last year because it couldn’t get cans from its supplier in a timely way. But…
Like a high school friend who shows up to his twenty-year reunion looking almost exactly like he did back then, but richer, Colorado’s craft-beer industry has defied expectations, powering forward with a vigor and energy that seems like it should have faded. There are a few wrinkles, sure, maybe the…
It’s one thing to sit down over a beer and try to solve the world’s problems. It’s quite another to sit down and try to solve the craft-brewing world’s problems. But that’s what board members of the two-decade-old Colorado Brewers Guild and the upstart breakaway group, Craft Beer Colorado, will…
