After six years of serving Odell Brewing’s Levity Amber Ale as its “house” beer, Highland Tap & Burger has switched to a new brew. The popular burger joint will now be serving the amber ale from Diebolt Brewing, which is only one neighborhood away, as its house beer. Highland Tap…

Everyone screamed for ice cream after New Belgium Brewing and Ben & Jerry’s teamed up on their first beer collaboration last year, so the two like-minded companies are planning another one for this fall. “Inspired by one of Ben & Jerry’s smash hits, New Belgium has developed Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough…

Seven years after it began canning, the Wynkoop Brewing Company has decided to stop packaging its beers or selling them to bars and restaurants outside of the brewpub and the Wynkoop’s sister restaurants. That means there will be no more six-packs of Belgorado, Railyard Ale or Colorojo on liquor-store shelves…

The look of liquor store shelves across Colorado continues to change. Fort Collins Brewery, which began canning its beers earlier this year, has decided to abandon bottles altogether and move its entire packaged lineup to aluminum. They’ll begin in August with Oktoberfest, a beer that won gold at the Great…

A week after fourteen craft breweries split off from the Colorado Brewers Guild, which has represented the interests of state beer makers for two decades, Breckenridge Brewery and its new parent company, Anheuser Busch InBev, have released a statement related to the situation. Several of the breweries that left the…

Hold on to your hats. Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing, the last holdout among Colorado’s largest craft breweries, has decided to start canning some of its beers. Although the brewery has maintained for years that it didn’t have any canning plans — and went so far as to participate in a…

Ryan Evans liked homebrewer Charlie Gottenkieny ‘s beers so much when he tried them for the first time several years ago that he promised to invest in a real brewery if Gottenkieny, a beer educator and beer judge, ever opened one. That promise paid off last weekend when the two…

Trends come and go. Fads fade even faster. But change is inevitable. That is one of the exciting things about craft beer. It is dynamic, it is always different, and it keeps people coming back for the newest thing. The latest flavor? Hazy, juicy IPAs made popular in the past…

The Colorado Brewers Guild, which has represented the interests of the state’s craft breweries for the past twenty years, has imploded in the face of a rapidly changing industry. At least fourteen independent craft breweries, including Colorado’s four largest —New Belgium, Oskar Blues, Odell Brewing and Left Hand — are…

Dry Dock Brewing debuted a brand new sour and wild beer series earlier this week, featuring top beers from the barrel program at the brewery’s original South Dock location in Aurora. The barrel program, which includes more than eighty wine and whiskey barrels, are “dedicated to sour, Brettanomyces and mixed-culture fermentations utilizing…

Twisted Pine’s beers have been a fixture on Colorado liquor stores shelves for years, but the Boulder brewery, founded in 1995, has had enough: The company has made the interesting choice to stop packaging and distributing so that it can focus on customers in its taproom and restaurant. That decision…

Odell Brewing isn’t known for making rash decisions. In fact, the employee-owned company, founded in Fort Collins in 1989, is sometimes agonizingly slow when it comes to change. Odell only distributes in twelve states, despite being the third largest craft brewer in Colorado, and it only began canning beer late…

Summer is taking its sweet, sweet time coming to Colorado, but the state’s craft breweries will certainly be ready when summer’s finally official: An unprecedented number of brand-new canned and bottled beers have hit liquor store shelves and taproom walls in recent weeks — and more are on the way…

Big things can come in small packages, and Will Curtin and Chris Kirk plan to deliver some big things this Saturday when they open Banded Oak Brewing, one of the smaller taprooms in Denver. Located in a tiny former auto-body shop on Broadway, Banded Oak has room for just 38…

To celebrate New Belgium’s 25th anniversary, the Fort Collins brewery has collaborated with five other breweries around the country — Allagash, Firestone Walker, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Rhinegeist and Avery — to make several different versions of the iconic Fat Tire Amber Ale. For the all-Colorado Avery collaboration, the two breweries…

Ska Brewing in Durango has added a new seven-barrel pilot brewing system at its World Headquarters, where it will be able to focus on experimental and one-off beers. The new system will free up the brewery’s primary system for its mainline beers, like Modus Hoperendi and Mexican Logger. Ska says…

Chris Black’s passion for craft beer and the people who make, sell and drink it dates back for more than thirty years to his time as a salesman and later as the founder of Falling Rock Taphouse, which serves not just as Denver’s pre-eminent beer bar, but also as the…

To celebrate American Craft Beer Week, which runs May 16 through may 22, the Boulder-based Brewers Association led a project called the the Biggest Small Beer Ever Made, in which brewers from all fifty states each made the same beer, using the same ingredients. At least two local breweries, Declaration Brewing…

Golden’s beer scene will head in a new direction late this summer when two of the former owners at Mountain Toad Brewing open their own spot, New Terrain Brewing, at the base of Table Mountain. The location, a vacant parcel next to a dog park and a bike trail, was…

After several years of searching, Colorado’s second largest craft brewery has finally found the right location in Denver for a major operation. Longmont-based Oskar Blues Brewery said Tuesday that it is planning to open a two-level restaurant, beer bar and music venue at 1624 Market Street, in the space formerly…

Denver has grown a lot in the twenty years since Great Divide Brewing began making a pale ale named for the city, and next month the beer will change with the times as well. Great Divide, which first brewed Denver Pale Ale in 1996, has completely revamped the recipe, updating…

If you’ve been to a Colorado beer festival or party recently, then you’ve probably seen him behind his camera. If you follow Colorado breweries on Facebook or Twitter, then you’ve probably seen his work. For the past three years, Dustin Hall has been meticulously chronicling the state’s craft brewers with…