Just about everyone who lives in Denver, or who visits friends and family here, makes a pilgrimage along West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood to Casa Bonita — whether it’s once a week, once a month, once a year or once a decade. But now there’s another reason to pull into the vast…
Colorado native Sarah Haughey, who worked at both Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project and Elevation Beer Company, plans to deepen the Arkansas Valley’s craft-beer scene this summer when she opens the Jailhouse on Buena Vista’s main drag, East Main Street. It will feature ten rotating craft-beer taps and a small selection…
Dan Appell says he “grew up” in the Italian deli that his father bought in 1982 in Parsippany, New Jersey, doing just about every job there was to do from the age of six through his graduation from college. And he would have been just fine if he’d never left…
Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it’s rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters…
Name confusion is a fact of life in the craft brewing industry these days, which is why there have been so many trademarks battles — and trademark resolutions — in the past few years. The folks at Prost Brewing in Denver and The Post Brewing in Lafayette have a more…
In the 1500s in what is now Germany, there was a law that beer could only be made with three ingredients: water, barley and hops. But that was then and this is now. In the United States in the new Millennium, you can find beers made with just about any…
Nothing tastes better than a beer at the end of a long, terrible day. But what if the beer itself has been through hell and high water? Find out this week when Upslope Brewing begins pouring Scottish Style Ale, a collaboration with Spirit Hound Distillers that was born in the…
It’s not easy to be all things to all people, but for the past five years, the Denver Bicycle Cafe has tried, operating a spot that’s a combination of cozy coffeehouse, bike sales-and-repair shop, and beer bar noted for its focus on small local breweries. This month, DBC will try to…
New Belgium forged new ground two years ago when it released Snapshot, a sour wheat for the masses that was available in both twelve-ounce cans and bottles. Now Epic Brewing in Denver is taking things a step further with Tart ‘n Juicy Sour IPA, which it calls “a unique fusion…
Burgers and beer are big business in Denver, and plenty of the 54 million travelers who passed through Denver International Airport last year have probably tried plenty of both. Burgers and beer will be even bigger business at the airport next year, though, after a Denver City Council committee approved…
No need to set the building on fire, Milton. Nobody is taking your red Swingline away. Or at least, no one is taking Trinity Brewing’s Red Swingline away. This week, Trinity owner Jason Yester revealed that he has signed an agreement with ACCO Brands Corporation, the maker of Swingline staplers,…
When Chris Marchio peers into a glass of IPA, he doesn’t want to be able to see out the other side. Instead, Marchio, the head brewer for Fiction Beer Company, wants to see a haze, like a thick fog rolling off the Atlantic Ocean onto Cape Cod. He’s not alone…
Oskar Blues has little secret brewing in the back room. Well, make that a big secret: a big barrel-aged one. Over the past three months, the Longmont-based beer maker has been filling and stacking hundreds of bourbon barrels with a couple of its concoctions. Although Oskar Blues has had a…
IPAs are dead. Long live IPAs. Although it’s trendy to bash India Pale Ales these days as being the death of craft beer, reality shows that they’re what has helped to give the industry life: The Boulder-based Brewers Association reports that IPAs make up more than 27 percent of the…
Greeley’s WeldWerks Brewing — which Westword called one of five breweries to watch this year — has also attracted some national attention: USA Today has included the company in a readers’ choice contest to select the Best New Brewery to emerge over the last few years. And the voting will…
When Coda Brewing opened in May 2014, co-owners Luke Smith and Scott Procop hoped to make beautiful music on the former Fitzsimons Army base in Aurora. And for a while, they did: Coda won medals at the Great American Beer Festival for two different beers in 2014 and 2015. But…
Six months after Crazy Mountain Brewing took over Breckenridge Brewery’s longtime headquarters at 471 Kalamath Street, the Edwards-based beer maker is ready to bring barbecue and brews back to the public. Crazy Mountain will officially open its taproom and Texas-style barbecue joint on Friday, February 19. The restaurant, called Crazy…
Oskar Blues Brewery announced this week that it has begun distributing beer in North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma, which means there is only one state remaining before the Longmont-based brewer has a lock on all fifty states. That unlucky state: Montana. But never fear, Oskar Blues plans to launch…
Denver’s Prost Brewing will become one of just a few Colorado beer makers with a satellite tap room in another city when it opens a location in Fort Collins this spring. The brewery, which specializes in traditional German-style lagers, has been searching for a good spot in the college town…
With more than 300 breweries making some of the most well-regarded, well-known beers in the United States, Colorado is frequently referred to as the Napa Valley of Craft Beer. But Colorado is home to some of the country’s best sour and wild beer brewers as well. So, are we also the…
Peyton Manning may have looked a little wobbly in the Super Bowl, but we was right on target when it came to shilling for Budweiser during his post-game interviews. You’ve probably heard the clip — along with the outcry from people who thought it was blatant ad placement, inappropriate given…
Pliny the Younger, which has become one of the most sought-after beers in the world, makes its annual return to Colorado this month when California’s Russian River Brewing trucks a precious few kegs of the cult beer over the Continental Divide. Russian River has been sending the extremely-limited, draft-only triple…
