Tivoli Brewing turned Denver’s beer history on its head last summer when the reincarnation of one of the Mile High City’s first breweries opened inside the original Tivoli brewery building on the Auraria campus. Since then, Tivoli has been making re-imagined versions of some of Denver’s original German-style lagers from the…

The 23rd annual Stout Month kicked off this week at the Vine Street Pub & Brewery in Denver and at the rest of the Mountain Sun Pubs group’s breweries and restaurants in Boulder and Longmont. The yearly tradition has continued to grow over the years and there are now a…

“All I remember was hearing ‘Firestone Walker,’ and then everyone around us suddenly start screaming in our faces.” That’s what Brandon Proff, co-owner of Our Mutual Friend Brewing, wrote in a blog about the moment when his brewery won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival last September…

Is Denver’s brewery boom slowing down? It’s hard to tell: While there certainly aren’t as many small independent breweries on the horizon as there were at this time last year, there is still plenty of action on the new-brewery front. The list of anticipated openings in 2016 include three breweries…

Denver Broncos pride runs deep in the Mile High City’s craft-brewing scene, where the sunsets are always orange and blue and beer is free-flowing and delicious. To make sure that the world knows how they feel, two local breweries have made recent wagers on the team. In early January, the…

Dry Dock Brewing is taking an unusual tack with its new twelve-pack release, called Hopricot: The award-winning Aurora brewery is including six cans of its Apricot Blonde Ale and six cans of its Hop Abomination IPA, and encouraging people to blend them together to make their own beer cocktail. Dry Dock has…

The local restaurant holding company that sold Breckenridge Brewery to Anheuser Busch InBev in December will continue to use the Breckenridge name on two of its restaurants. Breckenridge-Wynkoop Holdlings has licensed the names Breckenridge Brewery Colorado Craft, located in LoDo, and Breckenridge Ale House, located in Grand Junction, says BW Holding’s…

The rapid-fire opening of small brewery taprooms may have slowed down in Denver, but don’t tell that to Will Curtin and Chris Kirk, who have leased a tiny, former auto-body shop on Broadway where they will open a brewery dedicated to barrel-aged beers. Located just a block from Baere Brewing…

The stars came out to shine, as they do every year, at the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival, which took place earlier this month at the Cascade Resort in Vail. Some were established super giants like Lost Abbey, Avery Brewing and Great Divide. Others were rising stars, like Casey…

Longmont’s Oskar Blues Brewery, which was partially purchased by an East Coast private equity firm last year, revealed this week that it has experienced yet another year of double-digit sales growth, surpassing 30 percent over the previous year. Part of that growth came about as a result of the fact…

Before he became the governor of Colorado, before he became the mayor of Denver, John Hickenlooper was a publican and a craft brewer. So it came as no surprise when the Colorado Governor’s Mansion became the first gubernatorial residence in the nation to boast a draft-beer system, back in March 1994. Since…

When it comes to the public’s perception of beer branding and tasting, hops is usually the big star, while malt often takes on more of a supporting role. And yeast – well, yeast is often relegated to doing the dirty work behind the scenes. But yeast has the most important job…

Crazy Mountain Brewing said this week that it plans to open its own importation company in the United Kingdom so that it can better manage and control how it sends beer to Europe. “Establishing an importing company headquartered in the UK will allow the brewery to increase their global presence…

Dave Thibodeau is skeptical. The co-founder of Ska Brewing in Durango has been drinking beer and helping to create unusual beer recipes for a long time. He’s tried everything from barrel-aged barleywines to sours to milk stouts and double IPAs, but there’s a certain style that has never really worked…

Arvada Beer Company, which was founded by husband-and-wife homebrewers Cary and Kelly Floyd in 2011, has closed its doors. If the closure is permanent, it would be one of the first times an independent craft brewer has gone out of business in the Denver metro area since Denver’s Del Norte…

Peyton Manning got good news last week when Denver Broncos coach Gary Kubiak named him the starter for the playoff game coming up on January 17. But there’s even better news coming: On Monday, Denver’s Factotum Brewing and Tow Yard Brewing, from Indianapolis, got together in the Mile High City…

The Brewability Lab, a startup brewery with the novel idea of providing jobs in the brewing industry for adults with developmental disabilities, will take over Caution Brewing’s original location in east Denver sometime later this year. Caution, which was founded in 2011 by Danny and Betty Wang, is consolidating its…

10 Barrel Brewing, a popular Bend, Oregon-based brewery, has confirmed that it plans to open a brewery and pub in Denver within the next six months. The brewery, founded in 2006 by brothers Chris and Jeremy Cox and Garrett Wales, is notable because of the acclaim and awards that it…

It’s getting more and more difficult for Colorado beer lovers to wrap their arms — and their taste buds — around the depth and breadth of our brewery scene. With more than 300 breweries, all of them pumping out dozens of brews over the course of a year, it would…

Boulder Beer Company will raise a toast today to one of its founders, a pioneer of the craft-brewing industry in not just Colorado, but the country. David Hummer died December 17 at Boulder Community Health at the age of 81. “David received his B.S. and masters from Carnegie Tech before moving on…

Colorado soared past the 300 brewery mark in 2015, helping it remain one of the biggest, most important states in the nation for the craft brewing industry. But it isn’t the numbers so much as the variety and quality of our beer that makes Colorado shine. In the meantime, bottling…