Every year, Zymurgy magazine, which is produced by the Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association, asks its readers for their twenty favorite beers that are commercially available in the United States. After tallying the votes, Zymurgy says readers put six Colorado beers on the list. The highest ranking beer was Left Hand Brewing’s…
Weird week for Colorado’s storied Breckenridge Brewery, which announced an impressive new beer series, oh, and the fact that Anheuser-Busch is buying the entire brewery, all within a few days of each other. If that purchase means you’re not doing to drink Breck’s beers, then you can skip ahead. If…
Telling his employees that Breckenridge Brewery had been sold to Anheuser-Busch was “challenging,” says Breckenridge chief Todd Usry. “But it went well. I believe in what we are doing, but I understand the emotion.” A day after the sale was announced, Usry continued to walk around the facility, talking to…
Over the past year, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. Up until last week — when we posted our list of Ten Colorado Breweries…
Living The Dream Brewing in Littleton is turning its dream into reality. The company recently installed several new fifteen- and thirty-barrel fermentation tanks, which will allow it increase its capacity from 49 barrels to 169. In addition, Living the Dream added 5,000 square feet of production space, enabling the brewery…
The world of craft beer is changing. Over the past twelve months, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. If you follow beer, then you’ve…
There’s a new experimental brewery and restaurant heading to River North next year, one that plans to push boundaries when it comes to technique, style and ingredients. The brewers there have many decades’ worth of experience between them, having made everything from Belgian wits to Bavarian pilsners to American IPAs,…
Tina Pachorek, co-owner of the Cheeky Monk and Lost Highway Brewing, has been working with the Denver Police Department’s District 6 and its commander, Tony Lopez, for years, trying to make the neighborhood around East Colfax Avenue safer. “He and his staff have been a big advocate for our area for…
Denver’s most brewery-centered neighborhood will get even more crowded next year when MicroStar Logistics, which supplies kegs to craft breweries around the country, moves from Greenwood Village to River North. The company will take 13,000 square feet of space in Gauge, at 35th and Wazee streets, a new project from…
History is important — especially in Denver’s white-hot real-estate market, where it seems like vestiges of the past are torn down daily to make room for new buildings — and the Wynkoop Brewing Company is a living piece of it. Not only is it housed in a 116-year-old warehouse, the…
Oskar Blues makes beer. But the Longmont-based company also runs restaurants, manages a farm, build bicycles, produces root beer, buys and sells property, sponsors auto races — and now, it brews coffee as well. To celebrate its company, Hotbox Roasters (which produces three different roasts from Kenya, Bolivia and Indonesia),…
American craft breweries have been shaking up the European beer world over the past few years by exporting their big bold flavors overseas. Now an Italian brewer wants to bring Italian-style beers to the United States. Alex Liberati, a restaurateur and owner of the Revelation Cat gypsy brewery in Rome,…
Cerebral Brewing opened last weekend on East Colfax Avenue, and drinking beer there is like going back to science class but a lot more fun. Founded by Sean Buchan, Chris Washenberger and Dan McGuire, the brewery takes its name and its theme from the professional backgrounds of Washenberger, a molecular biologist,…
Tickets for the third annual Collaboration Fest — an event that has quickly become one of Colorado’s signature beer parties — went on sale yesterday for $50 a pop ($75 for VIP) at collaborationfest.com. Collaboration Fest will take place on March 19, 2016, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,…
It’s brilliant marketing: Engender lots of goodwill from the buying public and plenty of national attention by eschewing profits for one day, Black Friday. Then watch that goodwill pay off later — in the form of big bucks. REI pulled off a nice PR coup earlier this month when it…
Colorado brewers are a proud bunch, proud of their beer, of their profession and of their state – which is why many of them have made small batches of beer that use only ingredients made or grown in Colorado. But finding those ingredients isn’t easy. There’s one one independent grain…
Denver’s eastern neighborhoods, starved for the kind of hip eateries and bars that seem to open on a weekly basis on the west side, are salivating over the impending arrival of the Stanley Marketplace, which is scheduled to open March 31 in the former Stanley Aviation Building southeast of Stapleton,…
Fate Brewing in Boulder said today that it will take over some of the space that Avery Brewing had occupied during its 22 years at 5763 Araphoe Avenue. Avery moved out of the ramshackle collection of warehouses in February, upgrading to a huge new $30 million brewery and restaurant campus…
Odell Brewing, which revealed in July that it would can some of its beers, will roll out the first two, flagships 90 Shilling and Odell IPA, this week. The Fort Collins brewery, which was founded in 1989, had been a staunch holdout when it comes to canning beer. “It wasn’t so…
Over the past five years, Denver has seen a brewery boom that took our collective breath away. In 2010, when Strange Brewing (not Strange Craft Beer) opened, there were only about eight beer-makers in town. By the end of 2015, there will be more than sixty. But the pace of…
Black Shirt Brewing is mixing things up. The River North beer-makers said this week that it will begin tapping a keg of a new one-off beer every Wednesday at 5 p.m. “Often times, we incorporate ingredients into our beer that might be more familiar to a high end kitchen than…
Bar menus and liquor-stores shelves have gotten crowded in recent years as the number of breweries in Colorado soars past the 300 mark — which is why it’s important to stand out, with both beers and logos. Crazy Mountain, the Edwards-based brewery that took over the former Breckenridge Brewery space…
