Long before they even considered the fun part — making and serving delicious craft beers — most of the breweries that have opened in Colorado over the past five years began with a physical location, their own equipment and some tables and chairs. But that hasn’t always been the case…

New Belgium Brewing will let a little bit of air out of Fat Tire this fall when it releases a lower-alcohol version of its flagship amber ale in packages for the first time. The beer will be 4 percent alcohol by volume, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight, meaning it…

Mason Hembree wasn’t exactly surprised when people misinterpreted last week’s announcement that Dad & Dudes Breweria in Aurora planned to brew two beers made with cannabis extract and serve it at the Great American Beer Festival. After all, the Dad & Dudes press advisory was headlined, “Dude’s Brews to Release…

Fate is a funny thing. And in this case, fate it has determined that two companies, both called Fate Brewing, would end up in court. Just days after Arizona’s Fate Brewing opened a second major brewpub in the Phoenix area, Boulder’s own Fate Brewing has filed suit against the company…

When it opened in March 2012, River North Brewery set the pace for what was to come in Denver, not just because of its beer – but with its location and its name. In the three and a half years since then, another eight breweries have opened in the sometimes…

Forty-six years after the brew kettles dried up at the Tivoli Beer Company in Denver, the suds will officially flow again on Saturday, when the new Tivoli Brewing celebrates its grand opening inside the historic Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus. The Tivoli taphouse and restaurant will open the…

Say the word “hydroponics” in Colorado, and only one industry comes to mind. But pot’s not the crop that Colin Clark is focused on at his indoor growhouse in Fort Collins. Instead, Clark is planning to use hydroponics for our state’s other favorite vice: craft beer.  On Sunday, City Star…

When a Minneapolis craft brewer revealed last week that it will make a General Mills-sponsored Wheaties beer, the story made national headlines. But cereal beers are nothing new for Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins, which has been working loosely with the cereal giant for the past year on several…

Sativa IPA won’t get you high, but it will almost certainly cause a healthy buzz at the Great American Beer Festival next month. The beer, made by Dad & Dudes Breweria in Aurora, is infused with cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive hemp extract. Although there are several hemp beers made in…

Wanna catch a buzz? There are now 309 active brewing licenses in the state of Colorado, according to the latest study released by the Colorado Brewers Guild. Although some are owned by breweries that haven’t opened yet, the numbers represent an incredibly robust scene. Add to that the fact that…

Crazy Mountain Brewery, which has grown extremely quickly since opening in the Vail Valley in 2010, has taken over Breckenridge Brewery’s former headquarters at 471 Kalamath Street – a location that has been a brewery for nearly two decades. For the time being, owners Kevin and Marisa Selvy decline to…

You’re familiar with the story: a young but powerful wizard, born with magical powers, wakes up to find out he’s in a life-and-death battle with He Who Must Not Be Named. In this case, though, we’re not talking about Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. Rather, the story is about Hogshead…

Kim Jordan, who co-founded New Belgium Brewing and turned it into the third-largest craft brewer in the nation, announced this week that she will step down as the CEO of the industry-leading Fort Collins company. Christine Perich, a New Belgium exec since 2000 and the current chief operating officer and…

So, I didn’t want to have to write this post, but there’s no way around it at this point. It is now pumpkin-beer season. This isn’t how it should have been. No, pumpkin-beer season shouldn’t start until September 1 at the earliest. But there are already a couple dozen gourd…

When a crew of social beer drinkers all flew into Denver from Portland earlier this summer just to taste one specific beer at Black Shirt Brewing – a beer that no longer happened to be on tap – there was only thing that co-owner and brewer Chad Miller could do:…

Denver new-brewery scene continues at a quick boil, and there are several breweries-in-planning ramping up construction for 2015 openings. One of those is Cerebral Brewing, which took possession of its beer-making equipment last week and is building out the taproom now. To get the word out, Cerebral has kicked off…

It might seem strange that Oskar Blues, which is known mostly for its big, hoppy beers, has never offered a mainstream IPA as part of its canned lineup – and that’s not changing. Because although the Longmont-based brewery will roll out a brand-new beer, called simply Oskar Blues IPA, nationwide…

Craft Beer. It’s just a fad. Or maybe not. Earlier this week, the Boulder-based Brewers Association reported that American craft breweries sold 12.2 million barrels of beer during the first half of 2015, up from 10.6 million barrels during the same period last year. In addition, as of June 30,…

A few years ago, craft canned beers were more of a novelty: Any time a brewery decided to can a new one or can one of its existing offerings, it was worthy of a news story. These days, canned craft beers are the norm, especially in summer, and new ones…

Odell Brewing, which has been a staunch holdout when it comes to canning beer, plans to begin doing just that come November. “It wasn’t so long ago that I totally dismissed the can idea,” says Wynne Odell, who founded Odell Brewing in 1989 with her husband, Doug, and Doug’s sister…

AC Golden Brewing and its fan club, the Colorado Native Brew Crew, have adopted a 23-mile stretch of the Continental Divide Trail, which runs from the border of Canada to the border of Mexico. The company — a Golden-based subsidiary of MillerCoors — is the first corporate entity to sponsor…

Wynne, Doug and Corkie Odell had three goals when they began thinking about the future ownership of the brewery they’d founded in 1989: upholding its financial stability, keeping independent control, and maintaining their cultural fabric. On Monday, Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing – the third largest craft-beer maker in Colorado –…