Dry Dock Brewing’s Cool Lime Lager isn’t the biggest joke-beer that ended up being popular enough to package: that honor belongs to the Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which started as an April Fool’s Day prank before becoming a full-fledged part of the brewery’s canned lineup. But the popularity of the…

There are more than fifty breweries within Denver’s city limits, but as craft beer’s popularity has skyrocketed over the past few years, the number of people brewing their own beer at home has also taken off. But would-be brewers don’t always have enough space in their urban apartments, condos or…

Beer should be featured more often under Colorado’s Capitol dome, but leaders of the House of Representatives got to hold up the next best thing last week when they were officially presented with the Hop the Vote trophy by the Colorado Brewers Guild. Last fall, a few members of the…

Wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, wedges, screws and inclined plans. These are the “simple machines” that engineers have used to create every complicated mechanical invention for thousands of years. In that same way, brewers have used a set of basic ingredients – water, yeast, malt and hops – to create…

More than three years after Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing became the first U.S. beer-maker to bottle and sell a nitrogenated beer, a second American craft brewer has finally figured out how to do the same. The company, Utah’s Wasatch Brewery, just happens to be located in an adjacent state and…

Twenty years after Coors opened what would become Blue Moon Brewing inside Coors Field, the company says it plans to open a second brewery about a mile away in the burgeoning River North arts district. Located in a 27,00-square-foot warehouse at 1910 38th Street – near Globeville Landing Park –…

Coors Field may be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but it’s still not as old and grizzled as the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which will turn 27 this fall. And although the famous brewery helped create both the vibrant Lower Downtown neighborhood and Denver’s craft-brewing scene, its age is beginning…

There aren’t a lot of craft breweries associated with professional sports teams, but Pikes Peak Brewing just announced that it has become the official craft-beer sponsor for the newly arrived Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, of the United Soccer League; Heineken is also a beer sponsor of the team. The deal kicked off…

Spangalang Brewery will jazz up the Five Points neighborhood on Thursday when it opens inside the high-profile former Denver Motor Vehicles office. Founded by former Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees and journeyman beer makers Austin Wiley and Darren Boyd, the brewery takes its name from a jazz term that…

The Colorado Rockies are getting a breath of fresh air in center field this season – and that may have the rest of the outfield thinking about beer. Sometime later this spring, the grounds crew will add about a half-dozen hops plants to the bucolic flora that lies just below the…

Call To Arms Brewing, which plans to open late this year at 4526 Tennyson Street, has launched an unusual crowdfunding progam that allows friends and fans to become financial supporters by sponsoring pieces of the brewery’s furniture. Altogether, there are about eighty pieces of furniture, including table chairs ($150), bar…

Colorado continues to count six of its beer-makers among the fifty largest craft breweries in the country, but some of their positions on that list slid in 2014. thanks to a rule change from the Boulder-based Brewers Association: Breweries that use corn as a beer adjunct – but still produce fewer…

While Denver is approaching the big fifty when it comes to the number of breweries in the city, the outlying brewing scene continues to boom as well, whether it’s new spots in the southern suburbs or those setting up shop just past our western border in Lakewood or the eastern…

Oskar Blues, which is one of the fast growing independent breweries in the country, said today that it has purchased Perrin Brewing, a medium-sized Michigan brewery that had been in business less than three years. Management of the two companies got to know each other late last year through their…

Denver will recognize Declaration Brewing today as the first brewery in the city to be certified as “sustainably” green; the designation means it complied with a specific set of environmentally-friendly practices, like donating spent grain to farmers to be re-purposed into animal feed, instituting a heat-recovery process on boilers to…

Bierstadt Lagerhaus – probably the next brewery to open in River North — got a big boost late last week when the owners took delivery of eight huge tanks and a whirlpool that will be used to make German-style lagers. Cranes lifted the tanks into the brewery, which will be…

For the last few years, Colorado craft breweries and their allies at local liquor stores have worked on convincing state lawmakers to keep grocery and convenience stores from being allowed to sell full-strength beer, wine and booze. Now these small and medium-sized businesses are cracking open a consumer campaign in advance…

Colorado Craft Beer Week roars back into the state this weekend, with dozens of events at breweries, beer bars and restaurants. The kickoff – which has sold out – is Collaboration Fest at Sports Authority Field, featuring 75 one-off collaborative beers made by Colorado breweries working with in-state colleagues, some…

Peaches and pumpkins are popping presently. But raspberries have always been a popular ingredient for Colorado breweries, whether it was Great Divide’s Wild Raspberry Ale in the mid-’90s, Twisted Pine Raspberry Wheat in the early 2000s, or New Belgium’s Frambozen raspberry brown ale, a recurring favorite. And 2015 will see…

Here’s a Colorado conundrum: Wanna buy a joint for a penny? You’ll have to drink a beer first. For the last several weeks, Grass Station, a north Denver pot shop, has been offering customers the chance to buy a joint for one cent if they bring in an empty can…

“Here’s why Collaboration Fest is a great event: if you’re there, you are only drinking one-of-a-kind, one-off beers,” says Wayne Waananen, the head brewer at Denver’s Station 26. “That’s the joy of it.” A couple thousand people will get to experience that joy on Saturday, March 21 at the second…