Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins will release bottles of its latest Cerealiously beer today (the brew has already been tapped on draft as well): Cerealiously Lucky Charms. The brewery has garnered quite a bit of attention over the past six months or so with its cereal beers, especially after General…
Like a lot of Eastern European immigrants, Ron and Jason Abbott’s great-grandparents brought their love of beer and brewing to the United States when they came here in the late 1800s. Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, the brothers often heard stories about the family’s brewing prowess. Now the Abbotts…
Like a lot of other people, Danny Wang took to social media after seeing Budweiser’s now-infamous Super Bowl commercial, “Brewed the Hard Way,” which bashed craft breweries with the line: “Let them drink their pumpkin peach ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.” He couldn’t believe that the megabrewer,…
Left Hand Brewing’s Milk Stout Nitro made an appearance on HBO’s Girls last week, and although it wasn’t the most notable scene of this season — that happened a few minutes into episode one — it certainly made the Longmont brewery stand at attention. And while Left Hand is the…
Trademark battles between craft breweries are no longer new, but they can have lasting effects on the companies involved. At the moment, at least three Colorado breweries are currently involved in new trademark disputes. The most recent is Zephyr Brewing in Denver, which is facing a trademark challenge from Rising…
Denver’s 17th Avenue has been known for its eateries for more than two decades, but so far, restaurant row, as its called, has largely missed out on the small brewery explosion that has rocked Denver in recent years. That will change this spring when Deep Draft Brewing, at 1604 East…
The theory behind Factotum Brewhouse is a novel one: Rather than pay a brewer to make the beer, owners Laura and Chris Bruns are asking brewers to pay them to serve it. Will it work? The sister-and-brother team will find out beginning today, when they hold a grand opening for…
Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, which has sold off several restaurant properties over the past year, is now dismantling its real estate empire as well. The holding company is selling the buildings that house Wynkoop Brewing, Ale House at Amato’s, the Cherry Cricket, Colorado Craft, Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs and the…
The River North district has seen an explosion of new breweries over the past year, the most recent of which, Ratio Beerworks, opened earlier this month. But the big daddy on the block is going to be Great Divide’s $38 million, five-acre campus between Brighton Boulevard and the South Platte…
For sale: a couple of venerable brewery locations with deep roots in Colorado craft beer history. In Denver, Breckenridge Brewery is selling its landmark location at 471 Kalamath Street, an address that shares a name with one of the brewery’s beers. The large property includes 42,000-square-feet of space and comes…
Matt Hughes and Alex Sward know it’s a risk to start another new brewery in Denver, a city that already has nearly fifty of them. But they’re comfortable taking that chance. An insurance agent , Hughes specializes in helping breweries manage risks of all kind. And they’re confident in their…
The Post Brewing in Lafayette is seeking entries into its second annual Lil’ Brewer Buddy Homebrew Competition, which gives the winner a chance to brew his or her beer at the Post with head brewer Bryan Selders and have it served on tap there. The panel of judges will include Selders…
When they judge the annual Stout Month homebrewing competition at the Vine Street Pub, the brewers there have one primary guideline: the best beer on the table wins, regardless of its style or similarity to any other beer that Vine Street, or any of its Mountain Sun group siblings, serves…
“One. Don’t be a dick. And two, make your co-workers’ jobs easier.” Those the two main rules that Adam Avery had for his employees at the overgrown, ramshackle old Avery Brewing location on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder – and they’re the core of the company culture he plans to bring…
Colorado’s skiers and snowboarders like to go big when they’re on the slopes. And that’s the same idea that the owners of Declaration Brewing had when the started building their brewery, which opens this weekend. Everything is big, from the building itself and the brewhouse to the behind-the-scenes technology and…
Both Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora and Upslope Brewing in Boulder announced over the past week that they experienced significant growth during 2014. Upslope surpassed the 15,000-barrel mark in sales for the first time during 2014, brewing and selling a total of 19,600 barrels, a 66 percent increase over the previous year…
Renegade Brewing isn’t yet cooking malt and hops at its huge new production and packaging facility on First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, but it has opened the building for public tours — along with pints. Tours will be offered from 4 to 7 p.m. on Fridays and 1 to…
Ryan Skeels pops the bung on an oak bourbon barrel and peers into the hole with a flashlight. “Oh, yeah, there’s a lot still in there,” he says. A half a bottle’s worth of whiskey sits at the bottom, having leached out of the wood in the days since Laws…
“To anyone who gives a shit” — that’s how Renegade Brewing founder Brian O’Connell began his open letter concerning Anheuser Busch’s now infamous craft-beer-bashing Super Bowl commercial and its recent purchase of two craft breweries. “Buyouts have been a hot topic lately with the recent purchase of 10 Barrel Brewing…
As always, there was plenty to talk about before, during and after the Super Bowl, from football to the halftime show to the commercials. But one of this year’s Budweiser ads drew special attention from the 3,200 craft breweries across the country — and the people who drink their beer…
John Fiorilli expects to host a lot of guests in February — so many, in fact, that the head brewer for Mountain Sun’s string of pubs and breweries has prepared 590 kegs of beer for the company’s 22nd annual Stout Month. “That’s about 100 more than last year,” he says…
Dad & Dude’s Breweria in Aurora/Parker has been growing and changing quickly. The brewery said this week that it produced 1,016 barrels in 2014, a 116 percent increase over the previous year. The majority of that was Dad & Dude’s three canned flagship beers, Leaves of Lemongrass Wit and Ryeot…
