Great Divide Brewing will bring back a new version of a very old beer this summer when it begins bottling and canning Whitewater Wheat, a hoppy wheat ale that will replace Heydey in its lineup. But the rollout will also speak as a quiet testament to how craft breweries can…

Golden has always been good to its beer makers, and Mountain Toad Brewing, which opened less than two years ago, is no exception. The brewery will build a new production facility this year with a thirty-barrel brewhouse, room for a canning line, and small taproom to complement its downtown location…

Matthew Fuerst is a collector. Last week he took a trip down Broadway to Angelo’s CDs, where he bought 120 8-track cartridges to play on the vintage 8-track stereo at Grandma’s House, the brewery that Fuerst opened last October. Filled with retro appliances, knick-knacks, games and decorations, Grandma’s House looks…

Falling Rock Taphouse will hold its annual Vintage Beer Sale this Saturday, January 24, starting at 5 p.m., unloading bottles for on-premise consumption only. “Going through the cellar and cooler we have found some lonely bottles. The last of their kind, the last of that year, some really special ones…

Matthew Osterman plans to open one of Denver’s largest breweries this month — but he won’t be making a single beer there for himself. Rather, Sleeping Giant will contract to brew beers for about a dozen craft breweries in Colorado and other western states. The brewery, which doesn’t have a…

Food & Wine just offered a list of seven “breweries to watch” in 2015, and included Longmont’s Oskar Blues, along with a few other big names. And while the magazine focused on the brewery’s recent East Coast expansion, as well as a planned addition in Colorado, there’s another reason to…

The Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Fetival celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in Vail last weekend with a series of seminars, tastings, dinners and a commercial tasting event that brings together some of the biggest, most rare beers in the country. But even as the three-day fest has grown, it has…

With more than 250 breweries in Colorado, it’s hard to get a good sampling of everything that is being made — even over the course of an entire year (see my list from 2013 as well). It gets even more difficult because our state’s prodigious craft-beer makers are constantly turning…

Barley’s Angels Colorado, a networking and social group for both women in the beer industry and consumers, has started a brewery job board as of January 1. Run by two Barley’s Angels volunteers, the site, at barleysangelscolorado.com, lists available non-gender-specific jobs and provides a link to the description and application…

Like the beverages it celebrates, the Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival in Vail has gotten deeper and more complex as it has aged. Now in its fifteenth year, the festival, taking place this weekend, will welcome more than 1,500 brewers, industry veterans, beer celebrities, regular beer geeks — and…

Sixteen new breweries opened inside Denver city limits in 2014, a record year that brought the total number of breweries here to 44 — and that doesn’t include beer makers like Joyride Brewing in Edgewater and other nearby suburbs that helped the Mile High City’s beer culture bubble over. At…

Winter Park Resort, which turns 75 this year, has struck a deal with the state’s largest craft brewer that will guarantee plenty of Mary Jane Ale for the foreseeable future. As part of the arrangement, New Belgium Brewing will make a certain number of barrels of the beer per year…

Sean Nook is serious about making good beer. But he doesn’t take himself too seriously when it comes to marketing or selling it — which is why his place, Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins, takes an irreverent approach to its everyday operations. Last year, for instance, Nook came up…

Most of us can’t sing unless we’ve had a couple of pints, which means that the Fort Collins-area brewers who got together to sing this jingle at Horse & Dragon Brewing may have had a couple. The singing Christmas card was organized by the Colorado Brewers Festival and the Downtown…

New breweries opened at a stunning rate of 1.5 per day across the United States in 2014, bringing the total number to more than 3,200 by the end of November, according to the Brewers Association, the Boulder-based trade group that covers the craft-beer industry. And there are another 2,000 breweries…

To celebrate the impending opening of its massive new brewing campus in Littleton — and all of the square footage and brewing capacity that it will have at its disposal — Breckenridge Brewery will release its first large-scale barrel-aged bottled beer this month. Barrel Aged 72 Imperial is Breckenridge’s 72…

Last July, we wrote about former Upslope head brewer Alex Violette, who was planning to leave Colorado and start an American-style craft brewery in Vietnam. And according to an Outside magazine story this week about U.S. craft breweries going global, Pasteur Street Brewing will open in Saigon on Christmas day…

A lot has happened since early 2013, when three Colorado friends — Brian Wood, Rich Wisniewski and Tyler Shuey — decided to open a brewery in River North. The neighborhood has grown quickly and now includes eight breweries within walking distance — while their project, Zephyr Brewing, has suffered through…

When Denver Beer Co opened its Canworks production brewery and packaging facility last August, it also cranked up a contest in which participants could buy the newly canned beers, grab printed GPS coordinates off of the cans, figure out the 24 different secret locations and then visit them and take…

When Trinity Brewing owner Jason Yester first envisioned a series of beers designed to highlight the differences between various wild yeasts and souring bacteria, the goal was to educate consumers, brewers, beer writers, and even beer judges about flavor profiles. “There is a lot of confusion,” he said then, about…