The challenge for Oskar Blues was to make a hoppy, low-alcohol “session” beer that wasn’t a “watered down Dale’s Pale Ale,” says Oskar Blues spokesman Chad Melis. And the result, Pinner Throwback IPA, will hit liquor store shelves in six-packs of twelve-ounce cans later this month in Colorado and North…

Maybe you were done buying discount TVs before 6 a.m. or maybe you’ve just got better things to do today than join the masses at the mall. Whatever the case, there are some special beer tappings going on at a few local breweries in honor of the retail world’s big…

Renegade Brewing, which has spent the past five months renovating a 15,000-square-foot production facility in a development called the Yard near First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, announced last week that it will begin distributing outside of Colorado for the first time next month. Kansas is the first state that…

When Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project opened its showplace tap room inside the urban-chic Source market a year ago, owner Chad Yakobson planned to start brewing there right away. But for month after month, his shiny new equipment sat empty as he and Zeppelin Development, which owns the building, tried…

The 2014 baseball season didn’t work out so well for the Colorado Rockies, but it was a grand slam for Oskar Blues, which sold nearly 50,000 burgers at the CHUburger restaurant on the new rooftop deck at Coors Field. The location also poured 43,000 beers, although that total was split…

Wynkoop head brewer Andy Brown, who is credited with updating the beer recipes at Colorado’s oldest brewpub to fit the modern craft-beer market, said this week that he is leaving the job after six and a half years. Mike Hall, the head brewer at Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs,…

Fate Brewing in Boulder announced this week that it has acquired an extra 2,500 square feet of space next door to its current facility, where it will begin renovations next month, adding a barrel-aging room and new bottling and canning equipment. In addition, Fate will double its fermentation capacity to…

The owners of Ratio Beerworks had stopped looking for space in River North — a district that already boasts seven breweries with at least three more on the way — when they heard about the 5,500-square-foot warehouse that Mile High Spirits was leaving behind after finding newer digs downtown. “It…

Keeping it local. That’s the goal of Andy Nelson and Jason Reinhardt, who will open Locavore Beer Works on Saturday, November 15 in Littleton. “We use the concentric ring model and only go outside of that if certain goods or services aren’t available,” says Nelson, adding that the brewery is…

When people walk into Fermaentra, owners Brennan Mann and Spencer O’Bryan want them to know they’re in a brewery. “Otherwise, you’re just in a bar in LoDo,” Mann says. That’s why beer drinkers at Fermaentra, which opens its doors for the first time on Saturday, will be able to look…

Gardiner Hammond has always been a fan of Capitol Hill — the bars, the music halls, the mix of people and styles. So when he began searching for a location for his brewery, Alpine Dog Brewing, he focused on this eclectic neighborhood. “It’s the densest part of Denver,” he says…

Ski resorts haven’t always made craft beer a priority, but that has changed a lot over the past two years. The latest pairing between local brews and winter sports is at the Base 9 bar inside Breckenridge’s Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, which is introducing a new craft-beer program…

When Left Hand Brewing introduced its Nitro brand in 2011, the beer maker’s top brass wanted things to run smoothly — both in how the beers poured and with control of the brand itself. The former worked out perfectly. The latter, not so much. While the creamy beers, especially Milk…

November is shaping up to be a huge month for brewery openings in Denver, as at least three — and possibly up to six — new beer makers get ready to pour. Mockery Brewing, Alpine Dog and Fermaentra Brewing have all set opening dates, while Zephyr Brewing, Goldspot and Declaration…

Yes, there’s a new brewery getting ready to open its doors this weekend in the River North neighborhood, just across from the Source market. But no, that brewery isn’t Great Divide, which is building a huge complex there. Rather, it is Mockery Brewing, at 3501 Delgany Street, which will be…

In what may be one of the most perfect meetings between Denver’s past and its future, the new makers of Tivoli Beer will open their own brewery, taproom and restaurant inside the historic former home of the original Tivoli Brewing Company on the Auraria Campus. Tivoli Brewing co-owner Corey Marshall…

Dry Dock Brewing debuted two whiskey-barrel-aged beers in its Signature Series last week, both in bottles and at its new tasting room, located inside the brewery’s production facility in north Aurora. The beers are Double Brown Ale, an 8 percent ABV English-style brown “with a nutty, caramel backbone and pronounced,…

While River North, LoDo and the Beermuda Triangle may boast the city’s thickest concentrations of small craft breweries, the Sunnyside neighborhood in north Denver is slowly building a beer scene of its own — one that could make it a new destination for craft-beer drinkers over the next year. Factotum…

Frank Keesling thought he was in trouble nine years ago when he got a call from the Wynkoop Brewing Company asking why there were so many gorillas sitting at the bar. Although the question sounded like the punchline to a joke, it actually came as more of a relief to…

The beer boom on “the longest, wickedest street in America” will continue next year when Cerebral Brewing opens at the corner of Colfax Avenue and Monroe Street. Owners Sean Buchan, Chris Washenberger and Dan McGuire signed a lease this week for a space in a former Galaxie auto body shop,…

The Oskar Blues CAN’d Aid Foundation, which was created a year ago to help Lyons — where Oskar Blues was founded — recover from the devastating floods that ravaged several towns in Colorado, said this week that is had raised one million dollars over the past twelve months and has…