When Breckenridge Brewery opens its $20 million, park-like beer campus on the banks of the South Platte River in April 2015, it will be unlike any other brewery in the state: The twelve-acre spot, tucked between two swaths of open space, Santa Fe Drive and the bike path along the…
For Hops & Pie co-owner Drew Watson, the trickiest part about changing up his popular pizza joint’s house IPA wasn’t saying goodbye to longtime provider Strange Craft Beer Company: “I love those guys. We still have a great relationship.” Rather, it was making sure that the new beer, brewed by…
Tickets to the fifteenth annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival, which takes place January 8 through January 10 in Vail, went on sale this morning — and some of the events have already sold out. Although the events, and the weekend itself, are expensive compared to many beer fests,…
Dry Dock Brewing has been running its 30,000-square-foot, forty-barrel production brewery and canning facility for 21 months in north Aurora, but co-owners Kevin DeLange and Michelle Reding are tired of keeping it to themselves. On Friday, September 12, they’ll open a somewhat rustic tasting room inside the former warehouse, with…
Two bi-partisan groups of Colorado lawmakers — a crew that is often woefully unfamiliar with this state’s craft-beer industry — will make their way to a pair of breweries this week as part of a program created by the Colorado Brewers Guild called Hop the Vote. A team of state…
When one train pulls out of the station, another pulls in. That’s how it seems to be working out for Stephanie Shearer and Chris Bacorn — with a little help from “What Does LoDo Need,” a contest we told you about earlier this year. The two have figured out what…
Beer to go is nothing new in Colorado: Most breweries sell glass, plastic or stainless steel vessels, known as growlers, that they fill right from their tap lines. But some of those containers have developed a reputation for being too big, unwieldy or worse — for letting their contents go…
Just three months after opening in the Platt Park neighborhood, Denver Pearl Brewing is changing its name in order to avoid confusion and the possibility of legal action from two other breweries, one local and one in another state. Denver Pearl has selected a new name — one that avoids…
Oskar Blues said last week that it has lowered the alcohol content of its newest and most unusual craft beer, Old Chub Scotch Ale Nitro, at the request of bars across the OB’s 35-state distribution network, where the beer will be rolled out in coming weeks. Old Chub will now…
Adventurous Colorado beer drinkers didn’t have a lot of choices in the early 1990s. There were a few imports, but since microbrews were few and far between, anyone who was interested in branching out probably came across Oasis Brewery’s Tut Brown Ale. Founded in 1991 by George Hanna, Oasis was…
Coors has been a part of the Great American Beer Festival since its ragtag beginnings in 1982 in Boulder. The brewery won its first medals — for Killian Irish Red and Coors Extra Gold — in 1988, a year after the festival held its first competitive judging. In the decades…
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in our August 14, 2014, print edition. On August 15, an agency representing the auction said the details had changed and sent us the following note. “Earlier this week, we switched up the format of the auction: the live event is postponed until January,…
In the same month that Ska Brewing released one of the lowest-alcohol beers to be canned in Colorado — the 4.5 ABV Rudie Session IPA — Crazy Mountain Brewing in Edwards released one of the most potent: the 10 percent ABV Lawyers, Guns & Money. Labeled as a barleywine, the…
Is it fall yet? Almost. A pair of seasonal beers from two Colorado breweries are hitting shelves around town right now. They include Grimm Brothers Brewhouse’s Farmer’s Daughter, a 6.1 ABV German Style Oktoberfest beer with a creamy mouthfeel and toasty aroma, and New Belgium’s Tour de Fall, a new…
Just three years after opening in a former garage on Platte Street, Denver Beer Co has just tapped a huge new production facility in the Sunnyside neighborhood, making the brewery a perfect symbol for the rapid rise of craft brewing’s third wave. Denver Beer Co’s Canworks in located inside a…
Fermentation is the blessed process that gives us beer, wine and spirits, but it’s also one of the oldest forms of food preservation in the world, and this weekend’s second annual Fermentation Festival & Market plans to highlight that history, as well as showcase everything from pickles and sauerkraut to…
The Daily Meal released its annual list of the 50 Best Craft Breweries in America — as voted on by readers — last week, and it included seven in Colorado. They are: New Belgium Brewing (ranked 7), Oskar Blues (ranked 9), Avery (ranked 12), Epic (ranked 16), Great Divide (ranked…
Three former Avery Brewing employees who left earlier this year to form their own venture, Call to Arms Brewing, have signed a lease at 4526 Tennyson Street in the Berkeley neighborhood. The brewery will be located in the back half of an 8,253-square-foot building/development called John’s Garage, which used to…
It’s not that the guys who work at Ska Brewing don’t want to get drunk. It’s just that they don’t want to get drunk as fast, says company co-owner Dave Thibodeau. “There’s been a lot of hype about session beers, but that’s not why we made it. We made it…
Dude’s Brews, the packaging arm of Dad & Dude’s Breweria in Aurora, has started canning two new beers: Leaves of Lemongrass, a light-bodied wit bier brewed with lemongrass, coriander and orange peel, and Riot Red Rye Ale, a spicy red infused with Lampong peppercorns from Indonesia. They should be available…
Tickets to the Great American Beer Festival, slated for October 2, 3 and 4 at the Colorado Convention Center, go on sale to the general public today at 10 a.m. and will likely sell out within seconds. The festival itself, run by the Boulder-based Brewers Association, continues to grow while…
Sierra Nevada Brewing didn’t provide the double rainbow that arched across the sky above Civic Center Park last Friday. But the Chico, California-based brewery certainly took care of all the other details at Beer Camp Across America, a roving seven-city festival that will end in Mills River, North Carolina, on…
