“We don’t believe the world needs another IPA.” That’s the rallying cry that AC Golden Brewing will use to market Colorado Native IPL, its second beer under the increasingly popular Colorado Native Brand. “We do, however, believe there is room for a beer that is similar to an IPA, but…
This will be a bad week for some of the elephants in Colorado’s Grand Old Party: three of the four candidates — Tom Tancredo, Mike Kopp, Bob Beauprez and Scott Gessler — running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination will be sitting on the sidelines after Tuesday’s primary, while one will…
Opening a nanobrewery in Denver has proven to be a challenge over the past couple of years: The city has such a thirst for craft beer that nanos — breweries that only make three barrels at at time or less — sell out fast, sometimes during their opening weekend. Some…
On Thursday morning, a group of six small Colorado breweries will take a decidedly modern approach to beer-making when they all brew Simultaneous Saison at the same time at their respective locations across the state. The six breweries — Denver’s Strange Craft, Echo Brewing in Frederick, Monument’s Pikes Peak Brewing,…
“I can put 49 people inside the taproom and another 25 or so outside, depending on who wants to sit on whose lap,” says Jeff Atencio, a homebrewer and firefighter from Highlands Ranch who is always quick with a quip of some sort. In fact, it was a joke about…
The heavens above blessed the site of Great Divide Brewing’s future location on Saturday afternoon by unleashing a dramatic rainstorm on the brewery’s twentieth anniversary party. But the rain couldn’t dampen the celebratory atmosphere as Great Divide welcomed the public to what will eventually be a massive production brewery, along…
Craft breweries across the country will begin registering for the Great American Beer Festival next Tuesday, but the Brewers Association has completely changed how the process works in order to avoid the ugly situation that developed in 2013. So many breweries tried to enter last year that all of the…
Most politicians like to hear themselves talk, but Mayor Michael Hancock may have taken an appreciation for his own voice to a new level over the past three years. During that time, the mayor has recorded at least seventeen messages that been played inside the terminal trains at Denver International…
Colfax Avenue may be the longest street in America, but until Mu Brewery opened last weekend in Aurora, none of its 26 miles was graced with a craft brewery. The last beer-maker with a Colfax address was an outlet of the Florida-based Hops Grill & Brewery chain, but that company…
In a state where new craft breweries and new beers debut every week and beer festivals and events run nearly every weekend, it’s hard to notice when one goes missing. But that’s what happened last February, when Wynkoop Brewing decided not to host its Beerdrinker of the Year competition, which…
Denver Beer Co is just a few weeks away from firing up the kettle at its new production facility, dubbed “Canworks,” and brewing its first batches of Graham Cracker Porter and Incredible Pedal IPA in Sunnyside. The brewery’s second location should begin canning those two beers before its third anniversary…
A Colorado summer can be short, which is why those in the know hit the road early and often, from Memorial Day to Labor Day — and even later if they can. There are plenty of campgrounds, RV sites, motels, condos and luxury resorts to choose from, but it’s hard…
Denver Pearl Brewing, which opened quietly in the Platt Park neighborhood last week, will hold its grand opening party on Saturday, June 7, with a wide variety of beers. “We have seven beers on tap right now, and we’ll have ten on Saturday,” says Colby Rankin, who owns Denver Pearl…
Great Divide Brewing will open a small tap room called the Barrel Bar next spring at 35th Avenue and Brighton Boulevard, on the site of its future brewery in the River North neighborhood. With a patio outside and room for an estimated forty to fifty people inside, the Barrel Bar…
Filmmaker Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West hit theaters recently and on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek, with L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, talk about his generally offensive body of work. Also on this week’s pod: reviews…
Media outlets have been reporting for months (or longer, in the case of Westword) about how law enforcement officers in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oklahoma and other Colorado border states are stopping cars with green-and-white license plates more often since the legalization of marijuana here. (One out-of-state cop reportedly referred to…
Although they’ve both been operating in Fort Collins for more than two decades, Odell and New Belgium had never collaborated on a beer. That changed last month when the two Colorado stalwarts teamed up on FOCOllaboration Ale, a pale ale made with Fawcett Crystal Malt (an Odell favorite), Centennial, Cascade…
The brand new owners of the popular Craft Lager Festival — which has taken place in the Manitou Springs area for eleven years — announced this week that they have canceled the event this August because of poor planning and a lack of available breweries. “We only got eleven signups;…
Gotham needed Batman. But even Batman would have been nothing without Bruce Wayne. Denver, it turns out, needs Batman as well. And our version of the Dark Knight? Well, he needs Brews Wayne – and preferably a couple of pints. Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con will introduce their latest…
Saint Patrick’s Brewing, a tiny nanobrewery in Englewood, is moving into a much larger space, where co-owner Chris Phelps will have the chance to make a lot more of his passion: lagered beers, many of them with unusual ingredients. The new taproom, at 2852 Bowles Avenue in Littleton, will be…
The Republican National Committee announced last week that two of the six cities — Las Vegas and Cincinnati — that were vying to host the Republican National Convention in 2016 have dropped out. That means the 24 members of the site-selection committee will now pay visits only to Dallas, Cleveland,…
After last September’s floods devastated Lyons, the focus was on rebuilding: lives, homes and spirits. At the time, no one was in the mood for fun and games. But they definitely could have used a beer — and Oskar Blues, which got its start in Lyons, was happy to help…
