The Colorado Governor’s Mansion has seen its share of keggers over the decades, thanks to the learning experiences and youthful indiscretions of several gubernatorial offspring. But the 106-year-old-mansion hasn’t had its own draft-beer system — until now. Tonight, during a private party feting the state’s $826 million craft-brewing industry, Governor…

Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom on Market Street, which was one of the first places to serve microbrews in downtown Denver and has acted as the unofficial gateway to LoDo since 1992, will close its doors on March 29. The company, owned by Tennessee-based Craftworks Restaurants since 2010, is looking…

Left Hand Brewing in Longmont has been looking to get control of the word “Nitro” since 2011, first by wresting the trademark away from a small Canadian brewer that had never used it and then by filing a trademark claim of its own on the word as it relates to…

Bryan Jansing and Paul Vismara, who’ve been slinging suds at the Falling Rock Taphouse for years, will release their book, Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, in a couple weeks with a couple of launch parties. The fully-illustrated book covers the “story of the Italian craft beer…

Colorado’s 232 craft brewers employed 5,014 people and drove an economic engine worth $826 million last year, according to a study released Tuesday by the Colorado Brewers Guild. That’s up from 179 breweries, 4,493 jobs and $704 million the year before. In fact, the industry is growing so fast that…

Colorado’s largest craft brewer, New Belgium, and one of its smallest, Black Shirt, both broke new ground in January when they began canning a pair of unusual beers. New Belgium’s offering was the tart Snapshot, one of the first canned beers using lactobacillius as a souring agent. Black Shirt rolled…

The craft-brewing industry has been around long enough now that some of the older beer makers — the ones that can remember being called “microbreweries” — have started celebrating their histories by digging up old favorites that they no longer make. The latest to do this is Great Divide Brewing,…

Jake’s Brew Bar in downtown Littleton is expanding into the building next door, doubling its indoor capacity and adding a 1,500-square-foot beer garden in back. See also: Loveland’s Grimm Brothers Brewhouse will start canning beer…

Governor John Hickenlooper, co-founder of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, signed legislation this week that will continue to fund the Rural Economic Development Initiative, a program that “encourages local governments and businesses to join forces to develop community infrastructure and private facility projects and job training grants,” according to the state…

Just because great brewers come together to collaborate on a beer doesn’t mean that the beer will be twice as tasty. And just because dozens of breweries from Colorado, from out of state and even from a foreign country are coming together for a Collaboration Fest doesn’t mean the beer…

The brand new Former Future Brewing, which had to close for two weeks in order to restock its beer supply, reopened today — and will stay open all weekend. Located on South Broadway’s Antique Row, the brewery, which has a four-barrel system, ran out of beer after just a few…

Grimm Brothers Brewing, which has been bottling its German-style ales and lagers beers since opening in Loveland in 2010, will begin canning its flagship Little Red Cap next month. The copper-colored altbier has won two medals at the Great American Beer Festival. “We have been looking at doing a more…

Two Denver breweries recently announced changes to their beer-making staffs. Denver Beer Company hired Austin Wiley, who had been with Great Divide since 2007, to take over as the lead brewer, heading up recipe development at the Platte Street taproom, managing the operation and overseeing the barrel-aging program. Nick Bruno,…

Grand Lake Brewing, which closed its taproom last October amidst declining business in the mountain town and after dispute with several employees, announced on its Facebook recently that it will reopen in Olde Town Arvada, just a block from the Arvada Brewing Company. The new location is at 5610 Yukon…

It was a tale of two cities (towns, really) — and of two breweries. In Lyons, Oskar Blues owner Dale Katechis canned his first beer, Dale’s Pale Ale, in 2002. At around the same time, Tommyknocker Brewery in Idaho Springs began canning Ornery Amber. But while Oskar Blues went on…

The Rackhouse Pub, which opened inside the Stranahan’s whiskey distillery in October 2009 as one of Denver’s first craft-beverage themed restaurants, will close on April 4 and reopen in its own space across the street, possibly as soon as this fall. “We wanted to continue here, but for us to…

Odell Brewing takes pride moving slow, and in expanding at a reasonable, measured pace — which is why the Fort Collins beer makers was so deliberate last week in announcing that it would enter the Texas market — the company’s first new state in two years. To help out, Odell…

Former Future Brewing, which just opened on February 1, has run out of beer. Yep. The brewery, which has a four-barrel system, simply hasn’t been able to keep up with the demand for its suds — a testament, perhaps, to Denver’s love of craft brews. “Well, we thought this might…

From the beginning, brothers Branden and Chad Miller and Chad’s wife, Carissa, wanted to pair their beers at Black Shirt Brewing with food. A server for four years at Duo, Branden made sure to include plans for a kitchen inside the final design of the brewery they opened at 3719…