James and Sarah Howat will launch the past into the present when they open Former Future Brewing tomorrow on South Broadway’s Antique Row. The spot will specialize in “futuristic interpretations of historical styles,” both in its look and feel and in its beer recipes, which will incorporate both the old…
As part of its legal settlement with a similarly named homebrewing shop in Massachusetts, Denver’s Strange Brewing Company got its Facebook page back today. Strange had been using another page that it created, the cheekily-named That Brewery on Zuni, since last June when a trademark dispute between the brewery and…
For anyone in Denver who loves Trader Joe’s — who has waited anxiously for years for the eclectic supermarket chain to announce a location in Colorado and then waited months longer for construction to wrap up — stuff just got real. The iconic signs just went up on the company’s…
For a small market located in a flyover state, Denver and its football fans have made a big name for themselves since the Denver Broncos team was born in 1960. From the fans who stormed the field on New Year’s Day in 1978 to tear down the goal posts after…
Lone Tree Brewing unveiled plans last week to begin canning two of its best-selling beers, Lone Tree Peach Pale Ale and Mountain Mama Golden Lager, beginning in April. The brewery bought its own canning line and plans to distribute the beers throughout the Denver metro area, along with the bomber…
Fort Collins is home to two of Colorado’s five largest craft breweries, but there are about a dozen other breweries or breweries-in-planning there as well, a sign of a growing depth and breadth that makes Fort Collins one of the best beer towns in the country. One of those, the…
KUSA 9News weather and traffic reporter Amelia Earhart, seen here in a photo illustration, has a famous namesake, and although she’s not actually a descendant of the original Earhart — a pilot who disappeared while trying to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 — she’s never shied away from the connection,…
Craft beer has made major inroads in restaurants and bars over the past few years, but the industry has had trouble breaking into other venues, including sports stadiums and airlines, which need to sell huge amounts of beer very quickly. But last weekend, Southwest Airlines joined Frontier and Alaska by…
Bill Eye, an award-winning brewer who became a part owner at Prost Brewing when it opened in the spring of 2012, has resigned as brewmaster. Eye specialized in brewing German-style lagers and gained attention at Dry Dock Brewing when the Aurora company won a series of Great American Beer Festival…
A new year brings new beers, and Colorado’s breweries have already released or are just about to unveil many of them. They include: Breckenridge Brewery Ophelia, a hoppy wheat ale; Great Divide Lasso, a low-ABV IPA made with Columbus, Centennial and Cascade hops; New Belgium Rewind, an IPA brewed with…
Avery Brewing broke ground yesterday on a $27 million, 68,000-square-foot campus in north Boulder that it hopes to move to around this time next year. The brewery first submitted plans to the City of Boulder in fall 2011 — and wanted construction to be under way in 2012 — but…
Dry Dock Brewing, which opened a new, 30,000-square-foot production brewery and packaging facility in Aurora last January, said today that it had nearly quadrupled in size over the past twelve months, going from 3,273 barrels in 2012 to 12,000 barrels in 2013. It also managed to can more than two…
Joe Hodas is used to living the high life: The longtime PR guy spent five years as spokesman for Frontier Airlines in the mid-2000s, went on to a VP role with Smashburger, and then became an executive vice president with Vladimir Jones, a high-powered ad and PR firm, representing clients…
Everyone’s on the Denver Broncos bandwagon right now, but West Flanders Brewing in Boulder (which made news last week for naming a beer in honor of pot legalization) manged to find the line between enthusiasm and over-enthusiasm after it named a beer for the home team — only to have…
Gardiner Hammond, a former brewer at the Old Mill in Littleton, plans to open his own brewery this spring in a space that once housed Independent Records, next to the Ogden Theater on East Colfax Avenue. Part of the space was taken over by Angelo’s CDs in August, but the…
The Denver Bicycle Cafe — which has specialized in fixing bikes, serving coffee and pouring locally-brewed beers – will put a little less emphasis on the coffee and little more on the beer starting this week when it changes its structure and its hours. Beginning on February 1, the cool,…
Bud Light got the Denver Broncos-related headlines last weekend after Peyton Manning told reporters at a post-playoffs game press conference that the main thing “weighing on my mind is how soon I can get a Bud Light in my mouth. That’s priority No. 1.” But in the week leading up…
Oskar Blues has introduced a new kind of vessel for taking beer to go from its Tasty Weasel taproom in Longmont. The Crowler, a cross between a can and a traditional growler, is a 32-ounce recyclable aluminum can that can be filled, purged of CO2 and sealed within minutes. Turn…
Kokopelli Beer Company in Westminster held its grand opening last Friday with six of its own beers on draft, including a milk stout, an IPA, an American pale and an English pale, along with a couple ciders and a sour from other brewers. The new brewpub, owned by Christine Wares,…
Chocolate is sweet and sultry and delicious. Chocolate tastes great, smells great and looks fantastic. Chocolate is supposed to be fun. But Bill Beymer of Odell Brewing wasn’t having much fun in late 2012, when he was trying to figure out how to melt hundreds of pounds of chocolate into…
Outside of January, when the National Western Stock Show is in town, you don’t see a lot of bolo ties in Colorado anymore, even though they’re as much a part of Western garb as cowboy boots. “Bolo ties are not a high-volume seller,” says Rockmount Ranch Wear owner Steve Weil,…
New Belgium Brewing has always represented a dichotomy. The Fort Collins company is the nation’s third-largest craft brewer, and yet it has held on to the independent-minded ethos of a garage-bound start-up. Its flagship, Fat Tire, is often seen as an entry-level example of a craft beer, and yet it…
