New Belgium Brewing is rolling out its new look on a wide scale this month, after having introduced bits and pieces of it last year. The “portfolio-wide packaging refresh…reimagines New Belgium’s iconic and playful watercolor imagery from the past 22 years through a modern lens,” the Fort Collins company says…
Since beer is made from grain and hops, it makes sense that Christine Wares picked Kokopelli, the Hopi god of agriculture and fertility, for the name and logo of her new brewery. But Wares, who will run Kokopelli Beer Company, 8931 Harlan Street, with brewers Todd Williamson and Rick Holt,…
It’s surprising that it took this long, but a Colorado craft brewer has finally linked a beer tapping to the legalization of marijuana sales here, which went into effect January 1. West Flanders Brewing in Boulder has changed the name of one of its its beers from Woodshed Smoked Porter…
After pulling out of some states in 2011 in order to concentrate on others, Longmont’s Oskar Blues has recently begun expanding aggressively again. This week, the brewery, which has a second production brewery in North Carolina, said it plans to launch beer sales in Idaho, Minnesota, Kansas, Nevada and Delaware,…
Yesterday, we wrote about retired Littleton police chief Heather Coogan and businessman Ken Toltz, who are attempting to put an initiative on the November 2014 ballot asking whether Colorado believe concealed weapons should be banned on college campuses. As always, the issue of gun control inspires a lot of emotional,…
TV news personality Phil Keating, who garnered a bit of Internet fame a few days ago by interviewing rowdy revelers in South Beach, was certainly no stranger to the party circuit when he lived in Denver, ruling the roost as a well-coiffed TV news reporter and anchor. In fact, before…
Colorado breweries made and packaged hundreds of amazing new beers in 2012, expanding their range and proving once again which state is the center of the craft beer universe. And although thousands more were brewed and sold on draft in tap rooms, bars and breweries, this list — like the…
There are roughtly thirty breweries in the city of Denver alone and nearly that many in Boulder. There are dozens more in the surrounding towns and suburbs, and that doesn’t even include Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Durango and the mountains. I’ve been to a lot of them, but I’ve missed…
In December, the University of Colorado launched a new $100,000 branding campaign, entitled “Be Boulder,” in hopes of turning people’s attention away from Boulder’s rep as a party school and towards the noble laureates and astronauts and filmmakers the institution has produced. But facts are facts, and even if the…
Unless you’re a fan of Major League Soccer, you may not have heard of Robbie Rogers, but the speedy winger made big news last February when he came out, and briefly retired, before returning to soccer and being traded to the LA Galaxy; in doing so, he became the first…
There were 23 breweries inside Denver’s city limits at the start of 2013 (depending on how you count them), and by December 21, when Station 26 opened in North Park Hill, there were 29 (again, depending on how you count them). But by this time next year, there could be…
They’ve targeted Snooze and the Palm, and now an Occupy Denver-supported coalition of protestors is going after the Tattered Cover Book Store because of the store’s position on Denver’s controversial ban on urban camping — or, rather, because of the Tattered Cover’s lack of a position on the subject. Last…
The Denver Department of Excise and Licenses recently posted a list of fourteen stores in town that are now fully licensed to sell recreational marijuana on January 1. It’s a story that has been dominating the news in Westword and in other media outlets around town and around the country,…
Station 26 Brewing, which opened December 21, holds the title of the newest brewery inside of Denver’s city limits; located in an former fire station in North Park Hill, it satisfies a thirst for craft beer in the northeast parts of town, including Stapleton. Westword photographer Brandon Marshall spent some…
The last twelve months have been amazing ones for Colorado’s craft brewers, both old and new, and 2014 is shaping up to be even better. Two highly-anticipated brewpubs have already announced that they will open in the first month of the new year. Denver’s Lowdown Brewery + Kitchen, the brainchild…
Every year, Westword compiles a list of some of the weirdest stories that have taken place in Colorado over the previous twelve months; our Strange but True compilation in the Year in Review issue (which also includes our Hall of Shame, parts one and two) is currently out in print…
Station 26 Brewing opened Saturday afternoon in a beautifully renovated old Denver firehouse in northeast Park Hill that was vacated several years ago when the station was moved further east into the Stapleton neighborhood. Owner Justin Baccary had been planning to wait one more week, but when he received his…
This was the year that Lance Armstrong admitted to doing what most people has already assumed he’d been doing for years: cheating. And in October, the former seven-time Tour de France winner (now stripped of those titles) also became the subject of a documentary, The Armstrong Lie, that is already…
Last night Caution Brewing opened its second brewery, a Lakewood spot called Caution West, and became the first Denver-based beermaker with two metro locations. Founded in April 2011 by Danny Wang and Betty Fey, Caution’s original brewery is situated in an industrial park in far northeast Denver. It includes a…
Odell Brewing, which just completed a major expansion of its Fort Collins brewery and taproom, has also made a change to one of its seasonal offerings. Odell Red Ale, a hoppy red beer available in the first few months of each year, has become Runoff Red IPA — a switch…
On New Year’s Eve, the Longmont-based Oskar Blues brewery will open the latest in its ever-expanding empire of craft-beer-themed restaurants and businesses. Cyclhops Bike CANtina, at 600 Airport Road in Longmont, will be a Mexican-style restaurant with twenty beers on tap, along with 43 premium tequilas and room for 300…
In case there was any doubt about how big the craft-brewing industry has become — or about its impact in Colorado — the industry’s trade group said today that small and independent craft brewers contributed $33.9 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012. Colorado’s craft brewers contributed $1.6 billion to…
