Matt Hughes had a harder time thinking of a name for his brewery than he did for his kids, but the result seems to fit the bouncing baby business. Goldspot Brewing, which will be located on Lowell Boulevard about a block from Regis University in northwest Denver, is named for…

When Barrels & Bottles Brewery opens at 5 p.m. today in downtown Golden, it will serve 24 wines on tap, 22 beers — including two of its own — and sell bulk olive oils and vinegars, a concept that will make it stand out, say owners Abby and Zach George…

As quickly as the floodwaters rose, Colorado is organizing benefits to help those affected, and bars and breweries are no exception — especially those in Longmont, Lyons and Boulder where some of the flooding hit the hardest. One of those benefits is Longmont’s Oktoberfest, organized by Left Hand Brewing, but…

Do you like the cozy, kooky feel of your grandma’s house? Then you’ll feel right at home at Grandma’s House, a new brewery that will be modeled after your Nana’s place. “I wanted to go with the crafting and craft brewing aesthetic and maintain that kind of Etsy-type community feel,”…

The owners of the Cheeky Monk Belgian Café are racing to open their new Denver brewery before the Great American Beer Festival starts on October 10. But even if they are delayed, Lost Highway Brewing will be pouring two beers at GABF. “We’ve had our brewing permits for almost two…

Left Hand Brewing, which for years has proudly touted its beer as being “brewed on the banks of the mighty St. Vrain,” has been cursing the river over the past few days. The St. Vrain, which has destroyed homes, roads and bridges all over Longmont, also flooded parts of the…

Nick Nunns doesn’t worry much about convention. He likes heavy-metal music, black-and-white photos, Norse letters and unusual beer styles. In fact, when Nunns opened TRVE Brewing in the summer of 2011, one his first creations was Prehistoric Dog, a salted American wheat that almost nobody makes. See also: TRVE Brewing…

Pumpkin beers. Love ’em or hate ’em, they are becoming more prevalent every year — and hitting liquor store shelves earlier and earlier. In fact, there were several varieties available in mid-July despite the fact that people were still lighting up leftover fireworks. Now that it’s September and the cool…

It’s harvest season, and pumpkins and peaches aren’t the only things making their way into beers. Breweries are putting together and releasing their annual fresh hop — or wet hop — beers using hops from both Colorado and Washington. The point of these beers is to capture the flavor of…

Former Future Brewing, which will open its doors on South Broadway this fall, is the latest small Denver brewery to offer paid memberships as a way to raise money and build support from locals who are willing to pay to be part of an exclusive beer club. But the brewery,…

Longmont is already one of Colorado’s craft beer meccas. The town is home to two of the state’s biggest breweries, Left Hand and Oskar Blues, as well as the Pumphouse brewpub and two suds-centered restaurants operated by Oskar Blues. But over the next few months, the Boulder County burg will…

The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest and best sudstravaganza in the world. This year, the sold-out fiesta will take place October 10-12 and feature 626 breweries pouring an astounding 3,159 beers. But GABF is just the start. Beginning on Monday, and continuing all week, breweries, bars, restaurants and…

Two well-known out-of-state brewers are invading Colorado this month. Speakeasy Ales and Lagers, a sixteen-year-old brewery from San Francisco started pouring at a few bars around town this week and should follow up with bottles of some of its flagship beers, like Big Daddy IPA and Prohibition Ale, sometime soon…

Epic Brewing, which started making beer at its huge new Denver facility in July, has even more good news for fans of its brainless and off-kilter beers. The Salt Lake City-based brewery will use three 60-hectoliter wooden barrels — called foeders — that it just bought from New Belgium Brewing…

So many breweries wanted to be a part of the Great American Beer Festival this year that all of the spots filled within two hours on July 9, a rapid sellout that stunned both organizers and the brewers, leaving 375 would-be attendees on a waiting list. But the Boulder-based Brewers…

New Belgium Brewing, which has been making beer in Fort Collins for 22 years, plans to update the look of its beer labels beginning in 2014. The new designs will take some of the “iconic and playful watercolor imagery” that the brewery has used and update it “through a modern…

Marty Jones, who has been one of Colorado’s foremost craft beer ambassador’s for more than a decade and the chief idea man for the Wynkoop Brewing Company since 2009, will leave the brewery this week to pursue a career as an independent consultant. “I had a lovely time at Wynkoop,…

Great Divide Brewing, which has grown so much over the past five years that it is bursting at the seams, is targeting a new spot in the River North neighborhood where it can continue to brew the boundary-pushing beers it has been making since 1994. The brewery has asked the…

Update: Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson says the What the Funk festival isn’t intended to compete directly with GABF, but is merely a way for some of the breweries who were on the festival waitlist — or who don’t make enough beer to serve in the hall — to be…

Diebolt Brewing opened last weekend as Denver’s newest small craft brewery, serving up beers and camaraderie in the Sunnyside neighborhood. The brewery plans to hold a grand opening event during the Great American Beer Festival, which returns to town October 10-12, but it will have some company by then when…