Peaches aren’t the only Western Slope product heading east over the mountains these days. Kannah Creek Brewing in Grand Junction has just begun distributing two of its bottled beers, Lands End Amber and Standing Wave Pale Ale, to Denver for the first time. Eventually Republic National Distributing will help Kannah…

Since opening the Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in 2010, Chad Yakobson has done things his own way, pushing Colorado’s craft-beer scene forward with his brewing technique, his chosen style of beers, his collaborations and his brewery-less taproom. But his latest innovative leap will actually be a step into the…

Welkome to the Party. That’s the slogan for Comrade Brewing, which plans to open in southeast Denver next year with “back-to-basics” beers and a tongue-in-cheek nod to Communism. “People talk a lot about the camaraderie in the craft-beer industry. It’s a very friendly community, so that is actually the theme,”…

By choosing to start up a new brewery in River North, Zach and Rachel Rabun are either crazy or brilliant. “We’re not sure about that ourselves,” Zach says. The couple recently announced plans to open Mockery Brewing at 3501 Delgany Street in a neighborhood that already has five operating (or…

Diebolt Brewing in the Sunnyside neighborhood opened quietly this past weekend with limited hours and just two beers on tap. But owner Jack Diebolt and his parents, who moved to Denver to help, plan to ramp things up significantly over the next couple of weeks. Located on residential Mariposa Street…

Headed to the Western Slope? That’s the only place you’ll be able to score a bottle of Olathe, a German-style lager that AC Golden Brewing made to honor the harvest season and the growers who work with the company. “The corn, barley and hops were all grown within one mile…

This week USA Today announced the results of its hunt for the “best” craft brewery in America. Experts whittled the list of this country’s 2,538-plus breweries (the latest number from the Brewer’s Association) down to 72 nominations, and those went to a vote of the readers. More than 11,500 people…

You can trust a biologist to understand beer, and this fall, former biology teacher Rick Kane will open his own brewery and restaurant in Centennial. Blue Spruce Brewery, at 4151 East County Line Road, will feature at least ten of Kane’s beers as well as a few guest beers, alongside…

Patrick Rue of the Bruery, a highly respected Belgian-style beermaker in Orange County, once famously promised never to brew an IPA — that is, until he tasted Night Ryder, a black IPA put together by Colorado homebrewers Brian Pramov and Bryan Keas. Not that the Bruery is calling the beer…

Quick! Wanna win two tickets to the tonight’s sixth annual World Cup of Wine and Beer charity event at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park? Then tell us why soccer (or wine, or beer) is awesome in 140 words or less in the comments section below — and leave your e-mail address…

Colorado attracts beer lovers the way a keg attracts red Solo cups, and last month, one of the nation’s most well-known beer lovers announced that he was moving here. Todd Alström, who founded Beer Advocate magazine with his brother, Jason, in 1996, told readers that’s he’s moving from Boston to…

AC Golden brewer Troy Casey is one of Colorado’s foremost experts on wild and sour ales, which means he has to sample a lot of them (oh, the misery). But all that drinking means he looks forward to trying tart beers that are lower in alcohol. Enter Berliner weisse, a…

So you missed on getting tickets to the Great American Beer Festival — again? That’s a bummer, but it’s also an opportunity. Over the past five years, the annual festival has evolved from being the greatest show on earth into being just one stage in a multi-ring beer circus that…

Northeast Denver residents have been a little hot under the collar over the past two years as they’ve watched brewery after brewery open on the other side of town. But this fall, Station 26 Brewing will cool off those flames when it opens in a former fire station at 38th…

After enduring a crush of demand from craft breweries across the country that wanted to attend the Great American Beer Festival, the Brewers Association announced to its members last night that it will change the registration process in 2014. Breweries will now have a set number of days to register…

Arvada’s Voss Farms, which supplies hops for Black Shirt Brewing and other local beer makers, is already picking it’s sweet-smelling produce, and you might be able to help. Like last year, Voss is looking for volunteers (although space is very limited). For details, email Andrew at VossFarmsColorado@Yahoo.com. Hop farmers in…

Tickets to the Great American Beer Festival, which takes place October 10-12 at the Colorado Convention Center, sold out in less than twenty minutes this morning, according to message on Twitter from the Boulder-based Brewers Association. (Update: BA addresses scalping issue below.) The speed with which they disappeared was no…

World of Beer, the Florida-based bar chain that focuses on craft beer, will open is second Denver-area location on August 12 in Belmar, at 7260 West Alaska Drive. The company unveiled its first spot, in the City Set development in Glendale, last May, and plans to open several more locations…

For the second year in a row, the Boulder-based Brewers Association and Ticketmaster have experienced significant problems with the sale of tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, which takes place October 10-12 this year. Today’s sale, which was only for registered members of the BA and the American Homebrewers…

For months, beer lovers nationwide have been looking forward to this week with a mixture or excitement and trepidation: Great American Beer Festival tickets go on sale today to members of the American Homebrewers Association and of the Brewers Association — and they’ll go up for sale tomorrow to the…

For Loveland Aleworks, the bad news this week was actually the good news. The brewery was one of hundreds left in the dust on July 9 when registration for the Great American Beer Festival closed a mere two hours after opening under a crush of demand from anxious beer-makers around…

If you missed the pilot episode of Colorado Brews, which aired on Rocky Mountain PBS a few months ago, you can catch it again tomorrow, July 25, at 9:30 p.m. The half-hour program, which will begin a regular run this fall, features a different Colorado craft brewery each week. It’s…