Like a lot of brewers, John Fiorilli spends more time pouring ingredients into a giant kettle than he does sitting in front of a computer screen. And like hundreds of other brewers, Fiorilli was busy doing just that on July 9 when online registration opened for breweries that wanted to…
In our Off Limits column this week, we wrote about how urban explorers have been sneaking into the old air-traffic control tower at the former Stapleton International Airport — a vacant landmark in the middle of what is now the Stapleton neighborhood. Although the tower has been empty for nearly…
Epic Brewing plans a Denver roll-out next week that will be nothing short of its name. For starters, the Utah-based company, which has built a second twenty-barrel brewery in Denver’s River North neighborhood, will hit local taplines and liquor=store shelves with three brand-new beers made specially for Colorado. Blue Ski…
Tiny De Steeg Brewing, which makes beers much bigger than its alley-entryway space near the corner of 44th Avenue and Lowell Street, sold its first keg of beer to an off-premise account this week: Ernie’s Pizza, which is located not far away on 44th and Federal Boulevard, is now serving…
Peyton Manning and Missy Franklin are hoping to make a big hit and a big splash tonight on the annual ESPY Awards, hosted by ESPN. Both Colorado athletes are up for two different awards, and ESPN is letting fans vote on who should win until 7 p.m. (MST) tonight –…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company is the oldest dog on the block when its comes to craft brewing in Colorado, since it was founded in 1988. But the brewpub, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has learned plenty of new tricks. Today the Wynkoop reported that sales of its…
Denver Broncos training camp — which is still free, and one of the best things that the team does for its fans — gets under way at Dove Valley on Thursday, July 25, with the first of sixteen practices that will be open to the public. And the players and…
Rocky, the Denver Nuggets mountain lion mascot, has put together quite a career over the 22 years that he has been thrilling basketball fans — sometimes providing their only thrill during the particularly lean years. Over that time, the supremely athletic gymnast has perfected his routine — from flirting with…
Luke Smith likes opposite extremes. He lives in Golden but plans to open a brewery in Aurora. He specializes in bitter IPAs as well as sweet fruit beers. He loves listening to music, but will name his business for a musical term that marks the end of a song. And…
Bit by bit, the south Denver craft beer scene is growing. The latest example is the Brew on Broadway, which opened last Saturday as Englewood’s only independent brewery. A coffee shop in the morning — serving Pablo’s coffee along with pre-packaged breakfast burritos, quiches and baked goods — the BoB…
Is designing a great beer comparable to drafting the look of a great city? Can brewers take inspiration from the architecture around them when they make a great draft beer? Do city planning and beer go together particularly well in Denver? The organizers behind the Biennial of the Americas will…
The owners of Former Future Brewing, who have been looking for a Denver location for nine months, have signed a lease on South Broadway’s Antique Row, a fitting location since the brewery will specialize in making “futuristic interpretations of historical styles.” “We are over the moon about this location. It…
Organizers for the Great American Beer Festival are acting quickly to try and deal with the backlash from this year’s frantic brewery registration process, which left many would-be attendees around the country out of luck and out of the festival. Registration opened on Tuesday, but within two hours, it was…
New breweries are opening nearly every week in Colorado, but the one that started up a new Facebook page last Saturday isn’t one of them. “No we didn’t change our name,” reads the first post on That Brewery on Zuni’s page. “We’re still that great craft brewery making unique, great…
The Denver Broncos sold out most of their remaining single-game tickets this week in an annual summertime tradition, but fans who head to Sports Authority Field may be in for a few rude surprises at the gate (and we’re not talking about Raiders fans). The team adopted a new security…
Update 2: Brewers Association spokeswoman Barbara Fusco says the organization had alerted its members that registration would sell out fast, but they weren’t sure exactly how fast. “Everything is going gangbusters in craft brewing right now, and registering for the festival is no exception. Last year, it was just under…
Last week, Westword contributor Emilie Johnson wrote about the bright-white bicycle that has been resting against a sign at the corner of East First Avenue and Clayton Street, in Cherry Creek North, for the past seven months. It’s one of several “ghost bikes” that have popped up in the Denver…
When bottles of Elevation Beer Company’s new Engel Weisse hit shelves in late July, the German-style brew will have the lowest alcohol content of any Colorado beer sold in a liquor store — 4 percent ABV, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight. And it would have been much lower, between…
When Dry Dock Brewing filled its one millionth can of beer on June 19 — an Apricot Blonde — just six months after the company began canning its brews, the moment brought a little sense of pride to the staff of Wild Goose Canning Technologies. The Boulder engineering company had…
Strange Brewing is alive and kicking — as you’ll discover if you drop by the no-nonsense taproom on any afternoon or evening. But the Denver brewery lost a big part of its online presence in June because of a legal dispute with a Massachusetts homebrew shop. “They told Facebook we…
New and seasonal beers from Colorado breweries are hitting shelves at a rapid pace right now — so quickly, in fact, that it’s difficult to keep up. Recent gems include Wynkoop Colorojo, Bull & Bush Man Beer, Avery Momi Hiwa and Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout. And the fun isn’t…
River North Brewery revealed this week that it has signed on with C.R. Goodman to distribute its beer throughout Colorado. The brewery, founded eighteen months ago, had been distributing its beer to liquor stores in Denver, but needed help to get it to stores in other parts of the state…
