As Denver’s downtown core begins to fill up with new and planned breweries, would-be tap room owners are looking to other neighborhoods around town. The latest are the five partners behind Declaration Brewing, who have just purchased a building at 2030 South Cherokee Street, just off of Santa Fe Drive…
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery is the latest brewery-in-planning to try crowdfunding as a way to raise money for equipment or other needs. Several other breweries in Colorado have tried to do the same thing over the past few years with limited success. The brewery, which has already signed a lease…
Latke Love, which started two years ago as a mobile food vendor, has opened a brick-and-mortar location in north Park Hill serving traditional potato pancakes smothered with all kinds of non-traditional toppings. “We had a food truck before. It’s a lot of work getting out there in the world and…
City Park has always been a little wild. Denver’s largest green space touches on more than a dozen urban neighborhoods and is home to lions, elephants, bald eagles and just about every form of recreation. So it’s no surprise that there are also wild yeasts floating in the air around…
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history. “Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there,” writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week’s Artbeat column. “But in one case,…
Boulder is the cradle of craft brewing in Colorado, and nearby Longmont is home to two of the biggest breweries in the state, but until recently, southeastern Boulder County was primarily known only as the former headquarters for the Rock Bottom chain. By this fall, however, there will be eight…
Longmont-based Mobile Canning Systems has helped thirteen small Colorado craft breweries can more than a million beers since the company started up in 2011. In fact, the demand from breweries that want to begin packaging their beers is so great that Mobile Canning took delivery of its second mobile canning…
More than five years after the University of Colorado moved its hospital, medical school and other offices to the Anschutz Medical Campus, the buildings at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard are still vacant — or so we thought. Although there is no movement on the outside — as one developer…
Twelve Degree Brewing, which opens tonight in Louisville, is rewriting history. Not only is it the second craft brewery to open in the former headquarters of the Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery chain (the company, now owned by Craftworks, has since moved to Broomfield), but it is doing business in…
South Denver’s beer scene, which has been somewhat stagnant compared to the rest of the metro area, will get a boost this fall when Grist Brewing opens its doors in a business park just south of C-470 and Santa Fe Drive in Highlands Ranch. Founded by Rob Kevwitch, an organic…
Great Divide Brewing has been teasing fans of its highly-regarded, highly-sought after Yeti line of imperial stouts with news about a new flavor of Yeti coming out this year. It turns out that elusive new Yeti will be Oatmeal Yeti, made with rolled oats to “soften Yeti’s notoriously roasty backbone,”…
Factotum Brewhouse, which plans to open this fall in the Sunnyside neighborhood, is trying to raise $8,000 on Kickstarter so that it can “improve its current industrial vibe and make the taproom more fun and comfortable for customers.” So far, it has about 40 percent of that goal, with 32…
In liquor stores full of new and ever-rotating cans and bottles of beer, how can a startup brewery — or one that is new to packaging — stand out from the pack? That’s the question that local graphic designer Josh Emrich asked himself when he sat down to create a…
When it opens in December, Joyride Brewing hopes to use a little bit of Edgewater’s history to help propel the little town on the edge of Sloan’s Lake into the future. Created by friends Dave Bergen, Brent Smith and Grant Babb, Joyride will be located at the corner of 25th…
Tivoli Brewing, a new company that brought back one of the oldest names in Denver beer last year, will begin selling 22-ounce bomber bottles of Tivoli Beer this week. The beer, a German-style lager, is based on the name and recipe for the original Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in…
Ali Benetka, who has been an assistant brewer at Renegade Brewing only since January, was promoted to the top job this week, making her just the second female head brewer in Colorado and part of a growing number of women who wear the rubber boots. A Denver native, Benetka had…
It’s hard to follow a beer made with bull testicles, but Wynkoop Brewing Co. is going to try by releasing Colorojo Imperial Red Ale in cans next week. Like Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, this hoppy, 8.2 percent ABV double red IPA is part of the brewery’s new Even Smaller Batch…
The craft beer business is booming, but so is the homebrewing sector as the interest in making and drinking good beer grows. The American Homebrewers Association, which is based in Boulder, released the results of a survey of homebrewing shops this week showing that 80 percent of them saw increased…
The owners of Sanitas Brewing aren’t planning to gently test the waters of Boulder’s increasingly-crowded craft-beer scene when they open their 15,000-square-foot, fifteen-barrel brewery and taproom this summer. They plan to jump in head-first. Sanitas co-founders Chris Coyne, Michael Memsic and Zach Nichols will offer two year-round canned beers, a…
There’s something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face — something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand…
After sixteen years of brewing beer near the banks of the Cherry Creek, the Bull & Bush will finally bottle up some of its own liquid gold to sell elsewhere in Denver. The first beer off the line was the brewery’s flagship, Man Beer, an award-winning malty IPA that looks…
Lone Tree Brewing has brewed a pair of special beers that are being served only at the four Parry’s Pizza locations — in Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock and Parker. The first beer, which will be available year-round as a house beer, is Landon’s Wanna Walk Wheat, an unfiltered…
