Beer calendar: high hopes and heavy hops appear for Rockies opening day

The massive Craft Brewers Conference, an annual industry-only meeting, wrapped up in Washington, D.C. last week, but a beer-themed art exhibit and auction, Amber Waves, sponsored by the Dogfish Head and Victory breweries continues through Friday. And it features a cool sculpture piece by Denver bottlecap artist Amanda Willshire of…

Ten Colorado beers that are hitting stores now

Colorado’s craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that arrive for just a few weeks or months each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come…

West End Tap House opens today on Tennyson Street

The West End Tap House, at 3945 Tennyson Street, opened this afternoon and is hoping for a quiet weekend to sort out the kinks and the glitches before it gets rolling next week. The new pub features twenty craft beer on tap, mostly from Colorado, as well as twenty wines…

Suds and Snow

Craft beer and snowboarding seem like a perfect pairing, but the two industries hadn’t gotten together all that much before this winter. That changed, though, as craft brewers around the state began teaming up with skiing and snowboarding companies, events and re-sorts. The latest, and possibly biggest, blowout will take…

TRVE Brewing adds capacity, upgrades, plans new beers

Since it opened last June, TRVE Brewing has constantly struggled to make enough beer to quench the thirst of its Baker neighborhood regulars. This week, though, brewery owner Nick Nunns replaced his three four-barrel fermenters with three seven-barrel tanks, nearly doubling his capacity and ensuring customers that he will be…

Cheers to Beer

Colorado Craft Beer Week enters its third year today, but the festival is now being run by the nonprofit Colorado Brewers Guild, which will host a series of revitalized beer dinners, tap takeovers, brewer meet-and-greets and other events from Fort Collins to Denver to Vail to Boulder. “Others states and…