The local booze blog Denver Off the Wagon will celebrate its second birthday this weekend with a three-day extravaganza that celebrates the drinking culture around town. The festivities kick off Thursday with a six-course booze-paring dinner (involving beer, wine and spirts) at Joney’s Eatbar (tickets are $40), followed on Friday…

With at least nine craft breweries and more on the way, Fort Collins is one of Colorado’s hottest spots for beer. But beyond New Belgium, Odell and now Funkwerks — which won Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012 — most beer drinkers…

When it opens in the former Olivea space on 17th Avenue, Beast + Bottle, a restaurant serving rustic, sustainable dishes, will focus on the wine menu. But it will have one beer tap — a single handle pouring a signature saison made by City Star Brewing in Berthoud. Paul C…

Chad Yakobson talks fast and he doesn’t stand still — not when there is so much to do. The founder, owner and head yeast whisperer at Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is in the midst of a major expansion at his northwest Denver Barrel Cellar, adding employees, barrels, storage space…

The craft-beer industry has always been community-minded — not to mention budget-conscious. Although there are many big craft brewers, there are many more tiny ones, and most of them only came about because someone risked everything by maxing out their credit cards and cashing in their 401k, savings account and…

Crazy Mountain Brewing isn’t leaving its home in Eagle County, but the rapidly-expanding beer-maker is looking for a spot in the Denver area to open a second brewery by the end of next year. “We are certainly eyeballing that possibility, and all options are on the table,” says Crazy Mountain…

Tivoli Brewing, which owns the trademarks to several historic Denver beer brands, has released its second beer, Sigi’s Wild Horse Buck Beer, based on the recipe for an incredibly popular beer that was first brewed in Denver 139 years ago. New Belgium Brewing is releasing Rampant Imperial IPA this month…

When it opens in Littleton’s Aspen Grove Shopping Center on March 25, the 900-seat, state-of-the-art Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will bring Hollywood to Colorado via Texas (where the quirky, irreverent company is based). But anyone who orders a beer in the Glass Half Full bar inside the building will definitely know…

Denver’s craft beer scene grew so fast in 2012 that it’s hard to believe that River North Brewery, which will host a big bash this Saturday, opened its doors only one year ago. In just twelve months, the brewery has built a bustling customer base in its taproom and around…

The owners of Tivoli Brewing, which began making and selling historic Denver beer brands last year, have also formed a craft beer distributing company, and they will get rolling this week with Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, an up-and-coming Loveland beer maker that has wanted to start selling its beers to the…

Tom Hail loves beer. He loves lagers especially, which is why he stays very late on a lot of nights to work on his passion projects. One of these is a traditional German-style marzen — a recipe that he’s been tinkering with on and off for eighteen years. It’s a…

Colorado is thirsty, and Mobile Canning, which has made it possible for more than a dozen smaller Colorado breweries to package and sell beer to liquor stores over the past year, is planning to help quench that thirst this spring when it doubles in size. The Longmont company, which takes…

Stout Month is in full effect right now at the Vine Street Pub in Denver, as well as the Mountain Sun and Southern Sun pubs in Boulder. The twentieth annual version of this awesome display of the dark arts features many of the stouts that Mountain Sun has become famous…

Big Choice Brewing in Broomfield will become the next small brewer to get one of its beers onto liquor-store shelves when it begins canning its Disconnected Red in March. The brewery, which has only been open since May 2012, will use the services of Mobile Canning LLC, the Longmont-based company…

Although there aren’t many of them, craft beer variety packs — which typically offer three or four different kinds of beers in a twelve-pack — have been on liquor stores shelves for a while. But that trend looks like it’s going to become more prevalent in Colorado this year as…

There’s no name on the sign above the door of De Steeg Brewing, in an alley off West 44th Avenue. Just the image of a Belgian-style beer goblet. But Craig Rothgery wasn’t trying to be hip when he signed a lease on an alley space in the Tennyson Street art…

Breckenridge Brewery announced today that it will move from Denver to Littleton, building a $20 million farm-like campus on a rural, twelve-acre spot on South Santa Fe Drive and cementing its future as both a Colorado-based brewery and a tourist destination. The campus, located near the Platte River Greenway, right…

James Kunz has been making his own beer for four years, but before December, he’d never entered a homebrewing contest — let alone won one. But that changed when the rookie took top honors in the Mountain Sun Pub group’s stout competition by, well, releasing the Kraken. Starting in mid-February,…

Several Denver breweries and restaurants will serve as mini art galleries between now and February 10, displaying the work of more than twenty artists who use recycled skis and snowboards as their canvases. The displays are part of Art of Winter, “a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators expressing…