Since Fate Brewing, which opens Monday, February 4, in Boulder, doesn’t have any of its beer-brewing equipment up and running yet, the company has come up with an innovative way to serve its own creations without actually making any of them on site. Over the past two months, Fate head…

After months of planning, Dry Dock Brewing cranked up its new forty-barrel brewing system and its shiny canning line earlier in January, pumping out thousands of gallons to try to sate the demand for its beer in Colorado. And then it almost ran out. See also: – Dry Dock closes…

One of the best parts about Colorado’s craft beer scene is that it changes constantly. From one week to the next, beer geeks can hit a new taproom, try an innovative new brew, head to a packed festival and generally make friends in other states jealous. The last year saw…

As the Rackhouse Pub gets ready to host the Strange Days Beer Festival this Sunday (also known as Save Our Strange), the trademark dispute between Denver’s Strange Brewing and a similarly named homebrew shop in Massachusetts doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. The sold-out fest includes beers from…

Only three weeks into the new year, and already three new breweries have opened — Verboten in Loveland, J Wells in Boulder and Cannonball Creek in Golden — while a fourth has gone into production and released its first bottles. Hall Brewing, located in a gorgeous farmhouse east of Parker,…

New Belgium Brewing and Denver’s Novo Coffee didn’t know they were looking for each other, and they only met by chance last year. But the results of that happy accident will tickle the tastebuds of beer drinkers in two weeks when the brewery releases Cascara Quad, the latest in its…

For the past sixteen years, Backcountry Brewery has sold a lot of beer during the winter months and done decent business in the summer. But like any other ski-town brewery, it has struggled during the rest of the year. “Recently, we started experiencing more demand, but because of the seasonality…

There has never been a shortage of beer in Golden, Colorado. But until this month, there had only been one brewery in town that wasn’t named Coors. On Saturday, however, Cannonball Creek Brewery will open its doors, joining Golden City Brewery, which has been the town’s “second largest brewery” since…

Kim Jordan, the CEO of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, is no longer the majority owner of the company she co-founded in 1991. Instead, Jordan is just one of 456 owners as of December 28, when she sold her family’s 59 percent stake to the now 100 percent employee-owned…

The Wynkoop Brewing Company will debut its newest canned beer next week — one with some unusual Colorado ingredients. No, it’s not Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout — although two-packs of that ballsy beer will also be released in cans soon. The beer is called Belgorado and it’s made almost entirely…

New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins will debut a new series of seasonal beers this year, most of them focused on a new or unsual variety of hops. The Hop Kitchen beers, as the series is called, will be sold only in 22-ounce bomber bottles and on draft. “People want…

Verboten Brewing, which will open its doors this weekend in Loveland, takes its name for the German word for “forbidden,” and is a reference to German beer-purity laws, or Reinheitsgebot, which forbade brewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from using anything but water, barley and hops in their beers…

A handful of great new Colorado craft beers hit the market at the very end of 2012, including: Boulder Beer’s A Honey of a Saison; Great Divide’s Orabelle; Elevation Beer’s Downpour Imperial Red Ale; Ska Brewing’s Hibernal Vinifera and Crazy Mountain’s Boohai Red Ale. All four are stellar brews, and…

The father-and-son team of Dan and Jack Diebolt plan to give north Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood its second brewery this year, when they open Diebolt Brewing in a small warehouse building at 3855 Mariposa Street sometime in late spring or summer. Diebolt will be located about ten blocks south of the…

You have three more days to help out the Colorado-based producers of Crafting a Nation, a feature-length documentary that “tells the story of how the American Craft Brewers are rebuilding the economy one beer at a time.” The group’s Kickstarter campaign ends on Friday, and although donors have already pushed…

Change is inevitable, but it’s not always smooth, which is why Eugene Kahng, co-owner of the soon-to-open Colorado + Liquid Art Works brewery in Wheat Ridge, hit a few bumps when he painted over a mural that had decorated the side of Valente’s Italian Restaurant, a community mainstay that closed…

Jamie Wells has been working for four years to convert his 1.5-barrel homebrewing kit into a commercial system that could sate the thirst of many more people, and on Thursday, January 10, he’ll finish that task by opening J Wells Brewery at 2516 49th Street in Boulder. His little brewery…

In 1906, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody took his traveling circus on the road to Belgium, performing in Antwerp, Brussels, and half a dozen other cities. Now, more than a hundred years later, a beer that was accidentally brewed as a result of that tour (according to legend, that is)…

The Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group is getting ready to open its newest eatery and taphouse, Under the Sun, at 627-A South Broadway in the former Giovanni’s space. That’s right below the Southern Sun Pub & Brewery in south Boulder. The restaurant will feature a lower-priced flatbread menu and…