Del Norte Brewing, which quietly closed up shop sometime in November after five years, posted a goodbye note over the weekend on its reactivated Facebook page, thanking fans for drinking its beers. But the brewery, which made award-winning Mexican-style craft lagers, didn’t offer an explanation as to why it ceased…
Big things come in small packages, and that goes double for craft brewers, who package many of their potent products in twelve- sixteen- or twenty-ounce cans and bottles. But those big things can also come with a big price. While a six-pack of craft beer usually runs from $8.99 to…
On September 29, 2011, after the first night of the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Left Hand Brewing publicly revealed a bottled beer that its owners and brewers had spent two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. See also: – Strange Brewing faces a trademark…
In November, shortly after Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, thus creatiing the possibility of limited retail sales of marijuana in the state, we provided a list of Five Colorado pot-themed beers to pair with Amendment 64. Well, you can make that a six-pack. As Oskar Blues has reminded us with…
Renegade Brewing, which opened in the Art District on Santa Fe just eighteen months ago, said today that it will open a pub serving pizza salads and lots and lots of craft beer near the University of Denver. The Renegade Publik House, in the former Spicy Pickle spot at 2043…
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey will release the latest batch of its highly-prized, limited-edition Snowflake series at 9 a.m. on Saturday. This one was cask- conditioned for months in two hand-picked Malbec barrels from Denver’s Spero Winery. The distillery puts out one or two Snowflake series batches each year, an event that…
Renegade Brewing, which scored a hit with its Ryeteous Rye IPA in sixteen-ounce cans, plans to package two more beers in January: the 11 percent ABV Elevation Triple IPA and the 5:00 Afternoon Ale, a 5 percent ABV blond session-style beer. The Elevation will be sold in twelve-ounce cans, while…
Aging beers in whiskey or wine barrels has become one of the most popular ways for craft breweries to play with flavors and to entice the beer geeks who are always looking for new delicious treats. While a few breweries established barrel-aging programs years ago, many of the new breweries…
The lineup for the Wynkoop’s annual Parade of Darks this Saturday reads like a Colorado beer geek’s wet dream — notwithstanding the stout made with bull testicles. In fact, the beer list is so electric that attendees may not know where to begin. Billed as a fest dedicated to “beers…
Rick Abitbol, a longtime Denver-area brewer, will open his own place in Wheat Ridge today at 4 p.m., pouring a lineup of big beers with a low gluten content. Brewery Rickoli will be the suburb’s first brewery (though not its only one, once Colorado + Liquid Art Works opens next…
Each week, Strange Brewing taps a new, small-batch creation: just one barrel of whatever head brewer Tim Myers and buddy Harry Smith (who is starting his own brewery next year) can think up. Along with the beer, they take a pic of the wort as it is being brewed and…
Tivoli Brewing, which resuscitated one of the oldest names in Denver beer history earlier this year, is getting ready to dive back into the vaults for a second historically themed beer. The first was based on the name and recipe for Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in Denver in the…
Del Norte Brewing, which has been making award-winning Mexican-style lagers in Denver since 2007, has apparently ceased production. Over the past several days, brewery owner Joe Fox hasn’t returned calls or an e-mail seeking comment, but several people in Denver’s craft-beer scene say they believe Del Norte has sold most,…
Are you ready for your Glendale green fix? The Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery reopened today after an eight-week kitchen remodel turned into a somewhat grueling four-month closure. But co-owner Erik Peterson says he has a nice kitchen to show for it, and promises that customers will appreciate the…
Oskar Blues will add to its small empire of eateries next year when it opens CHUBurger, serving burgers, fries, shakes and beer (of course) in Longmont, just a mile away from both its brewery and its flagship restaurant, Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids. The craft brewery, Colorado’s second largest,…
Fred and Ginger; baseball and hotdogs; sunsets and walks on the beach; Bella and Edward. Some things are meant for one another. But beer and bacon? The jury is still out on that one. Event planning company Eat Boston, along with Forkly and Denver Off the Wagon, hope to deliver…
Last week, we wrote about the numerous connections between the ski and snowboard industries and Colorado’s craft-beer makers that will take place this year. And now you can add another one to the list: Denver Beer Co and Denver’s Grace Skis are teaming up on a bock-style beer that they…
Thick, rich and chocolately? Light, dry and roasty? Spicy, sweet…or just plain eccentric? Stout Month returns to the Mountain Sun, Southern Sun and the Vine Street Pub in February, and the company that owns all three is gearing up with its annual Stout Month homebrewing competition, in which the winner…
When it comes to beer, Colorado ski and snowboard destinations have long been known for pouring cheap megabeers into plastic cups — repeatedly. But that’s starting to change as the resorts look to team up with craft brewers around the state to attract shredders, powderhounds and even gapers with a…
It’s been a busy six weeks at Denver’s Strange Brewing Company. Between a major brewery expansion project, the threat of trademark infringement lawsuit and the Great American Beer Festival, where Strange won a medal for the second year in a row, owners Tim Myers and John Fletcher have had their…
There are a lot of ways to open a bottle of beer. There are keychains and iPod cases with bottle openers embedded in them. There are openers on flip-flops and baseball cap bills, wall-mounted openers, countertops, knives and even a beer bottle stick. But a Denver photographer and part-time inventor,…
Oskar Blues and Ska Brewing finally released some details about the collaboration beer they made to celebrate the Longmont brewery’s tenth canning anniversary. The smoked IPA is called oSKAr the G’Rauch because: 1) you can’t spell Oskar without Ska, and 2) it was made in the smoked rauschbier style. It’s…
