Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey opens a new store and tasting room

Your holiday shopping just got a little better. Earlier this month, Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey opened a new General Store and Tasting Room inside the distillery at 200 South Kalamath Street. See also: – Whiskey bottling at Stranahan’s — A Westword Slide Show – Breckenridge Brewing lands exclusive rights to use…

Buffalo Exchange

Bison are the largest land mammals in North America, and they have the richest cultural history (just ask the elected officials pushing the National Bison Legacy Act, which would make the woolly beasts our national mammal). Bison are so big, in fact, that MCA Denver needs two full days for…

Do the Hoppa at Copper Kettle and the Friek at Odell

Last week, we told you about Boulder Beer Company’s cameo in an episode of Parks and Recreation — but this wasn’t the only Colorado brewery to get a little air time. A can of Dale’s Pale Ale made it into a reenactment scene in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on…

Five Colorado pot-themed beers to pair with Amendment 64

Will one of Colorado’s craft breweries dare to make a pot-infused beer now that Amendment 64 has passed? Probably. After all, cannabis and hops are cousins in the plant world and there are plenty of Colorado types who enjoy both vices. But there are already a couple of beers that…

Left Hand’s fresh-hopped Warrior IPA tastes fresh off the plane

In September, Westword brought you “Is Everyone Hoppy,” the farm-to-plane-to-kettle story of hop farming in Colorado and of Left Hand Brewing’s Warrior IPA, a beer that is part of the fresh or wet-hopped category. To make these beers, breweries pick their hops and get them into the brewery within 24…

Beer State of Mind

Denver is still recovering from the Great American Beer Festival, but there’s no hangover in Colorado Springs, a serious beer town in its own right. Our southern neighbor will play host to the annual All Colorado Beer Festival today, featuring forty breweries from around the state. “What’s good about this…

Small is big on New Belgium Brewing’s new pilot system

New Belgium Brewing started small in 1991, but in the 21 years since, the Fort Collins beer maker has grown into the third-largest craft brewer in the county — and it will get even bigger in 2014 when it opens a second major brewery in North Carolina. But New Belgium…