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…

Great Divide Brewing has continued to shake up its beer roster, announcing the addition of two major new seasonal beers: Orabelle, a Belgian-style trippel that will debut in January as an annual seasonal, and HeyDay, a Belgian-style white that will be available from April through June. Great Divide also says…

Metro-area fans of Trinity Brewing will be making an Oh Face this month as the small Colorado Springs brewery begins distributing a few of its beers to a handful of craft beer-focused liquor stores in the area. Prior to that, bottles of TPS Report, Oh Face and other Trinity beers…

Something strange is going on. In September, as Denver’s Strange Brewing was gearing up for a small expansion as well as the Great American Beer Festival, owners John Fletcher and Tim Myers got a letter from a lawyer demanding that they change their name. See also: – De Steeg Brewing…

Some cuisines are easier to pair with beers than others. Mom’s brisket, for instance, works really well with a big stout, while a platter of garlicky mussels is going to play nicely off a Belgian saison. IPAs work with fried pub fare, like onion rings and fish ‘n’ chips, while…

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…

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…

When Sarah Henderson got the job as assistant brewer at Golden City Brewery eighteen months ago, there was more than a little fate involved. “I had just posted my resume on ProBrewer.com,” says Henderson, a Colorado School of Mines grad. “And literally, the day I called him looking for a…

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…

Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing is one of Colorado’s oldest beer makers. But it stays young with playful marketing campaigns, relentless experimentation in the brewhouse and an eye toward its edgiest fans, who live on social media and the Internet. So it makes sense that Odell — which created a…

A pair of new winter seasonals are set to hit liquor store shelves this week. Upslope Brewing’s Christmas Ale, a Spiced Belgian-Style Dubbel, is based on a homebrew recipe that brewery owner Matt Cutter used to make and bring to parties. Christmas Ale, which is ruby red in color, is…

Boulder Beer Company got a nice surprise last Thursday when two of the actors in Parks and Recreation enjoyed a Flashback India Brown Ale during a scene in the sitcom. The beer — a hoppy, roasty black IPA, weighing in at 6.6 percent AVB — is available in both Indiana,…

Telluride Brewing, which just won back-to-back gold medals for its Face Down Brown at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup, plans to start distributing its first canned beer, Bridal Veil Rye Pale Ale, in the Boulder area in early November and in Denver by the end…

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…

Lost amid the avalanche of beer tappings during the Great American Beer Festival was a pumpkin beer that Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing made just for Old Chicago restaurants as part of its Halloween Mini Tour. The beer, 4 Foodies Ale (see the video above), was brewed in collaboration with Guerrilla…

Breweries, big and small, have been opening at a dizzying pace over the past year along the Front Range, from Colorado Springs to Windsor and everywhere in between. Denver alone welcomed eight new breweries in the past twelve months, while Boulder County added at least eight, including four within the…

Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they brewed together in Longmont last week. Although the beers doesn’t have a name…

The presidential election is coming up quickly, and Arvada Beer Company is offering another way to judge one of the candidates: by his homebrew. The brewery, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary by tapping a brand-new beer each day through Saturday, will release White House Honey Ale and White House…

Hidden deep inside the concrete exterior of the massive MillerCoors plant in Golden, in a room that you enter from a stairway landing and through a door that says, “exit,” a group of meticulous brewers for AC Golden Brewing have been experimenting with unusual beers that are going to surprise…

Colorado took home 35 medals at the Great American Beer Festival this year, including six that went to Fort Collins brewers, highlighted by Funkwerks, which won two golds and was named Small Brewing Company of the Year. See also: – Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012 -…