Left Hand Brewing in Longmont is out early with its copper-colored Oktoberfest Märzen Lager. The 6.6 percent ABV German-style beer took two months two brew (so drink it slowly), something that was made easier by Left Hand’s recent addition of several 480-barrel fermenters. The space crunch meant that Oktoberfest was…
Award-winning brewers at the Great American Beer Festival will bring home something in addition to their medals this year: a bottle of a special beer made collaboratively just for the occasion by members of the Colorado Brewers Guild. The 22-ounce bottle of Porter’s Pride, an imperial porter brewed with 200…
“The Pen-Is Mightier.” That was my suggestion for what Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs should have renamed the smoked dopplebock it’s making this fall for Pints for Prostates, a nonprofit organization that raises money with beer to help fight prostate cancer, after the federal government rejected the brewery’s first…
Drunk and belligerent is now way to go through life. But drunk and belligerent and the mayor of a town? Well, that takes a special kind of shmuck — one like Ron Hinkle, the mayor of the town of Florence, who resigned on Wednesday, two weeks after resident C.J. Youngs…
You can’t drink them all. Don’t even try. The Great American Beer Festival, which runs October 11-13, will feature more breweries this year than ever before, and not just by one or two. See also -Great American Beer Festival scalpers drive us to drink -A GABF ticket for $50,000? The…
DJ Rockstar Aaron loved Hooters — a lot. In fact, Aaron — who DJs five nights a week at clubs all over town and is known for his massive signature pink mohawk — loved the South Colorado Boulevard restaurant so much that he ate there once a month on Wednesdays…
Frontier Airlines is once again running its Choose Your Brew contest on Facebook, in which fans vote on which Colorado canned beer will be offered aboard all flights out of Denver. Last time, AC Golden’s Colorado Native beat out beers from Oskar Blues, Crabtree and Upslope. This time, the contenders…
Tiny little Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, could make a big difference in the presidential election this year. Just ask President Obama, who has visited multiple times in the past three months, and Mitt Romney, who dispatched vice presidential selection Paul Ryan to our high-altitude swing state just two…
Update: In addition to tentative plans to brew beer in Colorado (see below for the original story and an update from a Goose Island spokesman), the Chicago brewery also plans to distribute all of its beers in Colorado beginning September 1, including its rare and highly sought-after brews. “You will…
Upslope Brewing will release two more Limited Edition beers this year in cans, following up on its Foreign Style Stout, which debuted in a can in January, and Belgian Style Pale Ale, which came out in June. But both beers, Pumpkin Ale and Christmas Ale, will be in sixteen-ounce tallboys…
The Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery has acquired a small bottling line and plans to start packaging some of its award-winning beer on a limited scale in mid-November. Owners Erik and Dave Peterson have been thinking about bottling their beer for years, but have held off because they were…
Bruce Springsteen tickets go on sale Monday, August 13 at 10 a.m. They’ll be gone within minutes, if not seconds — only to reappear shortly thereafter on eBay, StubHub and other aftermarket ticket sites for two, three or even four times their original cost. It’s nothing new. But it sure…
Odds are good that “chicken” isn’t the first thing most people think of when they consider a sandwich. After all, there are so many other kinds of sammies that get higher billing: pastrami and Italian sandwiches, turkey and egg salad, meatball, roast beef and BLTs. Even peanut butter and jelly…
On the heels of the Boulder-based Brewers Association report that craft beer sales are up 14 percent so far this year, Longmont’s Oskar Blues has posted even more outstanding numbers. The brewer said revenue was up 53 percent in the first six months of 2012. Oskar Blues credited the growth…
A day after 49,000 tickets to the Great American Beer Festival were snapped up within minutes of going on sale — leaving a lot of angry beer fans out there — a Boulder homebrewer listed one of those tickets on eBay for $50,000. Does he really expect someone to buy…
Prost Brewing became one of the first — if not the first — Colorado brewer to package its beer in growlers for sale at local liquor stores. The German-style brewery, which won’t open its own doors until later this month, packaged 48 growlers with shrink wrap and delivered them to…
Bull & Bush will temporarily close its kitchen for the first major remodel in its 41 years, although — and this is important — the bar will stay open. To get it done, the kitchen will stay closed for six to eight weeks, says co-owner Erik Peterson. “When my dad…
It’s hard to know who to be angry at for what many people are calling #GABFail — the ticketing fiasco that has marred the upcoming Great American Beer Festival. The Boulder-based Brewers Association put 49,000 tickets up for grabs beginning at 10 a.m. on August 2. But within two minutes,…
Great Divide Brewing has initiated a full-fledged sour ale program this year thanks to a new seven-barrel pilot brewing system that allows it to experiment on a small scale. The first beers from the program, Berliner Weisse and Leipzog Gose, debuted earlier this summer in the tasting room and were…
Dry Dock Brewing closed the deal on its new six-acre, 30,000-square-foot production brewery in north Aurora on Wednesday — celebrating with some ale, of course — and revealed the four beers it plans to begin canning at the new location this winter…
Every year on the third Thursday in November, the world celebrates Beaujolais Nouveau, field-fresh young red wines from France that are meant to celebrate the harvest and be enjoyed right away. This September, Colorado beer brewers will do something similar for hops by kicking off a Hops Nouveau party that…
Update: Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival sold out in a jaw-dropping 45 minutes today, smashing last year’s record of seven days, which, in turn, crushed the previous year’s rate of several weeks. Craft beer, it appears, is now as popular as a Justin Beiber concert. But the Boulder-based…
