Upslope Brewing will introduce its newest canned beer, Thai Style White IPA, this month — but only in mixed twelve-packs sold in liquor stores. The tactic of selling beers only in mixed twelve-packs is becoming more common in Colorado and elsewhere as a way for craft breweries to test new…
Tim Myers kicked off Denver’s third wave of craft breweries four years ago when he and business partner John Fletcher opened Strange Brewing in a nondescript business park near Sports Authority Field at Mile High during American Craft Beer Week. Over the last few years, Myers has made just about…
After the speeches were over and the ribbon was cut, the attendees of the Union Station Bus Line grand opening made their way to Wynkoop Brewing’s beer garden to toast the 22-gate, underground station (which opens on Sunday). The beer garden was pouring Mile High Pale Ale, Kurt’s Mile High…
38 State Brewing, which is named after Colorado’s historical designation as the 38th state to join the union, will make a little history of its own on Saturday when it becomes the first taproom-only brewery to set up shop in Littleton. The brewery, at 8071 South Broadway, Unit A, will…
The family that sniffs together sticks together. That’s the story behind the Bibliowiczes, a clan of New York beer lovers who will open 4 Noses Brewing in Broomfield today. “We were out having a beer one day — tasting and smelling — and we all had our noses buried in…
The word “coda” is used to signify a passage that brings a song or a piece of music to an end, but according to Luke Smith, it can have other meanings — like the end of a long brewing process or having a beer at the end of the day…
Dry Dock Brewing is one of the first — if not the first — brewery to obtain special permission from the federal government to put the United States flag on a beer label. The beer itself, Colorado Freedom Memorial Blonde, was brewed to honor Aurora’s Colorado Freedom Memorial, in Springhill…
Trademark disputes — some of them nasty — have become commonplace in the craft-brewing industry in recent years, but most of the ones involving Colorado beer makers have been with out-of-state companies, preserving a congenial in-state camaraderie. But the newest dispute pits two popular local breweries against one another. On…
Mark Manger, the creator of the GrOpener one-handed bottle opener (and a former Westword photographer) is back with a new twist on his invention — and has already raised enough with his second indiegogo campaign to move things along. The Grab-K is a thinner keychain version of the original. Although…
Blue Spruce Brewing, serving Mexican food, pub fare and beer made on the premises, opened for business on Saturday at 4151 East County Line Road, in Centennial. Owned by former biology teacher Rick Kane, Blue Spruce opened with eight of its own brews (although some have already kicked), including honey…
“The question ‘what is Wuerzburger’ has been answered. It is the freshest, foamiest, liveliest, pleasantest beer seen in Boulder,” read an August 12, 1905, article in the Boulder Daily Camera. “Wuerzbuger (pronounce the z as if it were a t) would be called ‘hot stuff’ were it not that it…
Last night, in Los Angeles, Jason Patz and Allison Widdecombe, both of whom are behind the stick at Williams & Graham, emerged as finalists in World Class 2014, the esteemed United States Bartending Guild cocktail competition that’s sponsored by Diageo, the world’s largest producer of spirits, including Johnnie Walker, Baileys…
Denver’s newest brewery will open this weekend in a neighborhood in the southeastern part of town that is thirsting for craft-beer options; Comrade Brewing, which has a large taproom, two bar areas and six beers on tap, makes its official debut on Saturday. But at least four other breweries in…
What was your first cocktail? I recently found myself at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, the place where I had my first-ever drink. Er, first legal drink, that is. With a tasty mezcal cocktail in front of me, and a light crowd of happy-hour Banana Republic professionals around me,…
Scott Witsoe makes 31.5 gallons of beer at a time. That’s such a tiny amount compared to the output at other breweries — even other small breweries — that is doesn’t seem possible that Wit’s End Brewing would be able to stay in business, let alone thrive. But that’s exactly…
The 27-year-old Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant chain is known for its potent margaritas (limit of three, please), but the Colorado-based company has decided to get in on the craft-beer revolution as well by collaborating with several local beer-makers. Each of the Rio Grande’s six restaurants — in Fort Collins, Greeley,…
The buzz from the recent Craft Beer Conference annual trade show, which took place in Denver for the first time, is fading — but Colorado’s breweries are still making news. Here are a few tidbits from beer makers around the state. Beginning in May, Aurora’s Dry Dock Brewing will begin…
With a head brewer named Marks, a red and yellow logo, and a flagship beer called DEFCON Red, it’s not hard to figure out the theme at Comrade Brewing. But owner David Lin says the references to Communism at the brewery, which will open on Saturday, April 26, at 7667…
When they showed up to register at the Craft Brewers Conference trade show in Denver earlier this month, the 8,000 or so brewing-industry attendees from across the country were treated to a 19.2-ounce can of beer made with all-Colorado ingredients. Brewed at Oskar Blues in Longmont, Centennial Pale Ale included…
The Craft Brewers Conference, a national trade show that brought more than 8,000 brewing-industry pros to town, wrapped up last week in Denver with the presentation of awards in the World Beer Cup, a prestigious biennial competition. There were 4,754 entries from 1,403 breweries in 58 countries this year, but…
Some say beer is food. Others say it is art. In the case of Kurt’s Mile High Malt, the Wynkoop Brewing Company is hoping to put wisdom and prose into a can. The beer, which is being packaged for the first time, is a coffee-infused lager that is based on…
Colorado has been the king of canned craft beers since Oskar Blues began packaging its brews in aluminum more than a decade ago. And although the Longmont beer maker continues to change the game, other breweries are getting in on the act as well. This week, Boulder’s Sanitas Brewing, which…
