April is a high-pollen month, particularly in the northwestern part of Colorado Springs, where the winds blow hard around Trinity Brewing. It’s the kind of month when you can find all kinds of things floating in the air, things that make people sneeze, swell their eyes shut — and maybe,…
Baseball fans are in for a few new treats when they return to Coors Field this weekend — although if they’re not careful, those treats will get the fans too drunk to remember what they were. Team owner Dick Monfort led several dozen media members on a walking tour of…
Sergio Romero, John Broening, Anika Zappe, Andrew Parr — all big, bold industry heavyweights who have shared in the success of restaurateur Robert Thompson, owner of Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink , which originated in Denver and now has a second…
The Brewers Association released its annual accounting this week of the top fifty craft brewers in the nation as base on sales, as well as the top fifty brewers altogether. In Colorado, New Belgium, Oskar Blues, Odell, Left Hand, Boulder Beer and Craftworks — which owns the Rock Bottom and…
Regrets? We’ve had a few. And over the past 35 years, so, too, has Boulder Beer, the state’s oldest craft brewery. But a mistake made by a brewer in 2011 isn’t one of them, and the company will use that fortuitous mishap next month to celebrate its birthday. Boulder Beer…
April brings new hope every year to the Colorado Rockies — and new beers to the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, the in-stadium brewery owned by Coors. This year, the Sandlot has two new beers lined up for Opening Day at Coors Field, which is Friday, April 4,…
Craft breweries and related companies love April Fool’s Day and each year, they skewer their fans, their competitors, big breweries and themselves with jokes. But these breweries are also innovators, and a couple of years ago, one of these jokes actually became reality when Wynkoop Brewing produced Rocky Mountain Oyster…
Colorado’s small craft breweries are well-known for helping one another out with advice, equipment and other kinds of support. But the big guys like to do that, too. On Monday, Avery Brewing announced that it had signed an agreement with New Belgium Brewing that will allow Avery to make its…
Renegade Brewing, which helped invigorate the Santa Fe arts district three years ago, will sink its roots even deeper this summer when it opens a large production facility — and eventually a second tap room — just eight blocks south of its current location. The brewery has just signed a…
Steamworks Brewing in Durango was one of the first Colorado mountain breweries to can its beers and establish a presence in Denver, but financial problems in 2010 forced the brewery to close its canning plant. As a result, Steamworks went to its neighbor, Ska Brewing, which began brewing and canning…
Golden City Brewery, which was Golden’s only craft brewer for nearly two decades, is feeling a bit of pinch now that it has been joined by three other craft-beer makers in the town. But it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks, and beginning this May or June,…
When Colorado booze manages to infiltrate the secretive San Francisco market, it’s time to take notice. A recent trip to the Other Queen City found bottles of Leopold Bros. Highland Amaro Fernet being downed. This, in a place where Fernet Branca, the leading manufacturer of the bitter-tasting stuff, draws 40…
Prost Brewing will begin packaging its three core beers in twelve-ounce bottles next month as part of a renewed effort at distribution. The German-style brewery, which opened in August 2012, had previously only packaged its beers in 64-ounce growlers, which it sealed and sold to liquor stores. But the growlers…
When Trinity Brewing founder Jason Yester created the recipe for Red Swingline, a hoppy IPA that is also cheek-puckeringly sour, his goal was to make something “signature American.” But in doing so, he may have helped to pioneer a style that beer drinkers in the rest of the country will…
Colorado Craft Beer Week kicked off last Friday at the Governor’s Mansion, where our brewer-in-chief, John Hickenlooper, toasted the brewing industry in the state and unveiled three draft handles that will now serve the historic home. But the events at breweries, restaurants and bars around the state will continue through…
Things don’t always go according to plan — and in TRVE Brewing’s case, that’s going to make a lot of Denver beer drinkers happy later this spring. That’s when TRVE owner Nick Nunns will turn the keys to what will eventually be a 5,000-square-foot production brewery, called the Acid Temple,…
Dozens of breweries and hundreds of craft-beer fans came together Saturday for the first-ever Collaboration Fest, hosted by Imbibe Denver and the Colorado Brewers Guild. The event, at the Curtis Hotel, included nearly fifty collaborative beers from breweries all over the state, as well as a few in other states…
Amarillo. Cascade. Centennial. Simcoe. These American-grown hops varieties have become stars over the past decade and are most commonly associated with the big, brassy IPAs brewed in Colorado, California and the Pacific Northwest. But none of them is actually indigenous to the United States. In fact, almost none of the…
The Colorado Governor’s Mansion has seen its share of keggers over the decades, thanks to the learning experiences and youthful indiscretions of several gubernatorial offspring. But the 106-year-old-mansion hasn’t had its own draft-beer system — until now. Tonight, during a private party feting the state’s $826 million craft-brewing industry, Governor…
Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom on Market Street, which was one of the first places to serve microbrews in downtown Denver and has acted as the unofficial gateway to LoDo since 1992, will close its doors on March 29. The company, owned by Tennessee-based Craftworks Restaurants since 2010, is looking…
Left Hand Brewing in Longmont has been looking to get control of the word “Nitro” since 2011, first by wresting the trademark away from a small Canadian brewer that had never used it and then by filing a trademark claim of its own on the word as it relates to…
Bryan Jansing and Paul Vismara, who’ve been slinging suds at the Falling Rock Taphouse for years, will release their book, Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, in a couple weeks with a couple of launch parties. The fully-illustrated book covers the “story of the Italian craft beer…
