Last week, Fort Collins Brewery became the latest beer maker to be acquired by another company — part of a wave of buyouts, mergers and consolidations that are sweeping the craft-beer industry. In this case, the buyer was Canada’s Red Truck Beer Company, which said it plans to close FCB…
Outspoken, brash, passionate. Chris Black has never minced words when it comes to beer, and for twenty years, he’s been telling it like it is at Falling Rock Taphouse, the LoDo bastion of craft beer. Beginning une 2, Black and Falling Rock will begin a ten-day birthday celebration of two…
Changes to the craft-beer industry in Fort Collins have been coming at breathtaking speed over the past six months, but the latest change is one of the biggest and one of the strangest. Last week, Red Truck Beer Company, a brewery from Vancouver, Canada, announced that it had purchased the…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project just dropped a bombshell on its Facebook page: the Denver brewery, known nationwide for its wild and sour ales, has begun canning three of its beers and will start distribution in June, just in time for Colorado’s outdoor-loving populace to grab a four-pack and head…
Everyone knows about the Squire Lounge. It’s been a perennial dive bar fixture on the Corner of Colfax and Williams for much of Denver’s recent history. But in case you’re new here, I am going to break it down for you so you can seem like a native. That’s a…
Perhaps, kind sirs and madams, you are not aware of the award-winning histories of St. Ides Malt Liquor, Olde English 800 and King Cobra. Indeed, said beverages, often mocked for their high-alcohol “bottom-shelf” reputations at liquor stores, have a glorious record of bronze, silver and gold at the Great American…
There are plenty of new canned Colorado craft beers hitting the market this month, including Oskar Blues Fugli Yuzu & Ugli Fruit IPA, Ska Brewing Pink Vapor Stew, Telluride Brewing Russell Kelley Pale Ale and Denver Beer Co. Maui Express. But it’s hard to beat the refreshing, can-tastic artwork on…
Drink, dine and enjoy Colorado weather on these ten great rooftop patios for food and booze.
Once upon a time (about four years ago), the owners of Colorado’s medium-sized and larger craft breweries faced a choice: use some of the cash they were earning from double-digit sales growth to take a major leap in size and keep up with the demand for their beers, or make…
Time’s rapid march toward Memorial Day means one of our favorite drinking deals is back for a fifth year. The Denver Passport just went on sale, offering two-for-one drinking deals at 68 different Mile High establishments. Hit them all between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day and you’ll save more…
For many Denverites, the name Fadó is synonymous with trips to Coors Field and the original party-atmosphere allure that made LoDo one of the hottest Denver destinations in the 1990s. But the Irish pub that opened some twenty years ago in a refurbished building that was once the Union Pacific Head…
Gordon McKennon doesn’t mind being judged. In fact, he welcomes it. Late last month, he and his wife, Joy, realized a longtime goal when they opened a small brewery inside of their three-year-old Aurora craft-beer bar, Peak to Peak Tap & Brew. With that change, Their customers can now do…
Peter Bouckaert, the renowned Belgian beer maker responsible for New Belgium Brewing’s groundbreaking sour-beer program and many of its other recipes, is leaving the nation’s fourth largest craft brewery after 21 years to launch a tiny — and mysterious — new project in Fort Collins called Purpose Brewing and Cellars…
Punch your round-the-world ticket tomorrow when Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project, Denver’s newest brewery, opens its doors for the first the time at 925 West Eighth Avenue in the Art District on Santa Fe. Founded by Ben Gettinger and former 105 West brewer Andrew Moore, the brewery will have thirteen of Moore’s beers…
Love them or hate them, New England-style IPAs are only growing in popularity, which means that the beers and their attendant qualities — and adjectives, like hazy, turbid, juicy and lush — are going to be around for a while. Over the past eighteen month, since Odd13 Brewing, Cerebral, Weldwerks…
The Vesper Lounge in Capitol Hill is about to celebrate five years in business, but the location has been a bar since at least the 1960s. Owned by local restaurant mogul Frank Bonanno, today’s Vesper Lounge is a pleasant, cozy spot that has been nicely redone while still paying tribute…
Named in honor of the legendary Manitou Incline, Pikes Peak Brewing’s latest limited release is just as big as the 2,700 steps themselves — and might also make your knees buckle. Incline Imperial IPA, at 10.5 percent ABV and 185 IBUs, is “a study in hopping,” says Chris Wright, founder and…
No thanks to the spread of overly sweet, industrial drinks distributed in the 2000s, craft cider makers have had a tough time educating consumers about the quality and complexity of the Rocky Mountain region’s finer products being made today. “We literally had to grab people and say, ‘This is craft…
When Denver Beer Co. opens its new Old Town Arvada brewery and tap room in mid-June, the third location for the company, there will be no need for a food truck outside. That’s because the truck — or, trailer, rather — will be parked inside the brewery. Denver Beer Co. owners Patrick…
Like a good mom, the RiNo Art District is rallying around Ratio Beerworks starting at noon on Mother’s Day to help the brewery while it faces what could be a three-week-long closure due to a licensing problem. The nonprofit organization is basically taking over the taproom during that time, buying…
Boulder Beer Company is Colorado’s oldest craft brewery — founded in 1979 — but it has never been the city’s most prominent. The brewery’s beautiful restaurant and taproom are hidden in an out-of-the-way east Boulder business park on Wilderness Place. That will change in July though, when Boulder Beer takes…
He came, he saw, he ate some chicken and brewed some GABF-award winning beers, and now he’s leaving. Bryan Selders, who became the founding brewmaster at The Post Brewing in Lafayette in 2013 after nine years as the head brewer and reality-TV star at Dogfish Head Brewing, is heading back…
