Out-of-state breweries get a lot of attention during Great American Beer Festival week: after all, many of them don’t distribute in Colorado, so the only time locals can try a beer from one of these breweries is at the festival or at one of the events that take place around…
Like most people who make their living off beer, Greg Matthews worries about what’s happening to the craft-brewing industry, which is suddenly overflowing with infighting, trademark disputes and buyouts. Anheuser Busch InBev, in particular, has made waves by purchasing craft breweries such as Breckenridge Brewery, 10 Barrel and Elysian, and…
Do you believe? Great Divide does. The brewery believes so strongly in the power of its Yeti line of beers that it has decided to brew and sell a lower-alcohol version for the first time. Velvet Yeti, which goes on tap today at both the taproom and the Barrel Bar,…
Get ready to welcome back to the most wonderful week in Denver, a time when people from all over the country — and the world — descend on the Mile High City to drink beer together. The Great American Beer Festival will return for its 35th iteration October 6 through…
Interstate Kitchen & Bar opened its doors back in 2009, in what was then considered a sketchy spot on Tenth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in Lincoln Park. At that time, there were quite a few empty storefronts, and the art galleries in the area were not nearly as established…
Denver International Airport has brought back Beer Flights, its temporary beer garden, to Level 5 between the Jeppesen Terminal and Westin Denver International Airport. This is the third year in a row that the airport has used the beer garden to toast both the Great American Beer Festival, which begins next…
The first Great American Beer Festival took place in Boulder in 1982. There were 24 breweries, 47 beers and about 800 attendees. Oh, how things have changed. This year, the Brewers Association, which hosts the annual event, expects more than 800 breweries, 3,800 beers and 60,000 attendees. But after 35…
Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. in September is a bit late to chase Rio 2016 excitement. It is right on time for happy hour at Cafe Brazil, one of Denver’s finest South American restaurants. From the Brazilian Highlands to the streets of Madrid, it reps for Latin cuisine both familiar…
Belgian-style beers may be royalty when it comes to their history, variety, flavors and technique, but in America, IPAs are king. Last week, River North Brewery, which has brewed primarily Belgian-style beers like saisons, quadrupels and wild ales, since its inception in 2011, said it will “broaden its malty world view”…
Although consumers may not notice much of a difference, many Colorado breweries, bars and liquor stores were rattled this week when longtime local craft-beer distributor C.R. Goodman revealed that it has been acquired by nationwide liquor distribution giant Breakthru Beverage. Founded by Chuck Robertson and Ken Goodman, who have been…
Not very many people can lay claim to having attended the very first Great American Beer Festival in 1982. After all, there were only 800 people there, drinking a measly 47 different beers. Charlie Papazian is one of them, of course. The founder of the festival, he was also the…
I’ve spent many a happy hour at Govnr’s Park Restaurant & Tavern — most of them when I first moved to Denver. It was the place to be for any girl in her twenties who wanted to hang out with the bros, meet new bros, watch sports, hang out with other…
Dad & Dudes Breweria created a huge buzz last year at the Great American Beer Festival when it introduced Sativa IPA, the first commercial beer made with cannabis oil. Although the hemp extract used in the beer isn’t the psychoactive kind — meaning it can’t get you high — people…
Beer recalls are never fun — for the brewery or the beer drinker — particularly when it’s a brewery’s best-selling beer. But earlier this week, Left Hand Brewing in Longmont had to issue a recall for certain batches of Milk Stout Nitro because of a yeast strain that was changing…
The Irish Snug has been a Colfax standby for the past twelve years: a neighborhood bar for the Capitol Hill crowd. I frequented the place six years ago or so because my dramatic neighbor would drag me there to help her “casually run into” her ex, who was a regular…
What do you get when you combine home brews, entrepreneurship and charity? The answer is Colorado Startup Brews, a quintessentially Colorado networking event. Here’s how it works: Participating startup companies each home-brewed a beer that was then judged last month by numerous beer experts, writers and credentialed beer judges (including…
I’m from the East Coast. From Maryland, to be precise. I realize this may impact my credibility with some Denver natives but I have been living here more than years so at least I think that gives me at least a few Denver points. Being from elsewhere, I do appreciate…
When a second location of Black Eye Coffee opened last year at 800 Sherman Street, the owners knew they wanted to expand the scope of the popular Black Eye at 3408 Navajo Street. While the original spot is cozy and arty, this second spot is sleek and contemporary, with expanded hours…
Later this month, Black Shirt Brewing will bring four canned beers back to the market with a new look, new names and updated recipes. The four-year-old brewery had been forced to pull out of stores last year because it couldn’t get cans from its supplier in a timely way. But…
Last Monday I said a final farewell to Patsy’s Inn, which supplied north Denver with fresh pasta and red sauce for more than ninety years, and then walked around the block before heading back to my car. Along the way, I passed a semi-demolished structure at the corner of West…
Like a high school friend who shows up to his twenty-year reunion looking almost exactly like he did back then, but richer, Colorado’s craft-beer industry has defied expectations, powering forward with a vigor and energy that seems like it should have faded. There are a few wrinkles, sure, maybe the…
It’s one thing to sit down over a beer and try to solve the world’s problems. It’s quite another to sit down and try to solve the craft-brewing world’s problems. But that’s what board members of the two-decade-old Colorado Brewers Guild and the upstart breakaway group, Craft Beer Colorado, will…
