So I had just gotten into this craft beer thing. Not obsessively, but enough to tell the difference between a tart saison and a Berliner weisse. Enough to snort dismissively when someone at the table ordered a Michelob Ultra Fruit Lime Cactus. But then they started putting booze in beer…
Epic Brewing plans a Denver roll-out next week that will be nothing short of its name. For starters, the Utah-based company, which has built a second twenty-barrel brewery in Denver’s River North neighborhood, will hit local taplines and liquor=store shelves with three brand-new beers made specially for Colorado. Blue Ski…
Bars around town (and their patrons) revise their drinking habits during the summer season — and while many bartenders just make small changes to their favorite spirit bu adding freshly grown herbs or seasonal fruit, other bars are expanding their beverage program in unexpected ways. Trillium is a perfect example…
Tiny De Steeg Brewing, which makes beers much bigger than its alley-entryway space near the corner of 44th Avenue and Lowell Street, sold its first keg of beer to an off-premise account this week: Ernie’s Pizza, which is located not far away on 44th and Federal Boulevard, is now serving…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company is the oldest dog on the block when its comes to craft brewing in Colorado, since it was founded in 1988. But the brewpub, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has learned plenty of new tricks. Today the Wynkoop reported that sales of its…
Luke Smith likes opposite extremes. He lives in Golden but plans to open a brewery in Aurora. He specializes in bitter IPAs as well as sweet fruit beers. He loves listening to music, but will name his business for a musical term that marks the end of a song. And…
Bit by bit, the south Denver craft beer scene is growing. The latest example is the Brew on Broadway, which opened last Saturday as Englewood’s only independent brewery. A coffee shop in the morning — serving Pablo’s coffee along with pre-packaged breakfast burritos, quiches and baked goods — the BoB…
Is designing a great beer comparable to drafting the look of a great city? Can brewers take inspiration from the architecture around them when they make a great draft beer? Do city planning and beer go together particularly well in Denver? The organizers behind the Biennial of the Americas will…
The owners of Former Future Brewing, who have been looking for a Denver location for nine months, have signed a lease on South Broadway’s Antique Row, a fitting location since the brewery will specialize in making “futuristic interpretations of historical styles.” “We are over the moon about this location. It…
Organizers for the Great American Beer Festival are acting quickly to try and deal with the backlash from this year’s frantic brewery registration process, which left many would-be attendees around the country out of luck and out of the festival. Registration opened on Tuesday, but within two hours, it was…
New breweries are opening nearly every week in Colorado, but the one that started up a new Facebook page last Saturday isn’t one of them. “No we didn’t change our name,” reads the first post on That Brewery on Zuni’s page. “We’re still that great craft brewery making unique, great…
Although much of the public’s attention has been focused on Izakaya Den, which just opened last month in its spectacular new home next to Sushi Den, that restaurant has been making changes, too. Sushi Den spent months working with professionals from Southern Wine & Spirits along with national mixologists to…
Update 2: Brewers Association spokeswoman Barbara Fusco says the organization had alerted its members that registration would sell out fast, but they weren’t sure exactly how fast. “Everything is going gangbusters in craft brewing right now, and registering for the festival is no exception. Last year, it was just under…
When bottles of Elevation Beer Company’s new Engel Weisse hit shelves in late July, the German-style brew will have the lowest alcohol content of any Colorado beer sold in a liquor store — 4 percent ABV, or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight. And it would have been much lower, between…
When Dry Dock Brewing filled its one millionth can of beer on June 19 — an Apricot Blonde — just six months after the company began canning its brews, the moment brought a little sense of pride to the staff of Wild Goose Canning Technologies. The Boulder engineering company had…
Strange Brewing is alive and kicking — as you’ll discover if you drop by the no-nonsense taproom on any afternoon or evening. But the Denver brewery lost a big part of its online presence in June because of a legal dispute with a Massachusetts homebrew shop. “They told Facebook we…
New and seasonal beers from Colorado breweries are hitting shelves at a rapid pace right now — so quickly, in fact, that it’s difficult to keep up. Recent gems include Wynkoop Colorojo, Bull & Bush Man Beer, Avery Momi Hiwa and Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout. And the fun isn’t…
River North Brewery revealed this week that it has signed on with C.R. Goodman to distribute its beer throughout Colorado. The brewery, founded eighteen months ago, had been distributing its beer to liquor stores in Denver, but needed help to get it to stores in other parts of the state…
As Denver’s downtown core begins to fill up with new and planned breweries, would-be tap room owners are looking to other neighborhoods around town. The latest are the five partners behind Declaration Brewing, who have just purchased a building at 2030 South Cherokee Street, just off of Santa Fe Drive…
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery is the latest brewery-in-planning to try crowdfunding as a way to raise money for equipment or other needs. Several other breweries in Colorado have tried to do the same thing over the past few years with limited success. The brewery, which has already signed a lease…
City Park has always been a little wild. Denver’s largest green space touches on more than a dozen urban neighborhoods and is home to lions, elephants, bald eagles and just about every form of recreation. So it’s no surprise that there are also wild yeasts floating in the air around…
Chad Michael George is part of the formula behind the fawned-over cocktails at Williams & Graham. An award-winning Certified Sommelier and graduate of the prestigious BAR 5-Day program, he left Linger a little over a month ago to pursue his passion for the craft cocktail at Williams & Graham. That…
