So far, crowd-sourcing hasn’t been the most successful way for would-be breweries to raise money in Colorado: There are already so many top-notch beer makers, and so many more in the works, that beer lovers probably figure it’s not necessary to pour out their own hard-earned cash in order to…
Colorado Craft Beer Week, which was taken over this year by the nonprofit Colorado Brewers Guild, is just one of many similarly-themed festivals that go on in cities and states across the country. Some of the most famous ones take place in Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C., but there are…
Ska Brewing has been making its Euphoria Pale Ale since 2005, but the latest trademark dispute involving a Colorado brewery isn’t likely to make anyone euphoric. On Tuesday, the Durango brewery filed a petition at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, asking the agency’s trial and appeal board to revoke…
Can craft beer and yoga co-exist? “You bet your flexible-ass they can,” says Adrienne Rinaldi, who runs BrewAsanas, a one-hour yoga class that rotates between different breweries in the metro area and is always followed by a beer. Billed as a an introduction to both Vinyasa yoga and good beer,…
Arvada Beer Company will increase its brewing capacity by about 30 percent this month by adding two eight-barrel fermenters that will be used to help it get ready to sell more beer to other restaurants and bars and to begin canning its own beers. “We are on tap at fifteen…
Two breweries — one locally owned and the other managed by a big corporation — will test the definition of “craft beer” next week when they collaborate on a new brew. Tom Hail, who has worked at Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot since it opened in 1995, and…
The Colorado Brewers Guild, which represents the interests of more than 100 of the state’s 160-plus breweries, has acquired the rights to Colorado Beer Week and will revitalize the celebration as Colorado Craft Beer Week. The fest, which will incorporate events throughout the state, kicks off on March 18 at…
Oskar Blues has made a few changes to one of its year-round offerings, Gubna, in anticipation of introducing a new seasonal beer in July. The Longmont-based brewery has tweaked the recipe for the massive 10 percent ABV, 100-plus IBU rye IPA — which debuted in a can in March 2010…
Great Divide Brewing will install five more massive, 300-barrel fermenting tanks in about ten days, filling out the final spaces in its tank farm. The addition means the nineteen-year-old brewery will be able to expand at its current rate for another three years before it has to find another location,…
Odell Brewing’s next big beer will be very, very small. Loose Leaf American Session Ale, an extra pale ale, will weigh in at only 4.5 percent alcohol by volume, making it one of the lowest-alcohol Colorado craft beers available in liquor stores. It will also be hard to get. The…
As the birthplace of Colorado’s craft beer revolution, Boulder has had a love affair with bubbly brews since the late 1970s that continues today: The city is home to the Brewers Association, a national trade group; the American Homebrewers Association; the second-oldest brewery to have formed after World War II;…
Some people need a phone booth to become super heroes. Others need a mask and a utility belt or just a lot of stress and anger-management issues. But in Denver, it takes a little something different to turn a man into a myth: their local brewery. On Thursday, the heroes…
Scott Witsoe and Brian O’Connell have brewed up a whopper of a beer — and, yes, it’s made with malted milk, in homage to the candy that inspired the name. Witsoe, who owns Wit’s End Brewing, and O’Connell, who owns Renegade Brewing, made a ten-gallon batch of the beer –…
It’s always loud inside the brewhouse at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, but it got a little louder on Tuesday when eight beer geeks from seven different breweries around Colorado convened to drink beer together brew what is probably the first all-female craft beer collaboration in the state, a Belgian pale…
March is just around the corner, which means that winter is in full swing here in Colorado. Ryan Layman, the bar manager at Steuben’s Food Service, has recognized this by creating a new cocktail menu to beat the winter blues. See also: – Denver’s ten best plates of chicken and…
Pliny the Younger, which Beer Advocate ranks as the second-best beer in the world, will return to a select few Colorado bars this month, where it will be quickly tapped amid much excitement and gone even faster. Made by California’s Russian River Brewing, the triple IPA has a cult following…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company may have built a neighborhood, and launched at least one political career, but that wasn’t the only career that got started at Denver’s first brewpub. Jen Schwertman took a job there in October 1992 as one of the first bartenders in the newly-added upstairs pool hall…
Odell Brewing has been shaking peaches from trees for a while now, having made a couple of beers from the Western Slope’s signature pit fruit. But the Fort Collins brewery will turn out its latest peach beer in March when it bottles its latest Cellar Reserve series beer, Tree Shaker…
Add Renegade Brewing to the list of Colorado breweries who have had to change the name of one of their beers in response to a legal threat from another beer maker. (This story has been updated below.) The company’s flagship brew, Ryeteous Rye IPA, is now called — wait for…
Brewers love to get together and collaborate on news beers, to talk about equipment and ingredients, to come up with new recipes and, of course, to drink a few. And although these collaborations can often result in new forms of deliciousness, they are also a way for the guys to…
The local booze blog Denver Off the Wagon will celebrate its second birthday this weekend with a three-day extravaganza that celebrates the drinking culture around town. The festivities kick off Thursday with a six-course booze-paring dinner (involving beer, wine and spirts) at Joney’s Eatbar (tickets are $40), followed on Friday…
With at least nine craft breweries and more on the way, Fort Collins is one of Colorado’s hottest spots for beer. But beyond New Belgium, Odell and now Funkwerks — which won Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012 — most beer drinkers…
