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2013 Stories by Jonathan Shikes

• Angelo's Pizza will close for a two-month remodel as new owners take charge

  published May 24, 2013

  After nearly four decades of family ownership and operation, Angelo's Pizza, a down-home red-sauce on joint on Sixth Avenue, has been bought by a new owner and will close for a two-month-long remodeli... More >>

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  Crooked Stave will distribute in NYC, bring Evil Twin, other rare beers to Colorado

  published May 23, 2013

  Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has struck up a partnership with a specialty importer in New York City that will allow the Denver brewery to sell its beers there while Crooked Stave will distribute... More >>

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  A baseball bat and two new brewery openings fill this week's beer calendar

  published May 22, 2013

  Cucumber beers appear to be in style this spring, as at least five breweries around Colorado have mentioned the shiny green vegetable when talking about new beers. The only bottled one so far, however... More >>

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  Mountain Toad Brewing opens in Golden as the town's third craft brewery

  published May 22, 2013

  Mountain Toad Brewing will hold a grand opening in Golden on Saturday, adding a third craft brewery to a town that has been synonymous with Coors for decades. Located downtown, at 900 Washington Ave... More >>

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  New Belgium airs TV commercials for the first time in eight years, but not in Colorado

  published May 21, 2013

  New Belgium Brewing is running its first TV ad campaign in eight years, buying airtime in twelve markets across the country in order to help beer drinkers associate the name Fat Tire with the brewery ... More >>

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  Caution Brewing will open second location in Lakewood and can Lao Wang Lager

  published May 20, 2013

  After just two years in business on Denver's northeast side, Caution Brewing announced Saturday that it will open a second brewery in Lakewood, at 1057 South Wadsworth Boulevard; Cautions' existing br... More >>

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  Crooked Stave's Roy G. Biv day celebrates the end of the rainbow

  published May 17, 2013

  Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project will celebrate Roy G. Biv on Sunday with a bottle sale, a party and a couple of rare beer tappings at the Barrel Cellar. Roy G. Biv isn't a person, though (if it wa... More >>

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  Doomsday beer: Strange Brewing will release Dr. Strangelove in bottles on Friday

  published May 16, 2013

  The crew behind Strange Brewing are in their war room today, preparing to launch an all-out offensive on Denver tomorrow -- but their weapons of choice are bombers rather than bombs, even if the beer ... More >>

• Custom beers: Great Divide rolls with Chipotle while the Wynkoop rides with Elitch's

  published May 15, 2013

  Local breweries have been teaming up for years with Colorado restaurants on custom-made beers, but other kinds of businesses and organizations have been raising a pint to the collaborative spirit as w... More >>

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  Here's to American Craft Beer Week, and something wet in every cup

  published May 15, 2013

  Here's to American Craft Beer Week (which began Monday), the annual salute to small independent brewers that the Boulder-based Brewers Association (with help from Congress!) created seven years ago to... More >>

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  Factotum Brewhouse will rely on homebrewers when it opens in Sunnyside this fall

  published May 13, 2013

  Denver's craft-beer scene has exploded over the past three years as the number of breweries tripled inside city limits, but most of those brewery owners started off as home brewers, roasting grains in... More >>

• Odyssey Beerwerks, a brewery and taproom, opens in Arvada in May

  published May 10, 2013

  Arvada will get a new brewery later this month when Odyssey Beerwerks opens up at 5535 West 56th Avenue, Suite 107, just north of the Denver border. The 1,700-square-foot taproom, which will include ... More >>

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  Photos: Utah's Epic Brewing is preparing new Denver facility, three Colorado beers

  published May 09, 2013

  Denver is about to get Brainless. Sometime in late May or early June, Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, known for its series of Brainless fruit beers, will brew its first batch in Denver, in a soari... More >>

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  Colorado Plus opens Monday with 56 local beers on tap -- and a brewery next month

  published May 08, 2013

  The Colorado Plus Brew Pub (originally known as Colorado + Liquid Art Works) will open on Monday, May 13, at 6995 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, with 56 Colorado craft beers on tap. Located in the ... More >>

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  Beer calendar: Renegades, superheroes and American Craft Beer Week

  published May 08, 2013

  Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scener Neither did I. But Brian Jansing and Paul Vismara, two longtime suds slingers at the Falling Rock Taphouse, did, and they've traveled all over ... More >>

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  A handful of breweriesr CNN's beer-city list misses the mark on Denver

  published May 08, 2013

  If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you've probably seen CNN's list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists p... More >>

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  Odell will release a beer dedicated to a Colorado butterfly that lives on hops plants

  published May 03, 2013

  Late last year, Odell Brewing named a beer, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, after a truck belonging to the organic farmer who hauls away the brewery's spent grain to feed to his dairy cows. This time aro... More >>

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  Wynkoop Brewing and the Cheeky Monk get together to brew a dark saison

  published May 02, 2013

  The owners of the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe are still planning to open their own brewery in August or September, but in the meantime, James and Tina Pachorek and their staff teamed up with Wynkoop... More >>

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  May brings Maibocks, spring tappings and the start of beer-fest season

  published May 01, 2013

  Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, which announced in January that it will build a 20,000-square-foot brewery and taphouse in Denver, updated its followers on social media this week with a couple of p... More >>

• Caution Brewing signs lease on a second brewery and taphouse

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Exactly one year after opening its first taproom in northeast Denver, Caution Brewing will reveal its plans for a second brewery and taproom somewhere in the metro area. Co-owner Danny Wang says he j... More >>

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  Upslope follows up big new brewery with a huge new beer, Imperial IPA

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Upslope Brewing is going big this spring. The five-year-old Boulder company just opened its second brewery and taproom in a 17,000-square-foot space with a thirty-barrel brewhouse, to complement its o... More >>

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  Renegade Publik House opens today near DU, serving pizza and craft beer

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Renegade Publik House, a new pub from the owners of Renegade Brewing, will open at 3 p.m. today at 2043 South University Boulevard, near the University of Denver. The spot will keep it simple, both w... More >>

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  Avery Brewing will release its latest barrel-aged sour, Volunt Plus Erat, on Saturday

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Avery Brewing will release its latest small-batch sour ale this Saturday only in its taproom. The beer is No. 14 in the Boulder brewery's acclaimed Barrel-Aged Series. It has been eight months since N... More >>

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  Several small Colorado breweries have recently signed on with distribution companies

  published Apr 19, 2013

  Several small Colorado breweries that only sell in-state have recently signed on with distribution companies in order to get their beer inside more mouths. Dry Dock in Aurora, Trinity in Colorado Spr... More >>

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  TRVE Brewing hits 4/20 with a dank double IPA dedicated to the song "Dopesmoker"

  published Apr 18, 2013

  Nick Nunns, the owner of TRVE Brewing, likes the song Dopesmoker by Sleep, the now-disbanded metal band. And why notr Brewing beer takes a while, and this guitar-heavy anthem lasts for a brain-addling... More >>