Email Author Jonathan Shikes

2012 Stories by Jonathan Shikes

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  Odell brews #OhMyGourd, a pumpkin beer for Westword's Denver #WebAwards

  published Nov 01, 2012

  Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing is one of Colorado's oldest beer makers. But it stays young with playful marketing campaigns, relentless experimentation in the brewhouse and an eye toward its edgiest f... More >>

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  Get into the holiday spirit with Upslope, Left Hand and Twisted Pine

  published Oct 31, 2012

  A pair of new winter seasonals are set to hit liquor store shelves this week. Upslope Brewing's Christmas Ale, a Spiced Belgian-Style Dubbel, is based on a homebrew recipe that brewery owner Matt Cut... More >>

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  Boulder Beer's Flashback has a cameo in Parks and Recreation

  published Oct 30, 2012

  Boulder Beer Company got a nice surprise last Thursday when two of the actors in Parks and Recreation enjoyed a Flashback India Brown Ale during a scene in the sitcom. The beer -- a hoppy, roasty blac... More >>

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  Telluride Brewing will bring its gold medal-winning beer to Boulder/Denver

  published Oct 26, 2012

  Telluride Brewing, which just won back-to-back gold medals for its Face Down Brown at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup, plans to start distributing its first canned beer, Bridal... More >>

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  Small is big on New Belgium Brewing's new pilot system

  published Oct 26, 2012

  New Belgium Brewing started small in 1991, but in the 21 years since, the Fort Collins beer maker has grown into the third-largest craft brewer in the county -- and it will get even bigger in 2014 whe... More >>

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  Arvada Beer turns one; Boulder Beer, Funkwerks party in our beer calendar

  published Oct 24, 2012

  Lost amid the avalanche of beer tappings during the Great American Beer Festival was a pumpkin beer that Longmont's Left Hand Brewing made just for Old Chicago restaurants as part of its Halloween Min... More >>

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  A dozen new breweries on tap for the Denver Metro area by spring 2013

  published Oct 24, 2012

  Breweries, big and small, have been opening at a dizzying pace over the past year along the Front Range, from Colorado Springs to Windsor and everywhere in between. Denver alone welcomed eight new bre... More >>

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  Oskar Blues collaborates with Ska Brewing on a tenth anniversary canned beer

  published Oct 23, 2012

  Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they b... More >>

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  Try President Obama's two White House honey beers today at Arvada Beer Company

  published Oct 22, 2012

  The presidential election is coming up quickly, and Arvada Beer Company is offering another way to judge one of the candidates: by his homebrew. The brewery, which is celebrating its one-year anniver... More >>

• Bottoms Up

  published October 11, 2012

  The Great American Beer Festival runs from October 11-13, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers, 49,000 thirsty beer lovers and all the pomp... More >>

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  AC Golden prepares to unleash two barrel-aged stouts and a slew of sour ales

  published Oct 19, 2012

  Hidden deep inside the concrete exterior of the massive MillerCoors plant in Golden, in a room that you enter from a stairway landing and through a door that says, "exit," a group of meticulous brewer... More >>

• Fort Collins and Funkwerks step up in a down year for Colorado GABF medals

  published Oct 18, 2012

  Colorado took home 35 medals at the Great American Beer Festival this year, including six that went to Fort Collins brewers, highlighted by Funkwerks, which won two golds and was named Small Brewing C... More >>

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  Utah's Epic Brewing looks to Denver, a city that understands craft beer, for a second brewery

  published Oct 18, 2012

  Epic Brewing's Kevin Crompton surprised a room full of reporters and bloggers during the Great American Beer Festival last week when he announced that his Utah company planned to build a second brewer... More >>

• De Steeg Brewing will open on North Tennyson Street after changing its name

  published Oct 18, 2012

  "I can't tell you how hard it was to find a new name. Everything I thought of was already taken," says Craig Rothgery, who plans to open De Steeg Brewing in January in the alleyway across the street f... More >>

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  Denver beer culture will meet the city's history with Festivus, an all-Denver beer fest

  published Oct 17, 2012

  Old, new and local -- really local. That's the only way to describe Denver Beer Festivus, a new craft-beer festival set for December 15 that will feature Denver breweries only, something that makes se... More >>

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  Odell's upcoming seasonal, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, dedicated to local cows

  published Oct 16, 2012

  The cows have come home in Fort Collins. In January, Odell Brewing Company will release its newest seasonal, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, a beer dedicated to Lugene Sas, a local organic dairy farmer, ... More >>

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  "Stand your ground and pour": How Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver saved GABF

  published Oct 16, 2012

  Aisle after aisle, table after table, there was one thing about the 2012 Great American Beer Festival that was different from the event in previous years: There were brewery reps, brewers and, in many... More >>

• Two new Denver breweries, Black Shirt and Our Mutual Friend, will open just for GABF

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Two new Denver breweries will open this weekend, just in time for the Great American Beer Festival frenzy in town -- and you won't have to go far to visit both, since they're just ten blocks apart. Bl... More >>

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  Video: Artist Stan Herd on aliens, GABF, Shock Top and crop art

  published Oct 12, 2012

  To celebrate the Great American Beer Festival, which is in town right now, and the release of its newest beer, End of the World Midnight Wheat, the Shock Top division of Anheuser Busch hired artist S... More >>

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  Utah's Epic Brewing will open a second brewery in Denver in 2013

  published Oct 12, 2012

  Utah's Epic Brewing Company, known for its Brainless on Peaches beer, announced at the Great American Beer Festival today that is is hoping to open a second brewery in Denver in early 2013. If it does... More >>

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  Photos: Oskar Blues goes big with its 19.2-ounce Royal Pints of Dale's Pale Ale

  published Oct 11, 2012

  Canned craft beers are big in Colorado and now they're getting even bigger. On Thursday night after the Great American Beer Festival ended, Oskar Blues revealed its latest aluminum package: a 19.2-oun... More >>

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  GABF director Nancy Johnson on drunks, security and Waldo costumes

  published Oct 11, 2012

  Nancy Johnson has been running the Great American Beer Festival for longer than most of the attending brewers have been in business. She has seen styles and trends and ticket-sale issues come and go, ... More >>

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  Thursday at the Great American Beer Fest: five sneaky-cool things to check out

  published Oct 11, 2012

  The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer -- and a river of people -- but there are some things that don't always meet the eye: secret fishin... More >>

• Beer lovers will turn this town inside out during GABF week

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Denver began welcoming beer fans from near and far yesterday as the city girded its liver for the annual Great American Beer Festival, which starts tomorrow. More people poured into town today as the ... More >>

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  Master Cicerone Rich Higgins on GABF, Denver restaurants and melancholic beers

  published Oct 10, 2012

  Cicerones are the beer world's version of sommeliers, and those who passed their certification tests become experts on beer storage and service, tasting and flavors, brewing ingredients and processes ... More >>