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2013 Stories by Jonathan Shikes

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  Renegade changes the name of Ryeteous IPA after legal threat from Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery

  published Feb 21, 2013

  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.)... More >>

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  Video: Geek Bowl gets celebrity help in Austin, returns to Denver in 2016

  published Feb 21, 2013

  It's not like Geeks Who Drink, the Denver-based, bar-style trivia juggernaut that got its start here in 2005, needs much celebrity power: Over the past eight years, it's stretched to more than twenty ... More >>

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  Lady brewers will gather for Colorado's first all-female collaboration beer

  published Feb 20, 2013

  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 o... More >>

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  Beer calendar: Beerdrinker of the Year, Pliny the Younger and Denver Off the Wagon

  published Feb 20, 2013

  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 Thurs... More >>

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  Fort Collins Brewery plans major expansion, new beers, marketing push

  published Feb 19, 2013

  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 ... More >>

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  Beast + Bottle will have a single tap: a signature saison from Berthoud's City Star Brewing

  published Feb 18, 2013

  When it opens in the former Olivea space on 17th Avenue, Beast + Bottle, a restaurant serving rustic, sustainable dishes, will focus on the wine menu. But it will have one beer tap -- a single handle ... More >>

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  Kenneth Faried: Five memorable moments from the Nuggets's favorite Manimal

  published Feb 18, 2013

  Denver Nuggets power forward Kenneth Faried stepped into the national spotlight over the weekend, lighting up the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge game by scoring forty points, pulling down ten rebounds an... More >>

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  Crooked Stave will triple in size in 2013, sell sour beers out of state

  published Feb 15, 2013

  Chad Yakobson talks fast and he doesn't stand still -- not when there is so much to do. The founder, owner and head yeast whisperer at Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is in the midst of a major ex... More >>

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  Craft brewery co-ops and an incubator start to take shape in Colorado

  published Feb 14, 2013

  The craft-beer industry has always been community-minded -- not to mention budget-conscious. Although there are many big craft brewers, there are many more tiny ones, and most of them only came about ... More >>

• Wizards of Comedy

  published January 3, 2013

  Welcome to Hogwarts, post-Voldemort: The mythical school has been rebuilt, and the children of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy are now... More >>

• Crazy Mountain Brewery in Edwards plans a second brewery in the Denver area

  published Feb 13, 2013

  Crazy Mountain Brewing isn't leaving its home in Eagle County, but the rapidly-expanding beer-maker is looking for a spot in the Denver area to open a second brewery by the end of next year. "We are ... More >>

• Cherries and Red Hots offer plenty of reasons to (heart) this week's craft beer calendar

  published Feb 13, 2013

  Tivoli Brewing, which owns the trademarks to several historic Denver beer brands, has released its second beer, Sigi's Wild Horse Buck Beer, based on the recipe for an incredibly popular beer that was... More >>

• Colorado's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will have 32 local beers on tap; here's the list

  published Feb 13, 2013

  When it opens in Littleton's Aspen Grove Shopping Center on March 25, the 900-seat, state-of-the-art Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will bring Hollywood to Colorado via Texas (where the quirky, irreverent co... More >>

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  River North Brewery celebrates a year on Saturday, plans to can beer in 2013

  published Feb 12, 2013

  Denver's craft beer scene grew so fast in 2012 that it's hard to believe that River North Brewery, which will host a big bash this Saturday, opened its doors only one year ago. In just twelve months,... More >>

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  Loveland's Grimm Brothers teams up with Tivoli to distribute beer in Denver

  published Feb 11, 2013

  The owners of Tivoli Brewing, which began making and selling historic Denver beer brands last year, have also formed a craft beer distributing company, and they will get rolling this week with Grimm B... More >>

• Third Shift lager, a new MillerCoors beer, got its medal-winning start at Denver's Sandlot

  published Feb 07, 2013

  Tom Hail loves beer. He loves lagers especially, which is why he stays very late on a lot of nights to work on his passion projects. One of these is a traditional German-style marzen -- a recipe that ... More >>

• Mobile Canning will add a second canning line to help small breweries grow

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Colorado is thirsty, and Mobile Canning, which has made it possible for more than a dozen smaller Colorado breweries to package and sell beer to liquor stores over the past year, is planning to help q... More >>

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  Beer calendar: It's Stout Month at Vine Street, and it's 5:00 at Renegade Brewing

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Stout Month is in full effect right now at the Vine Street Pub in Denver, as well as the Mountain Sun and Southern Sun pubs in Boulder. The twentieth annual version of this awesome display of the dark... More >>

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  Broomfield's Big Choice Brewing will start canning in March

  published Feb 05, 2013

  Big Choice Brewing in Broomfield will become the next small brewer to get one of its beers onto liquor-store shelves when it begins canning its Disconnected Red in March. The brewery, which has only ... More >>

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  Craft beer sampler packs are making a comeback in Colorado

  published Feb 04, 2013

  Although there aren't many of them, craft beer variety packs -- which typically offer three or four different kinds of beers in a twelve-pack -- have been on liquor stores shelves for a while. But tha... More >>

• De Steeg Brewing opens today in Denver, taking nanobreweries down the alley

  published Feb 01, 2013

  There's no name on the sign above the door of De Steeg Brewing, in an alley off West 44th Avenue. Just the image of a Belgian-style beer goblet. But Craig Rothgery wasn't trying to be hip when he sig... More >>

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  Breckenridge Brewery will build a twelve-acre, $20 million beer farm in Littleton

  published Jan 31, 2013

  Breckenridge Brewery announced today that it will move from Denver to Littleton, building a $20 million farm-like campus on a rural, twelve-acre spot on South Santa Fe Drive and cementing its future a... More >>

• Mountain Sun homebrew winner will release the Kraken during Stout Month

  published Jan 31, 2013

  James Kunz has been making his own beer for four years, but before December, he'd never entered a homebrewing contest -- let alone won one. But that changed when the rookie took top honors in the Mou... More >>

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  Beer calendar: Star Bar runs the Avery gauntlet and Dry Dock takes it in the can

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Several Denver breweries and restaurants will serve as mini art galleries between now and February 10, displaying the work of more than twenty artists who use recycled skis and snowboards as their ca... More >>

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  Fate Brewing will open Monday without a brewery, but with lots of Boulder collaborations

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Since Fate Brewing, which opens Monday, February 4, in Boulder, doesn't have any of its beer-brewing equipment up and running yet, the company has come up with an innovative way to serve its own creat... More >>