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Beer calendar: Renegades, superheroes and American Craft Beer Week

Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scene? 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 Italy, researching the movement as it grew from fewer than twenty craft breweries in 1996 to nearly ... More >>

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

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 No. 13, Odio Equum, was released. Volunt Plus Erat (which translates into "wish there was more") was ... More >>

Breweries light up for 4/20, while Copper Kettle blows out two candles

Odell Brewing in Fort Collins recently began opening its taproom on Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., which means more beer (including taproom-only specials like Wee Willy Winkie, Easy Elephant and Monarch Saison) and more brewery tours. In fact, Odell now offers tours seven days a week at 1, 2, 3 an ... More >>

A new patio, a new beer and a new brewery highlight this week's beer calendar

River North Brewery, which has been working on getting approval for a patio for quite a while, finally got the go-ahead just before the Colorado Rockies home opener. And although it's a little chilly out there today, the new space should be a great place to hang out all spring and summer with four, ... More >>

Eight craft beer trends to look for in Colorado in 2013

One of the best parts about Colorado's craft beer scene is that it changes constantly. From one week to the next, beer geeks can hit a new taproom, try an innovative new brew, head to a packed festival and generally make friends in other states jealous. The last year saw a lot of big news -- some ba ... More >>

Beer calendar: TRVE Brewing shreds, Hops & Pie goes big, and the Rackhouse gets Strange

Only three weeks into the new year, and already three new breweries have opened -- Verboten in Loveland, J Wells in Boulder and Cannonball Creek in Golden -- while a fourth has gone into production and released its first bottles. Hall Brewing, located in a gorgeous farmhouse east of Parker, won't ha ... More >>

Beer calendar: Avery salutes the dictators; Denver Beer Co debuts its new barrel room

Kim Jordan, the CEO of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, is no longer the majority owner of the company she co-founded in 1991. Instead, Jordan is just one of 456 owners as of December 28, when she sold her family's 59 percent stake to the now 100 percent employee-owned entity that runs the compa ... More >>

Huge holiday seasonals, ugly sweaters and a Yeti sighting in this week's beer calendar

Here are two beery deadlines to note: If you are entering a home-brewed stout into the Mountain Sun/Vine Street Pub Stout Month contest, the deadline is Saturday, December 16. The winner gets to brew the beer at Mountain Sun and have it served in February alongside all of the brewery's other beers. ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Twelve beers to track down in Denver outside the Great American Beer Festival

There will be thousands of beers to sample inside the Colorado Convention Center during the Great American Beer Festival, which starts on October 11, but there will also be some very special beers served at bars, breweries and restaurants during the week before GABF. Some of these were brewed espec ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Hops & Pie, Wit's End and Boulder Beer celebrate birthdays; Oktoberfest rolls on

Earlier this month, President Obama's designated the 4,700-acres Chimney Rock Archaeological Area in southwestern Colorado -- an area that is sometimes called "America's Stonehenge" -- as a national monument. The move means that the area between Durango and Pagosa Springs (which was home to thousand ... More >>

The Road to GABF at Euclid Hall: Avery Brewing Company

The Great American Beer Festival is still weeks away, but Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, has already kicked off its "Road to GABF" -- a series of intimate beer dinners.The second installment takes place tonight and will feature five beers from Avery Brewing Co. matched with creative fare from Euclid ... More >>

Avery politics, the Vine Street block party and No-Li beer in this week's beer calendar

The Great American Beer Festival is also a great American motivator. In previous years, it has driven local breweries to finish construction projects, open their doors, brew new beers, and generally get their acts in shape. And this year is no exception -- see the Bull & Bush, which is rebuilding it ... More >>

The Great American Beer Festival is sold out, but these hot events around it aren't...yet

The Great American Beer Festival sold out in minutes -- possibly seconds -- this year, stealing the breath away from many beer fans and crashing plans. But the festival-related events that surround the annual beerstravaganza, October 11-13, have risen to a level in the past two years that now equals ... More >>

Brewery openings and big, bold beers highlight this week's beer calendar

The answer to the question posed in the video above is, "Yes, freakin' open already!" The three dynamos behind Black Shirt Brewing have been pouring their hearts and souls into this neighborhood brewery, set to open very soon (really), and they must have a lot of both because the place has been in t ... More >>

Avery Brewing's Ale to the Chief returns to presidential beer politics

Tiny little Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, could make a big difference in the presidential election this year. Just ask President Obama, who has visited multiple times in the past three months, and Mitt Romney, who dispatched vice presidential selection Paul Ryan to our high-altitude swing ... More >>

Wynkoop Brewing celebrates Belgium; Denver gets ready for GABF

The Great American Beer Festival is coming a little late this year, October 11-13, but tickets go on sale August 2, and the GABF buzz is already beginning as breweries in Colorado and around the country get ready to wow the crowds -- the big crowds. As usual, Westword will be fully loaded immersed, ... More >>

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Beer festival season kicks off with big crowds and tough tickets

The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing's Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format -- one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before taking two years off ... More >>

Dine out for the dogs at Woof & Wine tonight

The 2012 Woof & Wine takes place this evening at Hudson Gardens, 6115 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. The event will feature food catered by local restaurants, local wines, beers from Avery Brewing, cider from Colorado Cider Company and live music. Tickets costs $50, which benefits the Humane S ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: American Craft Beer Week continues with lots of events

Longmont's Oskar Blues Brewery has signed a letter of intent to open a new restaurant in Boulder's historic train depot, it was reported this week, an interesting decision considering how many other brewpubs and brewery-centric restaurants are open or opening in town. The Boulder Beer Company and Tw ... More >>

Culinary Calendar: Microbreweries for the Environment, a food truck blow-out and more

Food truck are revving up for the summer, which means plenty of parties -- including Boulder's first, set for June 8. But the mobile movement really gets in gear this week. Here's a taste of what's on the culinary calendar:

Colorado beer calendar: The Rackhouse puckers up; Vine Street lights up on 4/20

Ever since Longmont's Left Hand Brewing released its Milk Stout Nitro in a bottle before the Great American Beer Festival last year, pouring a pint has been a favorite party trick. Stand on someone's expensive rug with a bottle and glass and upend that sucker: You'll hear some gasps, but if you do i ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Avery, Twisted Pine roll out new beers

Odell Brewing is getting ready to host its revitalized Small Batch Festival on May 26 in Fort Collins, and the brewery is asking beer lovers to pick something for Odell to brew. You can go to the brewery's Facbook page and vote (or head to the web site, which was down this morning, but should hopefu ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Boulder Beer gets blue, Copper Kettle gets amber

New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins has finished the installation of its 16,000-square-foot canning line and plans to begin using it this week. The first beers off the line will be 16-ounce tallboys of Fat Tire and Ranger IPA, but the brewery's newest beer, Shift Pale Lager, will be released for the ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Chocolate-y Yeti treats at Star Bar; rich Avery brews at Hops & Pie

Facebook​The Big Red F restaurant group has made a name for itself in the local craft beer scene over the past two years: Boulder's West End Tavern is a grat place to find rare and delicious craft brews, while Centro in Boulder and Lola in Denver dish out cans of Top Rope, a Mexican-style lag ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Upslope, Avery and Bull & Bush makes spirits bright

New Belgium Brewing, Colorado's largest craft-beer makers and the third largest in the country, revealed in May that it was searching for an East Coast location for a second facility. The company said it would make a decision by the end of 2011. Well, we're getting close, and New Belgium has narrowe ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Sausage at Denver Beer Co; Black Friday at Copper Kettle

Avery Brewing has created an online petition at change.com, urging the brewery's fans to support an effort in Boulder to change the zoning code to allow breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed to o ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Odell Frieks out; Halloween freakouts; Rackhouse gets freaky

Odell Brewing​Yes, it snowed. Get used to it. Better yet, take advantage of it. The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its two-year anniversary later in the week, is marking the time-honored tradition of calling in sick on powder days by offering a free pint to anyone who shows up with a lift tic ... More >>

Avery's Reverend and Left Hand's Nitro Milk Stout make fresh antelope the right ingredient

Philip Poston​Every year, my neighbor goes antelope hunting, and much to my satisfaction, shares the fruit of his labors. While the morality of meat is questionable, depending on your point of view, wild game is the most ideal form of it in my opinion. Not to be preachy, but with regard to s ... More >>

Curtis Park Deli delivers with quail, while Avery Brewing's Eighteen falls flat

Stephen Cummings​I've always fantasized about living in a neighborhood that had everything within walking distance that I needed to be happy: a stroll away from a nice cup of coffee, a comfortable place to wet my whistle and, most important, a quality marketplace. It's part of my ongoing and t ... More >>

This weekend in stoke: Top five ways to work out and work it out

​Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling As ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Get funky at Freshcraft and get patriotic at Great Divide

Aaron ThackerayGreat Divide's parties always rock.​Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival's thirtieth edition go on sale to the general public tomorrow, and even at $60 a pop, the biggest beer fest in the world is still worth the price of admission. Although most things will be the same ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Colorado Beer Week; home brew; Odell gets busy

Kate LevyA recent Great Divide release party.​Do you sense something? Is that...could it be...summer in the air? Actually, no. But it is spring, and that means spring beer releases. What's on tap this month? How about Odell Double Pilsner, Left Hand Good JuJu, Ska's Mexican Logger and three b ... More >>

Boulder SourFest tix go on sale tomorrow for the "wildest" beer party of the year

Avery Brewing​Tickets for one of the newest, but already most buzz-worthy Colorado beer festivals of the year go on sale tomorrow at noon. The second annual Boulder SourFest -- with more than eighty different sour ales -- will run from noon to 5 p.m. on June 11 at Avery Brewing Company in Bou ... More >>

This Weekend In Stoke: Top five ways to celebrate being alive, November 12-14

Liam Doran/Breckenridge Ski ResortNow we're talkin'​1. Opening weekend at Breck. More than six inches of fresh pow for opening day today and 17" so far this week mean you could be skiing or snowboarding on some serious snow right now. Get to it. There are also freshies to be had this weekend a ... More >>

Denver Beer Fest: Today's top picks include the Cheeky Monk, beer burlesque

​Have you hit any Denver Beer Week events yet? No? Well, you're in luck, because things just get busier and busier from here on out. Tonight at 8 p.m., check out the Cheeky Monk's third anniversary party, which features a special beer, 3 Cheeks to the Wind, made by Avery Brewing, just for the ... More >>

Avery Brewing gets the cans rolling this week

Avery Brewing CompanyCan you handle it?​Avery Brewing began canning its first beer, Joe's Premium American Pilsner, yesterday and plans to have four of its brews in cans and on liquor-store shelves by September 1. The Boulder company had planned to start canning on June 1, but was delayed by ... More >>

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Flag down dinner at the Flagstaff House

At 6:30 p.m. tonight, April 15, Flagstaff House exec chef/partner Mark Monette will offer a five-course meal at his Boulder restaurant, with two beer pairings - a "complement" and a "contrast" - for each course, all designed by Adam Avery, president of Avery Brewing Co. The dinner is $68 per person, ... More >>

A Boulder bite of Cafe Bites

If you subscribe to Cafe Bites, our weekly restaurant newsletter, you already know the news that follows. If you don't, keep reading (and then e-mail cafe@westword.com to subscribe). Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, at 5 p.m. today to get a taste of Brabant, first in the ... More >>

Today's Night & Day featured event: Brabant gallops out of the barrel at Avery Brewing in Boulder

What makes an ale a wild ale? Perhaps it's the barrel you age it in, or the yeast that ferments it into a complex brew. In the case of Avery Brewing Company's new Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, one supposes it's both. Named for a seminal draft horse that spawned what we now know as the Belgian, the ... More >>

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