Avery Brewing Company

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

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 increase awareness of craft beer. Of course, in Colorado, as some people say, every week is craft b ... More >>

Colorado's beer festivals are becoming victims of their own success

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

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 pictures and some potential opening dates. The Facebook pictures (like the one above) show the brewer ... More >>

Beer calendar: Try spruce tips, sushi rice and malted milk in your beer this week

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 ... More >>

Lucky Pie in LoDo will feature Avery Brewing today

Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House, 1610 16th Street, is showcasing two special beers from Avery Brewing in Boulder today at 4 p.m. See also: - Behind the scenes at Lucky Pie Pizza - Good execution turns into good pizza at Lucky Pie - Avery ups production and switches distributors in advance of new brewe ... More >>

Crafting a Nation needs money; you need a beer -- all in this week's beer calendar

You have three more days to help out the Colorado-based producers of Crafting a Nation, a feature-length documentary that "tells the story of how the American Craft Brewers are rebuilding the economy one beer at a time." The group's Kickstarter campaign ends on Friday, and although donors have alrea ... More >>

The ten best new Colorado beers of 2012

Colorado breweries made and packaged dozens and dozens of amazing new beers in 2012, expanding their range and proving which state is the center of the craft beer universe. And although hundreds more were brewed and sold on draft in tap rooms, bars and breweries, this list -- like the one I did last ... More >>

Freshcraft, Right Coast Pizza offer end-of-world fun in our beer calendar

It was a big week for beery expansion announcements: Oskar Blues brewed its first batch of Dale's Pale Ale at its new brewery in Brevard, North Carolina, while New Belgium spent $10 million to add twelve massive new fermentation tanks and and four brite tanks so that in can increase capacity to 840, ... More >>

Avery ups production and switches distributors in advance of new brewery

Avery Brewing hopes to seal the deal this month on the 5.6-acre parcel in north Boulder where it plans to build a 30,000-square-foot brewery, restaurant and gift shop. Once it opens, in mid-2014, the compound at 4910 and 4920 Nautilus Court will allow Avery to brew 100,000 barrels of beer in the fir ... More >>

Six big (big!) Colorado craft beers that come at a bargain price

Big things come in small packages, and that goes double for craft brewers, who package many of their potent products in twelve- sixteen- or twenty-ounce cans and bottles. But those big things can also come with a big price. While a six-pack of craft beer usually runs from $8.99 to $10.99, there are ... More >>

Oskar Blues celebrates ten years of canning; Denver Bicycle Cafe turns one

Oskar Blues and Ska Brewing finally released some details about the collaboration beer they made to celebrate the Longmont brewery's tenth canning anniversary. The smoked IPA is called oSKAr the G'Rauch because: 1) you can't spell Oskar without Ska, and 2) it was made in the smoked rauschbier style. ... More >>

Do the Hoppa at Copper Kettle and the Friek at Odell

Last week, we told you about Boulder Beer Company's cameo in an episode of Parks and Recreation -- but this wasn't the only Colorado brewery to get a little air time. A can of Dale's Pale Ale made it into a reenactment scene in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, which premiered on November ... More >>

Five craft beers Obama should drink while he's debating in Denver

President Obama has been making a point of drinking beer on the campaign trail this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Florida. It was a sore spot for him in 2008 when he was seen more as a wine-slurper than an an everyday beer-drinking kind of fellow, but it's a distinct advantage in this year's ra ... More >>

Avery Brewing experiments with low-alcohol "session" beers it plans to can

"We're really well known for our strong ales and our forays into that genre," says Avery Brewing spokesman Joe Osborne. "But we're always innovating, period." And innovating will take the Boulder brewery in the opposite direction from the massive, high-alcohol beers that it has specialized in when, ... More >>

Avery turns nineteen, GABF tix go on sale, and Dank IPA debuts in cans

Ticketing for the Great American Beer Festival, run through Ticketmaster, got off to a rocky start yesterday during a pre-sale for Brewers Association and American Homebrewers Association members -- many of whom were shut out from a Saturday afternoon session that is designed just for them. Sales to ... More >>

Caution Brewing gets hoppy and the Falling Rock gets busy in our weekly beer calendar

Crabtree Brewing in Greeley has announced that it is moving and expanding in order to make more Eclipse, Oatmeal Stout, Ginger Bee and -- hopefully -- its GABF award-winning Berliner Weisse. The brewery will hold a grand opening at the new location, 2961 29th Street, on Wednesday, August 8 at 4 p.m. ... More >>

Rare bottles, cask ales and the Colorado Brewers Rendezvous highlight the week

Copper Kettle Brewing scored some hand-painted, custom table tops recently that incorporate not just game boards -- like backgammon and checkers -- but a few of the young brewery's accolades, including its Great American Beer Festival medal and, of course, its nod as Best Brewery for Neighbors in We ... More >>

A picnic at Steuben's, beer and wine dinners and more on this week's calendar

There's plenty on the culinary calendar this week, everything from picnics to pizza. Here's just a taste:

Colorado beer calendar: Odell's Small Batch kicks off festival season

It's beer festival season and the fiestas -- from the high country to the plains -- are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they'll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy -- and keep some Advil around.

A celebration of American beer kicks off the calendar this week

American Craft Beer Week begins today, with dozens of beer-related events filling the calendar from now through May 20, including brewery tours, special releases, food-and-beer pairings and tap takeovers. Here's what else is on tap for this week:

Colorado beer calendar: Oskar Blues turns fifteen; Denver Beer Co goes for eighty

When Denver Beer Co opened last August, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford had an unusual business plan: They wouldn't brew the same beer twice. Since then, the two have mostly stuck to that -- with a few notable exceptions -- and on Tuesday, they brewed their hundredth batch of beer, a Cent ... More >>

Seven brand new Colorado beers to try this spring

Standing in front of the beer cooler in Colorado, the Napa Valley of Beer, can be a little overwhelming. Okay, it can be a lot overwhelming. There are dozens of styles -- from IPAs, stouts and sours to Belgian saisons bocks and barrel-aged brews -- from a confounding number of breweries. And then t ... More >>

Cocoa Loco

The ten biggest Colorado beer stories of 2011

You could say that 2011 was the year that Denver's men and women matched its mountains when it came to beer culture. Seven new breweries opened in the metro area and stayed so busy that all seven have already expanded -- or are considering it. But good beer can also be found on the menus of fancy r ... More >>

Avery adjusts its brewing schedule to deal with cramped quarters

​Avery Brewing, which jumped its first hurdle on Tuesday on its way to building a brand new, multi-million-dollar facility in Boulder, has adjusted its brewing schedule slightly to deal with cramped quarters and a rising demand for its beer. Instead of releasing Maharaja imperial IPA in March, ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: GABF-winning beers hit the city; Fresh Hops at Falling Rock; new releases from Avery, Great Divide

One of the biggest bummers about the Great American Beer Festival being over is that it can be hard to find -- and drink -- the medal winners: Some were one-off brews that are no longer available. Others are on-draft-only options in towns a couple of hours away. Luckily, a few are still floating aro ... More >>

Ten beers for women that aren't Animée

​Unlike many of my female beer-drinking cohorts, I don't get my lacy lingerie in a bunch (mostly because I totally don't own lacy lingerie) over the fact that Molson Coors is about to release Animée, a beer made for women. Marketing: I can dig it. But still, it's a little absurd that the co ... More >>

Trimming the Fat

Tuna salad and Avery's White Rascal make a good case for a condiment

Philip Poston​When I was a kid, I hated mayonnaise -- or at least thought that I did. It looked gross, and that was reason enough for me to avoid the stuff for nearly twenty years. But once I started falling in love with food -- coincidentallly around the same time I was legally allowed to i ... More >>

Boulder Sourfest: Hundreds of beer lovers puckered up at Avery on Saturday

​Hundreds of beer geeks gathered at Avery Brewing Company on Saturday to enjoy one of the strangest, most inaccessible beer styles in the world -- and they loved every funky minute of it. The second annual Boulder Sourfest attracted 37 breweries, who poured nearly 75 beers - all of them brewe ... More >>

A Toast to Women

Ten beers that will make you a man -- if they don't kill you first

Avery's ​Mephistopheles' Stout​You're a man, so by definition, everything you do must be manly, right? Wrong. There are hundreds of beers out there to choose from, lining the liquor store shelves and bar taps like kids waiting to get picked for a game of recess football. But only a very of ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Maharaja; the governor's mansion; Great Divide gets around

Jonathan ShikesBreckenridge Brewery's barrel-aging riches.​The Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries officially sealed the deal on their joint venture, and celebrated their future on Tuesday by tapping kegs of each other's beers at their respective breweries. And later this month -- possibly as e ... More >>

The Strong Survive

Sweet Action: I scream, you scream, is there beer in your ice cream?

​ Sweet Action Ice Cream, 52 Broadway, which is scooping up acclaim left and right, is hosting its second annual Colorado Beer Ice Cream Fest with six flavors of the creamy stuff made with local beers. Last year, Sweet Action used brews from Great Divide, Breckenridge, Fort Collins Brewing, S ... More >>

Wet and Wild

GABF: Boulder County Brews Cruise, Denver Rare Beer Tasting tix selling fast

​Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, at the Colorado Convention Center September 16-18, are selling fast, but so are passes to two of most popular events that take place in conjunction with the fest. Tickets for the Boulder County Brews Cruise -- which is sponsored by Draft magazine ... More >>

A Reason for Cheer

Ale Force

A Glass Half Full

The city pours its heart into the ten-day Denver Beer Fest.

Hosea Rosenberg hosts Colorado harvest dinner at Jax Boulder

​Jax Boulder exec chef and Top Chef New York winner Hosea Rosenberg isn't hanging out a whole lot in the People's Republic of Boulder these days. His Facebook page says he's "heading into San Fran to find the city's best Bloody Mary," but presumably he'll accomplish that goal before 6:30 p.m ... More >>

Out of the Barrel

Obamanator brings together beer and politics at the DNC

Rock Bottom's Political Ale

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The Gang's All Beer

The Gang's All Beer

Cheers to Beers

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