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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 >>

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 >>

Win free drinks and eats at the Justice League of Street Food soiree (updated with winner)

Update: Congratulations to kezzamcdezza! You've won free food and drinks at the Justice League of Street Food party. For details on how to claim your prize, check your e-mail. By the way, the correct answer is 29,568 ounces. Original post: Saturday's weather forecast looks positively balmy -- 75 de ... More >>

Photos: Parry's is open in Greenwood Village -- and getting ready for a "Big Ass" tap takeover

The fourth location of Parry's Pizzeria & Bar opened this month at 5970 South Holly Street in Greenwood Village. This new outpost started service just in time to partake in the homegrown chain's massive tap-takeover event -- a collaboration with Avery Brewing Co. featuring a total of over ninety bee ... 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 >>

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 >>

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

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 canvases. The displays are part of Art of Winter, "a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artist ... 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 >>

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 >>

Round two with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft: Avery beer rep is a ninja!

Lucas Forgy Freshcraft 1530 Blake Street 303-758-9608 www.freshcraft.com Part one of my interview with Lucas Forgy, exec chef of Freshcraft, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? Being able to engage with people in real time and make things happen.

Plenty on tap outside of #GABF on the calendar this week

The Great American Beer Fest will fill the Colorado Convention Center this Thursday through Saturday. Tickets to the seminal celebration of craft beer sold out in record time this year, and Cafe Society will be offering up comprehensive and "professional" coverage throughout the week -- as well as a ... 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 >>

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 >>

Photos: Avery Workman found safe -- but was she a runaway or drugging victim?

Update: Yesterday, Avery Workman, a sixteen-year-old youth circus performer from Elbert County who vanished off the 16th Street Mall, was found safe. But while media reports like this one suggest she ran away, the folks behind the Facebook page that coordinated the search for her insist she was dru ... More >>

Truck it! Mobile vendors roll into Boulder this afternoon

Talk about a movable feast! The second annual Truck It! rolls into Boulder today for a party that will run from 4 to 9 p.m. at Gateway Park Center, 4800 28th Street.

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 >>

Photos: Avery Brewing's SourFest brings out the wild times

Avery Brewing hosted one of the most talked-about beer festivals of the year on Saturday -- and one of the hardest tickets to get -- delighting 400 beer geeks who love "sour" or "wild" ales -- beers typically brewed with bacteria and yeast strains that give them deliciously off flavors.

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.

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 >>

Bitter Bar and Avery Brewing Company collaborate on a beer

The Bitter Bar may have made a name for itself from pouring championship-winning cocktails, but that doesn't mean it's not into other beverages, too. The Boulder-based cocktail bar and restaurant recently brewed up a collaboration with Avery Brewing Company, bringing a spiritous touch to the project ... More >>

Beer calendar: Firkins on First Friday and Peanut Butter Milk Stout at Renegade

Have you run the gauntlet at Star Bar? If not, you've got through February 6 to try and drink thirty Avery Brewing beers available at the hip Larimer Street beer bar. For starters, you'll need to drink all of these: IPA, White Rascal, Ellie's Brown, Joe's Pilsner, Out of Bounds Stout, Salvation, The ... More >>

Colorado beers to look forward to in early 2012

The past twelve months have seen the release of some truly amazing canned and bottled beers in Colorado, and 2012 is shaping up to be quite a big year as well.

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: Great American Beer Festival edition

Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there's this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver -- which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets to the main ... More >>

Avery Brewing will bottle Rumpkin Imperial Ale, its cult-favorite seasonal pumpkin beer

​Kids wait for candy around Halloween. Adults -- at least the big beer loving kind -- well, they wait for Rumpkin, Avery Brewing's tricky barrel-aged treat. And this year, they'll be able to fill their spooky buckets and pillowcases with bottles.

Ten Colorado bartenders will showcase beer cocktails at Star Bar this weekend

​It was late last year when we started spying beer cocktails in bars. There were just a few at first, and most of them were basic twists on micheladas or other fizzy drinks -- experimental and not always tasty. But lately, the beer cocktail has become a veritable trend, with ale making its way ... More >>

Score free food and drink at the Justice League of Street Food party on Saturday

​The Justice League of Street Food, the convoy of food trucks and carts that gave a whole new meaning to pavement cuisine when it became a superpower of street food last summer, is gearing up for its second party of the season -- and we're giving one Cafe Society reader (and a guest) free rein ... 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 >>

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 >>

More equals less: Colorado breweries are pulling out of some states as they grow in others

Great Divide Brewing​Great Divide made beer drinkers in six states cry last week when the Denver brewery acknowledged that it had pulled its beers from the shelves there. In addition to Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Mexico and Alaska, the brewer is leaving Washington, D.C ... More >>

The Strong Survive

Tonight: DuganA Release Party at Avery Tap Room

​Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue, Unit B1 in Boulder, will host the DuganA Release Party from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight to celebrate Avery's latest IPA. For details, call 303-440-4324 or go to www.averybrewing.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Foo ... More >>

Tonight -- and all weekend long: Avery Brewing hosts Demonic Halloween Celebrations

​The Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, is promising "Scary Good Beer" at this year's Demonic Halloween Celebrations. Keep reading for the full lineup of weekend events.

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 >>

Today: Celebrate Avery Brewing's anniversary

A Flickr photo​Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, for today's Avery Anniversary Party celebrating Avery brews; admission is $20 and includes all-you-can-eat barbecue, live music and more -- a rare beer tasting option is an additional $20. The celebration runs from no ... More >>

On the Ale Trail

Colt & Gray's patio opens Sunday with a pig roast and punch

​ Nestled between the two walking bridges that connect the Lower Highland neighborhood to LoDo, Colt & Gray's patio makes for good people-watching, the perfect place to sip a bubbly aperitif while cyclists, rollerbladers and families meander by. That patio opens this Sunday with plenty of fan ... More >>

Avery Brewing will bust your cherry with Depuceleuse

​Avery Brewing Company will release the fourth in its series of experimental one-and-done barrel-aged beers today at 5 p.m. at its tasting room in Boulder. The new brew is called Depuceleuse which, according the brewery, is a French term for a woman who deflowers men. It's an extremely unusu ... More >>

Flick Pick

The star of Off and Running leaps forward into the past

Tonight: The inaugural Craft Beer Bartender Challenge

​Slinging craft beers requires knowledge beyond the basic pour. Everybody knows what Bud Light tastes like, but how many people can answer on-the-fly questions about lager versus ale, hops versus malts and everything in between? From 6 to 9:30 p.m. tonight, Left Hand Brewing Company and the ... More >>

Tonight: Mephistopheles shows its age in Boulder

​For some fun with beer, head to the Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, at 5 p.m. tonight, when Avery will be breaking out its latest version of the Mephistopheles Stout. It will also be pouring the four previous versions, so you can taste the changes from year to year. Admission ... More >>

The holidays are here for the Colorado Brewers Guild

​Having trouble finding your favorite seasonal brew? The Colorado Brewers Guild is working on that. And on Tuesday evening, the Guild -- a trade group representing the majority of the 110-plus craft beer-makers in the state -- hosted liquor store and restaurant reps at its second annual holid ... More >>

Hole in One

Putt down a few beers at the Country Club Classic.

It's a battle of the boozes at Baur's

When I sit down for a fancy four-course meal, I don't ask for too much. Just the basics: maybe some friends, some warm bread....and three separate beverage teams trying to pair each course in a battle royale for my taste buds. Next Tuesday, Denver will bear witness to what is being called the "First ... More >>

Beer and Cheer

The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.

Beer and Cheer: Isolation Ale

Isolation Ale Odell Brewing Company Fort Collins Isolation Ale is one of several local winter warmers - Avery's Old Jubilation, Boulder Beer's Never Summer and Breckenridge Brewery's Christmas Ale among them. But this traditional English-style strong ale is lighter and easier to drink than some of ... More >>

Avery Brewing Ales the Chief

Ale Watch

Aphrodisiac

Power and sex combine for a titillating production.