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

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 >>

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

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.) The company's flagship brew, Ryeteous Rye IPA is now called -- wait for it -- Redacted Rye India P ... More >>

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

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 arts features many of the stouts that Mountain Sun has become famous for, along with new brews, lik ... 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 >>

Avery tap takeover at Euclid Hall tonight

Beer Month continues to flow at Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street, today with a tapping from Avery Brewing's famed Demons of Ale Series. See also: -Beer calendar: Avery salutes the dictators; Denver Beer Co debuts its new barrel room -Best Place to Pair Beer and Food 2012 -Best Pig Parts 2012

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 >>

Debate the debate -- and hops -- at Star Bar in this week's beer calendar

Denver is in a frenzy over both tonight's debate and next week's beer-soaked Great American Beer Festival . And sometimes the two obsessions even come together! To check out all the GABF-inspired events, go to our Great American Beer Festival 2012 Calendar of Awesome, which we're updating regularly ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Euclid Hall introduces new Hump Day happy hour

In addition to its daily Study Hall happy hour (select drafts, cocktails and house wines for $3), Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen, 1317 14th Street, will host a new Hump Day happy hour every Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. featuring deals on "not-so-classic" craft beer and shot combinations and discounted bar ... More >>

Contest: Win two tickets to Saturday's Justice League Factory Party

"The Justice League of Street Food is back for its third year of urban feasting, and the group is more determined than ever to maintain the edge they've always had," Andra Zeppelin, who handles the public relations for the Justice League of Street Food, told me back in May when the squadron of local ... 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 >>

Colorado beer calendar: Cinco de Mayo, sour beers, and house yeasts

The entire craft-brewing world will be in San Diego this week for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which allows brewers from across the country to share ideas, knowledge and plenty of beer. Plus, they get to spend time in America's Finest City. More than 2,600 people are expected to be there, in ... More >>

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 >>

Adam Dunbar: If you're not having fun, it's not worth it

In this interview, Freshcraft's Adam Dunbar weighs in on the night of the Beast, his go-to beer and where he heads for a perfectly made Manhattan.

Two new wild ales from Avery Brewing bridge the gap between beer and wine

Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage.

The ten best Colorado beers of 2011

Colorado breweries released dozens of amazing beers this year, further expanding their range and making once-exotic beers easy to find and enjoy. A few stood out above the rest, though. To make this list, the beers needed to have been new year-round offerings, seasonals that will return, old beers t ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Open beery holiday treats at local breweries

Holiday beers are on tap all around town, and you'll find some good ones right at the source -- at the breweries that make them. Some of the wintery wonders you can try include Ugly Sweater at Wit's End Brewing, Winter Spice Ale (with star anise, vanilla soaked in rum, ginger and allspice) at Copper ... More >>

Twisted Pine will debut a series of monthly one-off specialty beers in 2012

​Twisted Pine Brewing will debut a new series of one-off beers next year, releasing one per month. The Artisan Ale series will all be sold in limited quantities (about one hundred cases) in 750 ml bottles, and the labels will be adorned with artwork by local artists.

When BMOCA put spray paint and martinis in one room, this is what happens

Craft time at BMOCA​An event means business when you walk in and are asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that you accept the risks of using toxic substances. About forty people accepted those risks last night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's Graffiti and Martinis and congregated in ... More >>

Ten ways to be a beer geek this week, even if you don't have GABF tickets

​The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday -- and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF aren't ... More >>

Reader: Does a tap room have to be in Denver to be one of Denver's best tap rooms?

The gang's all beer at Denver Beer Co.​Denver is awash in beer -- and in opinions about beer, about Jonathan Shike's suggestion of five ways to freshen up the Great American Beer Festival, and about Laura Shunk's list of the area's five best tap rooms. No Liquids and Solids? No Amato's Ale Ho ... More >>

Eat and drink for free at Saturday's Justice League of Street Food bash

Hat head or helmet head? Both are encouraged at Saturday's Justice League of Street Food party.​We're still in the throws of street-food season, and this Saturday, from 5 to 10 p.m. at TAXI, 3507 Ringsby Court, the Justice League of Street Food will be out in full force, hustling grub from Bik ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: #IPAday; Bull & Bush turns forty; Euclid Hall turns one

Facebook​ Bristol Brewing of Colorado Springs has made an amazing 6,000 batches of beer since owner Mike Bristol founded the place back in 1994 (and that doesn't include the home brew he cooked up in his dorm room at Colorado State University in the late 1980s). A momentous occasion? You bet, ... More >>

Happy Friday: Here's a good place to find a date

​In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we're big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeti ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Copper Kettle, Star Bar, Hops & Pie have cool times for the summer heat

FacebookCopper Kettle brews.​I'm hitting the highway soon for a little Colorado summer road trip. But before I pack the tent, the beef jerky, the CDs or even the cooler, I'm stashing my copy of The Beer Drinker's Guide to Colorado map (fifth edition!) above the sun visor. This awesome fold-ou ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Beer Culture the Movie screens; Breckenridge Brewing turns 21

​Every time I think that there can't possibly be enough room in the market for another brewery in Denver, I step into a packed tap room and I change my mind. In fact, it's so difficult to get a seat sometimes at places like Great Divide and Dry Dock, that both places could probably double in s ... More >>

Lisa Norton, hit & swim driver, charged with 1st degree murder in Gabriel Nielsen crash (8)

Big pic below.​In a month filled with very strange crimes, Lisa Norton's alleged hit-and-swim accident, which killed Gabriel Nielsen and badly injured his sister and daughter, still managed to stand out. And as an indication of the incident's shocking nature, she's been accused of first-degree ... More >>

Colorado beer calender for the week: Captain Midnight saves the day at Bull & Bush

​Saturday, June 18, was supposed to be the day of the second annual Burning Can festival, an all-canned beer bonanza featuring craft beers from around Colorado and the rest of the country. Sadly, it was not to be. Oskar Blues, which created and hosts the event, canceled it, saying logistical i ... More >>

A Toast to Women

Tonight: A Taste of Mexico at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace

Head south of the border by heading north to Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl Street in Boulder, which will present a Taste of Mexico at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The menu is inspired by famous dishes of Jalisco, and they're paired with Avery brews. Dinner is $35; for more details, call ... More >>

Beer bloggers plot world domination

​There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there's a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers -- from all across the country -- showed up in Boulder to talk beer. They spent the three days of f ... More >>

Updates for Bull & Bush, Euclid Hall, Vine Street: Pumpkin beers will get you jack-o'-lanterned

​Update: Two new events have been added (Avery's Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub's tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you love them ... More >>

If Coors won big at the Great American Beer Festival, who lost out?

​Four of Colorado's biggest and best-known craft brewers, Avery, Breckenridge, Odell and Oskar Blues, were shut out of last month's Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony, while several other major brewers in the state barely made the cut. In fact, of the 41 medals awarded to Colorado b ... More >>

WTF? Saturday's Gastravaganza of Beautiful Beer & Splendid Street Food is canceled

Lori Midson​Well, shit. Among the hundreds of events taking place this week in honor of the Great American Beer Festival and Denver Beer Fest, the one I was looking forward to the most has been squashed. Sunk. Torpedoed. Axed.

Colorado beer was in fine form at the Great COntenders kick-off event

​Dozens and dozens of Colorado breweries will send hundreds of beers to the judges this week at the Great American Beer Festival, and to wish them good luck, the Wynkoop Brewing Company held a kick-off party last night. The Great COntenders, part of Denver Beer Fest, included 61 beers from 22 ... More >>

Flagstaff House cancels its beer dinner, but here's a six-pack of other beer-and-food pairings you shouldn't miss

​The beer extravaganza of the year is upon us. Starting this weekend, hundreds of breweries from around the country will descend upon the Mile High City for the Denver Beer Fest and the Great American Beer Festival. With so many rare brewed beverages suddenly available, it takes a lot of will ... More >>

Red, white and brew: beers that will show your colors on July 4

​It's the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there's nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It's hard to go wrong with Odell Brewing's R ... More >>

Yes, We Can

The West End Tavern hits the road in a Boulder Brew Bus

The Boulder Brew Bus​Boulderites have been going to the West End Tavern for years to sample its distinguished selection of craft brews, including some hard to find specialties. But beginning on June 20, the West End will be taking its customers to the beer.

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Dublin Coffee at Colt & Gray

Today: Snap up some tickets to the inaugural Sour Fest! Now!

​The inaugural Boulder Sour Fest has been sold out for a while now, but give thanks to the gods of pucker-inducing beer: Additional tickets are going on sale today at 8 a.m. at www.ticketalternative.com/events/9351.aspx. (The address won't work until 8 a.m.) Tickets are extremely limited, so ... More >>

Tonight: Sip on Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout

​Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, releases its Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout (aged in Gosling Rum barrels) today; the limited, one-time release will be celebrated with Black Tot Day: Then and Now. Visit the tap room between 5 and 8 p.m. for a taster ($3 a piece) and to grab ... More >>

Ale to the Chief belongs in the Oval Office

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