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Sanitas Brewing will go big when it opens this summer in Boulder

The owners of Sanitas Brewing aren't planning to gently test the waters of Boulder's increasingly-crowded craft-beer scene when they open their 15,000-square-foot, fifteen-barrel brewery and taproom this summer. They plan to jump in head-first. Sanitas co-founders Chris Coyne, Michael Memsic and Za ... More >>

Ten perfect patios -- and events -- for pounding beers this summer

There's something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face -- something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand out when it comes to summert ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

A second all-female collaboration brew is set for Kannah Creek in Grand Junction

Colorado's first all-female collaboration brew went so well that an expanded group of women has decided to do a second one -- this time on the Western Slope. Nine women from nine different breweries around the state will convene at Kannah Creek Brewing in Grand Junction on April 21 to cook up a che ... More >>

Arvada Beer Company expands, will begin canning soon

Arvada Beer Company will increase its brewing capacity by about 30 percent this month by adding two eight-barrel fermenters that will be used to help it get ready to sell more beer to other restaurants and bars and to begin canning its own beers. "We are on tap at fifteen different locations and we ... More >>

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

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 quench that thirst this spring when it doubles in size. The Longmont company, which takes its beer-c ... 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 >>

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 >>

Boulder Beer's Flashback has a cameo in Parks and Recreation

Boulder Beer Company got a nice surprise last Thursday when two of the actors in Parks and Recreation enjoyed a Flashback India Brown Ale during a scene in the sitcom. The beer -- a hoppy, roasty black IPA, weighing in at 6.6 percent AVB -- is available in both Indiana, where the show is set, and in ... More >>

Arvada Beer turns one; Boulder Beer, Funkwerks party in our beer calendar

Lost amid the avalanche of beer tappings during the Great American Beer Festival was a pumpkin beer that Longmont's Left Hand Brewing made just for Old Chicago restaurants as part of its Halloween Mini Tour. The beer, 4 Foodies Ale (see the video above), was brewed in collaboration with Guerrilla Fa ... 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 >>

Thirty years in, the 16th Street Mall is still going strong

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 >>

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 >>

A celebration of seafood, beer and tea festivals and more on the calendar this week

The Tour de Jax, a traveling dinner series hosted by each of the three Jax Fish House locations, begins today. Chefs Sheila Lucero, Amos Watts, Kevin Grossi and Adam Watts -- along with special guest (and James Beard Award nominee) Lance Hanson of Jack Rabbit Hill Estates Winery -- have teamed up t ... More >>

Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy's, to Matt Selby: "Chef, you need a dishwasher?"

Beau Simmons Jonesy's EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com Part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy's EatBar, ran yesterday; below is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Longman & Eagle in Chicago, whose motto is "Eat, Sleep, Whiskey." T ... 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: Colorado Beer Week meets American Craft Beer Week

In the annual overflow of beer weeks, Colorado Beer Week kicks off today, just two days before American Craft Beer Week begins its run. The former is a series of beery events hosted around town by a private events company. The second is a national orgy of beer activities created and promoted by the ... More >>

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: Irish stouts make for Irish ayes at local breweries

AC Golden Brewing is cranking up its volunteer hops growing program again this year, offering Colorado Native fans a chance to grow hops in the yards for inclusion in a batch of the beer. Sign up on Facebook and receive two Chinook rhizomes (along with planting, growing and harvesting information). ... 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: Denver Beer Co, Boulder Beer, Avery, Rackhouse, Renegade

​Last May, while Denver Beer Co, 1695 Platte Street, was still in the planning stages, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford bought more than a hundred baby hops plants and gave them out to anyone who was willing to grow them in their back yards as part of an urban gardening experiment. T ... More >>

Avery Brewing's growth and possible exit from Boulder could lead to zoning changes

Facebook​The City of Boulder is considering ways to make it easier for breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed by the city's zoning code to open a kitchen under certain conditions. For insta ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Summer Brew Fest, Kyle's Brew Fest, Firestone Walker's debut

​Denver's Del Norte Brewing, which specializes in summer-friendly Mexican-style lagers, is looking for help coming up with a Spanish-language name for its latest beer (its sixth), a Bohemian Pilsner. "We have a few in mind, but are always up for some suggestions," the company says on its Face ... More >>

Boulder Beer finally opens on Saturdays

​One of the biggest oddities in the Colorado beer-drinking world will be remedied on April 2 when The Pub at the Boulder Beer Company finally opens for business on Saturdays. Until now, the pub, which is located in a Boulder business park and serves sandwiches, salads, burgers, burritos and t ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Opening Day, Ale House at Amato's, and Double I.P.April

Ale House at Amato's​ Pour a little liqua' out for Goose Island: The famed Chicago brewery was purchased this week by Anheuser-Busch for $22.5 million. And although the mega-brewer will probably try to keep things the same, gigantic corporations aren't usually very good at that. Goose Island ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: First Firkin Friday, a pirate ale, and more Pliny the Younger!

​Some delicious new beers are floating around out there this week, including Myrcenary double IPA, Odell Brewing's first new year-round beer since 2007, which you can find at Old Chicago and in liquor stores, and Le Terroir, an elegant but powerful dry-hopped sour ale from New Belgium's Lips o ... More >>

Hickenlooper's Inaugurale will be delivered via horse and carriage

​Not only is the Wynkoop Brewing Company making a special beer to commemorate brewery co-founder John Hickenlooper's gubernatorial inauguration party on Tuesday, it will deliver that beer, Hickelooper's Inaugurale, via horse and carriage. The party, which is being held at the Fillmore auditor ... More >>

DIA needs to allow craft beer as a carry-on

Rock Bottom Brewing merges with Gordon Biersch, plans no major changes

​Rock Bottom Brewing, which was founded in Denver in 1991 and now has 35 locations nationwide, has merged with the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch brewpub chain to form one of the largest craft beer-focused companies in the country. The new firm, called Craftworks Restaurants & Breweries, also ... 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 >>

Old Chicago drinks from the mug of craft beer relevance

​Fifteen years ago, Old Chicago was the place to go in Denver if you wanted to try unusual beers. Known for its World Beer Tour, the restaurant -- a part of what is now the Colorado-based Rock Bottom empire -- offered unusual and international brews. And while the craft-beer scene hadn't real ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Vail Restaurant Month and Oktoberfest celebrations

​Well, Denver Beer Fest and the Great American Beer Festival have come and gone -- but there's still plenty to do, including a great excuse to head for the hills: Vail Restaurant Month starts today. Learn more about that, plus see what else is on the menu, below.

Beer Floats shake things up for summer

Flickr​Summer means beer. Summer also means ice cream. So why not combine the two? Beer floats, beer shakes and other beery desserts are gaining popularity as beer and food culture grows. And while Colorado doesn't yet boast a Beer Float Showdown like L.A., you can find plenty of places to co ... More >>

Oskar Blues rolls out Burning Can, an all-canned beer fest

​Leave it to the guys at Oskar Blues Brewery to create a beer festival dedicated strictly to canned craft beer - and why not, since they were the ones who did it first. On June 26, the company will host Burning Can, a festival at Sandstone Park in Lyons (where Oskar Blues was founded) featuri ... More >>

What do beer and pot have common? Everything on 4/20

​What do beer and pot have in common? Not much. In fact, there are plenty of smokers who hate beer drinkers and plenty of imbibers who scorn pot heads. But on 4/20, maybe we can all just get a long. Craft breweries seem to think it can work, and a number of them are holding special events or ... More >>

An American Revolution

Craft Beer Week celebrates beer independence.

An early Christmas for Colorado beer drinkers