Subject: Breweries

• All-American Budweiser Joins Coors in Europe

  July 14, 2008

• Miller, Coors, Bud are Aleing

  August 6, 2008

• GABF events at Falling Rock Taphouse

  October 6, 2008

• Zima goes ZZZZZZZ

  October 21, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Winter Warlock

  Winter Warlock Bristol Brewing Company Colorado Springs Winter Warlock offers a complex mix of sweet caramel and roasted chocolate flavors that really jumps off the tastebuds. Pouring black with a thick head of foam, it is a solid, well-done stout that I look forward to drinking again. And again. -- Jonathan Shikes Craft breweries in Colorado and across the country make seasonal beers all year round, but the best of the best come out in the final three months. To see reviews of my other favori

  December 1, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Alaskan Winter Ale

  Alaskan Winter Ale Alaskan Brewing Company Juneau, Alaska Get ready for something different when you drink one of these, something different and something delicious. Although I normally don't like fruit-flavored beers, pine needles are a different story, and that's what the company says goes into this ale. The distinctive taste is very clean and seems to complement the malts, giving the beer a honey-like feel. Although it doesn't pack the punch of the big winter warmers, I buy it whenever I can

  December 2, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: Double Bastard

  Double Bastard Stone Brewing Company Escondido, California Double Bastard, made by one of my two favorite breweries in the country, packs a punch -- and feels no guilt about the violence. This beer, highly alcoholic (more than 10 percent), highly sought after, rich in flavor and texture, is one of the biggest, most complex brews you'll find anywhere. A thick, sweet, malt forearm is balanced by a hop wallop. For those who can handle it, it tastes great. For those who can't, well, as the bottle

  December 4, 2008

• 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 the others. It's a caramel-colored, almost red beer with a frothy head and some good hops. It also has some of that rich, malty feel -- but not quite enough to keep me warm on the coldest nights. --

  December 5, 2008

• Beer and Cheer: 2 Below Ale

  2 Below New Belgium Brewery Fort Collins Argh, no matter how hard I try, I just can't get into the beers from New Belgium Brewery. Fat Tire, Mothership Wit, 1554, 2 Below Ale: I've tried them -- repeatedly -- in an effort to figure out what I'm missing, and what everyone else is buying. After all, New Belgium is Colorado's largest craft brewer and its second-largest homegrown beer maker (behind Coors, of course). But no matter what I try, I just don't buy New Belgium's popularity. The beers don

  December 11, 2008

• From the week of June 4, 2009

  June 4, 2009

• Microbrewing history gets its own photo book

  Way back - way, way back -- before there was a microbrewery in every city, before the terms IPA and ESB entered the common lingo, before big, bold craft beers muscled their way onto liquor store shelves (before color photography, even), the pioneers of the microbrewery industry got their shaggy-looking selves together in Boulder for a home-brewing conference. The year was 1981, and the conference had been organized by Charlie Papazian, one of the patriarchs of craft brewing and the founder of i

  February 10, 2009

• Best Microbrew

  March 25, 2004

• Best Salvation With Libations

  March 25, 2004

• Best Beer Bargain, If You Can Find It

  March 25, 2004

• The Wynkoop's canny new strategy

  The Wynkoop Brewing Co. was the first modern-era brewpub to open its doors in Denver, and this summer, it plans to become the first city brewery to sell its beer in cans. "We're pushing for June," says new Wynkoop head brewer Andy Brown, who got the project off the ground by persuading the owners of the Wynkoop's holding company that they needed to diversify. "The way I talked them into it was because I used to work for Oskar Blues, and I took them up there and showed them how much success they

  March 12, 2009

• The Gang's All Beer

  June 12, 2008

• The Gang's All Beer

  June 12, 2008

• The Gang's All Beer

  August 21, 2008

• Consumed

  Yeast of Eden

  October 3, 2002

• Summertime Brews

  Microbrews, music and more infiltrate the Coors Field parking lot.

  July 24, 2008

• Brews You Can Use

  Beer Wars follows the challenges of small brewers.

  April 16, 2009

• Beer today, gone tomorrow

  At 6 p.m. tonight, April 16, "Beer Wars Live," a live simulcast, will present the founders of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, New Century Brewing Company and Stone Brewing Company, as well as Charlie Papazian, the president of the Boulder-based Brewers Association, in a discussion led by Ben Stein; the show's at Colorado Mills Stadium 16, 14500 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood. For more info, go to www.FathomEvents.com.

  April 16, 2009

• Snow Boat

  April 3, 2008

• Beer Town Abuzz with Coors-Miller Merger

  There may be something in Rocky Mountain spring water, but Milwaukee is already buzzing about the future headquarters for Miller and Coors.

  February 14, 2008

• Last Call

  Just before Prohibition, the Colorado Legislature gave us 3.2 beer. Now Blake Harrison wants to repeal the scourge.

  March 30, 2006

• The Coors of History

  A brief look at the brewer's past.

  January 23, 2003

• The Light Stuff

  Coors loves the young male demographic -- and twins!

  January 23, 2003

• A Brewing Disagreement

  An anti-Coors ad gets canned by a local publication.

  June 27, 2002

• Off Limits

  Let them drink Guinness...

  September 16, 1999

• The Other Coors Spokesman

  September 2, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  May 29, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  November 14, 1996

• Mouthing Off

  March 7, 1996

• MOUTHING OFF

  October 11, 1995

• STRANGE BREW

  COORS TAPS INTO LIBERAL "DOMESTIC PARTNER" BENEFITS, STUNNING ITS GAY CRITICS.

  June 21, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  February 15, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  February 1, 1995

• TROUBLE BREWING

  THE TUCKER FAMILY SAYS HAY GROWN BY ANHEUSER-BUSCH GAVE ITS DAIRY COWS A ROYAL HANGOVER.

  June 15, 1994

• An American Revolution

  May 7, 2009

• Colorado beer drinkers have a crush on cans

  It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for one purpose and one purpose only: drinking micro brews. (To find out about tappings, food pairings and other events, click here or here.) But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular note is the continued growth of canned micro brews, a trend that started in 2002 at Oscar Blu

  May 11, 2009

• A Crush on Cans: Ska Brewing

  It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for drinking micro brews. But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look, since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular interest is the continued growth of canned micro brews, a trend that started in 2002 at Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons and continues with at least seven other breweries that now can their beers and two that are

  May 12, 2009

• Mrs. Bob Schaffer's margarita mix is Coyote Ugly

  May 14, 2009

• A Crush on Cans: Wynkoop vs. Breckenridge

  It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for drinking micro brews. But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look, since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular interest is the continued growth of canned micro brews, a trend that started in 2002 at Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons and continues with at least seven other breweries that now can their beers and two that are

  May 13, 2009

• A Crush on Cans: Ball Packaging

  It's American Craft Beer Week - seven days that even the United States Congress felt should be set aside for drinking micro brews. But Colorado's beer culture is worth a deeper look, since 100 craft breweries operated here in 2008, producing 75,000 barrels of delicious beer. Of particular interest is the continued growth of canned micro brews, a trend that started in 2002 at Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons and continues with at least seven other breweries that now can their beers and two that are

  May 14, 2009

• The Beer Buckle gets Twisted

  The Beer Clothing Company, the Central City firm that graced the world with its (patent-pending) Beer Buckle, has landed a contract with Boston Beer (the maker of Sam Adams) to manufacture Beer Buckles branded with the Twisted Tea logo. The Beer Buckle is a genius creation: a belt buckle that folds down to reveal a retractable, spring-loaded brass ring that can safely cradle a bottle or a can. The company was founded in the fall of 1998 by Jay Kriner, a former Texan who now calls Colorado home,

  June 9, 2009

• Free beer still flowing for Coors employees

  A Flickr photo.I know you've been worried. Or worried-ish. But rest assured that, unlike their peers up at Molson Coors in Canada, the approximately 2,800 employees at MillerCoors in Golden will continue to get their 864 free beers a year ... for now. Last week, I read that Molson Coors -- the parent company of MillerCoors, whose biggest brewery is in Golden -- plans to cut back on the amount of free beer it gives employees and retirees. According to the Toronto Star, Molson retirees currently

  June 18, 2009

• Skip the Blue Moon, Crowley, and tap one of these other Colorado beers for the political slurp heard 'round the world

  Blue Moon: Not the best beer for solving a national crisis.​If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country's centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race relations last week by weighing in on the controversial arrest of distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home by police Sergeant James Crowley, the big man decided to make thin

  July 30, 2009

• Beers and Brewhahas: Bill Ritter vs. Labor Unions and his own party

  chug-a-lug​If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here's an example (see our previous pairings here, here and here): Dispute: Bill Ritter vs. Labor Unions and his own party Beer: Steamworks Brewing Company's Colorado Kolsch ​Ouch. It's not easy fighting a war on two fronts. But Governor Bill Ritter is catching flak both from his Republican foes and angry constituents within his own party. Time to take stock, Governor, and

  August 7, 2009

• Craft breweries are on a roll

  ​With the Great American Beer Festival (September 24-26) and the first ever Denver Beer Fest (September 18-27) both around the corner, the craft beer industry's major trade group has released some mid-year statistics on what's been brewing nationwide. The Brewers Association reports that craft brewers sold 4.2 million barrels of brewski during the first six months of 2009, up from 4 million barrels during the same time period last year. Sales numbers grew by 9 percent over the first half

  August 18, 2009

• Should Lance Armstrong's new team be sponsored by marijuana?

  Lance Armstrong at rest.​Mason Tvert is brilliant at making any subject about marijuana -- but he's really outdone himself this time. In his latest media jeremiad, the head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation) goes after bicycle racer Lance Armstrong for becoming the new spokesman for Michelob Ultra, a brew that's aimed at "health-minded drinkers" -- because beer is the new wheat germ, right? Tvert's gripe: Beer is more dangerous and "cancer-causing" than his favorite smok

  October 9, 2009