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Dave Thibodeau

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    April 5, 2012

    Peach Street Distillers wins Distillery of the Year from the American Distilling Institute

    Peach Street Distillers first fired up the stills in Palisade in 2004, a project from Rory Donovan and Ska Brewing co-founders Dave Thibodeau and Bill Graham. Since then, the company has grown steadily from a risk-it-all bootstrapped operation into a well-known local craft brand. And the hard work ... More >>

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    January 24, 2012

    It's Canned Craft Beer Day! Celebrate with Star Bar or by toasting Ska Brewing

    Update: The Cheeky Monk is also celebrating Canned Craft Beer Day at its Colfax and Westminster locations. Try two canned beers from Belgium, Wittekerke and Bavik Pils ($5), along with Maui Coconut Porter, Avery IPA and Ska True Blonde ($4). The canned craft beer revolution began ten years ago in L ... More >>

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    September 28, 2011

    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 >>

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    September 27, 2011

    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 >>

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    September 22, 2011

    Lightning In A Bottle

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Ignite Denver will offer lightning in a bottle during the Great American Beer Festival

    ​It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. "It's a blast," says Nunns. "After I got over being nervous, I loved it." Ignite Denver 10, taking plac ... More >>

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    May 12, 2011

    Fill up on Big Shikes

    ​It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. "It's a blast," says Nunns. "After I got over being nervous, I loved it." Ignite Denver 10, taking plac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    It takes big men to make Ska Brewing's Big Shikes Orange Blossom Imperial Pilsner

    Hop to it.​Brewing beer is physical work. Every day, the guys in rubber waders who do it for a living hump dozens and dozens of fifty-pound sacks of malted barley, rip them open and pour them into a mill. They carry heavy bags, buckets and barrels full of sugar, hops, honey and other ingredie ... More >>

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    February 15, 2011

    Durango's Ska Brewing enlists Westword's Beer Man for a new, limited-release Imperial Pilsner

    ​I'm flying to Durango this morning for a 24-hour adventure in beer. It will start with a plane that uses propellers to fly over the mountains. It will involve a lot of malt, a lot of hops and perhaps some honey. When it's over, I hope to have helped Ska Brewing create a limited-release beer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Ska Brewing's Mexican Logger is making his way back to Denver

    ​After a six-year absence, Durango's Ska Brewing Company plans to begin selling its much loved (and occasionally scolded) Mexican Logger back to Denver. The summer seasonal is, you guessed it, a Mexican-style lager that that the brewery serves with limes in its tasting room and sells in bottl ... More >>

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    May 12, 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 ... More >>

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