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Echo Brewing will open new location in Erie, team up with Atom Brewing

Echo Brewing, which celebrated its first anniversary this past weekend in Frederick, has decided to straddle I-25 and open a second brewery in Old Town Erie. Until that's ready, though, Echo will also serve as a jumping-off point for a second brewing company that plans to open in Erie: Atom Brewing ... More >>

Beer calendar: high hopes and heavy hops appear for Rockies opening day

The massive Craft Brewers Conference, an annual industry-only meeting, wrapped up in Washington, D.C. last week, but a beer-themed art exhibit and auction, Amber Waves, sponsored by the Dogfish Head and Victory breweries continues through Friday. And it features a cool sculpture piece by Denver bott ... More >>

The Craft Brewers Conference wraps up with an award for New Belgium

It's been quiet out there in the craft beer world this week -- primarily because most of the movers and shakers from around the country are in Washington, D.C. for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, and industry-only event hosted by the Brewers Association. This year's version -- the thirtieth on ... More >>

World of Beer opens in Glendale's City Set with sixty brews on tap

World of Beer, a Tampa, Florida-based chain of beer-centric tap houses, opened its 37th location this week in the new City Set development in Glendale, behind the Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Cherry Creek Drive. The bar has sixty rotating taps (consisting primarily of c ... More >>

Former Dogfish Head brew master Bryan Selders joins Big Red F's Post Brewing

Reality TV fans know him as the quirky but loveable co-star of the Discovery Channel's short-loved series Brew Masters. Beer geeks know him as the guy who helped create and produce odd, boundary-busting beers for Delaware's famed Dogfish Head Brewing for nearly a decade. And now Colorado will get to ... More >>

Beer calendar: TRVE Brewing shreds, Hops & Pie goes big, and the Rackhouse gets Strange

Only three weeks into the new year, and already three new breweries have opened -- Verboten in Loveland, J Wells in Boulder and Cannonball Creek in Golden -- while a fourth has gone into production and released its first bottles. Hall Brewing, located in a gorgeous farmhouse east of Parker, won't ha ... More >>

Celebrate the Great American Beer Festival at Falling Rock today

The taps at Falling Rock, 1919 Blake Street, are always up-to-date, especially during the Great American Beer Festival. In fact, Denver's most famous craft-beer bar can be a welcome alternative to the massive fest. There will be daily tappings throughout the weekend there, and today's begins at noon ... More >>

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 >>

L.A.'s hip Golden Road Brewing will release its latest, Burning Bush, in Denver for #GABF

Los Angeles-based Golden Road Brewing, an upstart craft brewer that's managed to make waves in a town that sees them every single day, will release its latest canned beer, Burning Bush, in Denver during the Great American Beer Festival. But the beer -- and the one-year-old brewery -- won't be here f ... 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 >>

Round two with Pippa Taylor, exec chef of Strings

Pippa Taylor Strings 1700 Humboldt Street 303-831-7310 www.stringsrestaurant.com Part one of my interview with Pippa Taylor, executive chef of Strings, ran yesterday. This is part two of our chat Favorite restaurant in America: At this point, my favorites include Joël Robuchon in Las Vegas, Char ... More >>

Round two with Josh Monopoli, chef de cuisine of Black Cat & Bramble & Hare

Josh Monopoli Black Cat 1964 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-5500 www.blackcatboulder.com Bramble & Hare 1970 13th Street, Boulder 303-444-9110 brambleandhare.com Part one of my interview with Josh Monopoli, chef de cuisine of Black Cat and Bramble & Hare, ran yesterday; this is part two. Favorite ... More >>

Falling Rock turns fifteen; Avery sees Red; River North rolls out the barrels

Crooked Stave, the one-man sour-beer-making brewery operation that's been in Fort Collins for nearly two years, plans to move to Denver shortly. Owner Chad Yakobson said in his monthly newsletter that he will sign a lease this week on a Denver "Barrel Cellar" and bottling warehouse -- although he ha ... 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 >>

Five hilarious craft beer videos: Drink 'em in.

Wynkoop Brewing pulled off an outstanding April Fool's Day joke last weekend, producing this ballsy video about a fake beer: Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout. "These testicles; they're very fresh." In fact, it could be one of the funniest, best-produced joke videos to come out of our state's 140-plus cra ... More >>

Denver Off The Wagon blog marks its first birthday with a beer and a three-day fest

Denver Off the Wagon, a booze-centered blog boasting a couple dozen suds-sodden writers, will celebrate its first anniversary this week with a three-day party centered around a beer that the Wagoners brewed in January at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Wagon Ryed, as the beer is called, is based off of ... More >>

Beer calendar: Get hopped up at Denver Beer Co; get Deviant at Highland Tap

Tomme Arthur, the legendary owner of Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey, is in Fort Collins today to collaborate with New Belgium Brewing Company on an upcoming beer that will be part of its Lips of Faith series. Then, at some point soon, brewers from New Belgium will travel to California to brew a second ... More >>

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.

Beer calendar: show your love for beer at these heart-y beer events

The resumes were long and detailed, the qualifications extreme, but the ten finalists in the Wynkoop Brewing Company's annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest have been whittled down to three -- and these guys know their beer. The man who eventually claims the title for 2012 will be determined at an ... More >>

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 >>

Beer calendar: Upslope Foreign Stout at Euclid Hall; Leopold Bros rye-aged porter at Yak & Yeti

Breckenridge Brewing has joined fellow Colorado breweries Odell, Great Divide and Oskar Blues in offering four-packs of some of its limited-release beers. The brewery will start with 471 IPA and 72 Imperial, a double chocolate cream stout made with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; it ... More >>

Euclid Hall puts on a daily show during its Beer Month

Lori MidsonEuclid Hall's beer flight and brew bites.​Like a fine-art collector, Euclid Hall's Ryan Conklin has been gathering up special, rare or unusual examples of his muse over the past nine months and secreting them away. But this month, Conklin, a certified beer Cicerone, is ready to put ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Breweries are popping off on New Year's Eve

There are plenty of places around Denver to drink good beer on New Year's Eve, and that appears to be the main event this week as breweries, beer bars and beer-friendly restaurants are focusing on their 2012 celebrations. Look below for all the details.

Colorado beer calendar: Odell Frieks out; Halloween freakouts; Rackhouse gets freaky

Odell Brewing​Yes, it snowed. Get used to it. Better yet, take advantage of it. The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its two-year anniversary later in the week, is marking the time-honored tradition of calling in sick on powder days by offering a free pint to anyone who shows up with a lift tic ... More >>

These local breweries have gourd-geous pumpkin beers on tap

UpslopeUpslope jacked the competition. ​Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste. Some people love them, others hate them. Most drinkers can only tolerate a few. But there is an amazing array of pumpkin beers on the market, from the subtle to the spicy to the completely over-the-top.

Colorado beer calendar: Deschutes is in Boulder; Pliny's in Aurora; the Wynkoop's Beers of the Year; and a Dry Dock milestone

Woody drops by Westword.​Oregon's Deschutes Brewing is blitzing Denver this week as part of an eleven-city tour that promotes such staples as Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Inversion IPA and Black Butte Porter, as well as seasonal specialties like Jubelale, Hop Trip and the Abyss. The Deschutes reps st ... More >>

Foodography: the Farm-to-Table Pavilion at GABF

Laura ShunkThe spread from Fruition.​At an extra $55 on top of the $60 you spend to get into the Great American Beer Festival, the additional cost for the ticket to the Farm-to-Table pavilion is a little hard to swallow. But each year we attend, we're more convinced that it's worth it: It's a ... More >>

At Ale House at Amato's, don't worry, be hoppy

Photos: Brews and Unbeatable Views at Ale House at Amato's

Pro tips: ten suggestions for doing the Great American Beer Festival right

Is this your first rodeo? If so, then you won't be alone. The Boulder-based Brewers Association sold 55,000 tickets to this year's Great American Beer Festival -- and you'll feel like every one of those people is in line with you. Maybe it's not your first time, in which case you're probably going o ... More >>

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Five books worth toasting, and the beers you can toast them with

Though it's easy to over-drink and nearly impossible to over-read, books and beer go hand in hand. And a glass or two of the right beer with the right book can rightly relax the mind and stimulate the senses, thus drawing you deeper into both crafts. As is the case when pairing food with beer, the m ... 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 >>

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 >>

Denver Beer Fest, 25 years of Paris on the Platte and more on this week's culinary calendar

​We know: You're all wrapped up in planning your GABF debauchery festivities, and we're here to help! Below, find a selection of pre-GABF events, plus a beer-versus-wine dinner, cooking demonstrations and much more. Here's a taste of what's ahead:

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 >>

Ten beers for women that aren't Animée

​Unlike many of my female beer-drinking cohorts, I don't get my lacy lingerie in a bunch (mostly because I totally don't own lacy lingerie) over the fact that Molson Coors is about to release Animée, a beer made for women. Marketing: I can dig it. But still, it's a little absurd that the co ... More >>

For Kyle Hollingsworth of the String Cheese Incident, making beer and making music are creatively one and the same

FacebookKyle Hollingsworth jams at Boulder Beer.​There's a moment on stage when Kyle Hollingsworth just lets go. It's a crucial moment, especially for a jam-style musician who relies on his instinct and his skill when he's performing to help lead the band in the right direction. The same is t ... 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 >>

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