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Tivoli Beer, based on the historic Denver brand, will hit bottles this week

Tivoli Brewing, a new company that brought back one of the oldest names in Denver beer last year, will begin selling 22-ounce bomber bottles of Tivoli Beer this week. The beer, a German-style lager, is based on the name and recipe for the original Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in Denver in the buil ... More >>

Photos: Blue Moon Brewing at the Sandlot gets a facelift as the baseball season opens

Hoping to capitalize on both baseball season and the popularity of Denver's burgeoning taproom culture, MillerCoors and the Rockies have decided to give the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, which is inside of Coors Field, a facelift -- and then open the brewery to the public even on non-gam ... More >>

Blue Moon's Sandlot brewery at Coors Field will open on non-game days starting in May

For the first time in more than a decade, the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, which has been open only to Colorado Rockies ticket-holders -- and then only on game days -- will be open to the public on non-game days beginning May 2. The news means that revelers in LoDo will have another ta ... More >>

A six-pack of Colorado beers you should buy right now -- before they are gone

Colorado's craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that are available just a few weeks or month each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come and go ... More >>

Blue Moon brews a special beer at the Sandlot to commemorate the Rockies 20th anniversary

Located inside Coors Field since 1995, the Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot has always made beers with a baseball theme, whether it was Right Field Red, Pinch Hit Pilsner or Belly Slide Belgian Wit (which became Blue Moon itself). But this year, the little brewery will make a beer dedicated ... More >>

The brewers at Prost and the Sandlot will team up on a new German-style lager

Two breweries -- one locally owned and the other managed by a big corporation -- will test the definition of "craft beer" next week when they collaborate on a new brew. Tom Hail, who has worked at Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot since it opened in 1995, and Bill Eye, who left Dry Dock in 20 ... More >>

Colorado's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will have 32 local beers on tap; here's the list

When it opens in Littleton's Aspen Grove Shopping Center on March 25, the 900-seat, state-of-the-art Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will bring Hollywood to Colorado via Texas (where the quirky, irreverent company is based). But anyone who orders a beer in the Glass Half Full bar inside the building will de ... More >>

Third Shift lager, a new MillerCoors beer, got its medal-winning start at Denver's Sandlot

Tom Hail loves beer. He loves lagers especially, which is why he stays very late on a lot of nights to work on his passion projects. One of these is a traditional German-style marzen -- a recipe that he's been tinkering with on and off for eighteen years. It's a tasty beer -- so tasty that Hail, on ... 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 >>

Reader: GABF should get rid of Ticketmaster instead of BudMillerCoors

Is that beer craft or "crafty"? Last week the Boulder-based Brewers Association -- which puts on the Great American Beer Festival -- blasted the nation's two largest beer makers for not labeling some of their smaller brands with the names "MillerCoors" or "Anheuser-Busch." But the big boys have take ... More >>

Coors, Miller, Bud will keep sponsoring GABF, despite craft vs. crafty controversy

When the Brewers Association blasted the nation's two largest beer makers last week for not labeling some of their smaller brands with the names "MillerCoors" or "Anheuser-Busch," the Boulder organization risked losing a lot of money. After all, the two companies kick in at least $20,000 annually to ... More >>

Is Colorado the center of the "crafty" beer universe?

Colorado -- home to the Great American Beer Festival, the Brewers Association and 161 breweries -- is the center of the universe when it comes to craft beer. But is it also the center of the "crafty" beer universe? On Thursday, the Brewers Association, which represents small brewers nationwide, fi ... More >>

AC Golden prepares to unleash two barrel-aged stouts and a slew of sour ales

Hidden deep inside the concrete exterior of the massive MillerCoors plant in Golden, in a room that you enter from a stairway landing and through a door that says, "exit," a group of meticulous brewers for AC Golden Brewing have been experimenting with unusual beers that are going to surprise you. ... More >>

Who's keeping local hop farmers in business?

Medical marijuana outdoor ad ban one step away from Denver City Council approval

Last night, Denver City Council unanimously backed the proposed ban on medical marijuana outdoor advertising, despite a majority of speakers opposing the proposed measure, as well as one advocate's threat to sue on First Amendment grounds. Council will now have to have a final vote to approve it on ... More >>

Twelve new breweries and 87 total will represent Colorado at GABF

There will be 87 Colorado breweries pouring their stuff at the Great American Beer Festival this year, according to a full list of attending breweries released today by the Boulder-based Brewers Association. Amazingly, that roster includes a dozen brand-new breweries that either didn't exist at this ... More >>

Colorado Dragon Boat Festival returns this weekend

The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, an annual celebration of Asian Pacific American culture, returns to Sloan's Lake for its twelfth year on July 28 and 29. The action-packed weekend kicks off with the popular Dragon Boat races, with over fifty teams slated to complete in the ancient Chinese summerti ... 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 >>

Frontier Airlines asks flyers to choose which Colorado beer to serve on board

Frontier, the homegrown airline that left and came back again, wants to strengthen its ties to Colorado in a way that is sure to endear it this state's residents: craft beer. Frontier just kicked off the Choose Your Brew Facebook contest, asking people to vote on which of four beers they'd like th ... More >>

Blue Moon Brewing @ The Sandlot will take a swing at a sour beer on Opening Day

You're gonna need a scorecard to identify your almost-all-new Colorado Rockies this season, but the team isn't the only entity shaking things up at Coors Field. During the Rockies' April 9 home opener, Blue Moon Brewery @ the Sandlot will debut Farmhouse Red, a sour-style beer that may challenge the ... More >>

AC Golden Brewing serves a style-busting India pale lager only at Old Chicago

​AC Golden Brewing will unveil a new beer today at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants as part of the beer-centered restaurant chain's latest Mini Tour. The brew is an India Pale Lager, or IPL, made from four kinds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe) typically found in IPAs, but wit ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Beerdrinker of the Year, Wagon Ryed, and Oskar Blues

A bevy of beer bloggers will appear on American Craft Beer Radio with Gary Valliere this Saturday when Colorado's newest craft beer radio show takes the air for its third show at noon on 102.3 FM, the local ESPN affiliate. The show will focus on the experiences of bloggers and journalists who have w ... More >>

AC Golden Brewing will release three small-batch sour beers in bottles

For the first time since it was created in 2008, AC Golden Brewing in Golden plans to release three of its specialty, small-batch beers in 750 ml bottles. All three are sour fruit beers that were aged for ten months in oak barrels and fermented with brettanamyces yeast and souring agents. The brews ... More >>

Blue Moon cooks up chocolate bacon porter and two more beers at the Sandlot

If you smelled bacon last week in LoDo, you weren't dreaming. The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot was adding it to a new beer. "We put thirty pounds of bacon in the kettle along with dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and hickory smoked bacon. The savory bacon helps balance the sweet chocolate," sa ... More >>

Denver may be the thirteenth-drunkest city, but we're tops in beer

Reader: Mile High fumbles its beer choices...where are the craft brews?

For obvious reasons, the Denver Broncos are unexpectedly fun to watch this year -- but unfortunately, the beers available at Sports Authority Field are decidedly less so to drink. We may live in the Napa Valley of beer, but the Mile High Stadium crew definitely fumbled the brews available there. A ... More >>

Five things you didn't know about the Sandlot brewery at Coors Field

​The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot has been Denver's most unusual brewery since it debuted inside Coors field in 1995. Only open to the public during baseball season, and only to Rockies ticket holders during games, the brewery actually runs year-round, making Blue Moon and other sea ... More >>

Three unusual beers from AC Golden Brewing go on tap tonight only at Star Bar

​AC Golden, the tiny MillerCoors-owned brewery located deep inside the hidden corridors of the mega-brewer's Golden plant, will put three unusual beers on tap tonight only at Star Bar, the tiny Larimer Street watering hole known for its craft beer selections. The beers are all ales, which mar ... More >>

Blue Moon offers a chance to spend the day brewing at the Sandlot inside Coors Field

Jonathan Shikes​MillerCoors celebrated the first day of summer by kicking off a summer sweepstakes that will send one winner and four friends deep into the heart of the Blue Moon Brewing Co. @ the Sandlot where they can hang out with the brewmasters and spend the day making beer with them. Th ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Renegade Brewing opens; AC Golden goes wild

Jonathan ShikesAC Golden.​New Belgium Brewing celebrates its twentieth anniversary -- and two decades of spreading the word about better beer -- next Tuesday. Founded in Fort Collins in 1991, the brewery has gone from the basement of a house to become the third largest craft brewer in the nat ... More >>

Medical marijuana cost Paul Curry his job at MillerCoors: Could it set legal precedent?

​Paul Curry recently lost his job at MillerCoors in Golden for testing positive for pot -- even though he's a registered medical marijuana patient. Now, having retained big-shot pot attorney Rob Corry, Curry is fighting that decision in a move that could set state precedent over whether or not ... More >>

Comment of the day: Why did the People's Fair choose Miller?

​While most folks go to festivals like the Capitol Hill People's Fair mostly for the bouncy-castle and the shirtless ambiance, Bree Davies is partial to the finer points of festival vending, like hats for dogs and paintings of sheep in trench-coats; in her recap of the fair yesterday, she brou ... More >>

Pete Coors poured Batch 19 on Friday, made from his great-grandfather's recipe

Jonathan ShikesPete Coors raises a toast to Batch 19 at Stoney's.​"It's not every day you get to roll out a new brand -- a new beer," says Pete Coors. And it's not every day you get to drink a beer with the man whose great-grandfather gave Coors its name. But patrons of Stoney's Bar and Gril ... More >>

Breckenridge Brewing spoofs megabrewers in new TV ads...again

Breckenridge Brewing is hitting the airwaves with a TV campaign spoofing the big boys of the industry and the gimmicks that they use to sell beer. The four Truth in Beervertising ads feature Breckenridge head brewer Bob Harrington delivering one-liners in a deadpan voice that skewers the cold-indic ... More >>

Colorado Native follows Blue Moon into cans

​AC Golden Brewing, the tiny MillerCoors-owned beer maker located inside the Golden factory, will begin packaging its signature Colorado Native in cans for the summer; it will be sold in twelve-packs starting May 1. "Our retailers and drinkers have been requesting cans, especially for summer, ... More >>

Opening Day is Friday, but the Sandlot at Coors Field is already in mid-season form

​Friday is opening day at Coors Field, and that means the return of Colorado's most unusual brewery, the Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot. Open only during Colorado Rockies home games and only during baseball season, the Sandlot is celebrating its sixteenth year of serving baseball-the ... 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 >>

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 >>

Blue Moon: Colorado's beer of presidents, flight attendants

Steve Slater's beer of choice?​Blue Moon, the Belgian-style wit beer that was created inside Coors Field in 1995, is apparently also highly valued for its calming qualities. First it was requested by James Crowley during President Obama's August 2009 beer summit on racial relations on the Whi ... More >>

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Qwest merger: Could it hurt arts organizations like the DCPA?

The DCPA's Randy Weeks is hopeful donations will keep flowing.​Yesterday's acquisition of Qwest by CenturyTel may enrich the likes of Phil Anschutz, but it's raised concerns among politicos such as Governor Bill Ritter and senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, who fear a loss of jobs once th ... More >>

The Blue Moon brewers keep busy at the Sandlot at Coors Field

​Baseball players go fishing in the off season and umpires have their eyes checked. But what about brewers -- particularly the guys who run the Sandlot at Coors Field, which is only open during baseball season and only on game days? Turns out they just keep making beer and, in particular, bee ... More >>

Beer and Cheer: Coors Winterfest is back!

​It's not often that a powerless little blogger can claim to have influenced a billion-dollar conglomerate like MillerCoors. After all, the big boys of beer spend ungodly sums of money on marketing teams and focus groups and executive vice presidents who are supposed to make the decisions that ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

You didn't miss all this good stuff, did you?  No problem, we've rounded up the best of the Cafe Society week for you below.Hot dog eating champs battled it out in a Denver qualifier for the big 4th of July competition in Coney Island.  Jason Sheehan sought your opinion on where to take Da ... More >>

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 pare ... More >>

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 s ... More >>

Coors pulls Sparks off the market, drunk teens everywhere cry caffeinated tears

Bowing to pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups, MillerCoors announced it is removing the caffeinated magic from its alcho-energy drink Sparks. It's a sad, sad day for amateur drinkers looking for that perfect mix between booze, a double-espresso and Sweet Tarts. Luckily, I was able ... More >>

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Miller, Coors, Bud are Aleing

Where Will MillerCoors Call Home? Not Here...