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You'll find hoppin' parties at TRVE, Our Mutual Friend and Denver Beer Co

Factotum Brewhouse, which plans to open this fall in the Sunnyside neighborhood, is trying to raise $8,000 on Kickstarter so that it can "improve its current industrial vibe and make the taproom more fun and comfortable for customers." So far, it has about 40 percent of that goal, with 32 days left ... More >>

Waltvleteren 12 leads off a six-pack of Colorado-made, Belgian-style quads

For several years now, Westvleteran 12, which is brewed by monks at the Saint Sixtus Abbey in Belgium, has commonly been referred to as one of the best -- if not the the best -- beer in the world. And because it is almost impossible to get it outside of Belgium, Westy 12 has also created a cult-like ... 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 >>

Cherries and Red Hots offer plenty of reasons to (heart) this week's craft beer calendar

Tivoli Brewing, which owns the trademarks to several historic Denver beer brands, has released its second beer, Sigi's Wild Horse Buck Beer, based on the recipe for an incredibly popular beer that was first brewed in Denver 139 years ago. New Belgium Brewing is releasing Rampant Imperial IPA this m ... More >>

Novo Coffee teams up with New Belgium for a Colorado nod to coffee cherries

New Belgium Brewing and Denver's Novo Coffee didn't know they were looking for each other, and they only met by chance last year. But the results of that happy accident will tickle the tastebuds of beer drinkers in two weeks when the brewery releases Cascara Quad, the latest in its Lips of Faith ser ... More >>

Beer calendar: Avery salutes the dictators; Denver Beer Co debuts its new barrel room

Kim Jordan, the CEO of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, is no longer the majority owner of the company she co-founded in 1991. Instead, Jordan is just one of 456 owners as of December 28, when she sold her family's 59 percent stake to the now 100 percent employee-owned entity that runs the compa ... More >>

Clutch at the Fillmore, 12/21/12

CLUTCH @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 12/21/12 Neil Fallon was happy that the Mayans were wrong about the end of the world. The Clutch frontman spelled out his reasoning to the crowd that packed the floor and the wings of the Fillmore on Friday night, taking a rare break between tunes in a breakneck set t ... More >>

Small is big on New Belgium Brewing's new pilot system

New Belgium Brewing started small in 1991, but in the 21 years since, the Fort Collins beer maker has grown into the third-largest craft brewer in the county -- and it will get even bigger in 2014 when it opens a second major brewery in North Carolina. But New Belgium went back to its roots in Octo ... More >>

Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012

This year's Great American Beer Festival played temporary home to 580 breweries -- and with more than 2,700 beers poured, the fest's professional judge panel had its hands (and mouths) full when making decisions on the winners of all 84 categories. Continue reading for the full list of the weekend's ... 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 >>

Filmmaker Skip Armstrong concludes Of Souls Water series with The Elder

Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing premiered The Elder this week, the final film in director Skip Armstrong's five-part Of Souls Water series. Armstrong calls the film "a dreamy, contemplative, non-literal piece" about Rob Elliot, 68, a Grand Canyon river guide with more tha ... More >>

Denver Beer Co celebrates one year with a block party; Oskar Blues keeps growing

On the heels of the Boulder-based Brewers Association report that craft beer sales are up 14 percent so far this year, Longmont's Oskar Blues has posted even more outstanding numbers. The brewer said revenue was up 53 percent in the first six months of 2012. Oskar Blues credited the growth to a rece ... More >>

Director Skip Armstrong on The Warrior, fourth film in Of Souls Water series

This morning Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing released The Warrior, the fourth of five short films in Carbondale-based director Skip Armstrong's series Of Souls Water profiling a series of athletes and adventurers whose lives revolve around water in different ways. We've b ... More >>

New Belgium will open a branded restaurant and a bar in Snowmass

New Belgium Brewing and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. will team up this winter by opening a brewery-themed slopeside après-ski restaurant in Snowmass and a separate bar inside the newly renovated Westin Snowmass Resort.

Breckenridge Brewing will build a new, ten-acre campus in the metro area

Breckenridge Brewery has outgrown its Denver headquarters. The city's biggest beer maker is planning to build a brand-new, 125,000-square-foot brewery, tasting room, restaurant and visitors center on ten acres in the metro area. The estimated $15 million project would ennable the company to make 10 ... More >>

New Belgium will build a second brewery in Asheville, North Carolina by 2015

New Belgium Brewing will build a second major brewing facility in Asheville, North Carolina, giving the Eastern Seaboard its own claim to the nation's second largest craft brewer and the company that made its name on a bike-friendly beer.

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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 >>

Wynkoop debuts two new versions of its flagship Rail Yard Ale

The beer-happy bunch at the Wynkoop Brewing Company has a New Year's Resolution for 2012: put a few sacred cows out to pasture. "The goal," says brewery spokesman Marty Jones, "is to rock the status quo and to shake up the beer list with new offerings." To that effect, the Wynkoop is messing around ... More >>

New Belgium's first tallboys will be Fat Tire, Ranger IPA and an as-yet unnamed beer

​Do you like Fat Tire? How about Ranger IPA? If so, you'll be getting more of both in February when New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins releases both beers in sixteen-ounce cans. The two beers will be the brewery's first tallboys and they'll be among the first to be produced in Colorado.

Oskar Blues will pour Dale's Pale Ale into sixteen-ounce tallboys next year

Colorado. You're gonna need a bigger coozie. Oskar Blues, the Colorado company that kicked off the craft-beer-in-a-can revolution in 2002, will celebrate a decade of unconventional packaging next year by pouring its flagship brew, Dales's Pale Ale, into sixteen-ounce tallboys for the first time.

Tour de Fat raises more than $150,000 for Colorado bike organizations

Westword photographer Brandon Marshall spotted a penny farthing in City Park at the 2011 Tour de Fat Denver​New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland ... More >>

Tour de Fat Denver photo gallery: The force -- and the farce -- was with 10,000 of them

Big pics below.​On Saturday, a day before he visited the 9/11 Freedom Rally at Dick's, photographer Brandon Marshall checked out New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat 2011, a bike ride that drew a crowd estimated at 10,000 pedallers, many of them outfitted in hilarious costumes. Check out an asso ... More >>

Colorado companies dominate Outside Magazine's 50 Best Places to Work, 2011

​Take your job and shove it: Seven companies from Colorado made the cut this year in Outside Magazine's annual 50 Best Places to Work list, released this week and published in the magazine's September 2011 issue -- including the top four spots on the list.

Rick Griffith and MATTER create Market Street mural for New Belgium Brewing (VIDEO)

​Last January, we profiled local type-and-design maestro Rick Griffith and his MATTER studio. Much of the story focused on small details -- the tiny serifs on a font, miniscule measurements between blocks of text on ancient letterpress printers. But Griffith and his crew also work big, as in a ... More >>

Photos: New Belgium cruiser raffle at Ernie's Bar & Pizza

Kelly KaoudisThis New Belgium cruiser was raffled off at Ernie's Bar & Pizza.​Jeff Lebesch drew the inspiration for what would become Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Company from a trip to Belgium in 1989, when he toured the country by bike, while tasting the regional brews and gatherin ... More >>

New Belgium plans to double its canned beer production and add tallboys to its lineup

​New Belgium Brewing announced this week that it will add a massive new canning line to its fifty-acre Fort Collins compound. When construction is complete, the brewery will have the ability to can around thirty percent of its total output. But just because it can doesn't mean it will, says N ... More >>

Strange Brews

New Belgium, maker of Fat Tire, plans a second brewery on the East Coast

FacebookNew Belgium headquarters in Fort Collins.​Two of the nation's biggest craft brewers, both based in California, have revealed the details of some major expansion plans in the past couple of days, and Colorado's New Belgium Brewing, the country's third largest craft brewer, could be clos ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Oysters, beer cocktails and a Lips of Faith extravaganza

​Barley, water, hops and yeast. They are the four basics of beer -- unless, of course, you're gluten-intolerant. Then barley is off the table. Which makes it hard to drink beer. In the past few years, however, a couple of companies across the country have begun making gluten-free beer, inclu ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Boulder's "Out There Guy" goes Out of the Wild on the Discovery Channel

Photo courtesy Discovery ChannelRyan Van Duzer on the Discovery Channel's "Out of the Wild: Venezeula"​Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder's "Out There Guy" endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying p ... More >>

New Belgium and Outside Magazine use beer and social media to help dogs

Dogs, beer and philanthropy make a perfect mix.​New Belgium Brewing Co. is teaming up with Outside Magazine to take advantage of dog owners' desires to take pictures of their dogs and eagerly share them with anyone who's alive. Coinciding with the release of Mighty Arrow Pale Ale is a Facebook ... More >>

Denver episode of Drinking Made Easy spills all tomorrow on HDNet

Drinking Made EasyZane Lamprey of Drinking Made Easy at the Woodcellar Bar and Grill.​For a week this past June, comedian Zane Lamprey and the crew that helps him create the show Drinking Made Easy got paid to do what many of us have been paying to do for years: drink up and down the Front Ran ... More >>

Double Rainbow and four other intense Colorado beers to try soon

​I love holiday beers. But that's not all that Colorado's breweries are putting out right now. Here are five beers that have just been released -- or are about to be -- that were brewed simply because, well, because Colorado is awesome. Double Rainbow Trinity Brewing, Colorado Springs Black ... More >>

Updates for Bull & Bush, Euclid Hall, Vine Street: Pumpkin beers will get you jack-o'-lanterned

​Update: Two new events have been added (Avery's Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub's tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you love them ... More >>

Pot versus beer: Are CO's two iconic industries destined to clash over weed legalization?

​Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November.

Hotel Monaco offering guests some brew-m service

​Some hotels provide guests with a bottle of wine; some with a little champagne. But at Hotel Monaco, beer has entered the pantheon of beverages brought to your room. And it's about time. The luxury boutique hotel, at 1717 Champa Street, rolled out its Denver Brew and You promotion this mont ... More >>

What is it about Fat Tire that drives East Coast beer drinkers wild?

FlickrA sight that would make East Coasters drool.​Earlier this week, Asylum.com declared Fat Tire Amber Ale America's Next Top Beer. The web page - a New York City-based AOL men's interest site - had held a voter-driven contest to determine what beer should be in coolers from coast to coast. ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

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