Oskar Blues

Upslope follows up big new brewery with a huge new beer, Imperial IPA

Upslope Brewing is going big this spring. The five-year-old Boulder company just opened its second brewery and taproom in a 17,000-square-foot space with a thirty-barrel brewhouse, to complement its original location at 1501 Lee Hill Drive in Boulder. And now, it's getting ready to brew one of its ... More >>

Colorado breweries stay steady on the list of the nation's biggest craft brewers

Colorado craft breweries have remained steady on the Boulder-based Brewers Association's annual list of the top fifty craft-beer makers in the country. New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins is still the third-largest craft brewer in the nation, while Longmont's Oskar Blues rose from 29th on the list ... More >>

Oskar Blues tweaks the Gubna, prepares to roll out new seasonal beer in July

Oskar Blues has made a few changes to one of its year-round offerings, Gubna, in anticipation of introducing a new seasonal beer in July. The Longmont-based brewery has tweaked the recipe for the massive 10 percent ABV, 100-plus IBU rye IPA -- which debuted in a can in March 2010 -- adding Cascade ... More >>

Photos: The largest-ever Oskar Blues display takes over Argonaut

This morning, employees of Argonaut and Longmont-based Oskar Blues arranged 1,000 twelve-packs of Oskar Blues beer into an enormous -- what else? -- beer can-shaped display at the store, the largest in the brewery's history. While the stack is up (through February 22), Oskar Blues is running a coupl ... More >>

Ten biggest Colorado craft beer stories in 2012

Colorado craft breweries and their many fans enjoyed a spectacular year in 2012, as the options for consuming locally made beer continued to grow and fill our tastebuds with joy. If the state's 160-plus breweries weren't expanding, then they were adding new beers or welcoming friendly competitors. A ... More >>

Oskar Blues celebrates ten years of canning; Denver Bicycle Cafe turns one

Oskar Blues and Ska Brewing finally released some details about the collaboration beer they made to celebrate the Longmont brewery's tenth canning anniversary. The smoked IPA is called oSKAr the G'Rauch because: 1) you can't spell Oskar without Ska, and 2) it was made in the smoked rauschbier style. ... More >>

Do the Hoppa at Copper Kettle and the Friek at Odell

Last week, we told you about Boulder Beer Company's cameo in an episode of Parks and Recreation -- but this wasn't the only Colorado brewery to get a little air time. A can of Dale's Pale Ale made it into a reenactment scene in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, which premiered on November ... More >>

Oskar Blues collaborates with Ska Brewing on a tenth anniversary canned beer

Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they brewed together in Longmont last week. Although the beers doesn't have a name or a label, Ska co-fou ... More >>

Photos: Oskar Blues goes big with its 19.2-ounce Royal Pints of Dale's Pale Ale

Canned craft beers are big in Colorado and now they're getting even bigger. On Thursday night after the Great American Beer Festival ended, Oskar Blues revealed its latest aluminum package: a 19.2-ounce can of Dale's Pale Ale. The Longmont beer makers is the first U.S. brewery -- craft or otherwise ... More >>

Celebrate local beer and food at The Kitchen [Next Door] tonight

The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a casual beer-and-food-pairing this evening at 7 p.m., celebrating five of the best Colorado craft breweries that have consistently been on tap at the restaurant: Oskar Blues, Dry Dock, Odell, Funkwerks and Upslope.

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 >>

Oskar Blues and Sun King brew a second collaboration beer for #GABF

Oskar Blues and Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing are whipping up their second collaboration beer today in Longmont under a shroud of secrecy. "We're keeping some suspense about style of the beer," says brewery spokesman Chad Melis. But he promised that details about the collaboration, called The ... More >>

A six-pack of new Colorado canned beers you should try this summer

There's something about the crack of a can of beer being opened that says summer: The sound is loud, proud and promises refreshment. In the past, that crack was reserved for cans of mass-market beers, but now there are dozens of choices available from Colorado's favorite craft breweries. Here are ... More >>

Nice package: Oskar Blues sticks its latest beer, Chaka, in an aluminum bottle

Is it a can? Is it a bottle? Does it even matter? Today Oskar Blues unveiled its newest packaging experiment: a resealable, sixteen-ounce aluminum bottle made by Ball Corporation in Golden. The container will be used for Chaka, an extremely limited-release, Belgian-style pale ale that Oskar Blues c ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Oskar Blues turns fifteen; Denver Beer Co goes for eighty

When Denver Beer Co opened last August, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford had an unusual business plan: They wouldn't brew the same beer twice. Since then, the two have mostly stuck to that -- with a few notable exceptions -- and on Tuesday, they brewed their hundredth batch of beer, a Cent ... 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 >>

Old Chicago scores two rare beers: Oskar Blues HGH and Deschutes Chainbreaker

Old Chicago, which has put a renewed emphasis on serving craft beers over the past two years, has once again scored a couple of exclusive brews.

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 >>

Crafty Ladies' Beer Club and Oskar Blues team up to brew FemALE Inspired Stout

Oskar BluesThe Crafty Ladies brew up a beer with Oskar Blues.​Highland Tap and Burger caters to a lot of different neighborhood groups, but owner Katie O'Shea has made a point of frequently hosting a large group of women in her restaurant who have one thing in common: a love for beer. At those ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: drink good beer at Falling Rock, Star Bar, Hops & Pie

Facebook​The holiday beer releases came early and often this year, and there are now dozens of them on the shelves and on tap at bars where you can get your cheer on. The Falling Rock Taphouse, in particular, knows how to get into the spirit, wrapping its tap wall in all sorts of holiday goodn ... More >>

Oskar Blues rolls out the Bone Wagon food truck, serving burritos, wings and burgers

Oskar Blues​Taprooms and food trucks are a perfect match: the taprooms need good grub to feed their customers, and the food trucks need to find good spots with a lot of hungry people. Over the past few years, it's a combination that's worked well for more than a dozen breweries in Denver, Bou ... More >>

Oskar Blues finally sips sweet success with three awards at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival

Colorado breweries won fewer awards at this year's Great American Beer Festival (39) than they did last year (41), but the bling was spread out more evenly between corporately owned companies, big-name independents and small or new breweries. But the biggest winner was Longmont-based Oskar Blues, w ... More >>

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 >>

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.

Oskar Blues taps into viral honey badger video with new beer, but honey badger don't care

Oskar Blues is the second Colorado brewery to tap into a viral YouTube video, releasing Honey Badger Smoked Porter at its restaurants in Longmont and Lyons yesterday. The beer was inspired by "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)," a National Geographic video with a hilar ... More >>

Oskar Blues has never won a Great American Beer Festival medal for its canned beer

​Oskar Blues is one of the fastest-growing craft brewers in Colorado and makes some of the most sought-after, buzzworthy beers in the country. The Longmont brewery started the canned craft beer revolution in 2002, and it still leads the way in the market.

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Highland Tap gets hot and Falling Rock turns fourteen

​Yes, it's only June 1, but Denver is already making plans for the Great American Beer Festival, which takes place here September 29-October 1. Tickets go on sale at the end of this month, and brewers are thinking about what categories to enter (or brewing up some specialties and hiding them ... More >>

Oskar Blues can-cels Burning Can 2011

​Cantastrophe! Oskar Blues, the Longmont brewery that inspired the canned craft beer craze, has canceled its 2011 version of Burning Can, a festival it kicked off last summer. The fest, which debuted in Lyons in 2010, was going to be held in Longmont on June 18 and feature around 100 flavors ... More >>

Oskar Blues kicks off a big beer weekend along the Front Range by saying G'Knight to Gordon

​Oskar Blues kicks off a massive beer weekend up and down the Front Range on Saturday with a party celebrating the renaming of its legendary beer, Gordon, to G'Knight. Although Oskar Blues has been making Gordon since 2005, it needed to change the name to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit ... More >>

For a firkin good time, head to Colorado Springs

​Yee-haw! Twenty-four Colorado breweries will round up some wild firkins this weekend and drive them down to Colorado Springs for the seventh annual Firkin Rendezvous. Hosted by Bristol Brewing Company, the rendezvous -- February 19 from 1 to 5 p.m. -- is a fundraiser for the Colorado Brewers ... More >>

Oskar Blues brews up a Deviant first with Old Chicago

Oskar BluesA deviant collaboration began in the Oskar Blues board room.​Old Chicago is giving Colorado beer lovers a brief and deliciously bitter taste of something they've only been able to get previously at Oskar Blues locations. Starting on Wednesday, January 26, the restaurant chain's 27 ... More >>

Gordon Biersch forces Oskar Blues to say G'Knight to its Gordon beer

The new label will be Gordon-free.​Oskar Blues will change the name of one of its four year-round beers after the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group threatened to sue the Colorado company for trademark infringement, says Oskar Blues spokesman Chad Melis. Gordon, the Oskar ... More >>

Tonight: A Taste of Mexico -- and of Oskar Blues -- at Centro

A Flickr photo.​Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl Street in Boulder, will present a Taste of Mexico with a Taste of Oskar Blues at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Chef Ian Clark will serve a menu inspired by the food of Durango, Mexico, pairing the dishes with three beers from Oskar Blue ... More >>

Oskar Blues does it The Old Chubway

​The Oskar Blues Brewing Company has expanded its empire of oddly-named eateries yet again, adding The Old Chubway: Expeditious Chow Dispensary in Lyons. Oskar Blues already runs its original Grill & Brew in Lyons, the Tasty Weasel Tap Room in Longmont and Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Sol ... More >>

Oskar Blues adds another award to its laundry list of recognition

​If Oskar Blues Brewery was a Girl Scout, we'd all be rolling our eyes out of our heads at the merit badges crowding her sash. Fortunately, the brewery's accolades derive not from rescuing kittens from trees or helping grandma cross the street, but from the conscientiousness of the company and ... More >>

GABF: Boulder County Brews Cruise, Denver Rare Beer Tasting tix selling fast

​Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, at the Colorado Convention Center September 16-18, are selling fast, but so are passes to two of most popular events that take place in conjunction with the fest. Tickets for the Boulder County Brews Cruise -- which is sponsored by Draft magazine ... More >>

Yes, We Can

Oskar Blues runs out of beer! Everybody panic!

Oskar Blues​Remember the time you invited twenty people to a party and 150 showed up? As Kelly says in the Outlaw Josey Wales, "Yep, first the silver run out, then the people run out, then the whiskey run out, then the beer run out." That's sort of what happened to the Oskar Blues Brewery in ... More >>

Oskar Blues rolls out Burning Can, an all-canned beer fest

​Leave it to the guys at Oskar Blues Brewery to create a beer festival dedicated strictly to canned craft beer - and why not, since they were the ones who did it first. On June 26, the company will host Burning Can, a festival at Sandstone Park in Lyons (where Oskar Blues was founded) featuri ... More >>

Oskar Blues elects the Gubna as its next canned brew

​The race for governor of Colorado is in full swing, but the next "Gubna" of Colorado has already been decided. Oskar Blues Brewery will release Gubna Imperial IPA on March 1, the Longmont-based brewer's sixth canned brew. The unusual rye beer is made from three kinds of malt, including rye m ... More >>

Oskar Blues Liquids & Solids has yet to solidify

Jason Rogers has a "Midnight Toker."​Oskar Blues's benefit golf tourney today at Twin Peaks is a big hit, with all 144 slots sold out. But when the golf is over, the participants won't be able to retire to the new Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids in Longmont, as originally planned. That's ... More >>

A Crush on Cans: Steamworks, Upslope and more

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 >>

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 >>

Eat Your Beer With Old Chub Bread

Maybe you know Old Chub because you've had it on tap at Oskar Blues or bought a six-pack of this canned Scottish Ale at the liquor store. Or maybe you've heard the name because you took a momentary leave of your senses and purchased a tube of Old Chub chapstick, perhaps the only beer-flavored lip b ... More >>

Oskar Blues opens new tasting room in Longmont

Oskar Blues will open its new tasting room, the Tasty Weasel, at 11 a.m. this Friday, February 13, inside its brewing and canning plant in Longmont. At 4 p.m., the Weasel will tap a firkin (roughly a quarter of a barrel) of something to celebrate the grand opening. In fact, Oskar Blues plans to bust ... More >>

Beer and Cheer: Ten FIDDY Imperial Stout

Ten FIDY Imperial Stout Oskar Blues Lyons Ten FIDY is a big, bad mutha. Almost completely black, it looks like motor oil when poured out of one of Oskar Blues's unusual black-and-silver cans. But it tastes fantastic - rich, complex and brimming with roasty, toasty chocolate, nut and coffee flavors. ... More >>

One Bourbon, One Beer

One Bourbon, One Beer