Calhoun: Wake-up Call

Reader: The Fifteen Minutes of Craft Beer Are Over

A flood of craft-beer businesses came into Colorado last year, and they'll keep coming in 2015. At least ten new breweries plan to open within Denver city limits this year alone, as Jonathan Shikes reported on Friday. But is that too much of a good thing? See also: Ten Breweries...
By Patricia CalhounJanuary 6, 2015
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A flood of craft-beer businesses came into Colorado last year, and they’ll keep coming in 2015. At least ten new breweries plan to open within Denver city limits this year alone, as Jonathan Shikes reported on Friday. But is that too much of a good thing?

See also: Ten Breweries That Plan to Open in Denver in 2015

Says George:

Just what Denver needs. More friggin breweries. I’d say the 15 minutes are over.

Responds Steppesmusic:

Yup. People are just going to stop drinking beer. Totally.

What do you think of Denver’s craft-beer scene? Can there ever bee too much of a good thing? And where will you be drinking in 2015?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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