Denver has always been a center of the beer-making world. From our rip-roaring past to the Great American Beer Festival to the beer-fueled redevelopment of LoDo. But until recently, you could have argued that Boulder was a better craft beer town. Not anymore. In 2011, Denver surpassed its smaller, hipper…

Back in November, the Wynkoop Brewing Company hosted a membership rally for the Boulder-based National Homebrewers Association — a rally that turned into a giant brewing session: each of the 210 AHA members in attendance pitched a cupful of hops into a boiling brew kettle, making a beer that will…

Nick Nunns isn’t looking to take over the world. He just wants a cool, intimate spot for his brewery where people can hang out and drink good beer. “A dive mead hall,” he calls it. This week, Nunns signed a lease on the former Rule Gallery space at 227 Broadway,…

Lone Tree Brewing Company opens today at 4 p.m., bringing Denver’s craft beer revolution to the southeastern suburbs. Two years in the making, the brewery is owned by business partners Jason Wiedmaier, a high school teacher and former Dry Dock Brewing employee, and John Winter, a homebrewer who met Wiedmaier…

Avery Brewing, which jumped its first hurdle on Tuesday on its way to building a brand new, multi-million-dollar facility in Boulder, has adjusted its brewing schedule slightly to deal with cramped quarters and a rising demand for its beer. Instead of releasing Maharaja imperial IPA in March, Avery will brew…

New Belgium Brewing, Colorado’s largest craft-beer makers and the third largest in the country, revealed in May that it was searching for an East Coast location for a second facility. The company said it would make a decision by the end of 2011. Well, we’re getting close, and New Belgium…

Prohibition was repealed on December 5, 1933, a day that will forever be celebrated by the drinking public — and there are plenty of ways to raise a toast. You could enjoy a beer by any number of Colorado’s craft brewers, down a drink made with a Colorado-distilled spirit or…

Christmas came early for Bull & Bush Pub head brewer Gabe Molina, who is taking delivery this week on two truckloads of new brewing equipment. They pub is adding four fifteen-barrel tanks and four seven-barrel tanks, along with four fifteen-barrel serving tanks for their draft lines. The additions will quadruple…

Breckenridge Brewing has struck a deal with Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey that will allow it to become the sole brewer in the nation that can use the distillery’s name on its barrel-aged beers. While other brewers in Colorado can still buy and use Stranahan’s barrels, only Breckenridge will be able to…

Holiday beers are on tap all around town, and you’ll find some good ones right at the source — at the breweries that make them. Some of the wintery wonders you can try include Ugly Sweater at Wit’s End Brewing, Winter Spice Ale (with star anise, vanilla soaked in rum,…

Avery Brewing has created an online petition at change.com, urging the brewery’s fans to support an effort in Boulder to change the zoning code to allow breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed to open a…

Twisted Pine Brewing will debut a new series of one-off beers next year, releasing one per month. The Artisan Ale series will all be sold in limited quantities (about one hundred cases) in 750 ml bottles, and the labels will be adorned with artwork by local artists…

Bill Eye, the award-winning head brewer at Aurora’s Dry Dock Brewing, has taken a job as brewmaster — and one of the managing partners — at Prost Brewing, an all German-style lager beer maker that plans to open in Denver next spring. Eye was responsible for several of the Dry…

Crabtree Brewing has never canned its beers and doesn’t own a canning line; its owner, Jeff Crabtree, doesn’t even think craft beer belongs in a can. Nevertheless, the Greeley brewery’s Eclipse black IPA will probably become the first Colorado beer to be packaged in sixteen-ounce cans…