Do you need some winter inspiration? Do you love the iconic ski and snowboard films produced by Warren Miller Entertainment? We thought so. Here’s your chance to win a pair of ticket vouchers to the Friday, November 18, showing of the company’s latest — and 62nd annual — flick, …Like…
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…
In the past few years, attention-seeking breweries like Sam Adams, Scotland’s BrewDog and Germany’s Schorschbock have been engaged in a battle over who could make the highest-alcohol beers in the world — turning out concoctions that weighed in at 40, 50 and even 60 percent alcohol by volume. But back…
If Lomon Sar is a, uh, veteran of the Call of Duty video games, then he’s used to blowing things up — at least in his digital fantasy land. But police say Somon, 31, forgot to leave his fantasy world behind on Tuesday when he threatened to blow up a…
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…
Breckenridge Brewing doesn’t always release limited-edition, barrel-aged beers, but when it does, there’s a big to-do about it, complete with a party. On Saturday, the brewery, located at 471 Kalamath Street, will offer 240 hand-numbered 750 ml bottles of Summer Cab Ride, Breck’s Summerbright golden ale aged in cabernet sauvignon…
While 2011 may have been the year of the small brewery in metro Denver — which has so far toasted the arrival of six new ones — 2012 may be even bigger. Black Shirt Brewing, 3719 Walnut Street, and Prost Brewing, 2540 19th Street, have both announced plans to open…
It may be winter, but the Cherry Kriek is flowing fast at Strange Brewing, which is finally able to make enough of the taphouse favorite to supply a few bars, including the Rackhouse Pub, Ale House at Amato’s and Freshcraft, where it goes on tap this weekend. Strange Brewing replaced…
One of the owners of Brauns on Blake plans to open a new brewery next spring that will rely on no-nonsense German-style beers and forty-year-old brewing equipment shipped from a brewery in the world-famous beer region of Bamberg, Germany…
Breckenridge Brewing will break ground this week on a new annex to its facility at 471 Kalamath Street, where it will house six massive 300-barrel fermentation tanks. The first two tanks are scheduled to arrive on December 15; the other four should be here by February or March…
Earlier this week, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife department warned elk hunters not to shoot moose. It seems like that would be a fairly obvious statement, but apparently, some elk hunters — the ones who are loading and firing big guns in the wild — can’t tell the difference between…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company has had some fun over the past year naming some of the one-keg-only beers that it serves as part of its Firkin Friday program. Remember Weiner’s Wood Oak-Aged IPA, which the brewery named for a certain former New York Congressman? Now you can try something with…
Crazy Mountain Brewing in Edwards is the latest Colorado beer maker to undergo a major expansion, doubling the size of its brewery, adding high-speed canning and bottling lines, and hiring at least seven employees. All told, the Vail-area brewery, which was founded in 2010 by Kevin Selvy, will spend $4.1…
The brewing scene in Colorado Springs is hoppin’ — and hoppy — so that city is smart to host a fest dedicated to beers brewed in the state. Today’s fifth annual All Colorado Beer Festival will bring together 35 breweries, some of them small ones that tend to get overlooked…
The Mountain Sun string of brewpubs hopes to have its flagship operation at the Vine Street Pub in Denver up and running by February, which is also when Mountain Sun celebrates Stout Month — one of the most anticipated beer fests of the year. In the meantime, however, you can…
New Belgium Brewing releases its new winter seasonal, called Snow Day, today (and props to them for waiting until a part of the year when we can actually get snow to unveil a winter beer). Snow Day, a cross between a black IPA and a winter warmer, replaces 2 Below,…
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…
Avery Brewing Company, which has outgrown the Boulder business park where it was founded eighteen years ago, has settled on a 5.6-acre spot in north Boulder, where it hopes to build a brand new beer compound. The location, at 4910 and 4920 Nautilus Court, would include a 30,000 square-foot brewery,…
After a four-month delay, Arvada Beer Company will open today at 11 a.m. in a 95-year-old brick building that has been gutted and restored to make room for the brewery and other shops. “It’s been a long journey, but we are really excited,” says co-owner Kelly Floyd. The delays were…
Great Divide Brewing is known for taking big, bold beer styles and turning them on their head, and they plan to mix it up again by releasing an unexpected beer — a light lager — at an unexpected time: winter. Nomad is a 5.4 percent ABV Bohemian pilsner that will…
For the third year in a row, Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary will hold its Día de los Muertos Cultural Celebration in the perfect setting: a cemetery. The event includes a children’s sugar-skull painting workshop, an exhibit of brightly colored altars made by local artists, dancing from Grupo Folklorico Sabor de…
Are you sitting in a cubicle? Do you wish you were hitting the slopes? Well, we can’t buy you a ticket, but we can give you a little taste of what is going on in the high country — both at resorts that have opened already and a few that…
