Troy Tulowitzki isn’t known for his Aprils. Or rather, he is known for his Aprils. He’s known for sucking in them. Over the past few years, the Colorado Rockies’ $134 million Gold Glove-winning All-Star shortstop has looked like a Little Leaguer through the first month of the season — a…
Great Divide made beer drinkers in six states cry last week when the Denver brewery acknowledged that it had pulled its beers from the shelves there. In addition to Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Mexico and Alaska, the brewer is leaving Washington, D.C. and has significantly reduced its distribution…
Colorado Beer Week, a new eight-day celebration of the state’s craft brewers, began on April 8, but there are still plenty of events left, even if the details of some of them may change up until the last minute (keep an eye on the event website). Today’s $150 Birdies &…
Do you sense something? Is that…could it be…summer in the air? Actually, no. But it is spring, and that means spring beer releases. What’s on tap this month? How about Odell Double Pilsner, Left Hand Good JuJu, Ska’s Mexican Logger and three beers from Great Divide, just to name a…
Tickets for one of the newest, but already most buzz-worthy Colorado beer festivals of the year go on sale tomorrow at noon. The second annual Boulder SourFest — with more than eighty different sour ales — will run from noon to 5 p.m. on June 11 at Avery Brewing Company…
Like many other Colorado craft brewers, Boulder’s Upslope Brewing has grown exponentially over the past year. And so Upslope has shut down its tasting room for the next three weeks so that it can knock out walls and expand into space next door. When it reopens on April 26, the…
The topic of concussions and NFL football players continues to make news, even in the off-season, as CNN tells the heartbreaking story today of former lineman Shane Dronett, who killed himself in 2009, three years after retiring. Dronett was drafted in the second round by the Denver Broncos in 1992…
Craft brewers and craft beer fans have a particular fondness for April’s Fool Day. Here are some of the good jokes we’ve seen so far. From CraftCans.com When [Oskar Blues’s] newest offering, Twen Teny Triple Imperial Stout, hits shelves it will be far and away the strongest canned beer in…
Kelly Floyd has been dreaming for seven years about opening a brewery. Today, she will unveil her dream, the Arvada Beer Company, and show off the work that has been done inside the building in Olde Town Arvada where she will open in June. “I love the beer industry. It’s…
It was a foregone conclusion from the beginning. Earlier this year, state representative Mark Ferrandino and state senator Pat Steadman introduced a bill that would have allowed civil unions in Colorado and given gay couples the same right to make a legal commitment as heterosexual couples. Even if it passed…
Craft beer is in the air in Denver, and on April 16, it will hit the airwaves as well. John Turk, who produces the David Sirota show on AM 760, and buddy Gary Valliere, who works at Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora, plan to debut a new radio show that…
Ale House at Amato’s, the latest venture from the Breckenridge Brewing Company, opened at 11 a.m. today with a gorgeous view of the Platte Valley, the Denver skyline and the Rocky Mountains. The highly anticipated LoHi-area beer bar and restaurant is located in the former Amato’s statuary store, at the…
No, you’re not hallucinating: Avery Brewing is flirting with the green fairy. After more than a year of trying, the brewing team at the Boulder beer maker has gotten their hands on a couple of empty absinthe barrels from Leopold Brothers, the Denver micro-distillery known for its local version of…
Pour a little liqua’ out for Goose Island: The famed Chicago brewery was purchased this week by Anheuser-Busch for $22.5 million. And although the mega-brewer will probably try to keep things the same, gigantic corporations aren’t usually very good at that. Goose Island beers are lightly distributed in Colorado, and…
One of the biggest oddities in the Colorado beer-drinking world will be remedied on April 2 when The Pub at the Boulder Beer Company finally opens for business on Saturdays. Until now, the pub, which is located in a Boulder business park and serves sandwiches, salads, burgers, burritos and the…
MTV Cribs is a guilty pleasure for a lot of people, but spoofs of the show — which typically features the rockin’ homes of mega-pimpin’ athletes, movie stars and rappers — can be even funnier. A couple of weeks, ago, The Daily Show did its Cribs: Teachers Edition, an offshoot…
Friday is opening day at Coors Field, and that means the return of Colorado’s most unusual brewery, the Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot. Open only during Colorado Rockies home games and only during baseball season, the Sandlot is celebrating its sixteenth year of serving baseball-themed beers like Right…
There is a long and storied tradition in this country of hobos jumping freight trains and riding across the country, looking for work. It’s a tradition that began during the Civil War and gained prominence during the Great Depression. Hobos have to be brave and a little (or a lot)…
Seattle has a beer week. So do Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. San Francisco’s and Philadelphia’s are famous world wide. Hell, even Eugene, Oregon; Louisville, Kentucky; and the entire state of Alabama have beer weeks. Denver has the Great American Beer Festival and the surrounding Denver Beer Fest events, but…
You won’t find many of Colorado’s brewers around Colorado this week as most of them have taken off for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, taking place in San Francisco. But that doesn’t mean you can’t toast them — and the industry as a whole — which reported retail sales growth…
Aside from skiing and John Denver, Colorado is probably best known around the nation for its beer — and not just because of Coors. There are currently 126 craft breweries in the state, according to the Colorado Brewers Guild, with more on the way. And right now, this signature industry…
It may not compare to HAL — the sentient computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey who could carry on a conversation, read lips, enjoy art and feel emotions. But a laptop stolen in January may turn out to be a nemesis for the person who took it…
