Last Friday, June 29, the Colorado Department of Revenue approved a complicated plan that would allow Breckenridge Brewery to grow beyond a 60,000-barrel limit in this state by using a provision known as an “alternating proprietorship.” And Breckenridge has been rapidly approaching that limit, particularly since the company merged its…
Breckenridge Brewery is running out of time. Two years ago, the brewpub was making 31,000 barrels of beer annually — which was more than it had produced in two decades of Colorado history. But by the end of 2012, thanks to the explosive growth of the craft-beer industry nationwide and…
Hogshead Brewery, which has experienced several delays to its planned opening, has begun serving beer. No one from the brewery responded to a request for comment, but the company posted a notice on its Facebook page saying it had soft opened…
TRVE Brewing opens today at 4 p.m., and if an early-June open house is any indication, the place is going to be packed. The neighborhood spot, located in the former Rule Gallery space, will likely have three beers on the tap and what might be the most hard-core community table…
Ian Clark, the head chef at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, opened a nanobrewery, Bru, in his garage just two months ago. But Clark is already expanding, replacing his half-barrel system with a three-barrel brewhouse that will allow him to more easily supply beer to his restaurant and…
It takes a village to raise a child, but it only takes one meddling homeowners association to tear that child down. Earlier this month, CBS4 reported that a private HOA within the Stapleton neighborhood had decided to ban a three-year-old girl from drawing with colored chalk on the sidewalks in…
Crooked Stave, the one-man sour-beer-making brewery operation that’s been in Fort Collins for nearly two years, plans to move to Denver shortly. Owner Chad Yakobson said in his monthly newsletter that he will sign a lease this week on a Denver “Barrel Cellar” and bottling warehouse — although he hasn’t…
Like Antique Row on South Broadway or Gallery Row along Santa Fe Drive, there is a new brewery row forming in the River North and Five Points neighborhoods…
New Belgium Brewing and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. will team up this winter by opening a brewery-themed slopeside après-ski restaurant in Snowmass and a separate bar inside the newly renovated Westin Snowmass Resort…
Denver was in the mood to party on Saturday. And while things were getting wet, wild and just plain weird elsewhere in town, Great Divide Brewing was cooling things down with a suds-soaked party celebrating its eighteenth anniversary…
The nasty race for CU Board of Regents got nastier when Matt Arnold posted the address and phone number for his opponent online. Arnold was angry that supporters of his rival, Brian Davidson, “were calling his backers and urging them to drop their endorsement,” the Denver Post said. “Arnold decided…
Super heroes aren’t real. Sorry. But you can drown that sad truth this weekend with a superhero beer — a collaboration between Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con, which kicked off yesterday at the Colorado Convention Center. The Fantastic Pour, a riff on the Fantastic Four, was settled on after…
Update: Clown Question, Bro will be tapped at 4 p.m. on Monday; clown costumes encouraged. The beer also has a logo — at right. Nineteen-year-old Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper didn’t take kindly to a question from a Toronto sports reporter about what kind of beer he planned to drink…
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…
Prost Brewing has pushed back its opening to late July or early August, even though the German-themed taproom plans to begin making beer next week…
Sure, you can watch your favorite movie at home on demand or via your Internet hookup, but that’s small-time. If you want to do it a little bigger, check out Film on the Rocks, the annual movie series that puts Colorado’s greatest entertainment venue, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, to good use…
Great Divide will celebrate eighteen years in Denver on Saturday with the brewery’s annual block party on Arapahoe Street — an event that will feature several special, one-off brews made on Great Divide’s six-month-old pilot brewing system. And all of the brewers on staff can take credit for the results…
Wit’s End Brewing, which may be Denver’s smallest beer maker, is getting bigger. Owner Scott Witsoe has purchased two three-barrel fermenting tanks from Strange Brewing, which is going through an expansion of its own. “Once I get these online, it will almost double my fermentation capacity,” says Witsoe, who started…
Wolfgang, the first beer that Great Divide tested and brewed on its now-six-month-old pilot brewing system, will hit liquor-store shelves in Colorado this week and elsewhere over the next month. The German-style dopplebock is based on the hefty, malt-forward lagers that German monks used to sustain themselves through long periods…
If you thought Denver was tired of new breweries, you thought wrong…
U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn is proud of himself — and he should be. After all, the Colorado Springs Republican has scaled new heights of stupidity in the halls of Congress, and that’s not an easy task. Last week, Lamborn, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, freaked out…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — the Austin-based theater chain that takes pride in ejecting rude patrons and bans kids under six — is opening its first Colorado location early next year in Littleton, but the company is offering a preview of its zany ethos this summer by sponsoring the outdoor Aspen…
