Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours has joined a growing list of companies offering brewery tours in Denver with a three-hour journey that begins at the Wynkoop Brewing Company (with an optional tour) at 6 p.m. and then heads to Strange Brewing Company, Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Beer Co. The tours depart…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company was founded in 1988, just three years after Bess Dougherty was born. And although there have been plenty of women who have worked in Denver’s oldest brewpub, Dougherty will be the first to don the rubber boots of a full-time brewer. And you can bet those…
Designed as spaces where huge numbers of people can get down to businesses, convention centers can be cold, hard buildings — each one very similar to the next. But the Colorado Convention Center and its caterer, Centerplate, are hoping to ground themselves a little more in Denver by starting a…
Avery Brewing hosted one of the most talked-about beer festivals of the year on Saturday — and one of the hardest tickets to get — delighting 400 beer geeks who love “sour” or “wild” ales, beers typically brewed with bacteria and yeast strains that give them deliciously off flavors…
The folks behind Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery shocked the world — but not themselves — in early May when head brewer Gabe Moline and owners Erik and Dave Petersen earned a whopping four medals at the World Beer Cup, which is sponsored by the Brewers Association every other…
Crazy Mountain Brewing, the buzz-worthy Vail-area beer maker that more than doubled in size this year, will start selling five of its beers in 22-ounce bottles this week. All five — Old Soul Strong Belgian Ale, Hookiebobb IPA, Cara de Luna Black Ale, Scenic Route Kolsh, and Horseshoes & Hand…
TRVE Brewing owner Nick Nunns announced this week that he’ll be opening the doors to his Baker neighborhood brewery and hangout on June 27 at 4 p.m. But in the meantime, the black-metal loving Nunns will hold an open house on June 9 so that future fans can “pledge their…
Odell Brewing kicked of the summer beer festival season on Saturday with its popular Small Batch Fest in Fort Collins. And although it’s only May, the heat and the turnout made it feel as if Colorado is already in prime mid-season beer-fest form…
Ska Brewing is known for being stout: its Steel Toe milk stout won gold at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival and again at the World Beer Cup in May. This fall, the Durango brewery will capitalize on that success by debuting the first in a series of four seasonal…
The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing’s Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format — one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before…
Just because you walk out the door of your favorite brewery doesn’t mean you can’t take the good times with you. The majority of Colorado’s craft brewers sell growlers — 64-ounce brown glass bottles, for the most part, topped with a screw-off cap. Most will sell you the vessel for…
It’s beer festival season and the fiestas — from the high country to the plains — are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they’ll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy — and keep some Advil around…
Warm weather is here, and for Colorado brewers, that means it’s can season. This weekend, Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder will become the latest beer maker to roll out the aluminum when it begins filling sixteen-ounce cans of Hoppy Boy IPA. The cans of the brewery’s flagship beer will be…
Amusement park lovers are going to find a few thrills this summer when it comes to the beer selection at Elitch Gardens — something that hasn’t always been true in the past. Beginning tomorrow, Elitch’s will be pouring two beers that Wynkoop Brewing made just for the park: Elitch Gardens…
Elevation Beer Company may be located in Poncha Springs, but the brewery’s four co-founders don’t think of their place as a local hangout. “We are more like a winery than a typical brewpub,” says Xandy Bustamante. “We could have done this from anywhere in country, so we figured, why not…
Denver International Airport is the subject of myriad conspiracy theories, as the recent fears about a Russian military takeover made clear. But the truth at DIA is sometimes stranger than fiction. We ran down a list of crazy airport stories in Off Limits this week. Of course, they’re not flattering,…
Strange Brewing, which opened during American Craft Beer Week two years ago this Saturday, will debut its new patio this weekend…
As the weather heats up, Colorado Rockies baseball games will get more intense, and the beginning of this season’s interleague play should only help. The team will face their first American League opponents, the Seattle Mariners, tonight as part of a three-game series at Coors Field. The Rockies take on…
Longmont’s Oskar Blues Brewery has signed a letter of intent to open a new restaurant in Boulder’s historic train depot, it was reported this week, an interesting decision considering how many other brewpubs and brewery-centric restaurants are open or opening in town. The Boulder Beer Company and Twisted Pine already…
The Vine Street Pub & Brewery will release its first-ever beer brewed on location in Denver today as part of American Craft Beer Week (get all your ACBW info here). Number One, a Belgian-style Trippel made with Golden Naked Oats and Belgian candy sugar, was brewed in early April. The…
When the Colorado Department of Transportation put the historic Dotsero Bridge “up for adoption” in late April, the agency caught the attention of at least one person in Denver who just happens to be in the market for a cool bridge to span the South Platte River — the subject…
Dry Dock Brewing, the 2009 Small Brewer of the Year and a darling of the Colorado craft beer scene, will open a huge second brewery in north Aurora later this year. The company will also begin canning four of its most popular beers with a packaging system is has ordered…
