Ever since Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing released its Milk Stout Nitro in a bottle before the Great American Beer Festival last year, pouring a pint has been a favorite party trick. Stand on someone’s expensive rug with a bottle and glass and upend that sucker: You’ll hear some gasps, but…
Four-year-old Upslope Brewing is already too big for its current space — a location that doubled in size just a year ago. Owner Matt Cutter is looking for a place in Boulder where the brewery can expand, and hopes to nail down plans this year. But in the meantime, Upslope…
Longmont won big today when the Brewers Association, based just down the road in Boulder, released its annual list of the top fifty biggest craft brewers in the United States. Left Hand Brewing, which was founded in Longmont in 1993, cracked the list for the first time, logging in at…
Denver’s Del Norte Brewing debuted a new beer, El Guapo, last night at all 25 Old Chicago locations in Colorado. The 5.6 percent ABV beer is a hoppier answer to Bohemia, the Czech-style Mexican pilsner, says Del Norte co-owner Joe Fox. “We were looking through our portfolio and we didn’t…
A parrot, a tree frog and a chipmunk. These are the three animals that made the finals in Frontier Airlines’ publicity stunt to choose a new mascot and spokes-animal for the tails of some of its planes. All three have been campaigning at coffee shops and yogurt joints around Denver,…
Denver blog posts run for their lives. The Huffington Post gets in on some hot action when a Diamond Cabaret truck pulls up behind CBS4 reporter Greg Moody during a live feed from a Rockies game. Meanwhile, Denver Frank has localized something called Map of the Dead, which will help…
In January, the owners of Izakaya Den announced that they had entered into a very involved deal with BW Holdings, the company that controls the Wynkoop/Breckenridge group of breweries and restaurants, agreeing to swap Izakaya’s current location — a stand-alone building at 1518 South Pearl Street — for the now-closed…
The third annual Denver International Beer Competition takes place this weekend at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, a contest that last year received more than 190 entries from brewers in more than twenty states and six countries. The gold-medal winners will be showcased at the Taste of Elegance Chefs…
Breckenridge Brewery has outgrown its Denver headquarters. The city’s biggest beer maker is planning to build a brand-new, 125,000-square-foot brewery, tasting room, restaurant and visitors center on ten acres in the metro area. The estimated $15 million project would ennable the company to make 100,000 barrels of beer per year…
Baseball fans are going to find awesome deals today on America’s favorite light lagers at LoDo bars and restaurants. Awesome, awesome deals. But if you are looking to drink something else, perhaps a deliciously flavorful ale brewed by one of this state’s amazing independent beer makers, you need to have…
If one cyclist left Denver Beer Co at noon, traveling at fifteen miles per hour, and another left from the City and County Building at noon, traveling at 10 miles per hour, how long would take them to grind up 500 pounds of malted barley?…
New Belgium Brewing will build a second major brewing facility in Asheville, North Carolina, giving the Eastern Seaboard its own claim to the nation’s second largest craft brewer and the company that made its name on a bike-friendly beer…
Just two weeks shy of its fourth anniversary in Denver, the Vine Street Pub & Brewery finally got its brewery license on Wednesday, and although the brewers won’t whip up their first batch of beer until Wednesday, they are allowed to start filling up growlers now. To celebrate, co-owner Kevin…
Frontier, the homegrown airline that left and came back again, wants to strengthen its ties to Colorado in a way that is sure to endear it this state’s residents: craft beer. Frontier just kicked off the Choose Your Brew Facebook contest, asking people to vote on which of four beers…
Odell Brewing is getting ready to host its revitalized Small Batch Festival on May 26 in Fort Collins, and the brewery is asking beer lovers to pick something for Odell to brew. You can go to the brewery’s Facbook page and vote (or head to the web site, which was…
Wynkoop Brewing pulled off an outstanding April Fool’s Day joke last weekend, producing this ballsy video about a fake beer: Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout. “These testicles; they’re very fresh.” In fact, it could be one of the funniest, best-produced joke videos to come out of our state’s 140-plus craft brewers…
In late 2010, after a few years of fighting between convenience and grocery stores, bottle shops and beer makers, the State of Colorado discovered — much to its chagrin — that it was illegal for restaurants and liquor stores to sell low-alcohol beer. That’s right, citizens: Colorado was trying to…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company has added a new beer to its roster, Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, and it will only be available on one day, Sunday, April 1. Enough said…
You may remember Tim Tebow. He used to be the Denver Broncos starting quarterback. Ring a bell? Anyway, last weekend, the Broncos traded him to the New York Jets, who will use him as their backup QB — at least for now. Tebow didn’t ask to be traded and he…
After four years and a pile of red tape, Vine Street Pub (and Brewery) is getting ready to brew beer on site for the first time this Sunday. The restaurant, part of the Boulder-based Mountain Sun group, has had its equipment set up since last fall, but just received its…
Craft brewers sold $8.7 billion worth of beer in 2011, up more than 9 percent over the previous year, according to the Boulder-based Brewers Association. That’s a lot of suds. The total amount of beer they made rose 13 percent, or roughly 1.3 million barrels, to nearly 11.5 million barrels…
Standing in front of the beer cooler in Colorado, the Napa Valley of Beer, can be a little overwhelming. Okay, it can be a lot overwhelming. There are dozens of styles — from IPAs, stouts and sours to Belgian saisons bocks and barrel-aged brews — from a confounding number of…
