Just a month after opening its doors, River North Brewery on Blake Street has bottled thirty cases of its double IPA and plans to start selling it within two weeks. The move is unusual among the wave of small breweries that has opened in the Denver area over the past…
Breckenridge Ballpark Pub is undergoing its first renovation since it went into business in 1992, three years before Coors Field was built. The pub, which served as Breck’s primary brewing facility until 1996, closed March 18 and will reopen by April 9, Colorado Rockies Opening Day. “She’s twenty years old…
On Tuesday, beer-makers from five Colorado breweries gathered at Funkwerks in Fort Collins to whip up a special beer to commemorate the late Danny Williams and to raise money so that his family can keep his one-of-a-kind gold mine beer cellar. “We pow-wowed on the recipe, and it came together…
Great Divide Brewing will release its second new beer of the year in July, Wolfgang, a big, malty dopplebock that will replace Smoked Baltic Porter in the brewery’s seasonal lineup. Wolfgang is the first beer that was designed and tested on Great Divide’s new seven-barrel pilot brewing system, which was…
You’re gonna need a scorecard to identify your almost-all-new Colorado Rockies this season, but the team isn’t the only entity shaking things up at Coors Field. During the Rockies’ April 9 home opener, Blue Moon Brewery @ the Sandlot will debut Farmhouse Red, a sour-style beer that may challenge the…
Saturday is Ian Clark’s day off. Instead of getting out of the kitchen, however, the Centro Latin Kitchen chef has been using some of his favorite ingredients to brew beer. He was doing it so much, in fact, that he decided to start his own commercial brewery. Clark is creating…
AC Golden Brewing is cranking up its volunteer hops growing program again this year, offering Colorado Native fans a chance to grow hops in the yards for inclusion in a batch of the beer. Sign up on Facebook and receive two Chinook rhizomes (along with planting, growing and harvesting information)…
Avery Brewing hosted the kind of festival on Friday and Saturday that has made it one of Colorado’s top beer makers of the past decade, while Avery’s founder spent the weekend touring Germany, preparing for the future, a future that includes a new, 5.6-acre brewing campus and restaurant in Boulder…
It’s an idea whose time has come. In June,Hugo’s Colorado Beer & Spirits will open in Capitol Hill, selling primarily craft brews and spirits cooked up in Colorado. “My goal is to get everything I can get my hands on, and that includes stuff from small breweries,” says Joe-Michael Wright,…
No, Fancy Tiger Clothing and Buffalo Exchange don’t hate each other, although you’d be forgiven if you thought they did. After all, a new ad campaign from the side-by-side boutiques on South Broadway is definitely in your face. The opposite is true, however. In fact the stores have held several…
New Belgium Brewing’s social media specialist created a small controversy yesterday when he complained in his blog on the brewery’s website that the federal government was “leaking upcoming beer labels” and that bloggers were following suit. But the points he made ring hollow…
Forget tulips: The new harbingers of spring in Denver are big red bikes. The B-cycle program will return for its third year tomorrow. But Denver Bike Sharing, the nonprofit that operates the program, wants you to help distribute some of the organization’s 520 bikes today at the 2012 Launch Party…
When Hogshead Brewery opens this spring near Sloan’s Lake, it will boast what might be the first stainless-steel craft brewing system manufactured in Colorado…
New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins has finished the installation of its 16,000-square-foot canning line and plans to begin using it this week. The first beers off the line will be 16-ounce tallboys of Fat Tire and Ranger IPA, but the brewery’s newest beer, Shift Pale Lager, will be released…
The New York Times showed Denver’s craft beer scene a little love on Saturday with a story that featured one of the newest — and smallest — breweries in town, Wit’s End, along with Strange Brewing, Denver Beer Co and author Ed Sealover. But it was the photo of Wit’s…
When the Cheeky Monk opened in 2007, not many people thought a restaurant specializing in Belgian beer and food would last on Colfax Avenue. Nearly five years later, the spot is thriving, and its owners James and Tina Pachorek will add their own brewery, Three Saints, next door this fall…
Breckenridge Brewing released its Stranahan’s Well Built E.S.B. this week to liquor stores around town, the first of what should be several quarterly releases of this barrel-aged beer. The beer is one of several delicious new brews that have hit shelves in recent days: Others include Deviant Dale’s IPA tallboys…
Fallene Wells was getting ready to acknowledge defeat in her Kickstarter campaign, which ended on February 22. The Denver fashionista was even preparing a second fundraising effort — with a more modest goal — on another crowdsourcing website since she was so far away from the $20,000 she’d hoped to…
Do you think you drink a lot of beer? Do you think you know a lot about malt, hops and yeast? Do you think it’s a lifestyle? You might be right, but you’ve got a ways to go if you want to catch up with J. Wilson, who won Beerdrinker…
Crooked Stave’s brews aren’t for everyone. But for beer fans who love sour and wild ales, they’re worth the pucker — and the price. Chad Yakobson, the one-man operation behind Crooked Stave brewery, knows that, which is why he’s been selling memberships to people who love this style of beer…
We don’t enjoy busting on Denver cops and sheriff’s deputies. They have dangerous jobs, they don’t make much money, and if I hear something go bump in the night, you better believe I’ll call them…
Denver Off the Wagon, a booze-centered blog boasting a couple dozen suds-sodden writers, will celebrate its first anniversary this week with a three-day party centered around a beer that the Wagoners brewed in January at the Wynkoop Brewing Company. Wagon Ryed, as the beer is called, is based off of…
