As we reported in Off Limits this week, MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow highlighted Jefferson County’s infamous “There Is No Poop Fairy” public-service campaign campaign again last week. The county created the PSA last summer as a way to remind people who used the county’s parks and open spaces to pick…
A bevy of beer bloggers will appear on American Craft Beer Radio with Gary Valliere this Saturday when Colorado’s newest craft beer radio show takes the air for its third show at noon on 102.3 FM, the local ESPN affiliate. The show will focus on the experiences of bloggers and…
AC Golden Brewing will unveil a new beer today at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants as part of the beer-centered restaurant chain’s latest Mini Tour. The brew is an India Pale Lager, or IPL, made from four kinds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe) typically found in IPAs, but with…
Breckenridge Brewing will release the first batch of Stranahan’s Well Built E.S.B. next week, a beer aged in Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey barrels for three months and brewed in conjunction with the high-end distillery, located just down the street. It’s the first collaboration between the two companies since they signed an…
More than a year after the Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries merged their financial operations, the federal government has finally granted the companies a license that will allow the Wynkoop to brew and can its beer at Breckenridge’s Denver facility…
Left Hand Brewing can do it with either hand, and the Longmont brewery will show you how with a new series of limited-edition, draft-only beers called Ambidextrous. The first of these, an imperial milk stout, is on tap at a handful of spots in Colorado and around the country; it…
Yes, as Douglas Bruce told the old the Denver Post this week after he was sentenced for felony tax evasion, “There have been other political prisoners.” But, Doug, you are not one of them…
River North Brewery will officially start pouring pints of Belgian-style beers on Saturday, adding a new element to Denver’s quickly growing roster of neighborhood breweries…
For the first time since it was created in 2008, AC Golden Brewing in Golden plans to release three of its specialty, small-batch beers in 750 ml bottles. All three are sour fruit beers that were aged for ten months in oak barrels and fermented with brettanamyces yeast and souring…
Andrew Orvedahl doesn’t worry much about what he wears on stage. “I usually just try to make sure my clothes are clean,” says the Denver-area comedian and performer. With a two-year-old at home, that’s not always easy, so as long as he can find something stain-free — and a clean…
Tomme Arthur, the legendary owner of Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey, is in Fort Collins today to collaborate with New Belgium Brewing Company on an upcoming beer that will be part of its Lips of Faith series. Then, at some point soon, brewers from New Belgium will travel to California to…
More and more, breweries in Colorado are collaborating on new beers with each other, with chefs and restauranteurs, or even — gasp — bloggers. But Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins has made a new beer for a single liquor store: Mile High Wine and Spirits. The Lakewood bottle shop, located…
The beer and food experts at Euclid Hall had so much fun pairing small bites with rare and unusual beers in January during the restaurant’s Beer Month, that they’ve decided to continue the Brew Bites program through at least March. Each Tuesday (except for the two during Restaurant Week on…
Pliny the Younger, one of the rarest, most highly rated beers in America, has made its annual trip to Colorado, where the Triple IPA — made by California’s Russian River Brewing — will be tapped by just fourteen establishments in the state. The six-gallon kegs of Younger are usually gone…
Is Mitt Romney the anti-Christ? Are his politics unbearably loathsome? Is his hair too perfect? The answers to those questions depend on your own point of view. But no matter what you believe, throwing glitter on someone is pretty much never the right way to express your feelings — unless…
Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage…
Nello Ferrara, the man who invented Red Hots, Atomic FireBalls and Lemonheads, died last Friday at the age of 93/ You can toast his sweet tooth and his legacy today at the Yak & Yeti Restaurant and Brewery at 7803 Ralston Road in Arvada, where brewmaster Adam Draeger will tap…
The resumes were long and detailed, the qualifications extreme, but the ten finalists in the Wynkoop Brewing Company’s annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest have been whittled down to three — and these guys know their beer. The man who eventually claims the title for 2012 will be determined at…
It’s not easy to keep up with Colorado’s brewers. It seems like they release a new beer — or two or three — in bottles or cans almost every week. And as soon as you think you’ve caught up on the new ones, you find a couple that you’ve missed…
If you smelled bacon last week in LoDo, you weren’t dreaming. The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot was adding it to a new beer. “We put thirty pounds of bacon in the kettle along with dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and hickory smoked bacon. The savory bacon helps balance…
About the only good thing that has come out of the Representative Laura Bradford mess this week was the sarcastically suggested name (on Twitter and elsewhere) for a future Capitol Hill dive bar called the “Legislative Function.” Every other aspect of this situation, from the way the police handled it…
Breckenridge Brewing loves poking fun at the mega brewers — something they’ve done with a series of humorous TV ads called “Truth in Beervertising” over the past two years. Now the Denver-based brewery plans to run two more spots on Super Bowl Sunday on KDVR-TV, Denver’s Fox affiliate. Although the…
