Governor John Hickenlooper, co-founder of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, signed legislation this week that will continue to fund the Rural Economic Development Initiative, a program that “encourages local governments and businesses to join forces to develop community infrastructure and private facility projects and job training grants,” according to the state…
Just because great brewers come together to collaborate on a beer doesn’t mean that the beer will be twice as tasty. And just because dozens of breweries from Colorado, from out of state and even from a foreign country are coming together for a Collaboration Fest doesn’t mean the beer…
The brand new Former Future Brewing, which had to close for two weeks in order to restock its beer supply, reopened today — and will stay open all weekend. Located on South Broadway’s Antique Row, the brewery, which has a four-barrel system, ran out of beer after just a few…
Grimm Brothers Brewing, which has been bottling its German-style ales and lagers beers since opening in Loveland in 2010, will begin canning its flagship Little Red Cap next month. The copper-colored altbier has won two medals at the Great American Beer Festival. “We have been looking at doing a more…
Two Denver breweries recently announced changes to their beer-making staffs. Denver Beer Company hired Austin Wiley, who had been with Great Divide since 2007, to take over as the lead brewer, heading up recipe development at the Platte Street taproom, managing the operation and overseeing the barrel-aging program. Nick Bruno,…
Grand Lake Brewing, which closed its taproom last October amidst declining business in the mountain town and after dispute with several employees, announced on its Facebook recently that it will reopen in Olde Town Arvada, just a block from the Arvada Brewing Company. The new location is at 5610 Yukon…
Clay Carlton is on a roll. The Denver native who opened his first barbershop in Winter Park 38 years ago today is a master cigar-roller and proprietor not just of Palma Cigars but of Bar Las Palmas Wine Bar, the most unique shop in the Ballpark neighborhood, offering cigars, wine,…
It was a tale of two cities (towns, really) — and of two breweries. In Lyons, Oskar Blues owner Dale Katechis canned his first beer, Dale’s Pale Ale, in 2002. At around the same time, Tommyknocker Brewery in Idaho Springs began canning Ornery Amber. But while Oskar Blues went on…
The Rackhouse Pub, which opened inside the Stranahan’s whiskey distillery in October 2009 as one of Denver’s first craft-beverage themed restaurants, will close on April 4 and reopen in its own space across the street, possibly as soon as this fall. “We wanted to continue here, but for us to…
With Mardi Gras coming next week, people of all kinds and creeds are searching for a way to celebrate without slipping into bejeweled, beaded hell. Fat chance. You’re one of those souls whose skin takes on a ghostly pallor when you’re dressed in purple, gold and green? You habitually cower…
Odell Brewing takes pride moving slow, and in expanding at a reasonable, measured pace — which is why the Fort Collins beer makers was so deliberate last week in announcing that it would enter the Texas market — the company’s first new state in two years. To help out, Odell…
Former Future Brewing, which just opened on February 1, has run out of beer. Yep. The brewery, which has a four-barrel system, simply hasn’t been able to keep up with the demand for its suds — a testament, perhaps, to Denver’s love of craft brews. “Well, we thought this might…
Six months ago, in September, Lance Hanson was mingling with crowds and enjoying a cocktail made with CapRock organic gin — his gin — at the Source; it was the first night that CapRock Farm Bar was pouring cocktails, and Hanson, the founder of Peak Spirits, the Hotchkiss-based distillery under…
From the beginning, brothers Branden and Chad Miller and Chad’s wife, Carissa, wanted to pair their beers at Black Shirt Brewing with food. A server for four years at Duo, Branden made sure to include plans for a kitchen inside the final design of the brewery they opened at 3719…
Two22 Brew wasn’t supposed to open on 2/22: “It was kind of funny. When we started building, people were telling us that we could open on February 22, and I said, ‘No way! We’ll be open way before that, probably in early January,” says Paige Schuster, who owns the new…
Get ready for more Rumpkin, more Uncle Jacob’s and, yes, Tweak. Beginning this year, Avery Brewing will dramatically increase the size and scope of its acclaimed barrel-aging program so that it can share its rarest beers with more people — not just in Colorado, but in some of the 27…
Kannah Creek Brewing in Grand Junction has just released a new beer in bottles called Crossed Irons Irish Ale that it will use to help raise money for the Colorado chapter of the Terry Farrell Firefighter Fund, which helps injured or sick firefighters or the families to those were killed…
When 300 Suns Brewing opens in Longmont this Saturday, it will become the first new brewery to open in town since Oskar Blues — now Colorado’s second largest beer maker — moved there from Lyons in 2009 and only the fourth brewery overall. So, there’s a little bit of pressure…
Is Denver over-saturated with craft breweries? Not yet, but that doesn’t mean a group of breweries on the city’s west side aren’t thinking about the future. The breweries have watched as River North, on the other side of downtown, has evolved into one of Denver’s primary craft-beer neighborhoods over the…
Pliny the Younger, which Beer Advocate ranks as the second-best beer in the world and which Rate Beer ranks as the third, will return to a select few Colorado bars and restaurants this month, where it will be quickly tapped amid much excitement and disappear even faster. Made by California’s…
For the first time ever, Denver will host the annual Craft Brewers Conference, the industry’s biggest trade show. The conference, a four-day-long series of seminars, networking events and parties, will bring 7,000 beer-minded people to town April 8 through April 11. To show off the Centennial State, the Colorado Brewers…
The name Los Chingones — “The Badasses,” more or less — suggests that Troy Guard’s new restaurant is populated with tequila-slamming roughnecks. Yet its paloma, a tequila drink made with pink grapefruit and soda, is not exactly chingón, shall we say. The gentle yet addictive paloma has single-handedly caused my…
