The craft-beer industry has always been community-minded — not to mention budget-conscious. Although there are many big craft brewers, there are many more tiny ones, and most of them only came about because someone risked everything by maxing out their credit cards and cashing in their 401k, savings account and…
Crazy Mountain Brewing isn’t leaving its home in Eagle County, but the rapidly-expanding beer-maker is looking for a spot in the Denver area to open a second brewery by the end of next year. “We are certainly eyeballing that possibility, and all options are on the table,” says Crazy Mountain…
Tivoli Brewing, which owns the trademarks to several historic Denver beer brands, has released its second beer, Sigi’s Wild Horse Buck Beer, based on the recipe for an incredibly popular beer that was first brewed in Denver 139 years ago. New Belgium Brewing is releasing Rampant Imperial IPA this month…
When it opens in Littleton’s Aspen Grove Shopping Center on March 25, the 900-seat, state-of-the-art Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will bring Hollywood to Colorado via Texas (where the quirky, irreverent company is based). But anyone who orders a beer in the Glass Half Full bar inside the building will definitely know…
Denver’s craft beer scene grew so fast in 2012 that it’s hard to believe that River North Brewery, which will host a big bash this Saturday, opened its doors only one year ago. In just twelve months, the brewery has built a bustling customer base in its taproom and around…
The owners of Tivoli Brewing, which began making and selling historic Denver beer brands last year, have also formed a craft beer distributing company, and they will get rolling this week with Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, an up-and-coming Loveland beer maker that has wanted to start selling its beers to the…
Tom Hail loves beer. He loves lagers especially, which is why he stays very late on a lot of nights to work on his passion projects. One of these is a traditional German-style marzen — a recipe that he’s been tinkering with on and off for eighteen years. It’s a…
Colorado is thirsty, and Mobile Canning, which has made it possible for more than a dozen smaller Colorado breweries to package and sell beer to liquor stores over the past year, is planning to help quench that thirst this spring when it doubles in size. The Longmont company, which takes…
Stout Month is in full effect right now at the Vine Street Pub in Denver, as well as the Mountain Sun and Southern Sun pubs in Boulder. The twentieth annual version of this awesome display of the dark arts features many of the stouts that Mountain Sun has become famous…
Big Choice Brewing in Broomfield will become the next small brewer to get one of its beers onto liquor-store shelves when it begins canning its Disconnected Red in March. The brewery, which has only been open since May 2012, will use the services of Mobile Canning LLC, the Longmont-based company…
Although there aren’t many of them, craft beer variety packs — which typically offer three or four different kinds of beers in a twelve-pack — have been on liquor stores shelves for a while. But that trend looks like it’s going to become more prevalent in Colorado this year as…
There’s no name on the sign above the door of De Steeg Brewing, in an alley off West 44th Avenue. Just the image of a Belgian-style beer goblet. But Craig Rothgery wasn’t trying to be hip when he signed a lease on an alley space in the Tennyson Street art…
Breckenridge Brewery announced today that it will move from Denver to Littleton, building a $20 million farm-like campus on a rural, twelve-acre spot on South Santa Fe Drive and cementing its future as both a Colorado-based brewery and a tourist destination. The campus, located near the Platte River Greenway, right…
James Kunz has been making his own beer for four years, but before December, he’d never entered a homebrewing contest — let alone won one. But that changed when the rookie took top honors in the Mountain Sun Pub group’s stout competition by, well, releasing the Kraken. Starting in mid-February,…
Several Denver breweries and restaurants will serve as mini art galleries between now and February 10, displaying the work of more than twenty artists who use recycled skis and snowboards as their canvases. The displays are part of Art of Winter, “a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators expressing…
Since Fate Brewing, which opens Monday, February 4, in Boulder, doesn’t have any of its beer-brewing equipment up and running yet, the company has come up with an innovative way to serve its own creations without actually making any of them on site. Over the past two months, Fate head…
After months of planning, Dry Dock Brewing cranked up its new forty-barrel brewing system and its shiny canning line earlier in January, pumping out thousands of gallons to try to sate the demand for its beer in Colorado. And then it almost ran out. See also: – Dry Dock closes…
The annual Winter Brew Fest returned to Mile High Station last Saturday, offering Denver denizens a taste of some delicious craft beers and other beverages from Colorado and elsewhere. Add in some live music, food and other vendors and you’ve got an event to remember — if you didn’t drink…
Good karma and good beer were flowing in equal amounts Sunday when thirty breweries and hundreds of Colorado craft beer lovers gathered together at the Rackhouse Pub to show support and help raise money for Strange Brewing, which is facing a possible trademark lawsuit from a similarly named homebrew shop…
One of the best parts about Colorado’s craft beer scene is that it changes constantly. From one week to the next, beer geeks can hit a new taproom, try an innovative new brew, head to a packed festival and generally make friends in other states jealous. The last year saw…
As the Rackhouse Pub gets ready to host the Strange Days Beer Festival this Sunday (also known as Save Our Strange), the trademark dispute between Denver’s Strange Brewing and a similarly named homebrew shop in Massachusetts doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon. The sold-out fest includes beers from…
Only three weeks into the new year, and already three new breweries have opened — Verboten in Loveland, J Wells in Boulder and Cannonball Creek in Golden — while a fourth has gone into production and released its first bottles. Hall Brewing, located in a gorgeous farmhouse east of Parker,…
