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,…
This morning, employees of Argonaut and Longmont-based Oskar Blues arranged 1,000 twelve-packs of Oskar Blues beer into an enormous — what else? — beer can-shaped display at the store, the largest in the brewery’s history. While the stack is up (through February 22), Oskar Blues is running a couple of…
New Belgium Brewing and Denver’s Novo Coffee didn’t know they were looking for each other, and they only met by chance last year. But the results of that happy accident will tickle the tastebuds of beer drinkers in two weeks when the brewery releases Cascara Quad, the latest in its…
For the past sixteen years, Backcountry Brewery has sold a lot of beer during the winter months and done decent business in the summer. But like any other ski-town brewery, it has struggled during the rest of the year. “Recently, we started experiencing more demand, but because of the seasonality…
If you love pinot noir and chardonnay — specifically, the particularly revered varieties which hail from the postage stamp-sized wine-producing region of Burgundy, France — you may want to buy a lottery ticket today. See also: – The Boulder Burgundy Festival delivered the juice – Four top wine trends for…
There has never been a shortage of beer in Golden, Colorado. But until this month, there had only been one brewery in town that wasn’t named Coors. On Saturday, however, Cannonball Creek Brewery will open its doors, joining Golden City Brewery, which has been the town’s “second largest brewery” since…
Kim Jordan, the CEO of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, is no longer the majority owner of the company she co-founded in 1991. Instead, Jordan is just one of 456 owners as of December 28, when she sold her family’s 59 percent stake to the now 100 percent employee-owned…
For the past three years, certified sommelier and chef Kendra Anderson has penned a weekly “Swirl Girl” wine column for Westword, giving readers — novices and bona fide oenophiles alike — crash courses that detail her love for the grape, and now she’s taken her passion one step further. Anderson…
