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…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company will debut its newest canned beer next week — one with some unusual Colorado ingredients. No, it’s not Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout — although two-packs of that ballsy beer will also be released in cans soon. The beer is called Belgorado and it’s made almost entirely…
New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins will debut a new series of seasonal beers this year, most of them focused on a new or unsual variety of hops. The Hop Kitchen beers, as the series is called, will be sold only in 22-ounce bomber bottles and on draft. “People want…
Verboten Brewing, which will open its doors this weekend in Loveland, takes its name for the German word for “forbidden,” and is a reference to German beer-purity laws, or Reinheitsgebot, which forbade brewers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries from using anything but water, barley and hops in their beers…
A handful of great new Colorado craft beers hit the market at the very end of 2012, including: Boulder Beer’s A Honey of a Saison; Great Divide’s Orabelle; Elevation Beer’s Downpour Imperial Red Ale; Ska Brewing’s Hibernal Vinifera and Crazy Mountain’s Boohai Red Ale. All four are stellar brews, and…
The father-and-son team of Dan and Jack Diebolt plan to give north Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood its second brewery this year, when they open Diebolt Brewing in a small warehouse building at 3855 Mariposa Street sometime in late spring or summer. Diebolt will be located about ten blocks south of the…
You have three more days to help out the Colorado-based producers of Crafting a Nation, a feature-length documentary that “tells the story of how the American Craft Brewers are rebuilding the economy one beer at a time.” The group’s Kickstarter campaign ends on Friday, and although donors have already pushed…
Change is inevitable, but it’s not always smooth, which is why Eugene Kahng, co-owner of the soon-to-open Colorado + Liquid Art Works brewery in Wheat Ridge, hit a few bumps when he painted over a mural that had decorated the side of Valente’s Italian Restaurant, a community mainstay that closed…
Jamie Wells has been working for four years to convert his 1.5-barrel homebrewing kit into a commercial system that could sate the thirst of many more people, and on Thursday, January 10, he’ll finish that task by opening J Wells Brewery at 2516 49th Street in Boulder. His little brewery…
In 1906, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody took his traveling circus on the road to Belgium, performing in Antwerp, Brussels, and half a dozen other cities. Now, more than a hundred years later, a beer that was accidentally brewed as a result of that tour (according to legend, that is)…
The Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries group is getting ready to open its newest eatery and taphouse, Under the Sun, at 627-A South Broadway in the former Giovanni’s space. That’s right below the Southern Sun Pub & Brewery in south Boulder. The restaurant will feature a lower-priced flatbread menu and…
Breckenridge Brewery rolled out a new monthly firkin program during the Great American Beer Festival last year that is designed to play off the First Friday art walks that take place on the first Friday of every month in the Art District on Santa Fe. See also: – Renegade Brewing…
Utah’s Epic Brewing has signed a lease on a 20,000-square-foot building in the River North neighborhood, where it will open its second brewery. The facility is just four blocks from Our Mutual Friend, a nanobrewery that opened in October, and very close to Black Shirt Brewing, River North Brewing and…
When Strange Brewing Company opened in May 2010 and kicked off a wave of new craft brewery development in the Denver area that continues to grow astronomically, owners Tim Myers and John Fletcher became the godfathers to some of those who followed, offering help, advice and support to anyone who…
Colorado craft breweries and their many fans enjoyed a spectacular year in 2012, as the options for consuming locally made beer continued to grow and fill our tastebuds with joy. If the state’s 160-plus breweries weren’t expanding, then they were adding new beers or welcoming friendly competitors. And there were…
Welcome to 2013 and the next year of your wine-drinking life. Over the past twelve months we saw a slew of clever new wine concepts worth trying, and a whole lotta wine-related WTFs to studiously avoid. All the while we watched and waited, eyes peeled for signs of the wine-related…
