Ryot: Dad & Dudes Breweria
Rye’s all the rage in the brewing world. Used to impart a spiced or peppery flavor, this popular fermentable is popping up at breweries across America and across the globe. For those who have somehow...
View ArticleWild Saison: Upslope Brewing Company
Upslope Brewing Company recently released Volume 2 of their Lee Hill Series, a selection of beers named for the brewery's original location in North Boulder. This quarterly series “celebrates...
View ArticleIcey Pale Ale: Oskar Blues Brewery
Colorado leads the nation in craft beer so it’s easy to forget the Centennial State’s notable for other, non-boozy reasons. Put down the pint for a moment, Denver beer geeks, and look to the...
View Article8 Second: Elevation Beer Co.
When craft beer crashed the big domestic brands’ party, it did so with extravagance. Whereas the hosts were bland and watery, the uninvited guests were bold, hoppy, high in alcohol, and unique. For a...
View ArticlePinner: Oskar Blues Brewery
The craft beer community is a cheeky bunch. Peruse labels in the craft aisle of any liquor store and one will find more than a few suggestive beer names. Innuendo is par for the craft beer course and...
View ArticleHey! Pumpkin: Denver Beer Co.
Denver Beer Co.’s Canworks facility has been cranking canned beers into the local market with great enthusiasm ever since it opened in the summer of 2014, turning out innumerable cylinders of sudsy...
View ArticlePeach Pale Ale: Lone Tree Brewing Company
Anheuser-Busch showed their hand in a recent Super Bowl ad, finally admitting craft beer presents a threat to their sales. Many have criticized the ad for being hypocritical, defensive, revealing,...
View ArticleBarrel Aged Imperial Stout: Upslope Brewing Company
It’s back! Today (February 19th) Upslope Brew Company unveils its third installment in the Lee Hill Series, a collection of experimental and cellar-worthy beers sold only at the brewery’s original...
View ArticleIncredible Pedal: Denver Beer Co.
Either Denver residents are health nuts or just simply nuts but there doesn’t seem to be a thing in the world to keep them from riding their bikes. In the scorching heat of summer, in the blizzards...
View ArticleIPA: Sanitas Brewing Co.
IPA: America’s favorite craft beer style. Rarely does one come across a brewery without a hopped-up, bitter offering. It’s almost career suicide to not proffer to the public their most desired...
View ArticleLawyers, Guns, & Money: Crazy Mountain Brewing Company
Oh, how far the canned craft beer movement has come! When once the only aluminum-wrapped beers were domestic, watered-down macrobrews, today nearly any style of beer can be found in a can. IPAs,...
View ArticleRitual Rivers: Four Noses Brewing Co.
The essence of the craft beer industry lies in collaboration. Certainly, litigiousness rears its ugly head from time to time, marring the image that the beer community is one, giant love-fest. It’s...
View ArticleLao Wang: CAUTION: Brewing Co.
Lagers get a bad reputation in the world of craft beer and it’s quite undeserved. Indeed, the big, watery, tasteless swill that’s put out by domestic macrobrewers—the very thing which craft beer...
View ArticleClan Warrior: Odyssey Beerwerks
When thinking of Scotland’s favorite libation, Scotch whisky (no “e” in “whiskey” when talking to a Scotsman) likely comes to mind. That’s understandable. However, distilled spirits aren’t the...
View ArticleManhattan Style Rye Ale: Upslope Brewing Company
Germany, the country considered by many to be the de facto center of the beer universe, is suffering an identity crisis. Young Germans are forgoing the country’s iconic beverage, deeming the classic...
View Article19th Annual Biergarten Festival this weekend in Morrison
The 19th Annual Biergarten Festival will be held this weekend at the TEV Edelweiss festival grounds in Morrison, Colorado. Hosted by the German-American Chamber of Commerce—Colorado Chapter (GACC-CO),...
View ArticleIPA: Oskar Blues Brewery
Oskar Blues Brewery is no stranger to hoppy brews. In their regular line-up of beers, they have an extra-hoppy pale ale, an IPA, an imperial IPA, a session IPA, and an imperial red IPA. Does Oskar...
View ArticleCitra Pale Ale: Upslope Brewing Company
Upslope Brewing Company recently launched the Tap Room Series, so named because the beers in said series began life as a taproom-only draft option. When bar patrons show enough interest in one of...
View ArticleBlood Orange Saison: Upslope Brewing Company
What does it mean to be a saison? Historically, the definition is very loose—it’s a beer Belgian farmers made to quench the thirst of the saisonniers, seasonal farmhands that worked the land. What...
View ArticleIt’s no secret IPAs are the poster child for the craft beer movement; they’re the most popular style of craft beer both domestically and abroad and it seems any brewery that doesn’t brew an...
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