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The best Colorado beers and breweries in 2020 and what to watch in 2021

by John Frank 3:30 AM MST on Dec 25, 2020

If you ever needed a good beer, 2020 was the year. And Colorado breweries didn’t disappoint. The three-hour Denver Prohibition, shuttered taprooms and bars statewide, an aluminum can shortage, permanent closures and other pandemic hardships certainly didn’t make it easy.  The industry’s ability to pivot and make the best of a bad situation — not […]

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Take a tour of Denver’s beer history from home by pairing this new book with local breweries

by John Frank 4:00 AM MDT on Jul 31, 2020

A year after Denver was founded in 1858, the city’s first brewery opened. The local newspaper declared the first batch of beer from the Rocky Mountain Brewery “the best we ever tasted” — surely in part because of the free keg delivered to its offices. Today, the history seems quite fitting given that Denver now […]

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Colorado breweries embrace putting politics into the pint

by John Frank 5:20 AM MDT on Aug 9, 2019

The name of the beer says it all: Hands Off My Fruit.  It’s tart and fruity with a dose of politics. And that’s just how Cerebral Brewing wanted it. The Denver brewer partnered with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and used the beer to raise money for the women’s health care organization that provides […]

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Beer of the Year: A look at the best Colorado breweries from 2018

by John Frank 5:00 AM MST on Dec 26, 2018

Ask any five Colorado brewers or beer fans for the best brewery in the state, and you’ll probably get five different answers. For The Colorado Sun’s inaugural beer of the year poll, we asked hundreds of brewers, industry experts and beer enthusiasts and found a similar result — each has a favorite and their own reasons […]

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