While the state isn’t known for growing hops, these farmers are infusing local ciders, beers and spirits with flavors from just down the road
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Opinion: Good beer comes from good water, and the Supreme Court just jeopardized good water
Colorado lawmakers must move quickly to set up a permitting program for dredging and filling intermittent streams and wetlands.
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The best Colorado beers and breweries in 2020 and what to watch in 2021
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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It’s the time of year for barrel-aged beers in Colorado, but not all are turning to the dark side
WHEAT RIDGE — Skyler Weekes holds the zebra striped barrel on its side and leans his nose close to the opening. “Oh man,” he says, “have a smell of that.” Boozy raisin and vanilla aromas, touched with a soft fruit note, explode from the French oak barrel that aged cognac for 27 months. All around […]
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Take a tour of Denver’s beer history from home by pairing this new book with local breweries
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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With breweries shut down, homebrewing sees a resurgence in Colorado amid coronavirus
Like most during the coronavirus pandemic, Carl Hjort is stuck at home. No skiing. No hiking. No biking. Instead, he finds himself turning to another hobby: brewing beer. “I’m brewing more and a lot of my friends in the club are as well,” said Hjort, an attorney and the president of the Foam on the […]
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Colorado’s craft beer industry is sobered as brewers predict mass closures if social distancing continues
The existential crisis in the Colorado beer world is palpable right now as an industry built on social gathering comes to realize that social distance is the new normal. As much as 15% of craft breweries expect to close by the end of the month if social distancing remains in place, according to a national […]
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Beer by the book: In Colorado’s shifting landscape of breweries and bars, the author discovers an expanding universe
John Frank spends his days and a lot of his nights covering politics for The Colorado Sun. Somehow, in the time he’s not doing that, he’s completed a mission to catalog the best the state has to offer on a topic that really reaches across the aisle — beer. The result of his tireless effort […]
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The new breweries at DIA combine to make the most unlikely beer crawl in Colorado
The most unusual brewery crawl in Colorado is about 2-miles long with more than a dozen escalators and one sobering security check. It also is timed, at least if you want to make your flight. The venue is Denver International Airport, where four local breweries launched outposts in the past eight months and combine to […]