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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Known for its whimsy, the craft beer world is newly focused on the basics: making good beer
If this week’s Great American Beer Festival — with its 800 breweries and 4,000 beers pouring — is a snapshot of the nation’s current craft beer industry, it’s a muddled image. A confluence of market forces is leading brewers to chase new trends and take risks that diminish the focus on quality and consistency that […]
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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 […]