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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As virtual GABF arrives, craft beer industry faces difficult moment confronting racism and pandemic
The craft beer industry — like much of America — is facing a reckoning on two levels right now: A pandemic ended more than a decade of growth well short of the industry’s goal to become 20% of the national beer market by 2020 and a racial justice movement highlighted craft brewing’s dominant white male […]
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Hard work made Greeley’s downtown hip and happening. Two months of social distancing could make it all disappear.
GREELEY — Ely Corliss’ phone rang in his office at the Moxi Theater on the morning of March 12. Typically, that meant opportunity. But that morning, the ring kicked off the worst day in his life. Corliss used his business acumen and experience as the band booker and sound guy for AF Ray’s, a Garden […]
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Craft beer is at a “precipice.” Colorado can relate after Boulder Beer closure and New Belgium sale.
BRECKENRIDGE — A beer festival, by its nature, is festive. And the 20th edition of the Big Beers festival that attracted many of the nation’s best brewers to Breckenridge was no exception. This year, however, the mood seemed less merry. In between sips of barrel-aged stouts, blended sours and boozy barleywines, the conversation at the […]
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Best Colorado beer: A look at the favorite beers and breweries in 2019 and ones to watch in the next year
The 2019 year in beer is one to remember in Colorado. The entire landscape shifted with the sale of the state’s largest brewery, New Belgium, to a Japanese beverage company. It came as another veteran, Avery Brewing, sold all but 10% of the company to a Spanish beer maker and the state’s first microbrewery, Boulder […]
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June is the best month for beer in Colorado. Follow this guide to find the good stuff.
The Great American Beer Festival each fall gets all the attention. And Colorado Beer Week in the spring is a popular celebration of the state’s craft beer scene. But the best month for beer in Colorado is June. The arrival of the summer months serves as a clarion call for great beer festivals across Colorado. […]
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Beer of the Year: A look at the best Colorado breweries from 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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130 new beers in one year? A Colorado brewery’s experiment led to an unexpected result
WeldWerks Brewing set an ambitious goal at the start of the year: brew and package 100 different beers. The craft beer maker reached the mark in September — and kept brewing. By the end of 2018, the Greeley brewery expects to make 130 beers, the vast majority of which were new recipes and packaged for […]