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Bring on the Barreled Beers

May 24, 2018 Guest User

Wood barrels have been used to store booze for thousands of years. Today’s distillers and winemakers are making it possible to repurpose barrels by selling or giving them to brewers, who have found creative ways to put them to good use.

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In Beer, Feature Articles Tags Avery Brewing, Elevation Beer Co., Station 26 Brewing, Oskar Blues, River North Brewery, WeldWerks Brewing Co., Dry Dock Brewing, Crooked Stave Brewing, Mockery Brewing, New Belgium Brewing, Purpose Brewing, Banded Oak Brewing, Gilded Goat Brewing, Epic Brewing, Jessup Farm Barrel House, Copper Kettle Brewing, Upslope Brewing

The Science of Brewery Funding

May 18, 2018 Guest User

Photo: Jordan Fey, Lab Coordinator for Crooked Stave

Finance company focuses on quality control equipment for beer makers.

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In Beer, Trending Tags Crooked Stave Brewing

Colorado pushes the envelope on homemade beer

May 2, 2018 Guest User
Mike Anderson takes a break at his home brewpub in Fort Lupton.

Mike Anderson takes a break at his home brewpub in Fort Lupton.

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Most Colorado craft brewers started out as home brewers. But the state also has a huge number of passionate brewers who are still brewing in their garages, kitchens and home workshops for the love of the craft.

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In Beer, Feature Articles

Seven Colorado podcasts worth a listen

May 1, 2018 Guest User

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The world’s most popular podcasts are news digests, public radio shows, comic interviews and an audio reality show recorded on a fake Martian landscape in Hawaii. But there are also several hidden podcast gems about our great state. Here are some of our favorites. Happy listening.

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In Beer, Discovery, Trending

Pow! Crash! Bam! Ska!

April 27, 2018 Guest User

Artwork provided by Ska Brewing Co.

“We weren’t old enough to buy beer in 1985, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t make it. Everything we needed we either had in-house or, like in the case of malt extract, we could get at King Soopers.” 

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In Art of Brewing, Beer Tags Ska Brewing

Pairing Beer with Opera Ballads 

April 24, 2018 Guest User

We’ve all seen breweries pairing beers with chocolates, cheeses or even Girl Scout cookies, but University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Music has another accompaniment in mind – opera songs.

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In Beer, Trending Tags Wibby Brewing

Mike Girard shining bright at 3 Hundred Days Distilling after long, dangerous road

April 18, 2018 Guest User
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Retired 1st Sgt. Mike Girard owns and operates a distillery in Monument, but his interest in moonshine was sparked years ago in Afghanistan.

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In Spirits, Feature Articles Tags 3 Hundred Days Distilling

Doors Finally Swing Open at the Grateful Gnome

April 12, 2018 Guest User

The path to opening the doors at the Grateful Gnome Sandwich Shoppe & Brewery in north Denver was anything but simple. Owner and Grateful Dead fanatic Dan Appell smiled wide on Wednesday as he finally invited the public in to see his spacious brewery and deli across the street from the venerable Oriental Theater at West 44th Avenue and Stuart St. “I’ve anticipated this day for so long,” he said. 

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In Beer, Trending Tags Grateful Gnome Sandwich Shoppe & Brewery

Spontaneity rules the day at Denver’s Black Project

April 3, 2018 Guest User

Joshua Safer pulls a nail to sample a beer that’s been aging for three years.

In traditional brewing, immense pride is taken in being able to create the same product time after time. But the folks at Black Project have thrown that notion to the wind with their coolship brewing process. 

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In Beer, Feature Articles Tags Black Project Spontaneous

Mockery, Baere offer quite the creative Collab Fest story

March 15, 2018 Guest User

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or new to the craft scene, chances are you’ve seen or heard a beer name and thought to yourself, ‘how the hell did the brewers name that one?’

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In Beer, Trending Tags Mockery Brewing, Baere Brewing

Salute to Colorado's Craft Women

March 8, 2018 Guest User

On International Women’s Day, Thirst Colorado would like to honor a few women who have made a difference in Colorado’s crafty scene. These short features were excerpted from early Thirst Colorado Magazines and provide great examples of women making a positive difference!

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Brewers’ Favorites - Where beer share their opinions on other Colorado craft beer

March 1, 2018 Guest User

This rendition of Brewers' Favorites jumps from one spectrum to the other in terms of color, flavor and producer. Take a look for a few Colorado favorites from the experts. 

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In Beer, Brewers' Favorites, Trending Tags Equinox, Diebolt, Ska Brewing, Epic Brewing, Verboten Brewing, Odd13 Brewing

The Backbone of a Brand

February 26, 2018 Guest User

Blackfeet Indians called the Rocky Mountains “the backbone of the world,” and they are certainly the backbone of Colorado. A silhouette image of the Rockies at sunset is also the backbone of Great Divide Brewing’s logo.

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In Art of Brewing, Beer, Trending Tags Great Divide Brewing

Strange Brews - Strange Craft Beer Co.

February 26, 2018 Guest User

Always something unusual brewing at state’s only co-taproom.

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In Strange Brews, Beer Tags Strange Craft Beer Co

Have Another Drink for Colorado’s Medalists

February 23, 2018 Guest User

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We don’t blame you if you are ending this week looking for some good news and needing a drink. We’re here to help on both counts. Two more Coloradans have won Olympic medals since we checked in last week to toast the first three Colorado medalists (plus one honorary Coloradan).

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Raise a glass to Colorado’s winter Olympic medalists

February 15, 2018 Guest User

Colorado sent 36 athletes to the winter Olympics underway in South Korea, and three of them (plus one sort-of honorary Coloradan) have won medals. We thought we would honor each of these athletes with a fitting Colorado craft brew.

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Stout Month is the Stuff Dreams are Made of

February 7, 2018 Guest User

For most of us that is not enough time to enjoy stout month! With Colorado having a plethora of craft breweries, many releasing special stouts for February, there are just too many beers to try them all. However, we’ve compiled a list of some of the can’t-miss releases that will make you fall in love with stout month.

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Get Your Craft Après Ski On

January 16, 2018 Guest User

Gorrono Ranch at Telluride Ski Resort offers a great après ski vibe with good craft offerings. 

What’s the best way to finish a day on the mountain? Definitely a cold craft beer! The back bowls may have been lacking snow, but the resorts’ taps are far from dry.

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In Beer, Discovery, Trending
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