What’s the highpoint of a brewer’s career? Winning a medal at Great American Beer Festival? Maybe. But what about winning a medal at Great American Beer festival and receiving a free congratulatory beer? Thanks to Breckenridge Brewery, the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG), and CBG member breweries, the best of the best at this year’s GABF [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Track 1: Friday: One night in Bordeaux - learn to cook while drinking wine. Saturday: Wake up with the Coffee Beer Fest at Denver Beer Co, head over to FreshCraft for some Noble Rot, and finish the day at 3 Kings for My Bloody Violent-Tine Horror Film Festival. Sunday: [...]
Friday, January 20, 2012
Correction: NOFX is not playing at the Fillmore in Denver. They’re playing at the Fillmore in San Francisco. I got excited… Also, it appears the TPS Report release at Trinity is cancelled due to TTB label approval issues. That is all. Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Friday night we’ll be drinking [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The holiday season is upon us and, once again, we are bombarded with sanguine messages of faith, family, and charity. Bah, humbug! My thoughts turn elsewhere: to commercialism, to estranged relatives forced to be civil at Christmas dinner, to ice-related traffic accidents. Oh, my mind goes to dark places. It is, however, in the dark [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The first ever international toast to a style – #IPADay – is Thursday, August 4th. You can read all about it in our previous post. What follows is a list of participating bars in Denver, and what they’re doing. If you know of an event not listed here, please comment and we’ll get it added [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
So Bristol turned 16 last year and in the business of making really good brew, they’re continuing that tradition in their release–and pairing dinner–of Batch 6000. Here’s an excerpt of their story: Finally last year, after 16 and a half years in business, as our auspicious 6000th batch approached, Mike [Bristol] knew he wanted to [...]
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Check out this awesome idea from good friends and beer lovers Ashley Rouston (aka The Beer Wench) and Ryan Ross: San Diego, CA – July 7th, 2011 – Attention all craft beer evangelists, brewers, bloggers, and suds-savvy citizens! On Thursday, August 4th 2011, you are cordially invited to participate in the largest international craft beer [...]
Monday, May 23, 2011
Wynkoop celebrated American Craft Beer Week in style last Saturday, hosting their first ever United Tastes of Belgium. They played host to numerous Colorado breweries, and a few out of staters, celebrating how American breweries tackle Belgian style beers. There were some amazing sours, a bunch of great Dubbels, Trippels and Saisons, and a huge [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
[Skip to the event list] American Craft Beer Week is in two weeks. While many of us live the American Craft Beer Life™, this is a week when all of America joins us in celebrating craft beer. Spearheaded by the Brewers Association and organized by pubs and breweries around the country, thousands of beer newbies, [...]
Friday, March 25, 2011
Getting hungry just reading the menu… Freshcraft Presents: Caribbean in Colorado a Beer Pairing Dinner March 31st @ 7pm. $35 (Gratuity not included) Purchase Tickets Here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/160445 Course 1 Sweet Potato Pancake with Coconut Cream and Papaya and Pineapple Chutney w/ Bristol – Belgian Dubbel batch 6000 and Wynkoop – Orville.33 Course 2 Jerked Tropical Fruit, [...]
Friday, March 11, 2011
Last Sunday, I was brewing. Granted, it was in my kitchen, and the result is a little under 1/6 bbl, or 5 gallons. But I was brewing. I happen to hate silence, most of the time. So for this brew day, I had a Pandora station based off Stevie Ray Vaughn. And it was good. [...]
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