What are you up to this Friday night? Sure, you could wait for PJ to roll out the weekly Weekend Off The Wagon. It is also First Friday in Denver, which means, depending on your neighborhood, you might have some difficulty finding parking. If you roll up to the north end of the RiNo neighborhood [...]
Taller than a typical pint glass, heavier than a plate of nachos, able to destroy sobriety in a single serving! Look, on the bar! It’s a tube of tennis balls! It’s a cylinder of Pringles! No, it’s the new 19.2 ounce cans from Oskar Blues! Yes, the extra-tallboy cans of Dale’s Pale Ale, strange visitors [...]
March 3. Go to a bar in Denver. Ask for a beer list. You’ll find something awesome, and probably something new. November 18. Go to a bar in Denver. Ask for a beer list. You’ll find something awesome, and probably something new. Maintaining the status quo for beer in this town equates to never standing still, [...]
Wynkoop Brewjolais Nouveau - For more information on this collaboration beer between Wynkoop, New Belgium, and Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery head over to the Wynkoop blog. [We'll share some beer porn every Monday to get your week started off right. Have some of your own? Leave a link in the comments!]
SCIENCE: Style: American Wild Ale ABV: 7.5% OG: 21 TG: 4.7 IBU: 23 SRM: 5.5 Hops: Target, Sorachi Ace, Nelson Sauvin Malt: Pale Yeast: Brettanomyces HISTORY: This beer is actually an indirect product of a beer brewed back in 2004. That year, Peter Bouckaert of New Belgium and Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey got [...]
Danny’s Gold Mine Ale - A collaboration beer brewed at Funkwerks with Crooked Stave, New Belgium, Odell, and Ska in honor of the late Danny Williams. More on this beer here. [We'll share some beer porn every Monday to get your week started off right. Have some of your own? Leave a link in the [...]
SCIENCE: Style: Belgian Pale Ale ABV: 8.0% IBU: 30 SRM: 24 Hops: Liberty, Czech Saaz Malt: Belgian Pale Malt from Colorado Malting Co. Yeast: Special 3-Yeast Belgian Blend from Brewing Science Institute Additives: Shagbark Hickory syrup from Hickoryworks in Trafalgar, Indiana HISTORY: This CAN-laboration (their term, not mine) began as most do, with a friendship [...]
[Press release] Denver, CO – February 23, 2012 - Breckenridge Brewery of Colorado has been neighbor and friend of Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey Distillery since Stranahan’s opened in Denver just a few blocks down Kalamath Street from the brewery. The friendship has blossomed into a collaboration that will bring to market “Stranahan’s Well Built™ E.S.B.,” an Extra Special [...]
There is a new collaboration beer on the horizon for Lyons’ Oskar Blues and Indianapolis’ Sun King Brewing. The collaboration has a long history as OB’s head brewer Dave Chichura started his brewing career back in the late 90s in Indianapolis. He met Dave Colt at Circle V Brewery. Chichura began brewing shortly thereafter at [...]
[Press Release] Fort Collins, CO. – On February 11, 2012, Odell Brewing will release its first single serve brew of the New Year. A uniquely collaborative project, Footprint RegionAle pays tribute to the brewery’s regional distribution. This artful ale is a nod to the ten states that make up what Odell Brewing calls its “distribution [...]
For any of you beer betties who’ve had the pleasure of attending a Crafty Ladies event at Highland Tap & Burger, you know they serve up awesome beers, food, and education at their bi-monthly events. Now they’re taking it to the next level and collaborating with Oskar Blues on their own beer. Don’t miss this [...]
By Justin Lloyd, Ryan Conklin, Kevin Burke, Josh Rapp, Chris Rippe, Charlie Berger, Patrick Crawford, and Casey Capper One of the most amazing aspects of the craft brewing industry is the level of camaraderie, support, and respect among the brewers and individual breweries. They will often lend a hand, share expertise, pitch in to help, [...]
The second installment of the Chef Collaboration Series beers between myself and Bull & Bush Brewery is a hero of a different hue. Being a Chef and being inspired by food and the potential for beer to be seen as food has always been enticing to me. That is why my mission is to create [...]
New Belgium is planning two new Lips of Faith batches, both collaborations of sorts. One is a brew with Clutch, a hard-rock band out of Maryland. The other is a collaboration between New Belgium and Elysian, and will be New Belgium’s first pumpkin beer. BeerNews.org has more details, but here’s the label description for Clutch: [...]
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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