CBC Week Specialty Beer Releases Guide

Much like we’ve come to know from when the Great American Beer Festival come to town, one of the major external benefits of major industry centric events like next week’s … Read More

Stone Brewing Sells Berlin World Bistro & Gardens Facility to BrewDog

After just three years, the Stone Brewing experiment in Germany is over. Founder Greg Koch penned a letter via the Stone Brewing blog to announce the sale of their Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Berlin to BrewDog.

Koch’s letter cited several reasons that lead to Stone Berlin’s demise including bureaucracy, construction hold-ups, cultural price point preferences and more.

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Avery Brewing Expands Majority Investment with Mahou San Miguel

This morning, Boulder-based Avery Brewing announced that it has increased its partnership with Spanish family-owned Mahou San Miguel. What began as a minority 30% ownership agreement announced in November 2017, … Read More

Brewers Association Announces America’s 50 Fastest Growing Breweries

As the craft beer landscape begins entering mid-stage maturation from the majority of its brewery base, expansive growth becomes more and more common among younger breweries.

Today the Brewers Association, … Read More

The Big Reveal to Crown Colorado’s Best IPA in Unique Blind Tasting

We’re stripping away all the labels, obscuring the flashy names, and getting back to basics with a good old fashioned blind tasting event to crown Colorado’s best traditional American-style IPA (sorry Brut and Hazy fans, your time will come eventually).

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Old121 Brewhouse Opening in Lakewood’s Former Caution Brewing Spot

It’s incredible what can be accomplished over post-shift drinks, new friendships, new relationships, new business plans, and in the case of Old121 Brewhouse, ironically enough, a new brewery.

Lakewood, Colorado’s … Read More

We’re Giving Away Tickets to Saturday’s 2019 Collaboration Fest

122 collaboration projects, uniting 195 breweries spanning 41 different states, along with two international breweries. Collaboration Fest returns this Saturday, at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Denver.

What has grown … Read More

BREAKING | America’s 2018 Top 50 Largest Breweries by Volume

Every year the Brewers Association releases their list of the top 50 breweries by volume based on overall craft beer sales for the previous year.
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Event Preview | 2019 Wynkoop Day of Dorks Festival Pour List

Celebrating uniqueness is a cornerstone of the American craft beer industry. From foraged ingredients to revived ancient ales, new pilot hop varieties, and yes even pastry stouts, American brewers have … Read More

Editorial | The Time for Women to Run the Beer Industry is Now

The time for women to run this beer industry is now. Despite the efforts of stodgy scared obstinate old curmudgeons like Bill Metzger, the former co-publisher of the Great Lakes … Read More

The Big Reveal Tickets On Sale | Crown Colorado’s Best Traditional IPA

The Colorado Brewers Guild has partnered with PorchDrinking.com and Union Station to launch the debut of The Big Reveal, taking place on Saturday, March 23, 2019, during the 2019 Colorado Craft Beer Week. Tickets are on sale NOW!

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2019 Collaboration Fest Pour List Reveals Extreme Experimentation

In an age when beer festivals have become a dime a dozen, Collaboration Fest remains a bastion of creativity and innovation. With 122 collaboration projects, uniting 195 breweries spanning 41 … Read More

Lady Justice Brewing Teams with Alamo Drafthouse on Astral Aviator

The powerful women behind Denver’s Lady Justice Brewing (LJB) have teamed up with Alamo Drafthouse to support the powerful women behind Girls Rock Denver, and it seems only appropriate that they’re doing so during the week of International Women’s Day.

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2019 WeldWerks Invitational Tickets Go on Sale Saturday

How do you top perfection? I think we’re about to find out. WeldWerks Brewing, already one of the country’s hottest rising breweries, debuted one of the country’s most impressive beer festivals in last year’s inaugural WeldWerks Invitational. Allow me to reiterate, not just one of the best new beer festivals, one of the country’s best beer festivals period. And now we know a few details about 2019’s follow up performance.

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Pour List | Win Tickets to Saturday’s Boulder Winter Craft Beer Festival

Now in its fifth year, Winter Craft Beer Festival returns to Boulder this Saturday to once again showcase some of independent craft beer’s best winter seasonals. This year’s fest … Read More

The PorchCast Ep 58 | Goldspot Brewing’s Kelissa Hieber

In episode 58 of The PorchCast, the full PorchCast crew reunited to speak with Kelissa Hieber, of Goldspot Brewing to talk about their big year of change and preview this weekend’s 4th Anniversary Party.

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Join PorchDrinking & Alamo Drafthouse for Founders CBS Tapping

Have you had a chance to try one of the country’s most hyped beer releases? Next Tuesday, February 26, join PorchDrinking.com and Alamo Drafthouse Littleton for a special tapping of the 2019 vintage of Founders Brewing’s CBS, Canadian Breakfast Stout, along with a Founders tap takeover featuring more from the Grand Rapids-based brewery.

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2019 Collaboration Fest Announces List of Collaborating Breweries

Over the past six years, Denver’ Collaboration Fest has grown to represent the foundation of which this industry was built upon. Fostering a deep sense of community, pairing neighbors, friends from … Read More

Wynkoop’s Beer Drinker of the Year to Win Free Beer for Life

It’s the ultimate test of endurance, fortitude, knowledge and charisma, we’re not talking about the Jeopardy, this isn’t Ultimate Ninja Warrior, and it certainly isn’t the Olympics, but combine all three and add a whole lot more beer and you just might be onto something. Tomorrow, Denver’s most historic craft brewery, Wynkoop Brewing, will once again crown one knowledgeable beer fan the title of Beer Drinker of the Year.

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Where to Find 2019 Pliny the Younger in Colorado

In an age when names like Assassin, CBS, Duck Duck Gooze, Hunahpu and Medianoche are uttered with extreme reverence among craft beer fanatics, Russian River Brewing‘s Pliny the Younger still manages … Read More