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Q/A with David Lin as Comrade Brewing Joins 2025 Mile High Asian Food Week
April 25, 2025 | Tristan Chan
Despite serving as a hotbed for Chinese immigrants who helped construct the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, Colorado hasn’t had the best history in embracing Asian culture. In fact, the Denver Riot of 1880, led by a white mob, resulted in the destruction of Denver’s Chinatown and ultimately displaced much of that initial influx of the region’s Asian population.
2025 Colorado Beer Festivals & Events Guide | April – August 2025
April 24, 2025 | Tristan Chan
The 2025 beer festival season is already well underway, with last weekend’s Collaboration Fest serving as the unofficial kick-off. As we close in on more consistently warmer weather in the … Read More
The PorchCast Ep. 116 | Fiction Beer Co.
April 16, 2025 | Tristan Chan
In episode 116 of the PorchCast, Tristan, Bryant, and Korey spoke with Ted Menendez and Elise Sjostedt, two of the seven new owners of Fiction Beer Co who helped revive the brewery after its announced closure in December.
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Pour List & Can’t-Miss Beers to Try at the 2025 Collaboration Fest
April 14, 2025 | Tristan Chan
Throughout its eleven year existence, the Colorado Brewers Guild’s Collaboration Fest has not only captured the incredible spirit of camaraderie and togetherness that helped fuel the explosion of the craft beer industry for nearly three decades, but it has also served as a platform for experimentation and innovation for Colorado’s diverse brewing landscape.
Hogshead Brewery | Gilpin Black Gold
April 11, 2025 | Nath Pizzolatto
Before I moved to Denver, I covered food and drink for local alt-weekly publications like the Houston Press and Houstonia. That was a great experience in that I learned a lot, developed my palate, and also got the opportunity to try lots of unique beers and other offerings.
But at a certain point, I was getting invited out to taste so many rare, incredibly heavy beers — 15 to 20% Barrel-Aged Imperial Stouts, Barleywines, and the like — and at some point, I realized that in my free time, I didn’t want to drink like that.
Milieu Fermentation Company | smol.
March 25, 2025 | Britt Antley
The Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer is a legendary beer festival and competition held annually in Chicago. Each year breweries from across the U.S. enter their barrel-aged creations for judging, hoping to earn a coveted medal in one of 13 categories. As expected from a competition highlighting barrel-aged beer, most entries are high ABV bruisers where a couple sips is all the flavor and alcohol a drinker could reasonably handle.
Milieu Fermentation Company of Aurora, Colorado, bucked the trend by entering smol., a 2.7% ABV barrel-aged mixed culture ale made in collaboration with Baere Brewing Company in neighboring Denver. For their effort, they were handsomely rewarded with a gold medal in the Wild Beer Mixed Culture (Acidic) category, a huge honor for a tiny beer.
Prost Brewing Announces Plans to Open Fifth Location in Wheat Ridge
March 5, 2025 | Tristan Chan
While the Colorado craft beer scene has experienced its share of closures in recent years, one local brewery brand has continued its meteoric rise. Prost Brewing, which first launched its LoHi location in 2009, has announced plans to open its fifth biergarten location located in the Clear Creek Crossing development in Wheat Ridge, CO.
First Look | Denver’s Full Frame Beer Opens Today in Former Jagged Mountain Space
February 28, 2025 | Tristan Chan
Full Frame Beer, which officially opens to the public today, Friday, February 28, 2025, may feel familiar to beer fans on the surface. However, to those with a discerning eye and palate, its subtleties should quickly come into focus.
Major Colorado Brewery Openings, Closures, Mergers Kick Off 2025
February 27, 2025 | Tristan Chan 2
There’s never a dull moment in Colorado’s tumultuous craft beer landscape, and if the first two months of 2025 are any indication, then beer fans better buckle up. In the … Read More
2025 Collaboration Fest Announces Initial List of 180 Collaborating Breweries
February 24, 2025 | Tristan Chan
The field is officially set for the 2025 Collaboration Fest and this year’s event is shaping up to be an all-timer. With just over two months until one of Colorado’s signature beer festivals returns to take center stage, the Colorado Brewer’s Guild has released its initial list of collaborating breweries, including a record-breaking 180+ participants.
Odell Brewing Co. | Thunder Lizard Hoppy Ale
February 18, 2025 | Brian Haitz
Few things pair better with a fresh powder day in Colorado’s high country than a mountainside pint. Such moments led to the inception of Copper Mountain and Odell Brewing Co.’s slopeside collaboration—Thunder Lizard hoppy ale. To celebrate the grand opening of Copper Mountain’s upgraded Timberline Express chairlift (known as T-Rex for short), the resort teamed up with its exclusive beer partner, Odell Brewing Co. to create a beer as thrilling as the lift it honors.
Recapping the Best Beers from 2025 WeldWerks Invitational Festival
February 13, 2025 | Britt Antley
Despite much news to the contrary, the beer festival as we know it is not dead. While your mom and pop fest featuring a couple local breweries’ standard pours is indeed not doing well in the current climate, there is still room for a top notch festival featuring the best breweries and their best beers to thrive. To that latter end, the 2025 WeldWerks Invitational Festival was a roaring success.
Full List of 2025 Colorado Pint Day Brewery Locations Announced
February 10, 2025 | Jennie Olson
Colorado Pint Day is back for its monumental 10th year, and trust us, you won’t want to miss it. This year’s event is set to be held on Wednesday, March 5th – the perfect midweek pick-me-up that’s aimed at helping Colorado breweries boost business during typically slower periods.
Where to Find Pliny the Younger in Colorado in 2025
February 6, 2025 | Tristan Chan
Pliny the Younger season is upon us yet again! The iconic Triple IPA that has inspired so much fanfare and fervor, along with its share of imitators, is finally back in the Centennial state. Each February, Russian River Brewing‘s limited release of Pliny the Younger is treated as an unofficial beer holiday at both of the brewery’s Santa Rosa and Windsor locations and in the limited out-of-state markets that are lucky enough to receive shipments.
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Pour List Preview | 2025 WeldWerks Invitational Festival Can’t-Miss Beers
February 4, 2025 | Tristan Chan
After what seems like the longest month in the history of existence, February has finally arrived and the onset of Stout Month already looks bright. Believe it or not, the 2025 WeldWerks Invitational returns THIS SATURDAY, and even more astounding is the fact that a handful of tickets still remain for this god-tier beer festival.
OFFICIAL RESULTS | Inaugural Colorado Brewers Cup Crowns Medalists
January 25, 2025 | Tristan Chan
Colorado has long been regarded as one of the country’s premier craft beer leaders both from a quality and quantity perspective. Home to the fifth most breweries per capita, birthplace … Read More
Wiley Roots Brewing | Vanilla Pseudonym
January 17, 2025 | Britt Antley
Barrel-aged beer often takes inspiration from the spirit it uses, but rarely does that inspiration lead to the name of the beer and subsequent series of releases. Seeking to source barrels for an Imperial Stout back in 2017, Wiley Roots Brewing was drawn to utilizing a local distillery instead of a broker. They landed on Laws Whiskey House. “Knowing the quality of Laws and their products made it an easy choice, especially knowing they have a lot of intentionality about where their barrels go,” says Dave Frediani, head brewer at Wiley Roots. Laws began under a pseudonym, Gargoyle Enterprises, in its initial distilling phase to ensure they were creating a product that would eventually be worthy of the Laws name. This became the inspiration for the release of the original Pseudonym in 2018, which would morph into an entire -nym series (Acronym, Homonym, Autonym, and Anonym so far) and lead to the release of Vanilla Pseudonym 6+ years later.
13 Can’t Miss Colorado Craft Beer Events to Close out the Year & Kick Off 2025
December 23, 2024 | Tristan Chan
It may be the final two weeks of the year, but the Colorado craft beer scene isn’t taking any time off. With the holiday season in full swing and the … Read More
Copper Kettle | 12 Beers of Christmas
December 11, 2024 | Scott Grossman
Continuing a beloved 11-year tradition, Denver’s Copper Kettle Brewing will begin tapping its 12 Beers of Christmas on December 13. In homage to the well-known Christmas song, Copper Kettle releases one beer a day in the countdown to the holiday. The daily beers are small-batch, unique brews not featured on the brewery’s regular taplist. Read More
Testimonial | The Payroll Dept. is the Solution to Your Brewery’s HR & Payroll Needs
December 10, 2024 | Tristan Chan
While beer has long played a central role in the advancement of modern civilization, ironically, today’s modern craft breweries often still struggle to innovate when it comes to managing their own internal processes.
Sure, huge leaps have been made in hop varietal development and in the realm of brewing processes, but everyday tasks like human resources management, recruitment and hiring practices, and payroll management are often overlooked and become internal bottlenecks.
Luckily, our friends at the Payroll Department have become a proven resource for breweries by prioritizing the human element first, while also keeping up with the advanced technological support needed to keep up in today’s market.
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