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This coming weekend (May 4-5), Denverites will descend upon the southern burb of Littleton, CO for the inaugural South Denver Beer Fest, with over 60 breweries, both local and national (and a couple of Belgians, as well as a couple of local distillers). Unfortunately the Fest will carry on without roughly 8 breweries planned for [...]
This year’s Craft Brewers Conference, held in Washington, D.C.’s convention center from March 26-29, was the largest ever held. Attendance was 6,400, about a third higher than last year’s Craft Brewer Conference in San Diego. BrewExpo America, the trade show associated with the conference, had 440 vendors, with enough booths to fill an entire city [...]
I feel a small amount of guilt in writing this, the second post in a row not really about beer. However, it needs to be said: craft spirits is blowing up, son! Look, we’re all beer nerds here; you don’t read a beer blog hosted by RateBeer.com without being somewhat nerdy about beer. We all wonder why [...]
So, a long while ago I wrote here about Mead, and its comeback, and its relevance to craft beer. Well, I’m back writing about it again. I love the stuff, admittedly. And while I have only seen 2 non-Colorado meads on even the nerdiest of liquor store shelves (CO itself only has 4 producers of [...]
Earlier this month I attended THE Big Beers, Belgians, & Barlywines Fest in Vail, Colorado. I emphasized the ‘THE’ because, in short, it oozes as much (potentially more) awesomesauce than GABF. Sam Calagione has gone on record saying it’s his favorite fest every year. And it pretty well proves itself: a tasting of 67 [...]
John McClane drops Hans Gruber off the top of Nakatomi Plaza, U2 charmed our hearts and won a grammy, and gas was 91¢ a gallon. The year is 1988, and America had just begun to feel good about itself again. But more importantly to this blog, Craft Beer was very much in an infant stage [...]
Ah, late-December. That time of season for year-end reviews and Top Ten lists. But while some beer-writers decided to go with a straight-forward Top Ten Beers list, I decided to take a stranger road. A lesser traveled road of lesser-traveled beers, as it were. Now, since I live in Denver, I could only get my [...]
So, if you follow any of your favorite local breweries on Twitter or Facebook, or you regularly check in on the Brewer’s Association (or their other page CraftBeer.com), you have no doubt heard by now that The Brewers Association has issued a press release (available in full here) calling out the macro-brewers for their veiled [...]
In October I went to Porto Alegre/RS, and I was invited to talk about my blog All Beers in a beer program call Extra-Malt. Already in town, I decided to meet some beer points and try some local craft beers.
2012 has been a helluva year for Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver. Local nerds will know Wynkoop as Colorado’s first brewpub, co-founded by now-governor John Hickenlooper, and a place that makes, until recently, okay beer that won’t excite nor disappoint. At least, those were my feelings for much of 2010-2011. For a place boasting “Colorado’s First”, it [...]