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In the U.S., GF foods have pulled in an estimated $2.6 billion across supermarkets and restaurants. And even though only an estimated 1% of people have celiac–the digestive disorder that makes gluten a poison–craft brewers are clamoring to get a piece of the buckwheat-crust pie. Gluten is found in all the delicious grains commonly used to [...]
The Great American Beer Festival is an event of intergalactic proportions. Visualize a science fiction or comic convention, teeming with hoards of costumed fans waiting in line to meet their idols, and then start pouring them beers. That is the sort of dedicated fandom, and community, that craft brewing has inspired over the past three [...]
I think we can all say that we are, by now, fully recovered from another amazing Great American Beer Fest week. I myself have had 4 beers since last Saturday, and doing great. But you know who is really doing great? The city of Denver. Because unlike the Olympics who comes into your city and [...]
It’s been a pretty big couple of weekends for beer drinkers. Oktoberfest is back, the world-renowned festival of springtime, accordians, bratwurst, and märzens celebrated from sea to shining sea. Much in line with the festival’s roots in 19th century Germany, it is a fest of the common man, German or not. But after going to Denver’s [...]
It really didn’t take long for Denver to become a beer town. Incorporated in 1861, it got its first brewery 3 years earlier in 1859, founded by German entrepreneurs looking to quench the thirst of Rocky Mountain gold miners. But it was 7 years later (and literally a block away) that a German-born man named Mortiz Sigi [...]
Well, the annual GABF excitement has begun. Breweries Twitter feeds are pumping the hype, the attending breweries list has been released, the Pro-Am beers named and submitted, oh, and the 2nd Annual Oskar Blues Ordeal has been announced. That last one you may not have heard of, mainly due to the whole “2nd Annual” bit. That’s [...]
Yesterday (7/27/12) I had the delightful opportunity to go to the Denver Summer Brew Fest. It wasn’t my first time, and I had also gone to one of the accompanying Winter Brew Fests as well. But it was yesterday that I realized that I look forward to this shindig about as much as I do [...]
There are a few people in the know, mostly along Colorado’s front range, about the AC Golden Brewing Company. If you go to a beerfest touting rare brews, craft lagers, sours, or high-ABV beers, or any good beer bar reputing the same, chances are good you’ll find one of their beers there. But there are [...]
The results are in: the readers of Zymurgy Magazine, this country’s premier homebrewing bi-monthly published by the American Homebrewer’s Association, have unanimously voted in favor of the Hop. In their annual “Best Commercial Beers In America” poll, 8 of the top 10 vote-getters were IPAs, Double IPAs, and a Pale Ale. And for the fourth [...]
If you’ve been following the news the past two weeks, you know that Colorado has suffered a pretty rough summer, to put it lightly. Wildfires have sparked, seemingly spontaneously, around the Fort Collins, Boulder, and Colorado Springs communities. The most devastating of these, set in Waldo Canyon just a stone’s throw west of Colorado Springs, has destroyed [...]