Create Denver Week gets own Catalyst beer, thanks to Wynkoop, six other...
WynkoopArtists collaborated on the beer handle for Catalyst beer, too Most creative work is collaborative – only a handful of creative categories hinge on what springs from one artist’s brain. So it’s...
View ArticleGABF sellout, Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout top most-read blog posts in ’12
Denver Post Great Divide's GABF medal haul Tis the season for lists. With that, we give you another: the Top 20 most-read blog posts on First Drafts this year. Of note: - The Great American Beer...
View ArticleBreckenridge Brewery under contract for new brewery site
Breckenridge will be able to make more of these (Denver Post file) After a lengthy and sometimes frustrating process, Breckenridge Brewery is under contract on property for a new brewery site that will...
View ArticleBreckenridge-Wynkoop empire expanding to Fort Collins with new restaurant
The building that became Ghost Plate and Tap in Denver after it was acquired by Wynkoop-Breckenridge (Denver Post file) The folks at Breckenridge-Wynkoop are finalizing a deal on a 10,000-square-foot...
View ArticleShipping of Wynkoop’s ballsy beer on hold
The ballsy label (courtesy Wynkoop) Update (1:45 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22): Wynkoop reported the following on Facebook today: “It looks like we have found a shipping service for you non-Denver folks...
View ArticleHoisting beers with Dave Barry
Denver Post Dave Barry started the night with wine. He should really check out Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. I look forward to getting together over a beer or two with humorist Dave Barry about every 10...
View ArticleSam Adams’ move to cans reverberates in Colorado, where the movement was born
When Jim Koch of Boston Beer Co. announced this week that his flagship Samuel Adams Boston Lager would be available in cans, he didn’t just join the crowd. The largest craft brewer in the country spent...
View ArticleWynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout arrives in cans – two packs, of course
Provided by Wynkoop Brewing Yes, that is what you think it is. Another chapter in one of Colorado brewing’s greatest marketing success stories in recent memory will be written Monday, when cans of beer...
View ArticleBreckenridge-Wynkoop Fort Collins project, The MainLine, won’t ‘be another...
provided by Breckenridge Brewing Renderings of the front door of the latest Breckenridge concept, in FoCo Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC’s first restaurant in Fort Collins will be called The MainLine – and...
View ArticleWynkoop brews Vonnegut beer for Breakfast of Champions dinner
Denver Post file photo Kurt Vonnegut All this happened, more or less. The beer parts, anyway, are pretty much true. As the story goes, novelist Kurt Vonnegut and Governor John Hickenlooper’s father...
View ArticleWynkoop Brewing outside sales booming
Wynkoop sales and delivery staff Matt Labate, CJ Fishler and Dan Appell (provided by Wynkoop Brewing). Colorado’s pioneering brewpub wasn’t exactly gathering dust in LoDo, but a recent push by Wynkoop...
View ArticleWynkoop planning expanded barrel program, tasting room in renovated basement...
Wynkoop’s barrels will soon have a new home – which will make Andy Brown happy (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post) Denver’s pioneering Wynkoop Brewing Co. is planning to renovate basement space at...
View ArticleOur favorite beers of 2013
Beer is good. (Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post) It’s an amazing time to be drinking beer in Colorado. From the continued excellence of established brewers to the maturation of more recent arrivals and...
View ArticleColorado gains another female head brewer, new Avery and Funkwerks sours,...
News roundup: Colorado gains another female head brewer, new sours from Avery and Funkwerks, can releases galore, tap room growing pains and more
View ArticleGoldspot Brewing opening near Regis with 'properly made beer'
A lot of folks in the brewing industry hold down other jobs, and the guy behind the bar at Denver's newest start-up neighborhood brewery can tell you a thing or two about insurance.
View ArticleA farewell to First Drafts
First Drafts began as a collective, a group of Denver Post journalists whose day jobs were as disparate as writing about courts, city hall or anything that needed doing.
View ArticleScouting GABF 2015: Ryan Brawn on New England region
Brawn is the author of HoppyBoston.com, a New England focused beer blog. He lives in the Boston suburb of Watertown after previous stints in Connecticut and Maine, and has a long term goal of visiting...
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