With a total of 313 currently open and unique breweries in the state of Colorado, determining which ones stand out from the crowd can be daunting. But, who better to help choose the top five than Colorado’s own professional brewers and brewery staff? We emailed all of the breweries in Colorado with a list of […]
Archives for December 2017
Gone But Not Forgotten: 2017
2017 brought copious growth to the Colorado craft beer scene with 30 new breweries opening their doors. To say the least, it was an exciting year with plenty of events to celebrate. Unfortunately, with growth there is sometimes reduction and 15 breweries across our great state were liquidated, sold and closed shop for various reasons, […]
Favorite New Brewery of 2017
As of the final days of 2017, there are now 312 currently open unique breweries in the state of Colorado. We at Colorado Brewery List emailed all of them, along with many of those currently under construction, with a list of questions about their favorites and over 100 breweries responded. Thirty new breweries opened in […]
Colorado Brewery Class of 2017
Congratulations to Colorado Brewery Class of 2017! The following 30 Colorado breweries opened this year. There were 25 brand new breweries with 5 new additions from current breweries. The breakdown by region is 11 in the Denver metro, 9 in Boulder country, 5 in North Colorado, 4 scattered through the mountains, and 1 in […]
Thirsty Monk Opening Mid-January
Soon to occupy the former Deep Draft Brewing space on 17th Avenue at Franklin, Thirsty Monk, the revered beer bar and brewery based in North Carolina, is about to bring its “Belgian-rooted modern ales” a mile high. With plans to open the doors this fall and start serving mid-to-late January, the opening will conveniently coincide […]
On The Trail with Woods Boss Brewing
The trails taken on the way to opening a brewery are as varied as the people who open one: doctors, scientists, teachers, students, counselors, and now, a woods boss. Jordan Fink, co-founder and head brewer of Woods Boss Brewing in the Arapahoe Square neighborhood of downtown Denver, has held several jobs across the years, but […]
Bio for Meghan Howes
Greetings beer lovers! My name is Meghan Howes and I’m an Ohio native who moved west (Montana) in 1994 and never looked back. After earning an MFA in creative writing at the University of Montana, I landed in Denver in 1999 and took a writer/editor job with the University of Denver’s law school. For 18+ […]