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 […]
Fort Collins Bike Brewery Tour
125 Beers, 19 Breweries, 48 hours – A Fort Collins Bike Brewery Tour Nearly five years ago, I started visiting Colorado breweries my friend, Soren Nicholson. Soren had already been to a bunch of breweries himself through his traveling the state for work. We had a great time visiting breweries here and there along the […]
The Colorado Beer Geek Goes to the 2017 Great American Beer Festival
The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is the Super Bowl of craft beer. It is an overwhelming experience with about 800 breweries pouring nearly 4,000 beers to 60,000 beer geeks this year. Even though the focus of Colorado Beer Geek is to keep track of Colorado breweries that are yet to open – including […]
39 Colorado 2017 GABF Medal winners!
Congratulations to the 2017 Great American Beer festival medal winners from Colorado! 39 medals were awarded to 38 Colorado* Breweries! Lone Tree Brewing won two medals – a Gold and a Silver! There were 14 Colorado Gold Medal winners! C.B. & Potts* Highlands Ranch South German-Style Hefeweizen Big Horn Hefeweizen CooperSmith’s Pub & Brewing Fort […]
Meet Ruth Malone – First Lady of Colorado Breweries
Congratulations to Ruth Malone for becoming the first woman in the state of Colorado to visit all its currently open breweries! I met Ruth and her husband, Patrick, at the closing of the original Caution East location where we were also welcoming the new tenants of that location, Brewability Lab. Later that year, I would […]
Meet Scott Young – The Buckeye Brewer
The “Colorado Brewery Masters”, those who have been to every brewery currently in Colorado, is a small group of people. In order of accomplishment they are Patrick Malone, Stephen Adams (The Colorado Beer Geek), Kevin Harris, and the three Colorado Beer Barons. Earlier this year a seventh person, Scott Young, joined our elite group. I […]
Meet John Vandewater – A Man with a Passion for CO Beer
Welcome John Vandewater as one of the Colorado Brewery Masters, those of us who have visited every Colorado brewery! I first heard about John a couple months ago when he let me know that he had been to over 300 Colorado breweries and wanted to confirm that he’d been to them all. We checked our […]
2016 Colorado Brewers’ Favorite Breweries
With 304 breweries in the state of Colorado, it can be a daunting task determining which ones stand out from the crowd. But who better to help choose than Colorado’s own professional brewers and brewery staff? We emailed all of the breweries in Colorado with a list of questions about their favorite breweries, beers, and […]