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 […]
Collaborations and Annotations: Our Review of GABF 2017
Autumn in Colorado inevitably brings pumpkin spiced everything, the quest to peep the changing leaves, and a renewed football frenzy. But the most exciting indicator of fall – to us beer connoisseurs at least – is the Great American Beer Festival. And while most beer nerds agree that GABF is the festival of the year, […]
Five Senses, Four Hours, and Thousands of Beers: A Sensory Tour of GABF
Here you are – The Great American Beer Festival. The dull roar from thousands of voices envelops you. You are in the middle of a throng, herded into a lane to wait until the stroke of beer o’clock. Trying not to feel intimidated or anxious, you distract yourself by thinking about your journey ahead and […]
Let’s Talk About Beer Fight Club
The first rule of Beer Fight Club is to definitely talk about Beer Fight Club. This exciting blind-tasting event, which pits some of Colorado’s best craft breweries against one another, is back in action for round four on October 21st from 4:00 – 7:00 pm at Tap Fourteen (1920 Blake Street). This fun competition is […]
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 […]
At Factotum, #itsjustbeer
Walk into Factotum Brewhouse, located at 3845 Lipan Street in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood, and you immediately feel at home. That feeling is by design, and co-owner Laura Bruns wouldn’t have it any other way. The importance of the look and feel of a neighborhood establishment is exactly what Laura had in mind when she, along […]
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 […]