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 […]

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 […]

Brewing your first beer takes time and money. Many hours of research goes into recipe formulation and you must purchase the proper equipment and ingredients. It’s a daunting task, to say the least. That’s where CO-Brew comes in. Perfectly situated in the heart of Denver, CO-Brew is Denver’s first and only homebrewing store, brew-on-premises and […]

What will you find when you walk through the doors of Brewability Lab? Lots of welcoming, smiling faces! I stumbled upon this newly-opened gem tucked away in an industrial lot that used to be CAUTION: Brewing’s Denver location. Located just 12 minutes west of Denver International Airport, Brewability Lab offers the perfect pit stop before heading out of […]

When I sat down with David Levesque from Launch Pad Brewery, he said the two things that he wanted people to know about the brewery were that it is veteran-owned and that they want patrons to feel like family. You cannot walk into this brewery without getting a feeling for both of these virtues, and […]

America has a drinking establishment identity problem. Where in other countries the bar, the pub, the brewery is the gathering place of the community, here in America it is not so. Blame it on the suburbs. Blame it on the internet. Blame it on puritanism. Blame it on prohibition. Whatever may be the cause, a […]