2020 was a particularly rough year for Colorado breweries for obvious reasons, in which we sadly saw the closure of 32 breweries. Of the 32 total locations that closed, there were actually only 23 complete Colorado business closures. Two breweries, Boulder Beer & Good River Beer, are still in production and can be found on beer […]
Colorado Breweries Win 26 GABF 2020 Medals!
Congratulations to the 22 Colorado Breweries that brought home 26 medals from the Great American Beer Festival! Denver Beer Company along with their partner brewery, Cerveceria Colorado, won a Gold and two Silver medals! Cannonball Creek Brewing Company won a Gold and two Bronze medals! Colorado won 8 Gold Medals! Wibby Brewing Longmont Volksbier Vienna […]
How To Plan The Perfect Brewery Tour
Good Day and Good Beer, ladies and gentlemen! Now that many breweries are open again and we have a few good warm days left in the year, it may be time to plan that Perfect Brewery Tour. Planning your tour is super easy with the help of Colorado Brewery List, but there are a few […]
CBL/CBG Western Tour 2020
About this time last year, Stephen Adams, aka Colorado Beer Geek went west with fellow Colorado Brewery Masters Patrick and Ruth Malone to get caught up on holding the title of visiting every brewery in Colorado, (there are currently about 400 not counting the secondary taprooms on our list). If you’d like to read about […]
Colorado Brewery Pride 2020
Happy Pride 2020! While it is sad that the main Denver Pride Festival & Parade, (which drew over 500,000 attendees in 2019) has gone virtual this year, our spirits won’t be dampened. The LGBTQ+ Community has had a longtime friend in the Colorado brewing industry. So even though this Pride looks a bit different […]
What to Expect From Your Next Brewery Visit Post-Lockdown
With contributions by Ryan Steadman and the CBL team For us craft beer fans, it has been a tough couple of months not being able to visit our favorite breweries, taprooms, and brewpubs. Likewise it has been a difficult time for business owners as well, since they’ve been missing out on regular revenue from taproom […]
2020 March Madness Winner: Launch Pad Brewery
Good Day and Good Beer Everyone! I recently had the chance to finally sit down with the Colorado Brewery List’s March Madness 2020 Winners, Launch Pad Brewery! I spoke with the owner, Dave Levesque, and head brewer, Paul Mahoney, to talk shop. *I will issue my own disclaimer here, if there is any brewery in […]
Brewery Spotlight: Barquentine Brewing Company
Note: This article was written shortly after Barquentine opened in late February, (pre Covid-19). Good Day and Good Beer Everyone! In today’s spotlight we are exploring one of Colorado’s newest breweries, Barquentine Brewing Company. I was lucky enough to have been one of the very first customers at Barquentine on their opening day which happened […]