A local brewery known for its inventive beers will soon shutter both of its locations on the Front Range. Incantation Brewing, formerly known as Jade Mountain Brewery & Teahouse, announced its intent to close this week. Saturday will be the last day of business at its satellite taproom and coffee shop, located at 415 S. … Read more
States like Texas, Minnesota and North Carolina host annual beer competitions that celebrate the best pours from local breweries. Given Colorado’s reputation as the “state of craft beer,” brewers here believe a similar contest is warranted to toast an industry that bolsters the local economy to the tune of $2.5 billion per year. That sentiment … Read more
This year’s Great American Beer Festival allowed beverages such as cider and ready-to-drink cocktails to be poured during the event, and cider also was permitted in its prestigious competition for the first time. Colorado cideries made a showing by winning three medals before beer took centerstage, and local breweries once again proved why people from … Read more
There has been a spate of brewery expansions over the past six months as local beer makers look for ways to expand their market and expand their reach. The expansions have included new taprooms from Downhill Brewing (Greenwood Village), Lone Tree Brewing (Parker), Westbound & Down Brewing (Basalt), Cerebral Brewing (Aurora), Verboten Brewing & Barrel … Read more
Breckenridge Brewery, one of the oldest craft beer makers in the state and the subject of two separate corporate buyouts over the past decade, will open yet another chapter in its long life in August by moving into a storied Colorado beer market: Fort Collins. The brewery, now owned by the global cannabis company Tilray, … Read more
Colorado breweries raked in the hardware at this year’s U.S. Open Beer Championship, collecting 38 medals in style categories from American-style pilsener to imperial porter. The winners, announced during a live stream Monday night, were selected from a pool of more than 9,000 entries, competition organizers said. In all, Colorado beer makers scored nine gold … Read more
A bankrupt Edgewater brewery claims to have audio recordings in which its former general manager boasts of filching hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company. Joyride Brewing, at 2501 Sheridan Blvd., has been suing minority owner Grant Babb since December. It accuses him of embezzling or misappropriating $1 million, including by moving money to his other … Read more
A three-year-old Aurora brewery known for its collaborative and sometimes boundary-pushing beers is planning to open a second taproom in Denver sometime this summer. Incantation Brewing — which changed its name from Jade Mountain Brewery and Teahouse in February — is taking a space at 415 S. Cherokee St. that was formerly occupied by Field … Read more
A minority owner of Joyride Brewing in Edgewater says accusations that he misappropriated $1 million from the brewery are frivolous, so he is countersuing it for $170,000. Grant Babb, who was the general manager at Joyride until resigning in October, has been blamed by managing co-owner Dave Bergen of bankrupting the brewery through theft. “This … Read more
Guanella Pass Brewing, which has locations in Georgetown and Empire, is bankrupt. The 7-year-old brewery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Dec. 30. It has $2.3 million in debt, far more than the $860,000 in gross revenue that it earned in 2023. Guanella Pass became Georgetown’s first brewery since Prohibition when it opened in May 2017 at … Read more
