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Colorado breweries win 27 medals at World Beer Cup
Colorado breweries earned 27 medals at the World Beer Cup, with 22 breweries recognized including 19 independent craft brewers.
Old 121 Brewhouse to celebrate 7th anniversary
Old 121 Brewhouse will celebrate its seventh anniversary in Lakewood with beer releases, live music and a bluegrass brunch March 28-29.
Colorado Collaboration Fest 2026 features 160 breweries
Colorado Collaboration Fest returns April 4 in Westminster with 160 breweries pouring 120 beers, including a welcome IPA brewed by GABF brewery of the year winners.
Colorado brewers win 36 awards at Great American Beer Festival
Colorado breweries earned 36 medals and three brewery of the year titles at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival, marking a record-breaking year.
Colorado craft beer enters new era of consolidation
Colorado craft beer faces closures and change as major breweries including Denver Beer, Great Divide and Funkwerks join forces, signaling industry consolidation.
Amid COVID, craft brewers see the can half-full
Many breweries turned to canning beers and building a model resilient enough to survive a slow winter. For Ska Street Brewstillery in Boulder, they kept brewing and found a market thirsty for canned beer, which made up about half of all sales before the pandemic.
Beer in 2021 and beyond
Breweries that want to not only survive but to thrive on the other side will need to change and adapt. 2021 may or may not mark the end of the pandemic, but it will certainly bring additional twists and turns for breweries as they weather the current crisis and position for growth in the coming years. As 2020 finally nears its end, here are some items to watch in 2021.
Mesa County breweries start to reopen and recover
After months of shutdown, initial Mesa County public health variances prevented breweries in the region from re-opening, causing sales to plummet even further than they already had. Now able to reopen, here is the story of how two Mesa County Breweries are dealing with the process of recovery.
