Brewery Date and time reviewed: Thu, 15 May 2008 0:34:07 EDT Overall Score: 96.7 Selection: 5 | Service: 5 | Atmosphere: 4.5 | Food: N/A Reviewer: mkiester Santa Fe Brewing Company Sexiest brewery in New Mexico December 4, 2007 Breweries, bars, tasting rooms have different flavors of atmospheres depending on when one is in the establishment. This premise was no more demonstrated than the two times I went to the Santa Fe Brewing Company. Santa Fe Brewing Company (SBC) is a stones throw east of I-25 at the New Mexico Highway 14 exit south of Santa Fe. The sign can be seen from the interstate (only because it was grandfathered-in contrary to Santa Fe ordinance). The brewery in 2008 will be 20 years old, oldest in New Mexico.  read more »

Six Colorado breweries made it on the Brewers Association's list of top 50 craft brewing companies, based on sales volume in 2007.

New Belgium Brewing Co. of Fort Collins ranked highest on the craft brewing trade group's list, behind only top-ranked Boston Beer Co. of Boston and second-ranked Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. of California. All three had the same rankings last year.  read more »

hey nuby here. glad i found you guys. i grew up in wis. drinking alot of beer ( it is kind of a statewide sport their) always the shwag. all about quanity not quality i have lived in colorado for about 6 years now and am hooked on the good stuff. bars here have like 3 domestics and the rest micros on tap. in wis it was the oppisite. and i live 2 blocks from a beer store rated #12!!!!  read more »

Brewpub Date and time reviewed: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:49:53 EDT Overall Score: 93.3 Selection: 4.5 | Service: 5 | Atmosphere: 4.5 | Food: 4.5 Reviewer: mkiester Liquid Bread Brewing Co. Hayes, Ks March 23, 2008 This brewery is near downtown in (OMG where is) Hays, Kansas in middle of wheat country. I arrived on Sunday about 5pm. The bar had a few patrons but the associated restaurant, Gellas was about 50% full. The bar tender (Derrick Tibbetts) was a twice volunteer Air Force Medic to Iraqi. He said the largest produced beer was wheat, mainly because it is used in 3 of their beers, wheat, raspberry wheat and American Hefewiezen. The best selling beer was the Hefeweizen and the Stout.  read more »

So, who wants to go to Colorado with me before it gets snowy? The "Napa Valley" of beer is Colorado. Denver ranks first in the nation in beer production per capita and second in the number of breweries. There are more than 100 breweries statewide. Breweries include Coors, Anheuser-Busch, Rockies Brewing Co, Bristol, Breckenridge, New Belgium, Aspen, Avery, Great Divide, Odell, and more.
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Brew Blog's picks of stories from the beer business and beyond. Heres coverage of Molson Coors Brewing Companys first-quarter earnings from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg . Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse weigh in as well. Anheuser-Busch's Ascent 54 -- a beer now marketed only in Colorado -- goes national this fall as Michelob Dunkel Weisse , reports the Rocky Mountain News. Beer Business Daily (subscription required), remarking on Coors success with packaging innovation, says: Here's a prediction: A-B is fast-tracking some package innovations of its own. Should be interesting to watch whether that develops. The Greensboro (N.C.) News and Record has an interesting story about craft beer dinners hosted by Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem.  read more »

Brewery
Date and time reviewed: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:06:57 EDT

Overall Score: 90.0
Selection: 4.5 | Service: 4.5 | Atmosphere: 4.5 | Food: N/A

Reviewer: cghscamel

Odells is right around the corner from the better known New Belgium but that does not make it a lesser product. Each of the local breweries here in FC have their own identity and personality which is wonderful for the beer consumer.

Odells is a nice size brewery that is growing and trying to keep within its philosophy that smaller batch beer has something to say for itself rather than overloading the beer drinker. The have a constant menu of beers that are available for tasting along with a pilot tray that changes about every month. As other reviewers have mentioned, they are very active in the community with a a way for the customers to support local charities while enjoying their fine products. They had a great small batch variety beerfest last May on their property and I am waiting for the dates for this spring. Nice affair with beer and food at very reasonable costs. Live music made for an afternoon of why Colorado is close to paradise. Music is usually available one day a week at the tasting room. Tours are a couple of hours each day. Staff is very knowledgeable along with degee of friendliness that they are known for. Pretty nice to live here in FC where there are an abundance of breweries and brewpubs that compete with one another but at the same time support each other and get along fairly well. Give Odells a try and you will not be disappointed. Only issue ever is with parking since their front lot is limited, but I see now that they are encouraging parking on the dirt lot right behind the brewery. Well, there has to be some room for improvement.  read more »

Im one of those dwindling NEW BELGIUM BREWING partisans, dwindling at least in the sphere of craft-beer dorks, who see the wide availability and continued high drinkability of FAT TIRE as some kind of sacrilege. Having recently completed a round of trying out all of the key macro micros again, I believe that Fat Tire is the best of the bunch, beating my old favorite Anderson Valley Boont Amber and other 1990s studs like Pyramid Hefeweizen for sheer, good-time beer enjoyment.  read more »

The popularity of drinks festivals is immense. People pack events like the Great American Beer Festival because they are great places to sample a huge range of new brands and reacquaint one's self with old favorites. There are a number of events coming up that are worth attending. Here are just a few:

Whiskey Fest in Chicago, April 4: The folks at Malt Advocate bring together 200 of the world's finest, rarest, and most expensive, single malt and blended Scotch, Irish, Bourbon, Tennessee, Japanese, Welsh, Canadian and other whiskies from around the world for one night. General admission tickets for the event are $110 and you can get early admission VIP entry for just $150. Besides all of the whiskey, you will also find sipping rums, Tequila and beer. During the evening a number of seminars are held with distillery representatives taking guests through sensory experiences while providing history, humor and hard to find samples of great whiskey.  read more »

Brewpub
Date and time reviewed: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 9:35:29 EST

Overall Score: 96.7
Selection: 4.75 | Service: 5 | Atmosphere: 4.75 | Food: N/A

Reviewer: hiikeeba

En route to the National Homebrewers Conference in Denver, our last brewpub stop before Denver was Phantom Canyon Brewing company.

Located in a 1900s building on a corner in downtown Colorado Springs. Plate glass windows wrap around the bar area, giving you a great view of Pike's Peak and downtown, as well as the hot blond in the short black skirt that worked for a local radio station.

We had two pints here. I had John's Mild Bitter and a blonde ale. My cousin had two pints of Blueberry Ale. He offered me a sip. I shoulda had the blueberry!  read more »