Congratulations to the 14 Colorado breweries that ranked in the top 3 of Untappd ratings nationwide in 18 different beer styles. First of all, huge congratulations to Cohesion Brewing and River North Brewery who both took 3 of these top tier rankings!   Colorado breweries ranked #1 in the US in 5 beer styles Brewery Rating Beer Style River North Brewery 4.41 Vicennial: Last Guardian (2023) Belgian Strong Golden Ale Resolute Brewing Company 4.328 BA Execrator (Rye Whiskey) Bock – Doppelbock Crooked Stave Artisan Beer 4.062 See Delight (Cab Franc Lees) Cider – Graff Cohes ..read more

  Do you love craft beer?  Want to get out and see the beautiful state of Colorado?  Do you live along the Front Range and want to visit western Colorado breweries, but aren’t sure how to go about it?  For those who answered “Yes!” to these questions, this is the seventh article in a series of Colorado Brewery Tours that maps out a route of 10 to 18 breweries you can easily visit over an extended-weekend trip.  The previous articles included a Southwest CO Tour, a South Central CO Tour, a San Juan Mountains Tour, a Central Western CO Tour, a Grand Junction Area Tour ..read more

Congratulations to Kerri Van Aken on completing the quest to visit every currently open Colorado brewery!  She has now earned the title of “Colorado Brewery Master,” joining a small group of beer enthusiasts who have also accomplished this feat. I first met Kerri along with her husband, Glen, after he became a Colorado Brewery Master a couple years ago.   While Glen had taken advantage of traveling throughout the state in his pursuit of climbing 14ers and visited many breweries along way, Kerri, who is just as much of a craft beer lover, hadn’t been to many of those mountain bre ..read more

Members of CBL at Collab Fest 2023 After another great year of beer in Colorado, the CBL team wanted to recap our thoughts and experiences in this year-end retrospective. You can read more about the team here. We all answered these three questions: 1. What was your favorite beer this year? 2. What was your favorite beer event or experience this year? 3. What are you looking forward to this coming year in beer?   Ryan Steadman, Founder and CEO of Colorado Brewery List What was your favorite beer this year? I visited a few different states this year, and was again reminded how good we have ..read more

  Hello Fellow Beer Geeks! As Colorado Beer Geek, my main focus is keeping track of upcoming breweries for Colorado Brewery List (CBL).  In doing so, I live up to my “Geek” moniker with my collection of data, (you should see my spreadsheet!). I thought it would be fun to share some of this geeky information with you.   How many Colorado breweries are there? Let’s start with some general numbers: As of the posting of this article, there are 415 open breweries in Colorado! Of those: 372 are a unique or original location and 43 are an additional location of one of t ..read more

So far this year, 25 Colorado breweries have opened their doors. With 16 of those being brand new breweries, and 9 being additional locations of currently opened breweries. For the latest information about more breweries coming to Colorado in 2024, check out our Upcoming Breweries Page and follow Colorado Beer Geek on Facebook. The following list summarizes the openings of 2023. We’ve collected brief descriptions of each location below, but for more information you can click the link to find out more… or better yet, plan your next visit. Presenting the Colorado brewery cla ..read more

Congratulations to the 35 Colorado Breweries that brought home 40 medals from the Great American Beer Festival in 2023! First of all, huge congratulations to Wibby Brewing Company for being chosen as the Brewery and Brewer of the Year for their size category (5,001-15,000 barrels)! Then, in the Pro-Am competition, the gold medal was awarded to “She Fancies Herself A Little Bit French” brewed by CooperSmith’s Pub and Brewing & AHA Member Mark Pennick. A silver medal was also awarded to Rob’s Baltic Porter from New Belgium Brewing Co. and AHA member Rob Hardisty. In the 2023 Collaboration C ..read more

Congratulations to Jeff Parker on completing the quest to visit every currently open Colorado brewery!  He has now earned the title of “Colorado Brewery Master,” joining a small group of beer enthusiasts who have also accomplished this feat. I first heard about Jeff while on a brewery tour with Ryan & Ashley Steadman and they showed me an Instagram post from this guy who kept tagging Colorado Brewery List.  We really enjoyed seeing all of these posts with his iconic pose, (see below) and greatly admired all of the details that he included about the breweries that he visited, espe ..read more

Colorado Brewery Masters – Ashley and Ryan Steadman – Photo credit: The Brewtography Project Congratulations to Ryan & Ashley Steadman on completing the quest to visit every currently open Colorado brewery!  They have both now earned the title of “Colorado Brewery Master,” joining a small group of beer enthusiasts who have also accomplished this feat. My first interactions with Ryan and Ashley were soon after both Colorado Brewery List (CBL) and Colorado Beer Geek (CBG) were created.  At that time, I had very briefly created a CBG website where I had a very simple list of Colorad ..read more

Happy Pride 2023! The LGBTQ+ community has had a longtime friend in the Colorado brewing industry. Here are some of the Colorado breweries that are proudly showing their support through events, rainbow-themed merch, special beer releases, and an outpouring of love for the entire LGBTQ+ community. This is a living article in which I will add more information throughout Pride month as I find out about it.     ************* Queer-Owned Colorado Breweries ************* Colorado has three Queer-Owned breweries!   Read about all of them plus other queer owned/supportive brewerie ..read more