Funkwerks Celebrates the Longest Day of the Year with their 2nd Annual Summer Solstice Party
Funkwerks is celebrating the longest day of the year with their Second Annual Summer Solstice Patio Party.
What: Funkwerks, specializer of niche-style craft beers, is celebrating the longest day of the year with their Second Annual Summer Solstice Patio Party—and they will be open late for all the fun!
While sipping a fruity Raspberry Provincial or refreshing Hella Helles, jam to live music from Fat Stallion (start at 4 p.m.) and J.W. Schuller Band (from 7 to 9 p.m.).
Special guests Topo Designs and Ryan Dykstra Records will be in the house showing off their inspired creations. Hungry? Shuck Brothers will be nearby to satiate your seafood cravings, serving up fresh, raw oysters, buttery Maine lobster rolls, and delicious garlic fries.
Beer will be flowing until 10 p.m., so put on some sunscreen, grab your shades and some friends and meet on the patio!
When: Friday, June 21, 2019 from 4 - 10 p.m.
Where: Funkwerks (1900 E Lincoln Ave Unit B, Fort Collins, CO 80524)
For more information, contact chea@radcraftbeer.com.
About Funkwerks
Founded in 2009 by brewers Gordon Schuck and Brad Lincoln, Funkwerks is a specialty craft brewery specializing in Saison, Sour, and Belgian-style craft beers made in their small brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado. The 2012 winner of the Small Brewery of the Year Award at the Great American Beer Festival, Funkwerks beers are available in nine US States.
Ska Brewing Decks Out World Headquarters Roof With 223 Solar Panels
The brewery has partnered with Durango’s Shaw Solar to install a grid-tied solar power system on as much of the surface area of its roof as possible.
photo by Shaw Solar
DURANGO, CO— Ska Brewing is excited to announce the installation of 223 solar panels courtesy of Shaw Solar at its World Headquarters, just in time for Summer Solstice. These new solar panels will generate enough energy to brew approximately 545,000 pints each year.
The brewery has partnered with Durango’s Shaw Solar to install a grid-tied solar power system on as much of the surface area of its roof as possible— 68 kilowatts from 223 panels to be exact.
These new solar panels join the insulation in the brewery’s walls made out of blue jeans, the bar and tables made from bowling alley lanes, and grass and flowers quenched by recycled water at Ska’s World Headquarters as part of the company’s long-term sustainability plan. They will provide about a quarter of the brewery’s electricity. The rest is wind-powered.
“This project with Shaw was a long time coming,” says Ska Founder Dave Thibodeau. “We’ve always aligned our company mission with sustainability efforts, especially those that directly impact Durango. Now we can proudly say that our independently owned craft brewery is independent from the grid.”
Ska Brewing’s new solar panel installation is now complete, and brewery guests can celebrate at this evening’s Sol-BQ event at World Headquarters with some live punk/ska music from Warsaw Poland Bro that begins at 5pm.
If you have questions about Ska’s new solar panels, or any of its sustainability initiatives, contact Emily Hutto at coop@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT SKA BREWING
Based in Durango, Colorado, Ska Brewing was founded in 1995 and produces more than a dozen award-winning beers fueled with Ska music, and lots of it. Pioneers in the canned craft beer movement, Ska Brewing is known for an array of styles in 12 oz cans that include Mexican Logger, Modus Hoperandi, and Rue B. Soho. For information (a lot of it), more music, and a good time, visit www.skabrewing.com.
ABOUT SHAW SOLAR
Shaw Solar is Durango's leading full-service solar contracting company, specializing in both residential and commercial projects. Known for their creative solar solutions, Shaw Solar has spent the past two decades bringing "Solar Power to the People", and as a result has installed roughly half of the solar in our area, including LPEA's first grid-tied system back in 2001 and first Solar Garden in 2015. Learn more at shawsolar.com.
Lone Tree Brewing Company To Debut Cucumber Wheat Cans at Summer Carnival on June 17
This year the brewery is hosting the Summer Carnival just five days before Summer Solstice.
Photo by Colin Bridge
LONE TREE, CO — Lone Tree Brewing Company likes to celebrate the longest days of the year. This year the brewery is hosting the Summer Carnival on Saturday, June 17, just five days before summer solstice. This celebration will feature a strawberry-infused batch of Lone Tree’s Blonde Ale and the debut of the brewery’s popular Cucumber Wheat Beer in cans.
This American Wheat beer has fresh cucumber flavors and just enough hop profile for a crisp finish. It was first brewed for Lone Tree’s 2016 Summer Solstice Celebration, one of the brewery’s signature annual events.
This year, the party has all the carnival fixin’s of a day at the fair, including lawn games, live music by the School of Rock Aurora, face painting by Emma Paints Colorado, and concessions by the Elevation 5280 food truck. This event’s infamous charity dunk tank will benefit the Front Range Center for Assault Prevention. Here is the detailed calendar of amusements—
Elevation 5280: Street Food Elevated 11am-8pm
School of Rock Aurora- House Band 2-4pm
Emma Paints Colorado 1-4 pm
Charity Dunk Tank 3-5pm
This event is family and dog friendly, and it does not require tickets.
Photos of Lone Tree’s 2016 Summer Solstice celebration can be downloaded here. Photo credit can be given to Eleven17 Photography.
For more information about this event feel free to contact Emily Hutto at coop@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING COMPANY
Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery in Lone Tree, Colorado that opened near Park Meadows Mall in 2011. The neighborhood-focused, family-friendly brewery and tasting room regularly hosts community events that gather around a stylistically diverse lineup of flagship, seasonal, and limited release beers. Lone Tree's cans and 22-ounce bombers are sold across the state of Colorado, as well as Kansas and Nebraska. Its draft beer is poured at many bars and restaurants in its distribution footprint as well. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.