Denver Metro Breweries Release Gluten-free Collaboration Brew for Celiac Awareness Month
Participating breweries include Holidaily Brewing Company, Timnath Beerwerks, Two22 Brew, Broken Compass Brewing, Uhl’s Brewing Company, Black Forest Brewing Company, and Goat Patch Brewing Company.
DENVER, CO— Denver Metro breweries have teamed up to brew a gluten-free beer in honor of Celiac Awareness Month, which occurs in May each year. This month is growing in popularity, and is centered around advocacy of Celiac Disease, affecting around 3 million individuals in the U.S.
Participating breweries include Holidaily Brewing Company, Timnath Beerwerks, Two22 Brew, Broken Compass Brewing, Uhl’s Brewing Company, Black Forest Brewing Company, and Goat Patch Brewing Company.
The breweries convened at Holidaily Brewing Company to brew a Mexican Lager, which was brewed with local, certified gluten-free millet as well as malted yellow and blue corn, and a touch of noble hops.
Mexidaily Mexican Lager is the perfect way to kick off warm weather, with a touch of corn-like sweetness in the body and a refreshing, crisp finish.
This project is near and dear to participating breweries, as the number of those with Celiac Disease continues to be on the rise in the U.S., and thus the increase of customers looking for gluten-free options.
“All of these breweries know someone with Celiac Disease and were excited about the idea of bringing awareness to this disease,” said Garrett Maldonado, Sales Representative for Holidaily Brewing Company. “It’s cool to show that just because you are gluten-free, doesn’t mean that you need to compromise on the craft beer experience typified by Colorado.”
“Celiac Awareness Month is important to us because it affects many people in our community,” said Karen Hertz, founder of Holidaily Brewing. “Our beer is made with 100% gluten-free ingredients so even the most gluten-sensitive consumers can enjoy a delicious craft beer.”
Mexidaily Mexican Lager will be released on draft at all participating brewery taprooms on Cinco de Mayo, May 5th, 2022.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Kaitlyn Gipple at Holidaily Brewing Co.
402-689-6253
kgipple@holidailybrewing.com
Shop The Conbini Pop-Up Convenience Store at Lone Tree Brewing Company April 9 and 10
This Conbini pop-up is one of several slated shopping experiences that beer lovers can enjoy at Lone Tree this year.
LONE TREE, CO— Lone Tree Brewing Company is teaming up with Conbini to host an Asian-inspired pop-up convenience store in the West Wing of the brewery on April 9 and 10 from 12-7pm each day.
Browse a thoughtfully curated selection of exotic international snacks, local products, and ready-to-eat food while you sip on small-batch beers like Colorado Sweep Wheat, Lemon Blueberry Sour, or Horchata Stout. Don't miss the seasonal Hefeweizen cans, either! Conbini’s store at Lone Tree will include items like Dead Veggies kimchi and Bloody Mary mix, Lost Sauces, SFC Bio sodas, and so much more.
This Conbini pop-up is one of several slated shopping experiences that beer lovers can enjoy at Lone Tree this year. Look for more on Lone Tree’s local craft markets in coming weeks.
For more information about the popup or Lone Tree Brewing, contact Emily Huttoat hutto@radcraftbeer.com
ABOUT CONBINI
We source the world's best snacks from all over the globe so you don't have to. Whether it's exotic sodas, popular Asian chips, or local staples - our products are thoughtfully curated to offer a taste of home, wherever that may be. We believe that food conquers all, from language barriers to cultural differences. What makes good food “great” is the meaningful connection created at the table. That's why here at Conbini, we have a craving for not only innovative products, but also for the people, the laughter, and the fun that comes with a great snack. More at conbinistore.com.
ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING CO.
Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for a decade. Lone Tree creates community around a stylistically diverse lineup of flagship, seasonal, and limited release beers that are sold in cans and on draft across Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Eddyline Brewery and Lone Tree Brewing Go Beyond Treeline To Produce New Canned IPA
Beyond Treeline is a bold, experimental Double IPA made with a lot of passion for the Colorado beer community.
COLORADO— Eddyline Brewery and Lone Tree Brewing are proud to premier their new Beyond Treeline IPA, born out of the relationship between the two brewery sales teams.
Eddyline and Lone Tree have long shared a distribution house, Western Distributing, and high-fived at events all over the Front Range and the Arkansas Valley of Colorado. The 2022 Colorado Brewers Guild Collaboration Festival gave them a reason to make a beer together— and to go beyond the horizon. Beyond Treeline is a bold, experimental Double IPA made with a lot of passion for the Colorado beer community.
Hopped with Mandarina Bavaria, and two experimental hops from Hop Breeding Company– Talus™ and the fresh hybrid HBC 586— Beyond Treeline is quenching, with fruit-forward hop aroma, low bitterness, and a soft mouthfeel. Huge peach and stone fruit on the nose meet tropical flavors like guava, pineapple, and coconut in this innovative IPA, all balanced out by subtle oak and herbal notes on the finish. Its beautiful orange, slightly hazy hue is reminiscent of sunset casting on treeline.
Beyond Treeline will debut in cans across Colorado in April with artwork that features Lone Tree’s signature tree design and Eddyline’s hop-bearded can character, who’s sporting backpack stickers for each brewery and a special heart for Colorado craft beer legend Andy Jessen.
Find Beyond Treeline in 16 oz. 6-packs wherever you buy Eddyline and Lone Tree beers in Colorado, and on tap at Eddyline’s tasting rooms in Buena Vista, and Lone Tree Brewing Co. while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Beyond Treeline IPA.
ABOUT EDDYLINE BREWERY
Eddyline Taproom & Brewery is one of Colorado’s fastest growing microbreweries. Since 2009, Eddyline has been focused on creating unique ales and lagers of the highest quality while representing the state’s outdoor enthusiasts. Our 16-ounce cans are infinitely recyclable, preserve the quality and freshness of the beer and are easily transportable for your favorite outdoor adventures. Eddyline works closely with local groups to help improve trails, river parks, and strongly believes in being an active steward of the local Chaffee County community. Find the brewery online at eddylinebrewing.com.
ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING CO.
Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for a decade. Lone Tree creates community around a stylistically diverse lineup of flagship, seasonal, and limited release beers that are sold in cans and on draft across Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Collaboration Beers Abound at Living The Dream Brewing Company
It’s unofficial collaboration brew season at Living The Dream Brewing Company, who are partnering with several Colorado breweries on beers to be served at Collaboration Fest, and to support the Pink Boots Society.
LITTLETON, CO– It’s unofficial collaboration brew season at Living The Dream Brewing Company, who are partnering with several Colorado breweries to create specialty beers that span styles and concepts; to be served at Collaboration Fest, and to support the Pink Boots Society.
Fresh off a tapping of the Treat Yo Self Stout made with Lady Justice Brewing for Stout Month, Living The Dream brewers collaborated on three beers that are now available while supplies last. Meet them here.
Pink Boots Society
A celebration of the Pink Boots Society International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day, A Kühl Of Their Own is an experimental Lager that was brewed at 105 West Brewing in Castle Rock. It’s inspired by all things fun in the sun, baseball, peaches, Big League Chew®, and cold beer. The name is a clever combination of a classic women’s baseball movie reference, and the German word Kühl, meaning cool, cold, or chilly. This beer will be available at Living the Dream, Platt Park Brewing Co., and 105 West Brewing Co.
Monumental Beer Works
For Collaboration Fest 2022, Living the Dream wanted to partner with Western Slope breweries who they often visit when they’re out playing in Colorado’s wilderness. First up, they called previous Living The Dream team member Brian Fischer of Monumental Beer Works and the two breweries created Hurricane Hazy IPA. It’s inspired by a Hurricane cocktail, infused with flavors of passionfruit, orange, lime, and cherry.
“It’s very fulfilling seeing Monumental succeed and grow,” said Jason Bell, Founder of Living the Dream.
Ska Brewing
In another Collaboration Fest 2022 partnership, Living the Dream teamed up with Ska Brewing to brew Living The Ska Dream Double IPA. The focus in this brew was hop additions, and lots of them. Brewers used nine unique hops and multiple hopping techniques. “We wanted a big base to build on but didn’t want to get into the ‘Triple IPA’ range,” says Living The Dream Head Brewer Rob Meehan. “We’ve got bittering, aroma, whirlpool, dip hop, and dry hop additions to show how each variety can add something unique based on type of addition.”
Living the Dream is excited to work with Colorado beer icon Ska to create something truly unique that can be enjoyed across the state.
Try all of these storied beers, and more, in the Living The Dream tasting room and at the collaborating locations while supplies last. Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about any of the above.
ABOUT LIVING THE DREAM BREWING CO.
Living the Dream Brewing is a craft brewery established in 2014 in Littleton, our home base for adventure in Colorado. Built on a foundation of brewing beer using only the finest ingredients, Living the Dream celebrates the people, places, and activities of the Centennial State. Live the life you've imagined, and join us at livingthedreambrewing.com.
Crystal Springs Brewing Co., Great Divide Brewing Co., and Lone Tree Brewing Co. Collaborate on Colorado Sweep Wheat Ale
Colorado Breweries Collaborate on American Fruit Beer after sweeping 2021 GABF Category.
Photo courtesy Nikki A Rae Photography
DENVER, CO— Last year three prized Colorado craft breweries made headlines when they swept the competitive American Fruit Beer category at the 2021 Great American Beer Festival®. Their collaboration brew Colorado Sweep, an American Wheat Ale, is now available at each brewery’s tasting room.
The hardware that the Crystal Springs Blood Orange Kölsch (gold), Great Divide Wild Raspberry Ale (silver), and Lone Tree Peach Pale Ale (bronze) took home last year was the perfect impetus for these Front Range breweries to join forces for a collaboration beer to celebrate and serve at the annual Colorado Brewers Guild Collaboration Fest.
“This idea came about immediately after the GABF awards were announced in September 2021,” says Matt Sandy, Great Divide’s Marketing Manager. The winners were Crystal Springs Blood Orange Kölsch (gold), Great Divide Wild Raspberry Ale (silver), and Lone Tree Peach Pale Ale (bronze). “Because Colorado swept the American Fruited Ale category, we thought it would be fun to collaborate with the other breweries and keyed in on Collaboration Fest as being the perfect arena to celebrate this group effort. Not only has the fest become one of the country’s premier showcases for unique collaborations, it also fell around the same time we were planning on releasing our winning beer, Wild Raspberry Ale, in 6-packs.”
Crystal Springs, Great Divide, and Lone Tree gathered last month to craft an American Wheat Ale with both white and flaked Wheat, and Hallertau Magnum, Saaz, Cascade, and Lemondrop hops to create complexity of body, and refreshing, citrus and fruit-forward flavors. The breweries then added blood orange, raspberry, and peach to represent the fruits in all three of the award winners.
“The combination of fruits contributed by each brewery should create a fun and refreshing beer that we are all excited to share with the public at Collaboration Fest,” says Lone Tree Sales & Marketing Director Dennis Stack.
Festival-goers at Collaboration Fest should be on the lookout for this inspired fruit beer before it’s gone. Catch Colorado Sweep on tap at each brewery’s respective locations while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Colorado Sweep.
ABOUT CRYSTAL SPRINGS BREWING CO.
Crystal Springs Brewing Company is dedicated to brewing craft beer that utilizes the potential of hops, malt, yeast, and adjuncts to make the world a happier and better place. The brewery was started in the owners garage in 2010 and opened in Louisville, CO in 2013 where we have expanded our production to serve the Front Range of Colorado. Visit Crystal Springs online at crystalspringsbrewing.com.
ABOUT GREAT DIVIDE BREWING CO.
Founded in 1994, Great Divide Brewing Company is Denver’s oldest and largest packaging brewery and one of the most decorated breweries in America, recognized for brewing some of the globe’s most balanced yet assertive and flavorful beers. These beers have landed an impressive amount of acclaim, earning 18 Great American Beer Festival® medals, five World Beer Cup® awards and 14 spots on Beer Advocate's "Top Rated Beers: Colorado.” Here at Great Divide, Bold Character isn’t just a catchphrase. It’s the philosophy behind what we brew, how we think and what we believe. For more information visit greatdivide.com.
ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING CO.
Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for a decade. Lone Tree creates community around a stylistically diverse lineup of flagship, seasonal, and limited release beers that are sold in cans and on draft across Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
The Empourium Brewing Celebrates Three Years of Craft Beer in Denver’s Berkeley Neighborhood April 15 and 16
In the truest fashion for this spirited Denver craft brewery, their three anniversary beers are named with some of their favorite movie references.
DENVER, CO— Three times is a charm for The Empourium Brewing Company, who will commemorate three years in business with their Anniversary Party on April 15 and 16. This will be the first year that the Berkeley neighborhood brewery can celebrate to the fullest without COVID closure or restrictions, and you’re invited.
The Empourium will release three beers in honor of the occasion. In the truest fashion for this spirited brewery, these beers are named with some of their favorite pop culture references. On Friday April 15, look for the release of a Zoiglbier called You Son Of A Bitch I’m In! This bottom-fermented lager will be poured straight from the fermenter for guests to see through the glass brewery doors.
The Empourium will bring back its cold, lager yeast-fermented IPA, Freezing My Nay Nays Off, on Saturday April 16. Also debuting Saturday, the third beer is a farmhouse ale, Don't Have a Good Day, Have a Great Day, crafted with juniper berries and lemon peel, and fermented with Norwegian kveik yeast.
Come for the beer, stay for the live music and fresh eats from The Empourium’s favorite food trucks. On Friday, Man of 1000 Songs will play at 6pm, and on Saturday Stephen Castle will kick off live music at 1pm followed by The Traveling Rose Band at 3pm. Little Red’s Kitchen will serve on Friday, and Pho King Rapidos will roll up on Saturday. This anniversary weekend also marks the last weekend for the brewery’s extended patio, which will scale back in the recovery days after the party.
After three years, The Empourium has become a Tennyson Street staple. The brewery is excited to expand their self distribution in 2022. They plan to experiment with barrel aged beers and new flavors, with no plans of stopping their movie-inspired beer names.
“We feel like this is the first year in our company history that we get to have this celebration as intended,” says The Empourium co-founder Sara Fetzer. “We couldn’t have gotten through these last three years without our community, so we’re thrilled to welcome them out to drink these new beers with us.”
If you’d like to attend or cover this anniversary celebration, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT THE EMPOURIUM BREWING CO.
Located in the heart of Denver’s Berkeley Neighborhood, The Empourium is a gathering place for all— patrons and beer styles alike. Armed with true to style recipes and local pride, owners Greg and Sara Fetzer, Mike Cugini, and Justin Vallely focus their efforts to craft a warm, lively community hub centered around balanced, sessionable beers guaranteed to bring people together. Visit The Empourium at 4385 W. 42nd Avenue or online at theempourium.com
Spring Returns to Durango in a can
Ska Brewing Mexican Logger Is Back For the 23rd Patio Season
DURANGO, CO– Some call it springing forward, others say the start of patio weather, and in Southwest Colorado this time of year has come to be known as Mexican Logger season. 2022 marks the twenty third year that Ska Brewing has brewed the original craft lager, and a return to normalcy for the brewery that hasn’t celebrated this release for three years.
Ska has brewed this easy-drinking light lager since 1999, and received many accolades for it since— including Great American Beer Festival® awards in the International Style Pilsner category in 2015 and 2016. It’s crisp and clean, cold fermented with a lager yeast strain from Mexico City and weighing in at a crushable 5 percent ABV.
Ska is thrilled to celebrate the kickoff of spring with this beer release on Thursday, March 31. Durango locals The Lawn Chair Kings will play beginning at 5pm, and brewery-goers can expect beer and food specials to celebrate the occasion. “Without this party to kickoff the season, I just wake up one day drinking beer in the middle of the summer without realizing it even began,” says Ska Brewing CEO Dave Thibodeau. “Patio season deserves a proper kickoff this year.”
In 2020, Ska released Mexican Logger’s dark-hued sister to satisfy the urge for Mexican-style Lager during the cold months. Mexican-style Lager Dark will go into hibernation now until the fall.
Media assets for Mexican Logger are available for download here. Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with any questions.
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.
Living The Dream Brewing Shifts Arapahaze Double Hazy IPA to 12 Ounce Cans
The switch from Living The Dream Arapahaze Double Hazy IPA 16 oz. 4-packs to 12 oz. 6-packs is now complete, with new cans available across Colorado.
LITTLETON, CO– The switch from Living The Dream Arapahaze Double Hazy IPA 16 oz. 4-packs to 12 oz. 6-packs is now complete, with new cans available across Colorado.
This shift is a change in packaging, with the same beloved Double Hazy IPA recipe in the new format. Arapahaze is brewed with large amounts of flaked and malted wheat and oats, mixed with lactose to temper big citrus and tropical fruit flavors that come from Citra, El Dorado, Idaho 7, Mosaic and Azacca hops; and fermented with a New England IPA specific yeast strain. This bold DIPA is full- bodied and bursting with tropical fruit and citrus hop flavor.
“We’re making this change to ensure supply of this beer within the current supply chain, not to mention we’re happy to give people a proper 6-pack of this crowd favorite,” says Living The Dream Founder Jason Bell.
Arapahaze sports an orange-hued mountainscape image taken by Living The Dream Director of Operations Michael Accera; an image that captures this beer’s vibrancy and boldness. Check out the can, and find press assets here.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Living The Dream.
ABOUT LIVING THE DREAM BREWING CO.
Living the Dream Brewing is a craft brewery established in 2014 in Littleton, our home base for adventure in Colorado. Built on a foundation of brewing beer using only the finest ingredients, Living the Dream celebrates the people, places, and activities of the Centennial State. Live the life you've imagined, and join us at livingthedreambrewing.com.
Mortal launches POWER, a prebiotic sparkling water line
Mortal, a Colorado-based beverage company that got its start in probiotic packed kombucha, is now entering the canned sparkling prebiotics water world with Mortal POWER.
BOULDER, CO— No stevia. No gross stuff. No meh flavors. Real fruit. Real prebiotics. Real power. Mortal, a Colorado-based beverage company that got its start in probiotic packed kombucha, is now entering the canned sparkling prebiotics water world with Mortal POWER that debuted at the successful 2022 Natural Products Expo West conference last week.
Mortal POWER is power in a can. It’s pumped up bubbly water infused with a healthy smackdown of prebiotics to boost immunity and strengthen your gut – plus additional functional ingredients to power your day. Mortal launched this functional beverage in four options: Watermelon Prickly Pear with prebiotics and magnesium to chillax your mind, body and chaos. Hibiscus Ginger with added electrolytes and prebiotics. Green Tea Lime is loaded with 60mg of caffeine from green tea and prebiotics. Cherry Berry has prebiotics plus a blast of collagen to promote bone health and give you a glowing complexion and disposition. Each 12 oz. can of Mortal POWER is gluten-free, certified organic, 1% For The Planet certified, and Kosher; and has 30 calories or less and between 2 and 4g of added sugar - all from fruit.
On top of it all, Mortal POWER is one of the first prebiotic sparkling beverages to be made in Colorado. Its infusion with additional function and low price point set it apart from the rest of the burgeoning category.
POWER just made its grand debut at the 2022 Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim California. It’s now stocked on shelves in Colorado, and has already landed multiple chains. The brand will begin a massive nationwide rollout at the end of the month.
“Everyone wants their drinks to do something for them, so we thought, let’s make this drink do everything,” says Mortal Founder Becca Schepps. “We’re starting with real, hard-hitting functional ingredients that are easy to understand and digest. The flavors are light, crisp and absolutely chuggable. This drink is supercharged and we’re so excited for it to hit shelves and mouths.”
Purchase Mortal POWER online at mortalkombucha.com/shop and contact orders@mortalkombucha.com with sales and distribution inquiries.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries, and access press materials here.
ABOUT MORTAL
Founded in 2017 by Becca Schepps, Mortal makes beverages that fight death. Mortal is the smack your face off, rip your guts out, feed it some good stuff, and then shove ’em back in of functional fizz. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Mortal Kombucha is currently available across 40 states, in retailers such as WholeFoods, Natural Grocers, Woodmans and Northwest Grocers. Mortal currently has three product lines: Mortal Kombucha, it's big, agro, juiced up, supersized, scoby slashing, fruit-fist of fury that wants to hook you up with some bada** bro-biotics. Mortal Power, a prebiotic sparkling water with POWERful functional ingredients. And Mortal XXX Hard Kombucha: It’s organic, gluten-free, rice-free, real hard kombucha, flavored and supercharged with all-natural, organic ingredients. It’s all the foofoo probiotics you love about ordinary kombucha, now with 5.2% ABV. It’s just the right amount of rebel.
Learn more about Mortal and track down their booch at drinkmortal.com, or follow the enterprise on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Lone Tree Brewing Cans Traditional Hefeweizen For Spring
Lone Tree Hefeweizen is brewed with Noble hops and wheat that impart hints of fruit and spice, and fermented with Weihenstephan yeast that adds traditional clove and banana notes.
LONE TREE, CO— Cans of Lone Tree Brewing Company’s new spring seasonal Hefeweizen are now available across Colorado and Kansas.
Lone Tree’s Head Brewer Dennis O’Harrow first introduced this recipe in the tasting room in 2020, and brought it back on tap last year to meet its popular demand. This true-to-style, unfiltered wheat ale pays homage to his days traveling in Munich— to that first Hefeweizen he had when he got off the plane.
Lone Tree Hefeweizen is brewed with Noble hops and wheat that impart hints of fruit and spice, and fermented with Weihenstephan yeast that adds traditional clove and banana notes. It hits the mark as a bright, easy drinking ale with 5.4 percent ABV– all of the essentials for the turn of the season into spring.
Find Hefeweizen on tap at Lone Tree and in canned 6-packs while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Lone Tree Brewing Co. Press assets are available here.
ABOUT LONE TREE BREWING CO.
Lone Tree Brewing Company was the first brewery to open in Lone Tree, Colorado in Denver’s South Metro area in 2011, and has remained a local staple for a decade. Lone Tree creates community around a stylistically diverse lineup of flagship, seasonal, and limited release beers that are sold in cans and on draft across Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Ska Distributing Brings Bruz Beers to Southwest Colorado
Ska Distributing is excited to add Belgian-inspired Bruz Beers to the gamut of independent brands in its portfolio for Southwest Colorado distribution.
DURANGO, CO— Ska Distributing is excited to add Belgian-inspired Bruz Beers to the gamut of independent brands in its portfolio for Southwest Colorado distribution. The following beers will be unleashed across the region this week:
Diablo Colorado - Belgian-style Golden Strong Ale - Diablo Colorado is a traditional Belgian-style Golden Strong ale brewed with all Colorado sourced ingredients. A pale blond beer with a dense white head and esters of apple, pear, ripe peach and honey. This crisp, clean beer finishes dry and slightly bitter with lingering fruit. 9.5% ABV Available in 16oz 4-pack cans.
Right Hand Man - Pilsner - Pilsner is hugely popular in Belgium. Right Hand Man is a premium Pilsner-style beer made with 100% malt, noble hops and a clean lager yeast. It is malty and refined with a lightly hoppy aroma and a clean, crisp lager finish. A classic! 5.2% ABV Available in 12oz 6-pack cans.
Roodbruin - Flanders Red-Brown Ale - Roodbruin’s aroma is complex and tantalizing – a preview of what awaits. Stone fruit scents and maltiness with wild yeast notes and a touch of dried fruit give the beer a perfumy nose. The flavor is malty up-front with a prominent tartness and notes of sour cherries, blackberries, raspberries, red grapes, dates and dried fruit. There are hints of aromatic vinegar and earthy wild yeasts, and the balance of flavors is perfectly proportioned. The finish is long, dry and complex with lingering stone fruit and malt notes. A blend of a special Bruz dark ale with Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste’s Cuvée Des Jacobins Prestige, Bruz Roodbruin is sophisticated, flavorful and complex. Bruz Roodbruin is the second in a series of three beers produced in collaboration with Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste in Kortrijk, Belgium. 7% ABV Available in 500 mL cork and cage bottles.
Farmstead Funk - Belgian-style Saison - Farmstead Funk is a Saison aged with Brettanomyces wild yeast. Medium gold with a white head, its aroma is grainy with a light touch of summer fruits and funk. The flavor features a nice hop bitterness, bready malt, fruit notes of apples and apricots and a pleasant Brett funkiness. Generous carbonation gives it a refreshing quality that lasts into the long fruity and funky finish. 7.6% ABV Available in 375 mL cork and cage bottles.
Till The Earth - Belgian-style Spelt Saison - A Classic Farmhouse-style saison made with the ancient grain Spelt, and Noble hops. Lots of fruity fermentation notes like Apricot and Peach, with a touch of white pepper spice. 5.7% ABV Available in 500 mL cork and cage bottles.
Abbey Series Mixed 4-Pack - Belgian-Style Single, Dubbel, Tripel and Quadrupel - Traditional monastery brewing is built around four distinct beer styles. While not every monastery brewery produces all four, they represent the core of Trappist and Abbey brewing. Their names come from the relative amount of malted barley in each style. We are pleased to offer this 4-Pack containing examples of each of these beer styles. - ABV Range 3.8% - 10.5% ABV Available in 16oz 4-pack cans.
There will be a kickoff party held at Ska’s World Headquarters this Thursday, March 10 beginning at 4pm. Various Bruz Beers will be available for purchase on tap. Come meet the Bruz team, including the owners, brewers and sales team.
ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP
Ryan Evans, the owner of Bruz Beers, spent his college years in Durango, Colorado attending and ultimately graduating from Ft. Lewis College. He was enjoying the delicious beers Ska was serving up in the late 90’s, and always had a fondness for their beers as well as their edgy attitude.
Bruz Beers has been hugely successful on the Front Range, with two tasting rooms in the Denver area as well as a growing wholesale distribution network. Looking to continue the growth, Evans states “I always wanted to bring our beers back to my old romping grounds of Southwest Colorado! It’s too far away to properly service on our own from Denver. With that being said, our partnership with Ska Distributing allows us to bring our brand full circle and return to the area. Working with friends is a bonus as well.”
For more information about Ska Distributing, Bruz Beers, or the distribution partnership between these companies, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT BRUZ BEERS
The acclaimed Bruz Beers was named “Top 25 Craft Breweries in Colorado” by Yelp, has won countless awards and medals, and it is dedicated to brewing traditional Belgian-style beers and innovative Belgian-inspired brews. It offers a wide range of Belgian-style seasonal and limited releases on tap at its two Denver area locations or for takeaway in crowlers, bottles and cans. Visit Bruz online at bruzbeers.com.
Bruz Beers takes their customers to Belgium on a yearly beer tour - that’s how serious these guys are about the style! Looks like their next trip is this September. More details at bruzbeers.com/events.
ABOUT SKA DISTRIBUTING
Ska Distributing Company is the premiere craft distributor for Southwestern Colorado, committed to serving independently owned companies. In addition to Ska Brewing’s award-winning beers, The Hard Seltzer, and non-alcoholic Skagua, they distribute other beers from Telluride Brewing, Left Hand Brewing Co., Bristol Brewing, Stone Brewing, La Cumbre Brewing Co. Ska services on and off-premise accounts in Durango, Telluride, Ridgway, and Ouray. Find Ska online at skabrewing.com.
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Parker, Colorado at Barnett & Son Brewing
St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Thursday this year, which was all the motivation Barnett & Son needed to host a 3-day celebration to showcase some of their favorite Irish and Scottish-inspired beer styles.
PARKER, CO— Barnett & Son Brewing will bring back its popular St. Patrick’s Day celebration for the seventh year on March 17, 18, and 19.
St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Thursday this year, which was all the motivation Barnett & Son needed to host a 3-day celebration to showcase some of their favorite Irish and Scottish-inspired beer styles. Usual suspects Saoirse Irish Red, and Falling Skye Scottish Ale will join a batch of Mo Chroi Irish Black Ale made for holiday, with a green beer on tap for good measure. The long weekend will include daily performances by the Celtic Steps dance group and Centennial’s Reed School of Irish Dance, and live music by Juice O’ The Barley on Friday and Saturday.
Saoirse, Irish for freedom, is a red and malty Irish-style ale with approachable hop bitterness This four-time Denver International Beer Competition (DIBC) winner is one of Barnett & Son’s most popular beers.
Falling Skye Scottish Ale is another winner and returning favorite at the brewery. A rich and malty character from Maris Otter barley malts meet hints of whiskey flavor in this homage to classic Scottish Ales that’s balanced out with Golding hops.
Barnett & Son will be introducing not only some old favorites, but two small batch brews as well, including their Mo Chroi Irish Black Ale. Mo Choi, “my heart” in Gaelic, is a tongue-in-cheek poke at owner Andy’s black heart.
“Irish Black is not an officially recognized beer style, but rather an accident that we wanted to drink,” says brewery Founder Andy Barnett. “Some of the best beers are incepted by mistake.”
Mo Chroi Irish Black Ale gets its color and full body from the unplanned addition of Roast instead of Special Roast malt to a batch of wheat. The final beer struck a balance between deep malt flavor upfront and clean, subtle bitterness on the finish that characterizes many Irish-style ales, so it earned a place in the annual St. Patrick’s Day lineup.
Keep the specialty glass while supplies last, buy a special t-shirt made for the occasion, and come hungry for Irish-inspired eats prepared by three food trucks: The Family Meal will serve on Thursday, Schnitzelwirt on Friday, and Uncle Tapas on Saturday.
Media interested in attending this celebration can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT BARNETT & SON BREWING CO.
Barnett and Son Brewing Co has been brewing high quality beer since 2014 in Parker, Colorado and is best known for their welcoming atmosphere, an expansive tap list, and dog-friendly patio. With recipes developed from owner Andrew Barnett’s homebrew recipes and influenced by his extensive international travel, everyone is sure to find a beer to make them feel at home. For more information, visit barnettandsonbrewing.com. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us.
Ska Brewing Releases A New Beer… That’s Not an IPA
Ska Brewing Raspberry Blonde Ale Hits Shelves in March 2022.
DURANGO, CO– Just in time for the turn of the season, Ska Brewing presents a fruited rendition of its oldest and most decorated recipe, True Blonde Ale. Raspberry Blonde will tap for the first time at Ska on Friday and cans hit shelves across Ska markets next week.
“Our last several big can releases might suggest otherwise, but we experiment with more than just hops,” jokes Ska CEO Dave Thibodeau. “In this case we’ve been excited for this fruit addition in our beloved True Blonde Ale, which goes as far back as the brewery does.”
True Blonde Ale was Ska’s first brewed, tapped, and canned recipe. Over the years it has earned two World Beer Cup® awards and a Good Food Award from the Good Food Foundation. It has also been recognized at the Colorado State Fair, the LA County Fair, the European Beer Star awards, the Australian International Beer Awards, and the L.A. International Beer Competition. Most recently True Blonde was awarded a 2021 Great American Beer Festival® medal in the English Ale category, bringing this beer’s GABF® award count up to five.
Raspberry Blonde is crafted with subtle Cascade hop additions that balance the zest of the fruit in the recipe. At 5 percent ABV, it belongs in Ska’s wheelhouse of light-bodied, easy drinking ales and lagers like the classic Colorado Mexican-style lager, Mexican Logger, and its Grapefruit sister Rue B. Soho, Thibodeau adds. “It’s a colorful beer with vibrant, bright flavor notes.
Raspberry Blonde will tap on Friday, March 4 at Ska’s World Headquarters in Durango, Colorado. Canned 6 packs of the new beer join Ska’s year-round portfolio in all of its markets next week.
Media assets for Raspberry Blonde Ale are available for download here. Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with any questions.
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.
Uhl’s Brewing Celebrates Second Anniversary with a Duo of Barrel-Aged Beer Releases
Known for their love of barrel-aged beers, it’s only natural that Uhl’s Brewing would celebrate their anniversary weekend with a double release.
BOULDER, CO– Uhl’s Brewing is turning two in March and celebrating that accomplishment with a weekend of music, food, and barrel-aged beer releases.
Uhl’s will be hosting their anniversary weekend on Saturday, March 19 from 12-9pm and on Sunday, March 20 from 12-8pm. Festivities will include live music from The Desert Furs on Saturday from 6-8pm and Alex Mackenzie-Low of A-Mac on Sunday from 5-7pm. Additionally, Charlotte’s Lil Kitchen will be serving up Mediterranean-inspired fare on Saturday and Kingcomo’s Quesadillas will be there Sunday serving up creative, cheesy snacks. The brewery will release their anniversary beer, Barrel Aged Big Mole Stout, and a rum barrel-aged Belgian Quadrupel named What Did We Do?
Uhl’s Barrel Aged Big Mole Stout is brewed with a laundry list of exotic ingredients, including Ecuadorian cacao nibs, Tahitian and Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans, Vietnamese and Indonesian cinnamon, and ancho chili peppers from south of the border. Every batch is brewed with slight tweaks on the spice levels, adjusted by the owner Aaron Uhl, to bring out the best flavor every time. Big Mole’s creation stemmed from an award-winning homebrew recipe, inspired by some of the best spiced beer makers in the world, Perennial Artisan Ales, Prairie Artisan Ales and Cigar City. Specifically, Aaron took flavor notes from Prairie’s Bomb! and Perennial’s Abraxas stouts to create his Barrel Aged Big Mole.
"The feedback I got on the original homebrew recipe helped me realize I just may be able to make it on a larger scale,” said Aaron. And indeed he did. Uhl’s will be releasing the Barrel Aged Big Mole, which was aged in a single 9-year-old Buffalo Trace barrel for 14 months, on the weekend of their anniversary.
Uhl’s What Did We Do? is a rum barrel-aged Belgian quadrupel that rested for 12 months in 20-year-old rum barrels from South America before getting racked on more than 50 pounds of fresh bananas, 30 pounds of raw coconut flakes, 2 pounds of Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans and just a hint of cassia chips to round it out. The resulting flavors and aromas ignite the imagination with thoughts of hot buttered rum cakes and Bananas Foster desserts. What Did We Do? is really what you will be asking yourself, as nothing like this has ever been made on the Front Range.
Known for their love of barrel-aged beers, it’s only natural that Uhl’s would celebrate their anniversary weekend with a double release. This anniversary not only marks two years of business, but two years of business beginning in and continuing through the COVID-19 pandemic. Aaron and Uhl’s have overcome pandemic-era challenges and continue to provide the Boulder community with delicious options.
Aaron Uhl and the whole Uhl’s family want to welcome guests to celebrate their two year milestone this March. Join them for local food, good music, a special limited edition anniversary glass, and plenty of delicious beer.
For more information contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT UHL’S BREWING
Uhl's Brewing Co. was launched by a roaming brewer with beer in his blood. Aaron Uhl developed his brand for several years around Colorado's Front Range before settling on Conestoga Court in The People's Republic of Boulder. This experimental brewery will try anything once (maybe even twice), and rarely repeats recipes. Y'Uhl love the fresh, ever-changing beer list and the savvy staff ready to talk shop. Find the latest menu additions and tasting room events calendar at uhlsbrewing.com.
Living The Dream Brewing Reports Expansion and Philanthropy Numbers for 2021
Living The Dream Brewing Company is coming off of its best sales year yet, which included the introduction of many new SKUs to the Colorado beer marketplace.
LITTLETON, CO— Living The Dream Brewing Company is coming off of its best sales year yet, which included the introduction of many new SKUs to the Colorado beer marketplace. The brewery was proud to expand its team and continue to serve its community amid the pandemic climate with great beer and philanthropic efforts. Behold, the 2021 Living The Dream Brewing Year in Review.
PRODUCTION & SALES
2020’s installation of a Forgeworks 15 BBL brewhouse, an Alpha Brewing Operations canning line, and a Ska Fabricating Half Pint depalletizer allowed Living The Dream to expand sales, distribution, and capacity in 2021. The addition of new tanks in 2021 continued that expansion, and allowed Living the Dream to experience a massive growth in production.
Living the Dream surpassed 2000 BBL in 2021, a 33% growth from the previous year. Their wholesale numbers grew 80+%. In this focus on wholesale operations, they added sales representatives and grew their overall footprint.
TEAM
Living The Dream Brewing continued to expand the Living The Dream team, which is now up to 14 employees. Thanks to the commitment of their staff to take changes in their stride, the brewery was fortunate enough to not lay off any employees through COVID-19 restrictions.
BEER
Living the Dream Brewing released numerous beers on tap in 2021, including fresh variants of the award-winning Powder Run Vanilla Cream Ale, canned Fly Reel Amber and Mountain Drive, and the first-ever can in their Cocktail Series— a Barrel Aged Old Fashioned American Strong Ale.
Living The Dream partnered with the Highlands Ranch, Colorado Whole Foods location to release a small batch of an experimental IPA: Zap! Smash! that was available in the fall for a short time. Living the Dream plans to continue their partnership with Whole Foods this year.
ACCOLADES
Living The Dream Brewing was honored at the 2021 Can Can Awards with not one, but three medals. 7 Speed IPA took home gold in the American IPA category, Ice Climber Double IPA was awarded silver in the Double IPA category, and Powder Run Cream Ale took silver in the Fruit, Herb, and Spice category.
Living the Dream also received seven total awards in the 2021 Denver International Beer Competition. Their Ice Climber Double IPA, Barrel Aged Barleywine, and Powder Run Vanilla Cream Ale were gold medal winners. Fly Reel Amber Ale, 7 Speed IPA, Rock Climber IPA, and Stubborn Monk Belgian Dubbel were all honored with silver medals.
COMMUNITY
Living The Dream’s continued its partnership with the Highlands Ranch Community Association, which included the Backcountry Wilderness Wheat and the Midnight Trail Cam Wheat beer collaborations, and Beer For Bucks night with donations for each pint sold. In total, the brewery donated $3,137 to the association in 2021— a 20 percent increase from 2020’s contributions.
“We also sponsor and support the Highlands Ranch Race Series and donate to many local fundraisers,” said Living the Dream owner Jason Bell. “Community support is critical to us.”
MOVING FORWARD
2022 is underway at Living the Dream with fresh beer releases and events like Monday trivia, Bend & Brew yoga, and monthly Rotating Tap comedy night. The brewery’s partnership with the Highlands Ranch Community Association is among their community priorities, along with the continued Beer For Bucks program on the third Thursday of each month.
Customers can also look forward to the return of the brewery’s barrel-aged beer showcase, and the company’s 8th anniversary celebration this summer.
Living The Dream fans should be on alert for new Powder Run variants and new canned recipes in 2022.
Learn more about the brewery’s canned beer lineup in this press kit, and contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries.
ABOUT LIVING THE DREAM BREWING
Living the Dream Brewing is a craft brewery established in 2014 in Littleton, our home base for adventure in Colorado. Built on a foundation of brewing beer using only the finest ingredients, Living the Dream celebrates the people, places, and activities of the Centennial State. Live the life you've imagined, and join us at livingthedreambrewing.com.
Mortal releases BASILLION STRAWBERRIES to the masses
The death-fighting, functional ingredient-packing, Boulder-based beverage company Mortal introduced a new flavor to its non-alcoholic kombucha lineup this week. Basillion Strawberries.
BOULDER, CO— The death-fighting, functional ingredient-packing, Boulder-based beverage company Mortal introduced a new flavor to its non-alcoholic kombucha lineup this week. Basillion Strawberries - Strawberry plus Basil, if you didn’t get the pun, will be launching in 16 oz. bottles at Harmon’s Grocery stores in the beginning of February and all the Mother’s Markets in Southern California and Whole Foods in the Rocky Mountain Region.
If you ask founder Becca Schepps, “Why Strawberry?” she’ll let you know, her favorite food in the world is Strawberries. Growing up in New Jersey where her neighborhood backed up to a strawberry field, she once ate so many strawberries she puked bright pink. And then kept eating strawberries. While that may not sound appetizing, this flavor is.
This flavor has been a long time in the making. Denver Highlands Farmers Market fans may remember tasting it in the summer of 2019. Since then the Mortal team has worked endlessly to capture that feeling in a bottle. The refreshing strawberries with a hint of basil tastes like summer feels.
The new flavor, Basillion Strawberries, will launch in 16 oz. bottles alongside Mortal’s radical lineup, including aPearantly It’s Love, Marg Simpson, Black Sage and the ever favorite Black Magic. As the year continues, Basillion Strawberries will find more homes on shelves throughout Southern California.
For more information about Mortal, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
Contact orders@mortalkombucha.com with sales and distribution inquiries.
ABOUT MORTAL
Founded in 2017 by Becca Schepps, Mortal makes beverages that fight death Mortal is not sunrise salutation sipping functional beverages. It’s smack your face off, rip your guts out, feed it some good stuff, and then shove ’em back in prebiotics bubbles. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Mortal Kombucha is currently available across 40 states, in retailers such as WholeFoods, Natural Grocers, Woodmans and Northwest Grocers. Mortal currently has three product lines: Mortal Kombucha, it's big, agro, juiced up, supersized, scoby slashing, fruit-fist of fury that wants to hook you up with some bada** bro-biotics. Mortal Power, a prebiotic sparkling water with POWERful functional ingredients. And Mortal XXX Hard Kombucha: It’s organic, gluten-free, rice-free, real hard kombucha, flavored and supercharged with all-natural, organic ingredients. It’s all the foofoo probiotics you love about ordinary kombucha, now with 5.2% ABV. It’s just the right amount of rebel.
Learn more about Mortal and track down their booch at drinkmortal.com, or follow the enterprise on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Mortal Partners with LA Libations for Southern California Distribution
“The edgy vibe and disruptive enthusiasm that Mortal Kombucha brings to the marketplace is palpable,” said Executive Vice President of L.A. Libations Jacob Timony.
BOULDER, CO— Mortal will partner with beverage powerhouse L.A. Libations as a component of their SoCal Incubation Program (SIP for short– very on the nose, we know). That means the killer booch, hard and non-alcoholic, will gain more distribution points throughout Southern California and beyond.
L.A. Libations (LAL) formed SIP in 2018 as a rocket-powered entry point into the CA beverage scene. SIP is tight with both retailers and distributors, and is a booster for small and large beverage companies alike to get their feet (and bottles) into the doors of southern California’s beverage destinations.
Enter: Mortal. Leading with strong branding as its key differentiator in a very competitive category, the beverage has strong, easy to understand flavors and a “killer” attitude. Its current distribution, based out of its birthplace of Boulder, CO, recently expanded to include parts of Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast, the Mid Atlantic, and the Midwest. Its non-alcoholic kombuchas can now be found in 40 States in the U.S. The hard kombucha is currently only available in Colorado.
“The edgy vibe and disruptive enthusiasm that Mortal brings to the marketplace is palpable,” said Executive Vice President of L.A. Libations Jacob Timony. “This is a better-for-you beverage for the new age consumer with a rock star team behind it, and L.A. Libations couldn’t be more excited to support their mission.”
LAL is the strategic partner of Molson/Coors and will help expand all of Mortal’s organic, all-natural and death defying products into Southern California. Mortal kombuchas will be available at Jimbo’s stores and available for online delivery though Pink Dot.
“L.A. Libations is a leader in driving innovation, creativity and brand,” said Mortal Kombucha owner Becca Schepps. “We could not think of a better partner to help bring our products to West Coast consumers.”
Now, from the mountains to the beaches, Mortal is ready to sucker punch your gut with a revivifying fistful of bubbles, real fruit, b-vitamins, antioxidant destroying free radicals, and symbiotic nutrients.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Mortal.
ABOUT MORTAL
Founded in 2017 by Becca Schepps, Mortal makes beverages that fight death Mortal is not sunrise salutation sipping functional beverages. It’s smack your face off, rip your guts out, feed it some good stuff, and then shove ’em back in prebiotics bubbles. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Mortal Kombucha is currently available across 40 states, in retailers such as WholeFoods, Natural Grocers, Woodmans and Northwest Grocers. Mortal currently has three product lines: Mortal Kombucha, it's big, agro, juiced up, supersized, scoby slashing, fruit-fist of fury that wants to hook you up with some bada** bro-biotics. Mortal Power, a prebiotic sparkling water with POWERful functional ingredients. And Mortal XXX Hard Kombucha: It’s organic, gluten-free, rice-free, real hard kombucha, flavored and supercharged with all-natural, organic ingredients. It’s all the foofoo probiotics you love about ordinary kombucha, now with 5.2% ABV. It’s just the right amount of rebel.
Learn more about Mortal and track down their booch at drinkmortal.com, or follow the enterprise on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
ABOUT LA LIBATIONS
L.A. Libations is a next-generation beverage incubator. At its core LAL is comprised of creators, seekers, motivators, and entrepreneurs. Always on the lookout for the next great beverage brand that satisfies an untapped need of the health-engaged consumer, LAL is fueled by their dedication to health, wellness, and social responsibility. Most of all, L.A. Libations is a passionate tribe dedicated to bringing the most innovative, healthy, and tasty products to the world.
Ska Brewing Forecasts IPA Style Trend with Checkered Future IPA
Checkered Future is Ska’s answer to uncertain times: moving forward with innovation and acceptance that what’s to come is unwritten.
DURANGO, CO– Old school hops meet modern varieties and techniques in a new age IPA that Ska Brewing will debut in cans across its markets this month. Checkered Future IPA is here.
Long a house of IPA experimentation and the home to Colorado classic IPA Modus Hoperandi, Ska has released three hazy offerings in the past few years: Hazy IPA, Double Hazy IPA, and Tropical Hazy IPA. Now, Checkered Future bridges the gap from Modus to haze with this fresh style.
“Checkered Future employs a blend of everything we've learned and the hops we've experimented with over these last few years of IPA recipe development,” says Ska Brewing Co-Founder Dave Thibodeau. We chose very specific hop varieties for their myriad hop aroma compounds that showcase particularly well with these newer hopping techniques, which has allowed us to create a relatively clear IPA with bright, juicy tropical fruit aromas yet with a bit of the classic West Coast-style, citrusy, piney perceived bitterness we’ve been missing in the hazy era.”
If the checkered past is a compilation of the bright with the dark, then Checkered Future is Ska’s answer to uncertain times: moving forward with innovation and acceptance that what’s to come is unwritten. “We haven’t named a beer beyond stylistic designation in several years, but this new IPA called for a name with a story,” says Ska’s Sales & Marketing Director Kristen Muraro.
A Checkered Future release party will go down at Ska’s World Headquarters in Durango on February 15, featuring live music, a limited edition Ska and Venture Snowboard giveaway, and $2 pints of the new IPA.
Find Checkered Future where you buy Ska Brewing beers, for the foreseeable future. This IPA will join Ska’s year round lineup of cans and be available across all of Ska’s markets.
Media assets for Checkered Future are available for download here. Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with any questions.
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.
Ska Fabricating Presents The World’s Smallest Footprint Depalletizer: The Microbus
Look for the machine at the Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis this May 2-5 at Ska Fab’s booth #2219.
DURANGO, CO– After nearly a decade of troubleshooting craft beverage canning operations and months beta testing the smallest footprint depalletizer on the planet, Ska Fabricating is pleased to present a new machine designed to meet the needs of the marketplace. Meet The Microbus.
Capable of speeds up to 30 CPM, the Microbus portable depalletizer is optimized for lower-speed applications in the smallest of spaces. The Microbus uses a manual crank, operated by hand or drill, to lift the Pallet Carriage. The Carriage is raised until a layer of containers is level with the Deadplate, then a belt-driven actuator (sweep) pushes the layer onto the 44” OD (Orbital Discharge) Rotary Table. The patented Rotary Table accumulates the containers, aligns them for discharge, and feeds them into a Rinse Cage and onto a filler. Both the rotary infeed table and the automated sweep can be folded away, further reducing this already small machine’s footprint on the production floor.
The first of The Microbus machines is installed at Mancos, Colorado’s Fenceline Cider. Ska Fabricating collaborated with Fenceline’s production team on a beta test, to which the cidery responded by purchasing The Microbus to expand their distribution capacity without taking up too much space in their small facility. View a video of The Microbus in action at Fenceline here.
The Microbus is now available for purchase. Contact sales@skafabricating.com to learn more.
Look for the machine at the Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis this May 2-5 at Ska Fab’s booth #2219.
Media inquiring about Ska Fabricating can email Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT SKA FABRICATING
Ska Fabricating automates packaging lines for craft businesses, specializing in depalletizers, palletizers, conveyance systems, rinsing, drying, filling and date coding products. With more than 2000 customers worldwide in more than 30 countries, Ska Fab has the products and experience to help you increase your production while saving expenses. Learn more at skafabricating.com.
Riverbend Malt House Publishes 2021 Craft Malt Production Numbers; Strengthens Environmental and Community Commitments in Year Ten of Business
Riverbend Malt House is coming off of a record year in business that included significant production and footprint expansion, increased recycling and waste reduction, and a celebration of their last decade in the craft malt business.
ASHEVILLE, NC— Riverbend Malt House is coming off of a record year in business that included significant production and footprint expansion, increased recycling and waste reduction, and a celebration of their last decade in the craft malt business, among other community milestones. Here is the Riverbend Malt House’s 2021 Year in Review.
Production
In 2021, Riverbend Malt House added a 10-tonne Germination Kiln Vessel (GKV) unit to its production facility in June. This state-of-the-art equipment increased the overall malthouse capacity by 40 percent, enabling Riverbend to meet growing demand for craft malt among breweries and distilleries throughout the Southeast.
Throughout the year, Riverbend malted 2.6 million pounds of 14 varieties of malt, which included 20 tons of malt with 12 different flavor combinations for specialty projects.
Development
In 2021, Riverbend proudly expanded its agricultural and sales footprints across its home state of North Carolina, as well as sourcing grain from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Washington DC to meet industry demand for high quality craft malt that adds value and locality to craft beer and spirits made across the region. 272 breweries and distilleries purchased Riverbend craft malt last year, of which more than a third are new to the malt house’s customer base.
Environmental Commitment
In August, Riverbend announced the achievement of a recycling milestone of 100,000 pounds of rootlet material repurposed for use by nearby cattle operations. This recycling effort is one of many sustainability initiatives that Riverbend supports. Additional environmental initiatives include electricity and natural gas consumption tracking, composting, and solid waste management.
Over the course of the year, Riverbend reduced its carbon emissions per pound of malt produced by 3.3%, composted eight tons of organic waste in partnership with the WNC Brewery Recycling Co-op, and redirected approximately 140,000 pounds of waste from landfill in 2021. “Now that the co-op is up and running, we hope to expand our efforts with customer pickup at select accounts during 2022,” says Riverbend Co-Founder Brent Manning. “We’ll work to increase efficiency with new equipment and expand our composting efforts as well.”
Events & Community
In partnership with Asheville Greenworks and French Broad Chocolate, Riverbend helped to collect 3,000 pounds of garbage from the Swannanoa River. This effort will continue in 2022.
Riverbend was excited to participate in the South by Northwest collaboration with Skagit Valley Malting. In this exploration of Washington and North Carolina malt terroir Riverbend created two SMaSH (single malt and single hop) malt-forward pale ales brewed identically at DSSOLR in Asheville, North Carolina and Terramar Brewstillery in Edison, Washington. Both craft beers featured the experimental hop HBC 586 with the only variable being the base malt— both 2-row winter barley varieties grown in North Carolina and in the Skagit Valley.
Awards & Accolades
Riverbend was proud to earn Living Wage Certified Employer status from Just Economics, the largest voluntary living wage certification in the nation. All 17 of Riverbend’s employees are compensated at or above the living wage rate established by Just Economics for Buncombe County.
Throughout the year, many of Riverbend’s customers were recognized with medals from multiple awards programs for beers made with Riverbend malt– including the Great American Beer Festival®, the U.S. Beer Open, the North Carolina Brewers Cup, and the National Honey Board Honey Beer Competition, among others. Congratulations to these producers for their commitment to quality that begins in the ground.
10 Year Harvest
Riverbend worked with family farms across the Southeast to produce its highest quality and highest yielding harvest yet. This 10 year harvest included the Sunset Wheat, a Munich-style offering developed to celebrate this milestone. Professional and homebrewers across the Southeast made specialty beers with this wheat variety in commemoration, and continue to do so into 2022.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer with media inquiries about Riverbend Malt House.
ABOUT RIVERBEND MALT HOUSE
Riverbend Malt House is on a quest to connect Southeastern family owned farms and fermenters. Co-Founders Brent Manning and Brian Simpson launched Riverbend, the first craft malt house east of the Mississippi River, in Asheville, North Carolina in 2010. Buoyed by a 70,000 foot production facility and state of the art equipment, Riverbend Malt House helps breweries and distilleries large, small, and in-between stand out with flavor, locality, and community in an increasingly competitive landscape— all the while challenging the status quo of corporate, big-agriculture malt. Learn more at riverbendmalt.com.