First Ever Ouray Winter Wine Festival Announced
Attendees will get an intimate experience sampling from eight wineries and two distilleries at this inaugural festival taking place in Ouray, Colorado.
OURAY, CO— Held in the beautiful and historic mining town of Ouray, Colorado, the Ouray Winter Wine Festival boasts unique and upscale offerings from Western Colorado’s vineyards and local purveyors within the culinary and retail markets.
Held at The Wright Opera House on February 11, 2023, attendees will get an intimate experience sampling from eight wineries; Sauvage Spectrum, Chill Switch Wines, LaNoue DuBois Winery, Vines 79 Wine Barn, The Storm Cellar, Stoney Mesa Winery, Sutcliffe Vineyards, and Qutori Wines, and two distilleries; Clark & Co’s Distilling and Storm King Distilling Co, all of which are from Colorado’s Western Slope. By the glass and/or bottle purchases can be enjoyed fireside amongst several lounge seating arrangements throughout the venue. Attendees will also be able to enjoy the sounds of local musicians Elevated Acoustic and Sound and the Messenger as well as culinary delights from Beyond the Board, Bonfire Oyster and Brrrnana.
The festival’s retail options are anything but typical. Attendees will experience interactive retail such as permanent jewelry from Rose Bird Designs, hands-on customization from Natalia’s Hat Bar, and art demonstrations from Adams Artco. And speaking of art, miniature chocolate masterpieces from Alpen Confections will temp attendees taste buds.
General admission to the festival will include a wine tote and custom wine glass that attendees can take around to each of the wineries and distilleries to sample product from. Attendees have the option to attend Session 1 from 11am to 3pm for $45 a ticket or Session 2 from 4pm to 8pm for $75 a ticket. Session 2 includes general admission plus passed appetizers. And for those looking for something extra special, a VIP party at Sauvage Spectrum from 8pm - 10pm can be added to the Session 2 ticket for just $40. The VIP party includes an entry glass of wine, buffet, music, and the opportunity to mingle with the winemakers.
The Ouray Winter Wine Festival will be a warm and inviting event. The festival was designed to include luxury items that can be experienced on an approachable and comfortable level. “We want to create an experience that’s similar to the feeling one gets when they slip on a pair of fuzzy slippers, plop down on a comfortable couch next to a roaring fire, pour a glass of red wine, and converse with good company,” explains event planner Krysta Cossitt with Elevation Weddings and Events.
Media Contact:
Krysta Cossitt
Elevation Wedding and Events
krysta@elevationweddingsandevents.com
(970) 233-2202
Ska Brewing Presents 2023 Snowdown Beer, Hornblower Horchata
This winter season, Southwest Colorado dwellers and questants can toast their goblets to A Shakespearean Snowdown with a small-batch, horchata-spiced ale brewed by Ska Brewing.
DURANGO, CO– Hear ye, hear ye! This winter season, Southwest Colorado dwellers and questants can toast their goblets to A Shakespearean Snowdown with a small-batch, horchata-spiced ale brewed by Ska Brewing. Hornblower Horchata will debut at the brewery World Headquarters on Tuesday, December 20.
Now in their 27th year of collaborating with Historic Downtown Durango on a special beer release for the occasion, Ska Brewing experimented with a gallimaufry of vanilla and cinnamon flavors in this egregious beer for the 43rd annual Snowdown celebration.
“We are very excited to collaborate with Ska Brewing again this year,” says Linda Brockway, Snowdown Event Coordinator. “We invite everyone to the beer tapping so they can herald its greatness across the land of Durango.”
Hornblower Horchata will be available in 12oz. 4-packs through Snowdown, Friday January 27 to Sunday February 5, 2023, for which Durango has a gambold of events planned.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com for more details about Hornblower Horchata or Ska’s Snowdown partnership with historic Downtown Durango.
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 True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi and Rue B. Soho. For information, music, and a good time, visit www.skabrewing.com.
Lone Tree Brewing Company Turns 11 This Weekend
Lone Tree’s neighborhood-focused, family and dog friendly tasting room has been a community gathering place since its start, and this weekend is no exception.
LONE TREE, CO– Lone Tree Brewing Company, the 115th brewery to open in Colorado, invites its (four-legged) friends out for its 11th anniversary. Lone Tree’s neighborhood-focused, family and dog friendly tasting room has been a community gathering place since its start, and this weekend is no exception.
From December 9 - 11, Lone Tree has a weekend of special beer tappings, food trucks, live music, and a karaoke party planned. Santa Paws will also make two appearances with canine and human friends from Big Dogs Huge Paws.
Here is the weekend lineup:
Friday, December 9
Beer Tappings:
4pm: Strawberry Kiwi Shortcake Firkin tapping
Food Truck:
PinkTank
6-9pm: Live Music by The One And Only Jon Ham
Saturday, December 10
Beer Tappings:
11am: Roeselare Red Sour and Barrel Aged Wee Heavy
12pm: Blueberry Breakfast Firkin
Food Truck:
Big Stuff Food Truck
1-4pm: Santa Paws Meet & Greet Photo with Big Dogs Huge Paws
2-5pm: Live Music by Bunny Blake
6-9pm: Karaoke Party
Sunday, December 11
Beer Tappings:
12pm: Peppermint Dark Lager Firkin
Food Truck:
Hesher BBQ Catering
1-4pm: Santa Paws Meet & Greet Photo with Big Dogs Huge Paws
2-5pm: Live Music by Wade Sutton
Don’t miss Lone Tree Brewing’s 11th anniversary weekend! Media interested in attending can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about the brewery.
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. 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 the state of Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Thirsty Monk Opens Asheville’s First Hard Seltzer Bar, Holy Water Hard Seltzer Brewpub
Asheville’s storied craft beverage scene is about to get the addition of a downtown hard seltzer bar.
ASHEVILLE, NC— Asheville’s storied craft beverage scene is about to get the addition of a downtown hard seltzer bar. Holy Water Hard Seltzer Brewpub will occupy the Patton Ave. ground level of the Thirsty Monk pub in downtown Asheville beginning Thursday, December 8, with plans to serve award-winning, cocktail-inspired Holy Water hard seltzers.
The landmark three-story Patton Avenue building has seen many chapters in the Thirsty Monk story, mainly a Belgian beer bar-turned-brewery with a cocktail bar upstairs and The Delirium Pink Elephant Bar in the basement featuring rare selections from the world-famous Delirium Brewery. Now this heavily trafficked downtown Asheville institution will wrap in Thirsty Monk’s latest evolution into hard seltzers.
“There is no other drink quite like our Holy Water Hard Seltzers. We literally have created our own style class- a Belgian style Hard Seltzer. We carefully hand craft every flavor recipe to add depth and balance of profile, and our base hard seltzer is brewed with our proprietary house Belgian-style yeast,” says Thirsty Monk CEO Barry Bialik. “We’ve really leaned on our Top of The Monk Craft Cocktail Bar history and our creative bartenders to curate well-rounded craft cocktail-inspired seltzers. With unique flavor combinations and higher ABV than your average seltzer, Holy Waters drink like draft cocktails.”
Holy Water’s Hard Seltzer line recently took home four medals from the 2022 U.S. Open Hard Seltzer Championship. Award-winning flavors include Pomegranate, Hibiscus & Ginger (Silver Medal), Margarita (Silver Medal), and Pina Colada (Gold Medal). And Holy Water Smoked Grapefruit Paloma was additionally awarded a Gold Medal for ‘Judges’ Award’. “When the judges tasted this seltzer, they were truly amazed. The grapefruit flavor was very subtle and the serrano peppers complemented this seltzer to make it like no other seltzer,” Bialik adds. “They asked if they could give this a special award since it did not fit any category. We were honored!”
Thirsty Monk started designing the Holy Water line up in 2019 and rebranded its Gerber Village location as the Holy Water Brew Pub in 2021. Now with the support of contract brewing from Green Man Brewing and at least 10 dedicated seltzers in the renovated downtown location, Holy Water is poised to expand both its flavors and reach across North Carolina and beyond. A Holy Water hard seltzer 12-pack is in the works with planned distribution.
Hard seltzer seekers can visit the new Holy Water Hard Seltzer Brewpub in downtown Asheville on December 8. The first 50 customers will receive complimentary Holy Water glassware. Learn more at holywaterseltzer.com.
Media inquiring about the Holy Water Hard Seltzer Brewpub can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT THIRSTY MONK
Founded in 2008, Thirsty Monk Brewery currently operates a family of establishments— Thirsty Monk Downtown featuring Holy Water Hard Seltzer Brewpub, The Delirium Pink Elephant Bar, and Top of the Monk Craft Cocktail Bar; Thirsty Monk Biltmore Park– featuring Thirsty Monk Brewery’s Belgian style beers, Holy Water Hard Seltzers, offerings from Green Man Brewery, and a full pub food menu. Find the company online at monkpub.com.
Living The Dream Releases ROCKER Spirits Port Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Littleton, Colorado craft brewery and distillery team up on barrel-aged beer project.
LITTLETON, CO— Living The Dream Brewing is proud to present Port Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, aged in ROCKER Spirits Whiskey barrels and finished in Port wine barrels.
Living The Dream has been experimenting with barrel projects for years now, and the brewing team is especially excited to work with such a local collaborator. ROCKER Spirits opened in Littleton in 2016, and has since been crafting whiskey, rum, and vodka. Their whiskey boasts sweet cereal aromas and notes of caramel, butterscotch, and honey, with a light citrus and moderate oak finish. This corn and wheat-based whiskey ages for a minimum of 3 years in 53-gallon virgin American oak barrels before finishing in Port wine barrels.
Enter Living The Dream Imperial Stout. This beer is brewed with a Root Shoot Genie Pale base with layered specialty malts to create its dark color and roasty complexity. Living The Dream’s brewing team filled freshly emptied ROCKER Spirits whiskey barrels with this full-bodied Stout, which took quickly to the oak, vanilla, and bourbon, and dark red fruit flavors of the original spirit.
The final product is a big-bodied 10% ABV Imperial Stout with aromas of caramel, toasted almonds and hints of red fruit. Its big chocolate and roasted flavors are complemented by red cherry, blackberry, and oak overtones.
“It’s always great to collaborate locally and help support the other small producers here in Colorado,” says Living The Dream Founder Jason Bell. “This is our first venture with a distillery, and ROCKER has really shown to make some fantastic spirits. We couldn’t be more excited to work with them on this project.”
Find Port Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout on draft and in cans at Living The Dream, and in limited quantities across the state via Colorado Craft Distributors, all while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about this barrel collaboration. Download press assets here.
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.
ABOUT ROCKER SPIRITS
Founded in 2015 in Littleton, ROCKER Spirits was built to reflect a time when we manufactured things with our own hands. We want our spirits to evoke a reverence for the time-honored traditions of craftsmanship and commitment. We aim to provide a great line of products that speak of our passion and belief in forging your own path. We strive to build a loyal group of mavericks seeking an original look, feel, and experience.
Riverbend Malt House Launches Seasonal Malt Program With Double Kilned Munich
Riverbend Malt House debuted Double Kilned Munich as part of a new seasonal malt program to serve the varying needs of craft brewers and distillers in the Southeast region. Available only while supplies last.
ASHEVILLE, NC— Riverbend Malt House debuted Double Kilned Munich this week as part of a new seasonal malt program to serve the varying needs of craft brewers and distillers in the Southeast region. This small-batch malt is available only while supplies last.
As its name suggests, Double Kilned Munich makes two trips through the kiln, a process that helps develop the complex flavors and increases color to approximately 50 SRM. “This was a fun and challenging project for our production team,” says Brent Manning, Riverbend’s Co-Founder who leads product development. “We experimented with a variety of different base malts, hydration regimes, and kilning recipes to arrive at this really special malt.”
Double Kilned Munich is malted from 2-row barley grown on family owned farms in the Southeast. This malt will contribute a beautiful, ruby red hue and notes of dark fruit and toffee with a touch of fresh roasted coffee to beers styles such as Czech Dark Lager, Baltic Porter, and winter seasonals.
“Double Kilned Munich performed well, tasted great, and served as a direct substitute for crystal or caramel malt,” says Chris Cates, Founder and Owner at Little Animals Brewery in Johnson City, Tennessee. “Its flavor impact leaned more towards rich malt flavor than it did towards sweetness. This is where it really shined, and what I would say made it stand out: minimal contribution to sweetness. Normally we have to source ‘specialty grain’ elsewhere, and then the beer can't be advertised as ‘all local malt.’ Overall I really enjoyed the malt and will use it again.”
Contact your Riverbend Malt House representative or sales@riverbendmalt.com to place an order for Double Kilned Munich, and look for more seasonal malt varieties from Riverbend in 2023.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com 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 square 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.
Bootstrap Brewing Announces Cherry Gose Can Release
At 4.8% ABV and 8 IBUs, Cherry Gose will be available in 6 packs of 12-ounce cans and kegs for draft accounts across Bootstrap Brewing’s distribution footprint in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Utah, Missouri, and Idaho.
LONGMONT, CO— As part of its Adventure Series, Bootstrap Brewing announced today that its Cherry Gose, which has been a taproom favorite for years, will begin hitting store shelves in December through distribution partners in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Utah, Missouri, and Idaho.
“Our base Gose Ale is a delicious, crisp, tart kettle-sour German Wheat beer. It’s brewed with additions of coriander, Himalayan salt and peppercorn and then we add the perfect amount of Montmorency Tart Cherries that we purchase from a family-owned farm in Door County Wisconsin” explained Steve Kaczeus, Owner/Brewer at Bootstrap Brewing. “The result is a delicious blend of spices and fruit that reminds me of a Cherry Jolly Rancher candy.
At 4.8% ABV and 8 IBUs, the beer will be available in 6 packs of 12-ounce cans and kegs for draft accounts.
For more information about Cherry Gose or Bootstrap Brewing, contact Leslie Kaczeus at leslie@bootstrapbrewing.com.
About Bootstrap Brewing Company
Home to best-selling and award-winning craft beers such as Insane Rush, Lush Puppy, Boat Snack, Stick’s Pale Ale, Chillax, Wreak Havoc, and Pickle Me Up, Bootstrap Brewing is an independent, adventurous brewery in Colorado dedicated to producing a wide range of ales and lagers. More information can be found on our website at www.bootstrapbrewing.com.
Lone Tree Brewing and Resolute Brewing Present Abundant Forest, A Dark Rice Lager Collaboration
Abundant Forest is a dark lager brewed with rice and Leopold Bros. pilsner malt, flaked rice, and chocolate malt; and hopped with German hop varietals Ariana and Callista.
COLORADO— Lone Tree Brewing and Resolute Brewing are psyched to debut their first-ever, long time coming collaboration: Abundant Forest.
Abundant Forest is a dark lager brewed with Leopold Bros. pilsner malt, flaked rice, and chocolate malt; and hopped with German hop varietals Ariana and Callista. This easy-drinking, rich-colored lager yields notes of sweet malt, floral bouquet, and cocoa dusted raspberries. It weighs in at 6% ABV.
“The conversation about what to brew went to dark lager pretty quickly,” says Resolute Head Brewer Kyle Larkin. “Knowing this beer would be released and consumed during the colder months, we wanted a beer with a warming appearance and nose, but easy drinkability. The end result was a dark rice lager. The crew over at Lone Tree have used rice quite a bit in their beers, and it's an ingredient we haven't really played around with here. So we were excited to incorporate it into the recipe.”
South Metro Denver neighbors and friends for years, these two breweries were excited to finally collaborate. You can taste their creation on draft at both Resolute locations in Centennial and Arvada, and at Lone Tree Brewing in Lone Tree- all while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com for information about this collaboration, or either brewery.
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 are sold across the state of Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Its draft beer is poured at many bars and restaurants across its distribution footprint as well. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
ABOUT RESOLUTE BREWING COMPANY
Resolute Brewing Company is in the business of uniting people by crafting and sharing happiness. The began handcrafting libations in Centennial, Colorado in 2016 to serve the metro Denver community with unrelenting dedication to classic, high quality beer styles. This resolve has since expanded into Arvada with the opening of Resolute Tap & Cellar in 2019, and across the state through distribution via Colorado Craft Distributors. Find Resolute Brewing online at resolutebrewingco.com.
Be Resolute!
Warning: Lone Tree Brewing 2022 Hop Zombie Outbreak
Lone Tree Brewing Hop Zombie Imperial Red IPA escapes across Colorado’s Front Range
LONE TREE, CO— Expectedly, Hop Zombie Day 2022 at Lone Tree Brewing Company saw a line out the door, and the tenth annual batch of this famed Imperial Red IPA sold out in a matter of hours. This year though, the brewery has reported an outbreak of Hop Zombie kegs into the wild. The beer has crept into select accounts across the Denver Metro Area. Catch it while you can.
Hop Zombie just hit the taps at Blake's Tap House in Broomfield, Z'Abbracci in Castle Rock, Two Penguins Tap and Grill in Centennial, Stout Street Social in downtown Denver, Golden Mill in Golden, and Parker Pour House in Parker, Colorado. Now while supplies last, beer lovers can taste the last sips of Hop Zombie before it goes into remission.
Hop Zombie is a 9% ABV beer deep red in color, with bold hop and rich malt flavors. This Great American Beer Festival®-winning Imperial Red Ale recipe was first crafted on Lone Tree Brewing Founder John Winter’s homebrew system, and has returned to the brewery taps each fall since 2012. It doesn’t lurk long, and its phantom appearances outside of the brewery are scarce.
Media interested in learning more about Hop Zombie IPA can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@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 are sold across the state of Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Its draft beer is poured at many bars and restaurants across its distribution footprint as well. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Ska Brewing Misses International Stout Day; Releases Peppermint Bark Stout In Time For The 2022 Holiday Season
Ska Brewing will give grown up’s a drinkable version of their favorite childhood holiday memories with the release of Peppermint Bark Stout for the 2022 holiday season.
DURANGO, CO— This holiday season, Ska Brewing will give grown ups a drinkable version of their favorite childhood holiday memories with the release of Peppermint Bark Stout. This Milk Stout, made with peppermint bark from Durango’s local Animas Chocolate Company™, debuts at the brewery World Headquarters on Friday, November 4.
This new release marks a decade of Ska Brewing’s seasonal Stout experimentation– which has included Hibernal Vinifera, Autumnal Molé, Estival Cream, and Vernal Minthe Stout. The brewery’s highly decorated Steel Toe Stout dates back even longer, and holds medals in all of the major global beer competitions, including the Great American Beer Festival®, World Beer Cup®, Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival, European Beer Star, and the Australian International Beer Awards, among others. It goes without saying that Ska is all in on Stout.
Now Ska’s research and development on Milk Stout style yields a new expression of the style that will hit shelves in perfect timing for Peppermint Bark Day on December 1, and holiday festivities in general.
Peppermint bark was invented by Williams Sonoma in 1998. “Turns out we opened the brewery before peppermint bark was officially a thing, but the chocolate and candy cane combination goes back as long as most of us can remember,” says Ska Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Dave Thibodeau. “Doing R&D for this holiday ale brought home much nostalgia.”
True to Ska fashion, Peppermint Bark Stout is a product of local collaboration. It was brewed with actual peppermint bark (white chocolate, dark chocolate, and candy canes) made in Durango by the Animas Chocolate Company, owned by Marc Snider (who directed the infamous Brew Minions video) and his wife Carley since 2011. Its sweetness from peppermint bark and chocolate-forward malts is balanced with cocoa nibs and a hint of mint. The addition of lactose makes for a creamy, smooth finish.
Peppermint Bark Stout will be available exclusively in Colorado in extremely limited quantities while supplies last. Find it on tap at Ska Brewing, and in canned, 12 oz. 4-packs that include a QR code linked to a playlist of Thibodeau’s favorite holiday jingles. This beer will be the first from Ska to be packaged with paperboard rings, supporting the brewery’s long-term effort to eliminate all plastic. Come spring of 2023, all of Ska’s beers will be packaged with these can holders.
Animas Chocolate Company will also serve Peppermint Bark Stout as part of their alcohol and chocolate pairings for the holiday season. Their staff has selected the Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk cookie, the The Nugget Truffle (a single origin 75% dark chocolate truffle made with the same cacao nibs incorporated into the Stout), and of course, their handcrafted peppermint bark, as pairings.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com for more information about Ska Brewing and their holiday Stout.
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 True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi and Rue B. Soho. For information, music, and a good time, visit www.skabrewing.com.
Resolute Brewing Takes Home First GABF Medal For Execrator Doppelbock
Resolute Brewing Company was honored with its first GABF medal at the 2022 competition, a silver in the German-Style Doppelbock category for Execrator Doppelbock.
COLORADO— Resolute Brewing Company was honored with its first Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) medal at the 2022 competition, a silver in the German-Style Doppelbock category for Execrator Doppelbock.
Brewing Doppelbock is a balancing act to produce full-bodied, dry-finishing lager that yields flavors of roast, toast, and dark fruit. “There is such a variety of lager styles, but behind the majority of them is an emphasis on drinkability,” says Head Brewer Kyle Larkin. “We love hops but we also love beers that we can have pint after pint, and that’s the space our lagers fill. Beyond that, they are challenging to brew and a good way to test ourselves as there is nothing to hide behind. Our dedication to dialing in our process and putting out the best beer we can paid off with our recent GABF win.”
Resolute Brewing’s expression of this style was inspired by Tröegs Independent Brewing’s Troegenator. “This was one of my favorite beers during my tenure with Troegs and still continues to be. So my aim was to capture the same flavors but in my way. And the result couldn't have been better,” Larkin adds. "Execrator was forged upon a base of German Munich and Caramunich malts, along with floor-malted Pilsner malt from Leopold Bros. Malting in Denver. After a long hibernation, this strong lager has emerged rich and malty, oozing with notes of sweet caramel, toasted dark bread, and warm dates."
Among the total 9,904 commercial brewery entries in this year’s competition, the German-Style Doppelbock or Eisbock category had 47 entries. Resolute is one of 18 brewing companies to receive their first GABF recognition in 2022.
Taste Execrator Doppelbock at both of Resolute’s locations in Arvada and Centennial while supplies last. A batch of this lager is currently resting in Bourbon barrels, to be released in coming months.
Media inquiring about Resolute Brewing can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
Find Resolute Brewing online at resolutebrewingco.com.
Ska Brewing Launches Distribution In Wyoming
Ska Brewing beers are now available across Wyoming.
DURANGO, CO— Ska Brewing and Western Distributing Company announced a new distribution partnership this week, with plans to kickoff sales in this new territory at events in Casper on Thursday and Friday. Residents and visitors in the Cowboy State can now find Ska beer on tap and in cans from Laramie to Casper to Jackson and beyond.
After 27 years and now as one of Colorado’s five largest craft breweries, Ska is quite frankly flabbergasted that they haven’t poured proper beers for their neighbors in the north until now.
“Sharing the border with Wyoming, we travel there often for our outdoor pursuits— and it was starting to get weird not offering our beer there,” says Ska Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Dave Thibodeau. “After making the connection with Western Distributing a while back, this expansion of our reach out West feels like a long time coming.”
Meet Ska Brewing’s beers and some of its characters at these kickoff events:
Thursday, October 13, 2022
4-6pm: Ska tastings at Discount Liquor, Mesa Liquor and 2nd St. Liquor and Wine
7pm: Featured Ska taps at Gaslight Social during the Bumpin Uglies show
Friday, October 14, 2022
4-6pm: Ska tastings at Liquor Shed and Poplar Wine and Spirits
6pm: Ska tap takeover at Frontier Brewing for The Brewery Comedy Tour
If you would like to attend one of these events for your coverage or have media inquiries about Ska Brewing, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
Reach out to Zac Atkinson at zac.atkinson@westdist.com for information about carrying Ska brands at your establishment.
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 True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi and Rue B. Soho. For information, music, and a good time, visit www.skabrewing.com.
Autumn Arrives With Lone Tree Brewing Vanilla Caramel Amber
Lone Tree Brewing Company’s fall seasonal Vanilla Caramel Amber returns in 6-packs to Colorado and Kansas.
LONE TREE, CO— It’s Vanilla Caramel Amber season at Lone Tree Brewing, where this autumnal favorite makes its return in cans for the sixth year. Look for this beer in canned 6-packs across Colorado and Kansas this season.
Originally developed on Lone Tree Founder John Winter's homebrew system, this beer’s rich caramel and vanilla flavors are created with crystal malt and Madagascar vanilla beans— and no other adjuncts either. The base beer is a traditional American Amber with a good helping of hops to balance out the sweetness of the vanilla. This cold month staple is a drinkable 6% ABV.
Find Vanilla Caramel Amber as a rotating tap at the Lone Tree tasting room and select locations this fall and winter, and in cans across the brewery footprint in Colorado and Kansas. Locate Lone Tree beer with their website beer finder.
Media inquiring about Lone Tree Brewing Company can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@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 are sold across the state of Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Its draft beer is poured at many bars and restaurants across its distribution footprint as well. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Fall is Here and Winter is Coming: Ska Brewing 2022 Mexican Style Lager Dark and Euphoria Pale Ale Releases
It’s officially autumn in Southwest Colorado, marked by the release of Ska’s two cold month seasonals: Mexican Style Lager Dark and Euphoria Pale Ale.
DURANGO, CO— The leaves are turning and the beers at Ska Brewing are getting darker in color. It’s officially autumn in Southwest Colorado, marked by the release of Ska’s two cold month seasonals: Mexican Style Lager Dark and Euphoria Pale Ale.
Mexican Style Lager Dark hit Ska’s World Headquarters in Durango last week and is now available across its United States distribution footprint. Ska first introduced this dark lager in cans in January of 2021 to round out the winter months with a dark variant of the famed summer seasonal Mexican Logger. It’s a smooth and slightly sweet beer that’s balanced with mild bitterness, subtle caramel flavors, and a touch of roast on the finish. Just as Mexican Logger has come to signify the coming of spring in Durango, Mexican Style Lager Dark joins Ska’s long-established Euphoria Pale Ale as a lantern leading to winter.
2022 marks Euphoria Pale Ale’s sixteenth year in a can. This winter ale’s story begins at Purgatory Ski Resort for which the recipe was originally crafted, and travels to Silverton, Colorado where the brewery teams up with Venture Snowboards to create a custom, Ska-themed snowboard each year. The brewery will announce this season’s snowboard giveaway details on social media.
Euphoria Pale Ale returns to Ska on Thursday, October 13 with a celebration to include live music by Chuck Hank beginning at 5pm. The beer will be released to all of Ska’s distribution markets this week as well.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Ska Brewing.
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 True Blonde, Modus Hoperandi and Rue B. Soho. For information, music, and a good time, visit www.skabrewing.com.
Global Depalletizer Market Growing; Ska Fabricating To Showcase Depalletizers At Pack Expo International
Ska Fabricating offers one of the world’s largest selections of depalletizer and repalletizer products— aided by the acquisition of GR-X Manufacturing earlier this year— that can be customized to support automation across industries.
CHICAGO, IL— Ska Fabricating will showcase the International Microbus and the Full Height Automatic (FHA) 3000 Depalletizer with Industrial S-Grip lowerator at Pack Expo International, one of the largest gatherings in the packaging community offering packaging and processing solutions for every industry, in October 2022.
Market researchers predict the global depalletizer market is anticipated to rise at a considerable rate between now and 2028. Ska Fabricating offers one of the world’s largest selections of depalletizer and repalletizer products— aided by the acquisition of GR-X Manufacturing earlier this year— that can be customized to support automation across industries.
Ska Fabricating released the original version of the Microbus depalletizer earlier this year in the United States and Canada, and will now offer an international configuration capable of handling six of the world’s common pallet sizes. The International Microbus (left photo above) uses a hand crank or hand-held drill to raise the Pallet Lift Carriage 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, which accumulates the containers, aligns them and feeds them into a Rinse Cage. 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. Get more information about this innovative multi-pallet depalletizer here.
Also on display at this trade show will be the Full Height Automatic (FHA 3000) Depalletizer (right photo above). This machine is designed to support flexible configurations using its multiple discharge, decline, and pallet loading conveyor options, allowing it to be tailored to customer-specific requirements. The FHA 3000 was engineered with the flexibility to unload a wide range of container types including plastic containers, aluminum cans, or fiberboard tubes, among others, with a lift capacity up to 1,000 lbs. The FHA 3000 will be showcased alongside the Industrial S-Style Side-Grip Lowerator which offers customers tool-less adjustability during product changeovers and a small footprint, saving valuable floor space. Find more details about this versatile depalletizer here.
Press assets for both machines are available here.
Find Ska Fabricating in booth location LU-7657 at Pack Expo International at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois from October 23-26, 2022.
Contact Elise Wright, Manager of Marketing and Events for Ska Fabricating, if you would like to connect with Ska Fabricating during the show: ewright@skafabricating.com. Media inquiring about Ska Fabricating can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT SKA FABRICATING
Ska Fabricating builds heavy-duty, automated packaging line equipment that is hand-crafted to make life easier for businesses that rely on their packaging lines. Ska Fab specializes in depalletizers, palletizers, custom conveyance systems, rinsing, drying, automated fill level detection and rejection, and date coding products. A team of skilled engineers handles every project with care, creating customized layouts and ensuring customers receive the absolute best outcomes for their production goals, space, and budget.
With the acquisition of GR-X Manufacturing, Ska Fab has expanded their capabilities for nearly all facets and verticals of the packaging market, including an even wider range of industries, container types, and line speeds.
Ska Fab’s customers receive on-time deliveries of the highest quality, most reliable products on the market. With 10+ years of experience and thousands of happy customers across the globe, Ska Fab is dedicated to helping businesses of all sizes meet their high standards of quality and get their products packaged and onto the shelves. Find Ska Fab online at skafabricating.com.
Living The Dream Brings Back Zap! Smash! IPA in 2022
Living The Dream experimental IPA cans available across Colorado through Colorado Craft Distributors.
LITTLETON, CO.— Zap! Smash! IPA by Living The Dream Brewing is now available for the second year, this time across Colorado through distribution with Colorado Craft Distributors.
“This beer and its label are a bit of a departure from our usual lineup,” says Living The Dream Brewing Founder Jason Bell. “Branching out with a more unique hop profile and working with local malt from Root Shoot Malting, we wanted to create a label that was just as unique as the beer.”
Zap! Smash! is an experimental IPA that came out of a partnership with Whole Foods in 2021. It was crafted with Zappa Hops, named in honor of Frank Zappa, and Colorado-grown Root Shoot Malting Genie Pale Malt. This refreshing 5.4% IPA yields flavors of mango, passionfruit, citrus, and pine. It will be available in canned 6-packs at the Living The Dream taproom, and across Colorado through Colorado Craft Distributors, while supplies last.
Contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com with media inquiries about Living The Dream Brewing. Download press assets here.
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.
Lone Tree Brewing 10th Annual Hop Zombie Day Is October 29
Colorado craft brewery Lone Tree Brewing brings back Hop Zombie Imperial Red IPA for one day.
LONE TREE, CO— Hop Zombie will make its tenth annual appearance at Lone Tree Brewing on October 29.
Hop Zombie Imperial Red IPA is deep red in color, with bold hop and rich malt flavors. In 2017, the beer was awarded a silver medal at the 2017 Great American Beer Festival® in the Imperial Red Ale category. It typically sells out in (less than) one day.
Hop Zombie will tap at Lone Tree Brewing on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 11am. Cases, 6-packs, and individual cans will also be available for purchase at the tasting room while supplies last. This year, Lone Tree Brewing Mug Club members get 25 percent off cans.
Hop Zombie’s tenth anniversary artwork sports a ‘Back to the Future’ motif, with custom glassware, t-shirts, and even golf polos available for purchase. The first ten devoted souls who arrive in the wee hours of the morning to get in line for this release will receive a free limited edition Hop Zombie glass.
Media interested in attending, or inquiring about the last decade of Hop Zombie Day traditions can contact Emily Hutto at hutto@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 are sold across the state of Colorado, and in select locations in Kansas. Its draft beer is poured at many bars and restaurants across its distribution footprint as well. Find the brewery online at lonetreebrewingco.com.
Freshtober Fest by The Empourium Returns To Denver’s Berkeley Neighborhood October 15, 2022
Freshtober Fest 2022 at The Empourium Brewing Co. in the Denver Berkeley neighborhood will feature ten breweries pouring their fresh hop expressions.
The Empourium Owners Sara and Greg Fetzer
DENVER, CO— The Empourium Brewing Co. brings back its beloved celebration of fresh hop beers to the Berkeley neighborhood for the third year on Saturday, October 15 from noon to 6pm.
Freshtober Fest 2022 will feature ten breweries pouring their fresh hop expressions (the brewery list is below), The Hucklebearers at 12:30pm and Westword’s best new band of 2022 Traveling Rose Band at 3:30pm, eats from local favorite food trucks Little Red’s Kitchen and Pho King Rapidos. The Empourium will also host its annual denim drive to support The St. Francis Center. It’s all going down on the brewery patio that’s expanded into 42nd Street for the day.
The Empourium will also bring back its fresh hop beer Now & Forever, made with El Dorado hops from Hop Head Farms that were overnighted to the brewery for supreme freshness. This beer will return in a can with new label art for 2022.
Tickets cost $45 and include a festival glass and beer tokens for beers poured on the patio. Guests can also purchase full pints inside of the tasting room that can be taken back outside. Bring your friends, bring your jeans, and come ready to taste the season’s freshest hops all in one place.
Freshtober Fest 2022 Breweries
Barquentine Brewing
Berkeley Alley Beer Co.
Call to Arms Brewing
FlyteCo Brewing
Goldspot Brewing
Hogshead
Joyride Brewing
Odell Brewing
The Empourium Brewing Co.
Uhl’s Brewing
Media interested in attending or with questions can 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.
Sauvage Spectrum and Peach Street Distillers Debut Bourbon Barrel-Aged Red and Red Wine Barrel-Aged Bourbon For Wine Fest in Palisade, Colorado
A Peach Street Distillers bourbon barrel-aged red wine made by Sauvage Spectrum, Devil’s Prey, and a rendition of Peach Street Distillers Colorado Straight Bourbon aged in Sauvage Spectrum's Red Wine soaked Oak Barrels.
PALISADE, CO— A Peach Street Distillers bourbon barrel-aged red wine made by Sauvage Spectrum, Devil’s Prey, and a rendition of Peach Street Distillers Colorado Straight Bourbon aged in Sauvage Spectrum's Red Wine soaked Oak Barrels, will be available Thursday September 15 to officially kick off Palisade Colorado’s annual Wine Fest weekend.
ABOUT THE WINE
Devil’s Prey is Sauvage Spectrum’s first foray into barrel-aged red wine. “We couldn't think of requesting the help from a better local partner,” says Winemaker and Co-Founder
Patric L. Matysiewski about his neighbors Peach Street Distillers. For Peach Street who are passionate about expressing the bounty of Colorado’s small farms in their final products, Sauvage Spectrum’s request was well-received.
To create Devil’s Prey, Matysiewski and his team took their most approachable red wine and aged it on Peach Street barrels for three and a half months. The experience begins with dark fruit jam and Bourbon aromas, followed by notes of dark cherries, tobacco, vanilla, brown sugar, and a hint of spice.
“This project is called Devil's Prey due to the fact the innocent wine lay victim to the spirit,” says Matysiewski. “Normally upon evaporation of wine or spirit you'd call that the "Devil's Cut", but here we take advantage of the Bourbon flavors from the previously used Peach Street barrels to help infuse some local flavor into this ever popular and growing style of wine. The flavors previously housed in the barrel actually seep back into the product as the wine starts to evaporate from the oak.”
ABOUT THE BOURBON
Peach Street Spirits transferred their handcrafted three-year-old Colorado Straight Bourbon into a freshly emptied Devil's Prey-soaked Oak Barrel for an additional 6 months of aging to craft this novel spirit. This single barrel, number 753, was then packaged as a single barrel celebration of this season's Colorado Wine Fest and in collaboration with Sauvage Spectrum Devil's Prey release. The resulting bourbon boasts a rich mahogany hue that’s several shades darker than Peach Street Colorado Straight Bourbon’s traditional amber hue, with notes of dark cherry, vanilla and jam balanced by sharper edges of rye and spice, and a touch of sweet corn.
As drinkable as they are prime for a few years of aging, these storied and full-bodied bottles are ones to savor in good company. If you’d like more information about this collaboration or either of these beverage expressions, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
ABOUT PEACH STREET DISTILLERS
Peach Street Distillers was founded in 2005 in the heart of Colorado’s fruit and wine region, Palisade Colorado, where the high desert meets the mountains. The warm days and cool nights in Palisade make the local fruits and grains unimaginably delicious. Living the very definition of “craft” Peach Street does everything the hard way to turn these fermentable raw materials into extraordinary spirits. Peach Street Distillers is Colorado’s oldest independently owned and operated distillery. Visit the distillery online at peachstreetdistillers.com for more about the spirits and the spirits squad.
ABOUT SAUVAGE SPECTRUM
Representing a juxtaposition between the wild untamable elements of grape growing and the artisan craft of winemaking coming together to create nuanced wines. Hand-harvested, estate-grown fruit from our sustainably farmed 60 acres of vineyard. We grow 26 varietals, researching and developing the land and vines to produce one-of-a-kind nuanced wines for your enjoyment. Our team not only farms the land and grows the grapes, but also vinifies the wine with nominal interference in the cellar to truly express the unique high desert terroir. Our range of clean, ethically produced wines have little to no sulfite additions and are always gluten-free, 100% vegan, and non-GMO. If you have enjoyed Colorado wine before, you have most likely tasted our grapes. Now we present them to you as the Grapegrower intended. Find the winery online at sauvagespectrum.com.
Ska Distributing Adds WeldWerks Brewing Co. To Portfolio
WeldWerks Juicy Bits Hazy IPA and rotating offerings will hit shelves in Southwest Colorado via Ska Distributing this week.
DURANGO, CO— Ska Distributing is excited to expand its portfolio of beers available across Southwest Colorado with the addition of WeldWerks Brewing Co. The infamous Juicy Bits Hazy IPA as well as WeldWerks’ rotating offerings will hit shelves this week.
Ska Brewing and WeldWerks have long been industry friends and fellow judges at the Great American Beer Festival, where they discovered their shared commitment to beer quality and consistency. "Partnering with Ska for distribution to Southwest Colorado was a natural fit for us at WeldWerks,” says Alex Paine, Director of Sales. “They know that market better than anyone. Their attention to quality and relationships align perfectly with our focus on expanding our Colorado footprint.”
Years into their friendship when Ska was researching and developing The Hazy IPA, they looked to WeldWerks Juicy Bits as one of the best industry examples of the style. This cult-followed hazy was one of the first beers in this style category in Colorado, and it was chosen in the 2019 Best Beers in America survey conducted by Zymurgy Magazine; among many other recognitions.
“The mission of our distribution company is to bring otherwise unavailable beers to our rural community,” says Ska Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Dave Thibodeau. “We like to bring them the best of the best.”
WeldWerks Juicy Bits IPA and other rotating beers from the Greeley-based brewery will be available through Ska Distributing beginning this week. Those interested in carrying WeldWerks can contact justin@skabrewing.com.
For more information about Ska Distributing, contact Emily Hutto at hutto@radcraftbeer.com.
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 Bristol Brewing, Bruz Beers, La Cumbre Brewing Co., Left Hand Brewing Co., Lone Tree Brewing Co., Stone Brewing, and Telluride Brewing. Ska services on and off-premise accounts in Durango, Telluride, Ridgway, and Ouray. Find Ska online at skabrewing.com.
ABOUT WELDWERKS BREWING CO.
Established in 2015, WeldWerks Brewing Co. is an award-winning craft brewery located in Greeley, Colorado recognized for brewing an array of beer styles including Juicy Bits, one of the most highly regarded IPAs in the country. Comprised of a passionate group of individuals dedicated to bringing innovative and quality craft beer to the community it serves, WeldWerks Brewing has garnered numerous medals and acclaim on the way, including being named the best new brewery in the country by USA Today in 2016 and multiple medals at both the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup. The brewery’s charitable arm, the WeldWerks Community Foundation, is a 501c3 nonprofit that supports local nonprofits through events like The WeldWerks Invitational. At WeldWerks, being “dialed-in" is a way of life, helping to ensure outstanding excellence in craft beer, service and beyond. For more information about WeldWerks Brewing Co, visit www.weldwerksbrewing.com.