Loveland s homegrown Root Shoot Malting took home a medal last weekend in the Malt Cup, an annual competition hosted by the Craft Maltsters Guild. This is the third year in a row that Root Shoot has won a piece of hardware, making it the only small malt producer in the country to pull off that feat.
The company s prize-winning grain was Genie Pale, which took bronze. Genie Pale Malt starts as Limagrain Cereal Seed’s award-winning Genie 2-row, which Troubadour Malting also cultivates in its Genie Pale and also won at the Malt Cup this year, Root Shoot says. More flavorful than a traditional 2-row base malt, this light malt has notes of bread and honey, making it an excellent base malt for any style beer.
In advance of Inauguration Day in 2017, two Denver brewers decided that they needed to take action in order to support the people (and places) who were most at risk of being persecuted under the new administration. So Bess Dougherty and Kelissa Hieber did what they do best: They brewed beer. They were joined by a host of like-minded breweries who all made beer that was sold in order to raise money for nonprofits and charities. The effort, called Makin Noise, raised more than $40,000 over the next few years.
Although Makin Noise is on hiatus now as a new administration comes to Washington, D.C., its spirit continues among the breweries that participated. One of those breweries was Lady Justice, which was founded with the goal of donating profits to groups that benefit Colorado women and girls. As a community-service brewery, Lady Justice sells annual memberships, with the proceeds going to a charity at the end of the year.
In case you ve missed it so far, Falling Rock Tap House has been holding a closeout sale of its famed Vintage Bottle Cellar. The goal of selling these bottles to go, of course, is to use the proceeds to help survive the pandemic and the current COVID-related bar and restaurant restrictions. If you are familiar with the Falling Rock, you have probably perused our Blue Book Off-The-Beer-List Beer List and know we have one of the most extensive beer cellars in the U.S., Falling Rock explains. If we sell these bottles, we will buy ourselves a few months of breathing room and hopefully make it to the other side.
Remember how cute we all were back in March, posting pictures on social media of ourselves wearing bandannas, looking like masked bank robbers and wondering whether or not businesses were going to allow people with masks to come inside? My, how things have changed. As time ticks slowly toward the March 17 anniversary of the beginning of Colorado s COVID lockdown, most small businesses and the people who frequent them have incorporated new rules and new ways of doing things in their daily lives.
These days, those bandannas have mostly been replaced by hospital-style masks and they are no longer cute while a host of other strange-looking scenes have become normal. Here are 25 Facebook photos from local breweries and beer bars that would have made no sense to us a year ago.
Okay, pay attention! First, you take the graham. Then you stick the chocolate on the graham. Then you roast the ’mallow. When the ’mallow s flamin , you stick it on the chocolate. Then you cover it with the other end. Then you stuff.
The Sandlot s Hamilton Ham Porter about how to make s mores, and it s advice that Colorado s breweries are taking this winter as pandemic-induced indoor seating restrictions force them to come up with creative ways to lure customers to their lovely but often very cold patios.
Golden City Brewery, for instance, is offering s mores kits that people can use to cook up these campfire treats typically a summer staple over their tabletop fire boxes, while Bruz Beers will welcome in a new gourmet s mores cart, called S amore Denver, every Thursday through December, and possibly into January and February. S amore Denver, owned by Katrina Foster, will also appear at others breweries.