Hey, creative types! Two different beer makers, Great Divide Brewing and Pikes Peak Brewing, are throwing out a call to artists to design their next beer cans.
Pikes Peak is looking for a design for its brand-new cans of Tejon Mexican Lager, which it started brewing upon opening the second Pikes Peak taproom, the Lager House, in Colorado Springs. The easy-drinking lager is made with flaked maize and Lemondrop hops; it s named after the street where the Lager House sits. The details are available on the brewery s website, but they include a look that will be more fun than the brewery s existing label design.
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.
Washington Beer Blog
Fremont Brewing releasing a barley wine for Bonney By washingtonbeerblog on December 30, 2020 at 8:46 AM
Matt Bonney was a larger-than-life personality on the Seattle beer scene. Among his numerous contributions to the local beer universe, he opened Toronado Seattle in 2014, but that’s just one part of a long list. Matt unexpectedly passed away in 2019. It was a year later in March 2020 that Toronado Seattle announced that it was closing permanently.
Fremont Brewingrecently announced its plans to release Ye Olde Centaur Barley Wine as a nod to a man very deserving of such a tribute. The beer was brewed in collaboration with the folks at Seattle’s esteemed beer bar, Brouwer’s Cafe, which is where Matt made an indelible first impression on many local beer lovers.