Brew Blog
Denver's Family & Senior Homeless Initiative has 17 families in urgent need of a very special Christmas gift: A place to live. We recently completed our second sponsoring of a family in the FSHI program, and have created an offer to inspire a few big-hearted businesses to help these 17 families and become real-life angels this Holiday season.
On December 1, 1-4 PM, Wynkoop Brewing Company presents our annual Parade of Darks, our holiday fundraiser and showcase of seasonal and year-round beers in the amber-to-opaque color categories. The event features a gift list of perfect-for-cool-weather beers -- from holiday seasonals, barley wines, sours and Belgians to porters, stouts and more -- for sampling. There will also be of selection of cheeses and chocolates to accompany the beers. Wynkoop donates 100% of the money from ticket sales to Metro CareRing (MCR), a downtown Denver food pantry that's experiencing another record year of demand for its services. Participating, big-hearted breweries…
At Our Beers of the Year event, one of the two new beers we debuted (and now have on tap) is a unique throwback beer we call The Chancellor. It’s a barrel-aged (for 16 month), single hop/single malt, British super-strong ale of 14% ABV. Brewed by Wynkoop head brewer Andy Brown, the beer is made from a vintage recipe discovered in England and shared with us by one of our heroes, the legendary Terry Foster. An ex-pat Brit and UK brewing expert and author, Terry literally wrote the book on pale ale for the Brewers Association. His Pale Ale was…
We have big news. Forty barrels big: We’ve just added two new 20-barrel fermenters to our trailblazing brewpub’s brewhouse. The new tanks make for our second expansion this year, following an addition of two similarly sized fermenters last February. (Last February we also added a special fermentation room in our basement for our beloved open fermenters.) The February expansion was the first increasing of Wynkoop’s brewery capacity in over 13 years. The latest build out gives us an additional 15% boost in brewing capacity.
