Wynkoop Brewing Company

Starting this Thursday, we’re the launch point for a weekly, every-Thursday tour of four of D-town’s best breweries. The tours are run by the mighty Banjo Billy, whose wacky hillbilly bus and historic tours of Boulder and Denver have been a hit for several years. Banjo launched a series of brewery tours in Boulder last year, they quickly became a hit. Now he’s bringing them to Denver and we are the first spot on each tour. Very exciting!

For the past seven or eight years, I’ve had the great pleasure of presenting a seminar at the annual Craft Brewers Conference. On subjects revolving around the art and importance of good promotion, publicity and cheerleading for craft breweries. Always with a dose of live music at the end of each session. Every other year that seminar fun reaches much greater heights thanks to The Gourdians, a (self-proclaimed) power trio featuring my pals/heroes Greg Koch (Stone Brewing), Dave Buhler (Elysian Brewing) and myself. The three of us cover similar buzz-building subjects for the benefit of our beery brothers and sisters,…

On Tuesday, May 15 at 7 PM, we're tapping a pair of brand new beers we brewed especially for Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park in Denver. The beers – Elitch Gardens Orchard Wheat and Elitch Gardens Fire Roasted Amber -- will go on tap at Wynkoop as part of our American Craft Beer Week festivities. The beers will go on tap at Elitch Gardens at 11 AM on May 19. They will be served in the Blue Moon Beer Garden, J.M. Mulvihill's Bar & Grill and Rustler's Food Court. These new beers are part of Elitch Gardens' growing focus…

On May 8 at 5 PM, we're releasing a brand new beer we brewed especially for Create Denver Week, a series of events held May 10-13 that showcases Denver’s creative community. The beer – Catalyst – is a one-time-only, unfiltered extra pale ale made with 100% Colorado-grown malts (from Colorado Malting Company) and locally grown hops from Voss Farms, a small hop farm in Arvada, Colorado.