DENVER, Colorado – The 5th annual Collaboration Beer Fest will kick off Colorado Craft Beer Week on Saturday, March 31st at the Hyatt Regency Denver (650 15th St, Denver, CO 80202). This year’s festival features 123 projects from more than 200 breweries with 144 Colorado breweries, 42 states and six countries.
“A few years ago Food & Wine called Collaboration Fest, ‘America’s Most Creative Beer Festival’ and that is something we want to build on each year,” said Tobias Krause, events manager at Two Parts. “We want people to leave this year’s festival thinking it was the best drinking experience of their life.”
This year the creativity is unparalleled with new beer styles emerging, old styles revisited, and unique ingredients making their first appearance in a brew. Ska Brewing Company and Ratio Beerworks have created a Norwegian White IPA using a Nordic Farmhouse yeast strain to create a beer that’s a twist on a White IPA. Upslope Brewing and Santa Fe Brewing used all Colorado and New Mexico ingredients in their collaboration including huitlacoche, a plant fungus that grows on ears of corn. Wibby Brewing and several members of Colorado’s local media recently brewed a steinbier, an ale brewed with 600 degree granite that originates from 20th century Europe.
“One of the coolest aspects of this festival is the brew day and being able to see first hand the comradery between brewers,” said Steve Kurowski of the Colorado Brewers Guild. “These men and women find so much inspiration and motivation when ideas are shared. It’s contagious.”
To learn more about each individual project, you can view the pour list here.
The Brewery List:
105 West Brewing Company
14er Brewing Company
21st Amendment Brewery
3 Freaks Brewery
300 Suns Brewing
38th State brewing company
4 Noses Brewing Company
4 Sons Brewing
8th Wonder Brewery
Adroit Theory Brewing Company
Alesong Brewery & Blending
Alpine Dog Brewing Company
Alternation Brewing Company
Ancestry Brewing
Angry James Brewery
Atwater Brewery
August Schell Brewing Company
Austin Beerworks
Baere Brewing Company
Banded Oak Brewing Company
Beachwood BBQ and Brewing
Berthoud Brewing Company
Big Grove Brewpub
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse Boulder
Black Bottle Brewery
Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
Black Shirt Brewing Co
Blackberry Farm Brewery
Bonfire Brewing
Boulder Beer Company
Breakside Brewery
Breckenridge Distillery
Briar Common Brewery + Eatery
Bristol Brewing Company
Broken Compass Brewing
Bruz Beers
BuckleDown Brewing
Burial Beer
Burns Family Artisan Ales
Call to Arms Brewing Company
Cannonball Creek Brewing Company
Carver Brewing Co.
Casey Brewing and Blending LLC
CAUTION: Brewing Company
CB & Potts – Fort Collins
Cellar West Artisan Ales
Cerberus Brewing Company
Cerebral Brewing
Chain Reaction Brewing Company
Cigar City Brewing Company
CO-Brew
Colorado Plus Brew Pub and Taphouse
Comrade Brewing Company
Coopersmith’s Pub & Brewing
Copper Kettle Brewing Company
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project
Crystal Springs Brewing Co.
Dancing Gnome Beer
Declaration Brewing Company
Diebolt Brewing Company
Dillon DAM Brewery
Downhill Brewing Company
Dry Dock Brewing Co
Eddyline Brewery
El Rancho Brewing Company
Elevation Beer Company
Epic Brewing Company
Eppig Brewing
Equinox Brewing
FATE Brewing Company
FERMÆNTRA Brewery and Tap Room
Fiction Beer Company
Fort George Brewery and Public House
Fossil Craft Beer Company
Freetail Brewing Company
Funkwerks, Inc.
Gemini Beer Company
Glenwood Canyon Brewing Co.
Goat Patch Brewing Company
Golden City Brewery
Goldspot Brewing Company
Good Bugs/Brewed Food
Goodcity Brewing Co.
Gordon Biersch
Great Divide Brewing Co.
Great Frontier Brewing Company
Green Mountain Beer Company
Grist Brewing Company
Grossen Bart Brewery
Hideaway Park Brewery
High Alpine Brewing Company
Holidaily Brewing Company
Horse & Dragon Brewing Company
Huss Brewing Company
Inland Island Yeast Company
Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project
Invasive Species Brewing
Invictus Brewing Company
Ironworks Brewery & Pub
Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery
Jing-A Brewing Co.
Joyride Brewing Company
Koala San Brew
LaBrasseie du Baril
Ladyface Ale Companie
Landlocked Ales
Lariat Lodge Brewing Co.
Launch Pad Brewery
Lefthand Brewing Company
Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company
Little Machine Beer
Living the Dream Brewing
Locavore Beer Works
Lone Pine Brewing Company
Lone Tree Brewing Company
Lost Highway Brewing Company
Marble Brewery
Mason Ale Works
Maui Brewing Company
Melvin Brewing
Mockery Brewing
Molly’s Spirits
Moonlight Pizza & Brewpub
Mother Tucker Brewery
Mountain Toad Brewing
MSU Denver Brewing Program
New Belgium Brewing Company
New Image Restaurant and Brewery
New Terrain Brewing Company
Odd 13 Brewing
Odell Brewing Company
Odyssey Beerwerks Brewery & Taproom
Omnipollo
Oskar Blues Brewery
Our Mutual Friend Brewing
Outer Range Brewing Company
Peacemaker Brewing Company
Peak to Peak Tap & Brew
Periodic Brewing
Pikes Peak Brewing Company
Platt Park Brewing Comany
Prost Brewing Company
Pug Ryan’s Brewery
Ratio Beerworks
Redstone Meadery
Renegade Brewing Company
Resolute Brewing Company
Resolution Brewing Company
River North Brewery
River Rat Brewery
Rockyard Brewing Company
Sanitas Brewing Co.
Santa Fe Brewing Company
Shmaltz Brewing Company
Schonramer
Seedstock Brewery
Ska Brewing Co.
Sleeping Giant Brewing Company
Snowy Mountain BrewerySomething Brewing
Spangalang Brewery
Speciation Artisan Ales
Spice Trade Brewery
St. Martin Abbey– Brunehaut Brewery
Station 26 Brewing Co.
Steamworks Brewing Company
Stillwater Artisanal Ales
Strange Craft Beer Company
Sycamore Brewing
Telluride Brewing Company
The Bakers’ Brewery
The Brew on Broadway (BoB)
The Lost Abbey
The Post Brewing Co.
Pumphouse Brewery
Three Barrel Brewing Co
Tivoli Brewing Co.
Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub
TRVE Brewing Company
Twisted Pine Brewing Co
Two Brothers Brewing
Uberbrew
Upslope Brewing Company
Ursula Brewery
Vail Brewing Company
Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project
Very Nice Brewing Company
Weldwerks Brewing Co.
Westbound & Down Brewery
WestFax Brewing Company
White Labs Pure Yeast & Fermentation
Wibby Brewing
Wild Woods Brewery
Wiley Roots Brewing Company
Wonderland Brewing Company
Woods Boss Brewing
Wynkoop Brewing Company
Zuni Street Brewing Company