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A food truck in Fort Collins operates out of a converted school bus. It also helps schools teach kids about food.

It was April 2020, and Justin Baccary, the owner of Station 26 Brewing, was prepared for a bloodbath. Like many other states, Colorado had forced its bars, breweries and restaurants to close in March to try and stem the rising rate of COVID-19 infections, and it was becoming clear to Baccary and others that what had once looked like a three-to-six-month nightmare was turning into an indefinite hell-scape for businesses of all kinds. The Brewers Association trade group had just released the resu...

It sounds crazy, but for most of the last 85 years, it was illegal in Colorado for breweries to sell low-alcohol beers to bars, restaurants or liquor stores. Anything under 4.0 percent ABV (or 3.2 percent alcohol by weight) was reserved strictly for grocery and convenience stores. From the end of Prohibition until just two years ago, 3.2 beer was the only kind of booze the big supermarket and convenience chains could sell in Colorado, so the law protected them against competition. In addition ...

It was mid-summer 2020, and Kyle Carbaugh had a choice. He could either continue to brew and can beer for distribution to the Denver-area liquor stores that were demanding it during the rush for stay-at-home drinking, or he could focus on making a new line of pulpy, somewhat controversial fruit beers that were selling out within minutes at Greeley’s Wiley Roots Brewing, which Carbaugh and his wife, Miranda, founded in 2013. “In a pandemic, how do you choose between being able to make money ...