DENVER – Denver Beer Co. today announced that Andy Parker will join the brewery’s leadership team as Director of Innovation beginning February 1, 2021. With more than 20 years experience in the craft beer industry, Parker will lead Denver Beer Co. and Cerveceria Colorado’s taproom brewing teams in recipe formulation, will manage the barrel aging program, and will act as the creative lead to produce unique, interesting and exciting beverages.
Parker joins Denver Beer Co. from Avery Brewing Company where he has spent the past 18 years. As one of the most senior members of Avery’s brewing team, Parker has been involved in the recipe development of nearly every beer the brewery has produced for the past fifteen years, from one-keg rarities to best sellers. In 2007, Parker launched their award-winning barrel aging program with a simple request to acquire 30 oak barrels for an experimental beer. Notably, he has earned four medals for Avery from the Festival of Wood and Barrel Ag
In case you ve missed it so far, Falling Rock Tap House has been holding a closeout sale of its famed Vintage Bottle Cellar. The goal of selling these bottles to go, of course, is to use the proceeds to help survive the pandemic and the current COVID-related bar and restaurant restrictions. If you are familiar with the Falling Rock, you have probably perused our Blue Book Off-The-Beer-List Beer List and know we have one of the most extensive beer cellars in the U.S., Falling Rock explains. If we sell these bottles, we will buy ourselves a few months of breathing room and hopefully make it to the other side.
R.I.P., Charlotte Figi
Charlotte Figi became a catalyst for medical marijuana around the globe in 2013, when she appeared on Dr. Sanjay Gupta s
Weed documentary on CNN. Gupta had doubted medical marijuana s efficacy until he met Figi, a toddler who suffered from Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that can cause extreme seizures. Figi was treated with CBD oil extracted from a non-intoxicating strain of marijuana in 2012, and eventually no longer required a feeding tube to eat; her family reported that CBD nearly eliminated her seizures. The growers of the strain of high-CBD marijuana she used later named the strain Charlotte s Web and their company CW Hemp in her honor. Other patients moved to Colorado for the same treatment, helping to create the phrase medical marijuana refugee.
Remember how cute we all were back in March, posting pictures on social media of ourselves wearing bandannas, looking like masked bank robbers and wondering whether or not businesses were going to allow people with masks to come inside? My, how things have changed. As time ticks slowly toward the March 17 anniversary of the beginning of Colorado s COVID lockdown, most small businesses and the people who frequent them have incorporated new rules and new ways of doing things in their daily lives.
These days, those bandannas have mostly been replaced by hospital-style masks and they are no longer cute while a host of other strange-looking scenes have become normal. Here are 25 Facebook photos from local breweries and beer bars that would have made no sense to us a year ago.
Opening: Late 2021 This concept comes in alongside a Tex-Mex eatery and a bar inside the former Tavern Downtown building across from Coors Field. The three venues are the joint project of a Los Angeles restaurant group and a New York entertainment company (the timeline is tentative because of COVID). One of the principals there, Joe Barker, loves dogs and home brewing, so the name is a tribute to smash face dog breeds, like Boston terriers, pugs and French bulldogs and the beer recipes are his, too. The 5,000-square-foot spot will pour eight to ten beers brewed on site (examples include American Gentleman IPA, Vanilla Pug Porter and Frog Dog Lager) along with beers from other local breweries. For food, there will an extensive list of exotic sausages and hot dogs with more than sixty toppings, along with Neapolitan pizza and burgers. Barker says he hopes Smash Face can differentiate itself, because it plans to donate a portion of sales toward animal shelters.