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Before hazy IPAs and pastry stouts swept the nation, before sour ales went mainstream and bomber bottles were overwhelmed by cans from trendy new breweries, there was a single beer maker in Colorado with the most cachet, the longest lines and the geekiest fans: Avery Brewing.
On rare but highly anticipated weekends beginning in 2009, Avery would host releases for the latest beer in its Barrel Aged Series or “gold foils,” as they were called, because of the elegant little foil tops that Avery placed over the bottle caps and they would draw hundreds of frenzied beer fans, who would wait in sprawling lines outside the brewery’s ramshackle cluster of buildings in Boulder. The first of these highly experimental beers was Brabant, a wild ale fermented with Brettanomyces yeast and aged in Zinfandel barrels. The next was Sui Generis, a sour blend aged in Cabernet, Chardonnay, Port and bourbon barrels. From there, the concoctions got weirder as the brewery continued to play ....

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