Great Divide Brewing has been teasing fans of its highly-regarded, highly-sought after Yeti line of imperial stouts with news about a new flavor of Yeti coming out this year.

It turns out that elusive new Yeti will be Oatmeal Yeti, made with rolled oats to "soften Yeti's notoriously roasty backbone," and raisins to create "a dark fruit character," according to the label, which was approved on Wednesday.

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- There was plenty of sweaty Yeti at Great Divide's nineteenth anniversary party
- Great Divide Brewing maxing out its space, working on three new beers
- Custom beers: Great Divide rolls with Chipotle while the Wynkoop rides with Elitch's

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Construction begins at Factotum Brewhouse.

Factotum Brewhouse, which plans to open this fall in the Sunnyside neighborhood, is trying to raise $8,000 on Kickstarter so that it can "improve its current industrial vibe and make the taproom more fun and comfortable for customers." So far, it has about 40 percent of that goal, with 32 days left in the campaign. When it opens, Factotum plans to let homebrewers use its equipment to make beer that will be served in the taphouse. For more information about the campaign, visit Factotum's Kickstarter page.

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Copper Kettle

In liquor stores full of new and ever-rotating cans and bottles of beer, how can a startup brewery -- or one that is new to packaging -- stand out from the pack?

That's the question that local graphic designer Josh Emrich asked himself when he sat down to create a label for Copper Kettle Brewing's Mexican Chocolate Stout, a beer that was bottled for the first time this month and will be released this Friday.

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- Copper Kettle will bottle its GABF award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout
- Get ready for Man Beer and three other bottled beers from Bull & Bush
- Copper Kettle triples the size of its brewing space

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JoyRide Brewing

When it opens in December, Joyride Brewing hopes to use a little bit of Edgewater's history to help propel the little town on the edge of Sloan's Lake into the future.

Created by friends Dave Bergen, Brent Smith and Grant Babb, Joyride will be located at the corner of 25th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard in a former pawn shop building that is decorated with a mural that showcases bits of Edgewater's past.

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- Sanitas Brewing will go big when it opens this summer in Boulder
- Beer By Design opens June 1 as Northglenn's first craft brewery
- Mountain Toad Brewing opens in Golden as the town's third craft brewery

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Tivoli Brewing, a new company that brought back one of the oldest names in Denver beer last year, will begin selling 22-ounce bomber bottles of Tivoli Beer this week.

The beer, a German-style lager, is based on the name and recipe for the original Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in Denver in the building of the same name from 1900 until 1969, when the brewery closed after an ownership change and a flood.

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- Tivoli Brewing plans its second historic Denver beer, Sigi's
- Loveland's Grimm Brothers teams up with Tivoli to distribute beer in Denver
- A new brewery will pour Denver's Tivoli beer for the first time since 1969

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Ali Benetka, who has been an assistant brewer at Renegade Brewing only since January, was promoted to the top job this week, making her just the second female head brewer in Colorado and part of a growing number of women who wear the rubber boots.

A Denver native, Benetka had a year under her belt at Finch's Beer Company in Chicago -- along with a certificate from the Siebel Institute's brewing program -- when she decided to move back to Colorado to take the assistant brewer's job at Renegade.

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- All-female collaboration brew under way at the Wynkoop
- The newest batch of young guns in Colorado's brewing industry wear pink boots
- Golden City's Sarah Henderson may be the only female head brewer in Colorado

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Wynkoop Brewing

It's hard to follow a beer made with bull testicles, but Wynkoop Brewing Co. is going to try by releasing Colorojo Imperial Red Ale in cans next week.

Like Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, this hoppy, 8.2 percent ABV double red IPA is part of the brewery's new Even Smaller Batch series of canned, hand-labeled beers. The Wynkoop will release two more, Patty's Chile Beer and Pumpkin Ale, later in 2013.

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- Wynkoop Brewing will package its "ballsy" Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout in cans
- Best Place to Symbolize Denver for the Rest of the World 2012 -- Wynkoop Brewing
- Wynkoop Brewing and the Cheeky Monk get together to brew a dark saison

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The Brew Hut in Aurora is located next to Dry Dock Brewing.

The craft beer business is booming, but so is the homebrewing sector as the interest in making and drinking good beer grows. The American Homebrewers Association, which is based in Boulder, released the results of a survey of homebrewing shops this week showing that 80 percent of them saw increased sales of beginner homebrewing startup kits, meaning more people are getting into the hobby; and that 43 percent of those stores have been in business less than three years, meaning they are new as well. For the full survey, visit the AHA's website.

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The owners of Sanitas Brewing aren't planning to gently test the waters of Boulder's increasingly-crowded craft-beer scene when they open their 15,000-square-foot, fifteen-barrel brewery and taproom this summer. They plan to jump in head-first.

Sanitas co-founders Chris Coyne, Michael Memsic and Zach Nichols will offer two year-round canned beers, a black IPA and a saison, as soon as they open, probably in August; they'll package them on a canning line purchased from Boulder's Wild Goose Engineering, which makes lines for Upslope, Breckenridge and others.

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- First Look: BRU Handbuilt Ales and Eats opens today in Boulder
- Upslope follows up big new brewery with a huge new beer, Imperial IPA
- J Wells Brewery, opening Thursday, is the first of four breweries set for Boulder

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There's something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face -- something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand out when it comes to summertime fun. Here's our list of ten of our favorite places -- both patios and special events -- to drink beer this summer.

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- Summer Guide: Ten festivals you don't want to miss this summer
- Summer Guide: The ten best places to go for ice cream this summer
- Ten places you and your dog will love this summer

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