New Belgium Facebook page

New Belgium Brewing just announced that construction of its new brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, will be delayed by eight months, meaning the facility may not start making beer until 2016. "The adjusted construction timeline is the result of increased capacity coming online in Fort Collins this year," New Belgium said in a statement. "With 70,000 barrels of capacity recently added, the Fort Collins brewery can produce up to 920,000 barrels, which will take New Belgium through 2015 sales projections."

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Beer By Design

Northglenn will get its first craft brewery on June 1 when Vance Sabbe -- a former homebrew shop owner -- and Rich Aggen open Beer By Design.

The 5,000-square-foot brewery and taproom features a twenty-barrel brewing system and four forty-barrel fermenters, along with about 100 seats.

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- Photos: Odyssey Beerwerks, a new Arvada brewery, hosts a party Saturday
- Odyssey Beerwerks, a brewery and taproom, opens in Arvada in May
- Colorado Plus opens Monday with 56 local beers on tap -- and a brewery next month

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Copper Kettle

Copper Kettle Brewing will answer a few prayers made to the gods of chocolate this summer by bottling its award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout.

The brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011, just five months after opening and has been planning to bottle the beer since last fall.

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- Copper Kettle's Kristen Kozik on GABF judges, awards and kick-ass sours
- Copper Kettle triples the size of its brewing space
- Small, non-packaging Colorado breweries score big at GABF

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Crooked Stave Facebook page

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has struck up a partnership with a specialty importer in New York City that will allow the Denver brewery to sell its beers there while Crooked Stave will distribute some rare and unique beers in the Denver area.

The distributor, Brooklyn's 12 Percent Imports, is focused on bringing a handful of boutique Belgian beers into the United States, but it also handles distribution in New York City for a limited number of small or unusual U.S. breweries.

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- Crooked Stave will triple in size in 2013, sell sour beers out of state
- Crooked Stave extends tap room hours, releases newest beer, Origins
- Loveland's Grimm Brothers teams up with Tivoli to distribute beer in Denver

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Twisted Pine Brewing Facebook page

Cucumber beers appear to be in style this spring, as at least five breweries around Colorado have mentioned the shiny green vegetable when talking about new beers. The only bottled one so far, however, is from Boulder's Twisted Pine Brewing, which released Cucumber Cream Ale last week. The second offering from its "Farm to Foam" series, the beer was made with more than 300 pounds of fresh English cucumbers from 2 R's Farms in Platteville, along with malted barley and wheat from Colorado Malting Company in Alamosa, and Crystal hops from Misty Mountain Hop Farm in Olathe.

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Mountain Toad's patio.

Mountain Toad Brewing will hold a grand opening in Golden on Saturday, adding a third craft brewery to a town that has been synonymous with Coors for decades.

Located downtown, at 900 Washington Avenue, the brewery and taproom features a large outdoor biergarten with seven picnic tables and room for food trucks, along with a lineup of traditionally-styled beers named for some of Golden's landmarks.

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- Cannonball Creek opens in Golden, kicking off a craft brew revolution in Coors country
- Golden City's Sarah Henderson may be the only female head brewer in Colorado
- A dozen new breweries on tap for the Denver Metro area by spring 2013

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A scene from the new ad campaign.

New Belgium Brewing is running its first TV ad campaign in eight years, buying airtime in twelve markets across the country in order to help beer drinkers associate the name Fat Tire with the brewery itself, which wants to push the rest of its lineup.

But the commercial, a thirty-second spot created by Denver's Cultivator Advertising, won't be seen in Colorado -- where New Belgium is based.

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- Breckenridge Brewing spoofs megabrewers in new TV ads...again
- New Belgium will build a second brewery in Asheville, North Carolina by 2015
- Novo Coffee teams up with New Belgium for a Colorado nod to coffee cherries

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Caution Brewing Facebook page

After just two years in business on Denver's northeast side, Caution Brewing announced Saturday that it will open a second brewery in Lakewood, at 1057 South Wadsworth Boulevard; Cautions' existing brewery will stay open as well.

The new location will have a smaller brewhouse -- three barrels as opposed to five at the existing brewery -- but a larger taproom. It will also be situated in a high-traffic shopping center on Wadsworth, rather than an industrial business park.

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- Caution Brewing signs lease on a second brewery and taphouse
- Caution Brewing Company will add a tap room this summer
- Danny Wang wants to pair beer with Asian cuisine

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Crooked Stave

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project will celebrate Roy G. Biv on Sunday with a bottle sale, a party and a couple of rare beer tappings at the Barrel Cellar.

Roy G. Biv isn't a person, though (if it was, he'd be very sour). Rather, it's an acronym for the seven beers that Crooked Stave has brewed over the past two years as part of its color-themed Wild Wild Brett series. The final beer, Violet, will be released on Sunday.

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- Crooked Stave extends tap room hours, releases newest beer, Origins
- Crooked Stave will triple in size in 2013, sell sour beers out of state
- Crooked Stave adds funk to Denver's beer culture with a barrel cellar and brewery

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The crew behind Strange Brewing are in their war room today, preparing to launch an all-out offensive on Denver tomorrow -- but their weapons of choice are bombers rather than bombs, even if the beer they've made is named Dr. Strangelove, like the movie.

Strange will release 1,000 bottles of Dr. Strangelove, a 11.5 percent ABV barleywine-style ale that won a bronze medal last year at the Great American Beer Festival, in its taproom on Friday. It is the first beer that Strange has packaged in bottles.

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- Strange Brewing will bottle its GABF medal-winning Dr. Strangelove Barleywine
- Strange Brewing takes action against homebrew shop that threatened lawsuit
- Strange Brewing takes action against homebrew shop that threatened lawsuit

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