In Transit Blog: In Colorado, a Brewers’ Festival Toasts an Anniversary

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 22 Juni 2014 | 17.35

The Colorado Brewers' Festival will celebrate its 25th anniversary this month in Fort Collins, Colo., a place where the thirst for craft beer is alive, kicking and growing. This year's festival brings 13 new breweries to the tasting tables, offering a total of close to 120 different brews, including its first group of hard ciders.

The annual All Brewer's Eve dinner and food-pairing ($60) gets things hopping on Friday night, June 27, with 20 different beers offered exclusively at the dinner, most of which have won medals at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup. That's followed by two days of drinking (or "tasting," as it's called in the industry) from a rotating list of more than 50 beers each day of the festival.

Those who want to get started early on Saturday can sign up for the first-ever festival brunch at the Mainline, an ale house and restaurant in Fort Collins ($40). Breakfast will be served with a selection of "morning-minded" beers, according to the organizers, after which participants will be led to the festival grounds by a brass band, where they will receive a commemorative glass and 10 festival bucks to spend on samples.

Also new this year will be the Colorado Brewers Guild's "beer school" and the Summit specialty brew tent, offering a series of educational seminars and meet-the-brewers opportunities, where guests can mingle with the makers.

To honor its 25th year, the festival's founders, Doug Odell of Odell Brewing and Brad Page, a founder of CooperSmith Pub and Brewery, have melded their talents to create an Anniversary Ale, a pale, dry, brew with a tart finish, they said, partly sourced from apple juice.

For the first festival, the only requirement was that participants brew beer in Colorado, Mr. Odell said on the phone from his brewery in Fort Collins. Attendees emptied around 35 half-barrels (or kegs) of beer that year, he said, compared with the estimated 540 kegs floated at last year's event.

"When we started, people thought beer was just that light American lager. It's really morphed; the growth of craft beers in Colorado is amazing," he said, noting that despite a few nonbeer ideas that organizers sneak in now and again (a chili cook-off one year and carnival rides in another), the festival has always remained a showcase for the flavors and the individuals who make them.

There will be some additional entertainment, provided by bands at the Base Camp stage, and outdoor activities like zip-lining and rock-climbing in the Wilderness area, a good opportunity for tasters to sweat out some of that malt before heading to the next tasting.

Entry is free; packages are available for tastings and special events. For details and passes, contact the Downtown Fort Collins Business Association: 970-484-6500; downtownfortcollins.com.


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