In beer terms, we already know the winner of Super Bowl 50: us.

When the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers take the field for football’s biggest game Feb. 7, we’ll be rooting with the fruits of the home state. Because we’re loyal like that.

Whether your beer tastes skew old school or toward more creative craft varieties, Colorado’s got you covered. Here are a few game-day suggestions from The Gazette’s Pikes Pub columnists:

Coors Banquet Beer, Coors Brewing Co., Golden

Football, it is said, is an immigrant that came to the U.S. in the wake of the Civil War and got better when American industriousness changed English rugby for the better. You can honor that heritage with a Colorado brew – the Banquet Beer that brought German immigrant Adolph Coors fame and fortune after he crafted it in 1873.

And with Coors, you’re drinking the no-kidding best. It earned a gold medal last fall at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver where judges deemed it the world’s best American-style Lager.

And how can you watch some guy sack a quarterback when you’re swilling raspberry stout or tippling a chocolate cream porter? You’ll spill those when you cheer, and fancy beers leave stains.

– Tom Roeder, The Gazette

Elephant Rock IPA, Pikes Peak Brewing Co., Monument

Elephants traditionally prefer soccer over American football (and whiskey over beer), but Pikes Peak Brewing’s Elephant Rock IPA – named after the massive sandstone formation near Palmer Lake – is the pachyderm we’ll be packing on game day to celebrate the Broncos, foot-based sports and all the creatures who play them.

With more than 2 pounds of late-addition hops added per barrel and 7.7 percent ABV, Elephant Rock boasts a resinous pine and bright citrus profile that, according to its Monument-based brewers, makes for a “monumental flavor worth discovering.” We concur. The can also contains a full, pint-sized pour of 16 ounces, so cheer-spillage won’t bankrupt you quite as quickly as it does your Coors-swilling compatriots.

– Stephanie Earls, The Gazette

7437, Elevation Beer Company, Poncha Springs

Worried the game might not be as good as hyped? Expecting the Broncos to lose – or concerned that your beer selection might not be worthy of the triumph you’re expecting?

Fear no more. Here’s a haughty brew – one to savor and one that will prove more memorable than the game. Weighing in at 8.3 percent ABV, it’s imbued with Chinook, Galena, Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic hops yet comes across incredibly well-balanced. It was created to celebrate Elevation Beer Company’s second anniversary, and it’s held true as one of Colorado’s finer imperial IPAs.

Extra point: Little Mo’ Porter, also by Elevation, is a dark, 6.2 percent ABV beer with notes of chocolate. Savor the aromatics – that’s half the beauty of this brew.

– Jakob Rodgers, The Gazette

Blue Nose Brown, Red Leg Brewing, Colorado Springs

While watching a three-plus-hour football game, I like to pace myself, especially when my Panthers are playing.

I don’t want to shell-shock my taste buds with that much double IPA, be totally out of it by halftime thanks to a few barleywines, or fill up on a heavy stout when there are potato skins and chicken wings to be had.

I want something wholesome, not too complicated, with low ABV – but not Keystone Light (those days are thankfully long gone).

And I want to consume it preferably from a can, because nothing says Super Bowl like dusting off the koozie collection.

So my choice is this local standby, brewed right off Garden of the Gods Road.

– Kate Shefte, The Gazette