Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Pikes Pub: Lost in Colorado’s dense craft outback? This guide should help. Plus, free beer
When Colorado Springs mapmaker and former photojournalist Mike Laur and his team published their first travel-friendly distillation of the Centennial State’s craft scene in 2008, it was a slightly less challenging undertaking than it is today. That first “Drinker’s Guide to Colorado” featured around 100 destinations, which seemed pretty comprehensive at the time. “Ten years,…
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Colorado Springs collaboration brews, for charity or just fun | Pikes Pub
Two ales premiering soon at Colorado Springs’ Atrevida Beer Co. showcase the ways a craft collaboration can come about — for a good cause, and also just a good reason. The first, Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, is Atrevida owner and brewer Jessica Fierro’s contribution to what’s being called the nation’s largest collaboration brew, a…
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Black Forest marks Oktoberfest in eponymous, German style | Pikes Pub
The city’s northeastern Black Forest neighborhood shares more than title with its iconic German namesake. For one, “there’s the physical aspect of it,” said Donovan Routsis, whose brewery, Black Forest Brewing Co., opened this year in a shopping plaza at Burgess and Black Forest roads. “We live at a higher elevation, with lots of trees.”…
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Former ‘tiniest’ brewery in Colorado Springs is moving | Pikes Pub
Those rumors you’ve been hearing about big changes coming at Smiling Toad Brewing Co.? True. Owner Biff Morehead confirmed last week that the former “tiniest” brewery in Colorado Springs is poised to leap to an even roomier lily pad, off South 21st St. in Old Colorado City. Demolition already has begun at the new location…
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Pikes Pub: Fishing for volunteers in Colorado? Bait the line with beer
As someone who’s moved more than a dozen times, I know from experience that helping hands are often more responsive when you promise to put a beer in them afterward. Doing good deeds — for a friend, or strangers — is its own reward, sure. But beneficence can be thirsty business. This truth is not…
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Pikes Pub: It’s all in the numbers for 719 Day Brewfest
Eventually, 719 Day was bound to fall on a day of the week so meh even a beerfest would be hard-pressed to redeem it. A Monday, say. As things turned out, it wasn’t permutations of the calendar but a potential paucity of parking that thwarted numerical resonance for the fourth annual celebration of southeastern Colorado…
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Pikes Pub: Colorado Craft Tours open a window on local scenery you can eat and drink
Galen Duffy took the scenic route to get to her dream job, behind the wheel of a minibus at Colorado Craft Tours. “I started at William and Mary (in Williamsburg, VA), where I met my husband, but I didn’t really know what I wanted then or what I was doing. I was just there because…
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Colorado Springs a tale of two towns: Palmer vs. Penrose
It’s probably safe to say Spencer Penrose was a man accustomed to getting what he wanted, and on that fateful, apocryphal, night in 1890-something Colorado Springs, what “Speck” Penrose wanted was a drink. He’d come to the wrong town. Such spirited thirsts were legally unquenchable in Gen. William Jackson Palmer’s (in)famously dry Eden at the…
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Pikes Pub: Brewers feeling the crimp of new tariffs
Popping a tab on a cold one could soon cost more if brewers are unable to negotiate leeway in the Trump administration’s recently enacted tariffs on imported aluminum and steel. Producers of beer in cans say they’re already feeling the crimp from the tariffs – up to 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent…