Collaboration Fest Beer Stories

Photo courtesy of Nikki A. Rae Photography

Presented by On Tap Credit Union, Collaboration Fest is the original collaboration craft beer festival that pairs Colorado Brewers Guild member breweries with independent brewers near and far to create unique collaborations. This year the festival takes place on Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 2 to 6 p.m. at The Westin Westminster .

A record-breaking 180+ participating craft breweries, which include 31 out-of-state craft breweries and one brewery from Mexico, will be pouring 130+ collaboration beers.

Below are some beers to look out for as you navigate the festival:

105 West Brewing Company and Something Brewery

  • Beer name: Purple People Eater

  • Beer style: Grape Soda Sour

  • Story behind the collaboration: A grape soda sour using Concord grape powder


4 Noses Brewing Company and Pipeworks Brewing Company (IL)

  • Beer name: Spiralling Upwards

  • Beer style: IPA with Thiols and Wood Spires

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers felt inclined to make an IPA, but how would it be different? Playing off what the brewers have been most excited about in IPA: Thiols (responsible for the characteristic tropical fruit notes, such as grapefruit, passion fruit, and guava, that are often associated with hop-forward beers, particularly those with New Zealand hops) and Wood Spires in clean beers


4 Noses Brewing and The Real Dill

  • Beer name: Michelada and Cucumber Margarita Lager

  • Beer style: Premium Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: 4 Noses has been working with The Real Dill on a Michelada collaboration for a few years now so when they heard The Real Dill was releasing a Cucumber Margarita Mix, they wanted to get in on the fun


6 and 40 Brewery, LUKI Brewery, and Lariat Lodge Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Biscuit Topper

  • Beer style: Hot Honey Wheat

  • Story behind the collaboration: This three-brewery collaboration is like a family reunion: brewers who worked with or for one another over the years plus another few who joined the industry and used to shop at Tom’s Brew Shop in Lakewood. Biscuit Topper Hot Honey Wheat is the beer they would pour at a family-style dinner with fried chicken, biscuits, gravy, collard greens, and fried okra


6 and 40 Brewery and Wynkoop Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Hot Rods and Cephalopods 

  • Beer style: Sour ale with fruit and spices

  • Story behind the collaboration: American muscle car enthusiasts and squid lovers may not seem like a natural pairing, but neither is beer and vegan strawberry cheesecake! This beer is a blend of a tart ale with strawberries and vanilla with heaps of oats and maltodextrin for a smooth, creamy finish


A Bit Twisted Brewpub & BBQ and Monolith Brewing

  • Beer name: Smoked Pulled Pork Stout

  • Beer style: Experimental Stout

  • Story behind the collaboration: For this collaboration, smoked pork shoulder from A Bit Twisted will be tossed into the whirlpool portion of the brewing process. The breweries will be using smoked grains from Troubadour Maltings located in Fort Collins. This will be the same collaboration recipe as last year, but instead of using smoked brisket they will be using smoked pork


Angry James Brewery and Upslope Brewing Company

  • Beer name: McPilznie

  • Beer style: West Coast Pilsner 

  • Story behind the collaboration: West Coast Pilsner brewed with McKenzie hops. Light, bright, hoppy and crisp pilsner brewed with non-traditional hops and Root Shoot Malt


Barquentine Brewing Company, Chain Reaction Brewing Company, and Rotating Tap Comedy

  • Beer name: Thanks, I'll Be Here All Night

  • Beer style: Amber with Espresso and Orange

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is a collaboration with Barquentine and Chain Reaction who went to the same high school. The brewers both love to laugh and work with Rotating Tap Comedy regularly to bring laughter to their breweries



Barrels & Bottles Brewery and Hideaway Park Brewery

  • Beer name: Cinnister 

  • Beer style: Malt Liquor 

  • Story behind the collaboration: An "all pale ale malt" malt liquor with 25 lbs of red hot candies and homemade cinnamon extract to replicate "Fireball". Salud!


Bent Barley Brewing and Lone Tree Brewing

  • Beer  name: Zusammenator

  • Beer style: Doppelbock

  • Story behind the collaboration: Zusammenator is a play on the German penchant for naming Doppelbock-style beers with "ator.” The German word for together/collaborate is Zusammen, so...Zusammenator.  This collaboration allowed some old friends and some new friends to come together to make a beer all can enjoy.  Alles Zusammen!


Bootstrap Brewing Company and Citizen 33 Brewer

  • Beer name: Into the Smoke and Smoke

  • Beer style: Smoked Mild

  • Story behind the collaboration: Milds aren't very common in the industry, let alone a smoked version. The beer will be malt forward, crisp and drinkable with a light, pleasant smoked finish


Broken Compass Brewing and Syndicate Brewing Co. 

  • Beer name: The County Commons

  • Beer style: Steam Beer

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is a lager beer fermented at a warmer temperature.  All four brewers have never made one and thought this was a good opportunity to do so. This beer is a tribute to Anchor Steam


Bruz Beers and Brewery Ardennes (NY)

  • Beer name: Green Ghost Tripel

  • Beer style: Belgian Tripel

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is the second year that these Belgian kindred spirits have collaborated. This year they got a hankering for a hoppy triple


Bruz Beers and Prost Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Abbey Quad

  • Beer style: Belgian Quadrupel

  • Story behind the collaboration: Bruz Beer’s Belgian Abbey Quadrupel was run through the traditional Decoction and open fermentation process that Prost's new Brewhouse is built for


Cannonball Creek, Mountain Toad, Mad Macks, Over Yonder, Barrels and Bottles and Propagate Lab

  • Beer name: goldENschlager cinnamon lager

  • Beer style: Herb and Spice Pilsner with Gold Flakes

  • Story behind the collaboration: A collaboration between the Golden Breweries


Cannonball Creek Brewing Company and Monster Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Hooked on a Zealand

  • Beer style: New Zealand Style Pale Ale

  • Story behind the collaboration: Head brewers Juice and Hutch have known each other since the beginning of both of their careers in craft beer. They have talked for years about working together, and with Hooked on a Zealand, the plan has finally come to fruition. This beer features an exotic blend of southern hemisphere hops, including some of the latest innovations in hop product technology


Cannonball Creek Brewing Company and Shred Beer Company (CA)

  • Beer name: Alpha Blaster

  • Beer style: WCIPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Two breweries that share a common passion for West Coast IPA.  Long time friends and mutual admirers, this is the first collaboration among these two breweries. Alpha Blaster is a representation of the modern, aggressively hopped, but highly drinkable approach to WCIPA embraced by both breweries


Cellar West Brewery and The Post Brewing

  • Beer name: Chuffed to Bits

  • Beer style: Blonde Pub Ale with Oats

  • Story behind the collaboration: Mutual fans, the brewers wanted to make a classic European style beer together, with a fun twist, so they worked up a Springtime Blonde Pub Ale recipe featuring some of their favorite British malts and English style Pale Malt from Root Shoot. The unique addition of Blonde Roast Oats lends a smooth body and slightly toasty, sweet finish


Cerveceria Colorado and Howdy Beer

  • Beer name: Smokey & The Vaquero

  • Beer style: Smoked Helles

  • Story behind the collaboration: Cerveceria Colorado and Howdy Beer wanted to celebrate joining Wilding Brands with a special lager brew. Using 70% beech smoked barley as well as super limited malted corn from Mexico, they  took what they both know best (crafting amazing lagers) to create a one of a kind brew for Collabfest!


Cheluna Brewing Company and Oaxaca Brewing Co. (Mexico)

  • Beer name: Red Tepache Sour

  • Beer style: Sour

  • Story behind the collaboration: This collaboration involves cochineal, a traditional natural dye used in Oaxaca and Tepache in the recipe


Coal Mine Ave Brewing Co., Chain Reaction Brewing Co., and Wild Sky Brewery

  • Beer name: Uncommon Link

  • Beer style: Raspberry Jalapeno Popper ale

  • Story behind the collaboration: Chain Reaction inspired the ventures of the people of Coal Mine and Wild Sky. Friends and their journeys continue to add links 


Cohesion Brewing and Schilling Beer Co. (NH)

  • Beer name: La Follette 9°

  • Beer style: Leichtbier 

  • Story behind the collaboration: Cohesion worked with their lager-loving friends at Schilling to make their first German lager! This light and refreshing beer has historically been made for field and factory workers to quench their thirst without as much risk to safety. Cohesion crafted this one with the idea of delivering full flavor in a small beer package!


Comrade Brewing Company and Fritz Family Brewers

  • Beer name: Drive-Thru Closed

  • Beer style: West Coast Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: This beer uses the brewers’ collective experience to create a cold-brewed stunner using the finest Northern and Southern hemisphere hops in a crispy lager form commemorating the fact that both breweries have been crashed into by wayward vehicles  


Comrade Brewing Company and La Cumbre Brewing Company (NM)

  • Beer name: Prom Date

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Prom Date is a West Coast IPA made with the latest advanced hop products. Comrade has been collaborating with La Cumbre since 2017 and would definitely take them to the prom.  


Crooked Stave, Casey Brewing & Blending, and Bale Breaker Brewing Company (WA)

  • Beer name: The Golden Rule

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A hazy IPA that blends aspects of what each of the three breweries do very well


Crystal Springs Brewing and Brewers Insurance Co-Op

  • Beer name: Sleeping With The Fishes

  • Beer style: West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: The insurance nerds over at the Brewers Co-Op wanted to learn more about the day to day of brewing. They chose to brew a beer that focuses on a fun new hop called Anchovy. 'Sleeping With The Fishes' is a light, crisp, and hopped up West Coast Pilsner


Crystal Springs Brewing and FlyteCo Brewing

  • Beer name: Birds On A Plane

  • Beer style: Mid-Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This IPA is neither West Coast or East Coast and instead combines the brewers’ favorite aspects from each style. Appropriately named 'Mid-coast,”  it is full bodied, pleasantly bitter, and pungently tropical


CSU Ramskeller and Zee Loeffler

  • Beer name: Cerveza Carnero

  • Beer style: Mexican Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Cam's Cerveza Especial is a collaboration with the Ramskeller Pub Staff, Fermentation Science and Technology, and Zee. This is a Premium Mexican Lager that features Kernza, a drought tolerant perennial grain and locally sourced malts and is perfect for "putting a lime on it”


Danico Brewing Company and Drekker Brewing Company (ND)

  • Beer name: What Would Marge Do?

  • Beer style: Raspberry Lemonade Sour

  • Story behind the collaboration: A friendship developed by visits to Danico Brewing, this idea was developed over the course of months via in-person and email communication. The beer celebrates one of the many styles these two breweries like to brew


Danico Brewing Company and Casey Brewing & Blending

  • Beer name: Orange Glove Service

  • Beer style: American-Style Imperial German Pilsner or Double IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A friendship forged by decades of brewing experience. At times brewing together and other times not. They decided to brew  a beer with a solid punch, but still a beer flavored beer


Danico Brewing Company and On Tap Credit Union

  • Beer name: Share Draft 

  • Beer style: West Coast Pils

  • Story behind the collaboration: On Tap Credit Union and Danico Brewing Company have teamed up to create Share Draft, a crisp and refreshing West Coast Pils that embodies the spirit of collaboration. Just like great beer, strong communities are built through partnership, and this brew is a toast to the shared passion for craft and connection. Danico Brewing’s dedication to quality and creativity shines in every sip, making Share Draft a perfect way to celebrate local craftsmanship. Cheers to great beer, great people, and the power of coming together!


Denver Beer Co., Funkwerks, and Stem Ciders

  • Beer name: Dancing With Myself

  • Beer style: Belgian IPA With Apple Cider

  • Story behind the collaboration: To celebrate the merger of Stem Ciders, DBC, and Funkwerks (among others), the team decided to brew a mash-up of a little of what they all do best. DBC contributed their knowledge of IPAs, Funkwerks with their Belgian yeast, and Stem contributed some cider as a finishing touch


Eddyline Brewing and Soulcraft Brewing

  • Beer name: Just for the plum of it

  • Beer style: Japanese Rice Lager with Plum

  • Story behind the collaboration: An homage to one of Eddyline team member’s visit to Japan


Elevation Beer Co. and Salida Brewing Co

  • Beer name: Uncouth Spunding

  • Beer style: Munich Dunkel

  • Story behind the collaboration: A love of dark lagers and classic styles brought this beer to life



Fossil Craft Beer, Verboten, Old 121 Brewhouse, Liquid Mechanics, Focus on the Beer, and The Bearded Wrangler

  • Beer name: The Council of Joshes Present: Nardless

  • Beer style: A Cold Double Imperial IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Six Joshs’ are invited to a brew, five show. After some Joshing around, a council is formed, the resulting concoction becomes a Cold Double Imperial IPA, Nardless


Full Frame Beer and Los Dos Potrillos

  • Beer name: Hazy IPA

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Long time friends,  Chris Gilmore, the head of brewing operations at Los Dos,  team up with Full Frame to make a hazy with new exciting hops


Full Frame Beer, Station 26 Brewing Company, Denver Beer Co., Our Mutual Friend Brewing, Cerebral Brewing, Ratio Beerworks, and  Living the Dream Brewing

  • Beer name: UNstuck Mashies

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA with Yuzu and Vanilla

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is the second year that these breweries got together for Collaboration Fest. The group came about through an industry Snapchat group where they all communicate through pictures, reaching out for advice, and sharing ingredients for the past 3 years. They currently have 17 members that work in all aspects of the brewing world and the group keeps growing!


Glenwood Canyon Brewpub and Base Camp  Beer Works

  • Beer name: Dance in the Desert

  • Beer style: New Zealand Style IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A collaboration between western slope friends highlighting some local malts from Rootshoot and Abtrax Quantum Nectaron.  A New Zealand Style IPA that has a little more malt complexity than standard WIPA and saturated with New Zealand Nectaron and Peacharine


Glenwood Canyon, Cerebral Brewing, and Rock Bottom

  • Beer name: Lublin Life

  • Beer style: Polish Style Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: A collaboration between old Rock Bottom brewers.  A Polish Style Pilsner brewed with Weyermann floor malted bohemian malts and 100% Polish Lublin hops.  Step mashed, lightly dry hopped, spunded and lagered six weeks for a rounded body and smooth bitterness


Green Mountain Beer Company and Paramount Beerwerks

  • Beer name: Tettenator

  • Beer style: Wheat Bock

  • Story behind the collaboration: After judging a couple home brew competitions together and discussing their mutual passion for malty continental lagers, the brewers decided to team up  


Great Divide Brewing, Ratio Beerworks, and Full Frame Beer

  • Beer name: Rise & Rhein

  • Beer style: Dortmunder Export Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: All three breweries share the inherent passion for lagers that exists within all brewers and were excited to produce a style that they feel is under produced and under appreciated. More malt forward and hop driven than a typical Helles or Kellerbier, a Dortmunder is the perfect style to encapsulate the bold character of this Denver neighborhood that these three breweries call home


Grossen Bart Brewery and Bootstrap Brewing

  • Beer name: Pure Luck Weizenbock

  • Beer style: Weizenbock

  • Story behind the collaboration: Dan at Grossen Bart and Colin at Bootstrap have previously worked together. Now, the friends are blocks away from one another so Collaboration Fest was the perfect opportunity to brew a beer together. So they winged a Weizenbock off the hip, Pure Luck!


Hello Brew Co. and 4 Noses Brewing

  • Beer name: Larry

  • Beer style: Dank IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers decided to play around with a product that they haven't used before that uses terpenes from hops to simulate the aromas and flavors of weed


Hello Brew Co. and Roses by the Stairs Brewing (AZ)

  • Beer name: The Maze

  • Beer style: Mexican Dark Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: We made this with a great friend that brewed with us in Spokane when we first started the Hello concept. We were lucky enough to brew a batch of this first in Arizona, going as far as packing some malt from Troubadour to brew with in AZ. We will take elements from the batch we brew and replicate it here


Joyride Brewing Co. and Stemma Brewing (WA)

  • Beer name: Observation Bubble

  • Beer style: Red IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Stemma's Pat McNerney and Joyride's Tyler Bies were both formally Head Brewers at Denver's Wit's End Brewing and have kept in touch over the years. They decided to rebrew one of Wit's End's staple recipes, Green Man, but put their own modern twist on it. Using RedX malt for color and a blend of Citra, Vista, and Columbus Cryo for the hops


Joyride Brewing Co., Westbound & Down, and Roy Farms

  • Beer name: Crop Top 

  • Beer style: West-Coast Pils

  • Story behind the collaboration: Joyride and Westbound & Down are collaborating for the 11th time, and of course, they're making some west-coast hoppy goodness. This time they also teamed up with Roy Farms, a hop farm in Washington and used their estate grown Adeena and Strata hops


Lady Justice Brewing Company, Joyride Brewing, and Colorado Beer Media

  • Beer name: Media Circus

  • Beer style: White Stout

  • Story behind the collaboration: Lady Justice hosted the 2025 beer media collaboration brew in collaboration with Joyride Brewing and the Colorado beer media. This white stout, named Media Circus, was inspired by this year's Pantone color of the year - Mocha Mousse. Brewed with love, justice, tomfoolery, coffee, cacao nibs, and a significant amount of emails back and forth - you'll find a balanced flavor of chocolate and coffee with a golden color. Raise a glass with us to independent breweries, independent media, and independent thinking


Launch Pad Brewery and Los Dos Potrillos

  • Beer name: Take Dos Gil’s and Call Me in the Morning

  • Beer style: New Zealand Maibock

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers combined their love of German-style lagers with some of the new hopping techniques of the Southern hemisphere


Launch Pad Brewery and Woods Boss Brewing

  • Beer name: Fog Fraud

  • Beer style: Double Dry Hopped Kölsch

  • Story behind the collaboration: A culmination of 4 years of idiocrasy and a disdain for hype beers led to this traditional German style with absolutely zero traditional brewing techniques 



Left Hand Brewing Co. and High Alpine Brewing Co.

  • Beer name: Graham Finale

  • Beer style: Imperial Stout with Pecans aged in Deerhammer whiskey barrels.

  • Story behind the collaboration: The collaboration between Left Hand and High Alpine was a natural fit, sparked by a shared passion for exceptional beer and a friendship that grew between Chris, Scott, and John during visits to SW Colorado. Inspired by their mutual love of pecan pie, this imperial stout blends caramel and specialty malts, toasted and roasted barley, organic graham crackers, and toasted pecans. It’s aged in American Single Malt Whiskey barrels from Deerhammer. A true labor of love, it required extended lautering to bring out its rich, complex flavors


Living the Dream Brewing Company and Horse & Dragon Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Moonlight & Spurs

  • Beer style: Black IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Black IPAs are a rare breed and one both brewers wanted to tame. Capturing the character of darker malts with the hop presence of an IPA is an amazing experience if you're brave enough to live life to the fullest and ride the Dragon


Living the Dream Brewing Company and Los Dos Potrillos - Parker

  • Beer name: Rio Claro

  • Beer style: No Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: All the juiciness of an East Coast with the clarity of a West Coast. Rio Claro comes  from a shared interest in new hop products while honoring traditional brewing with quality ingredients


Liquid Mechanics and Burgeon Beer Company (CA)

  • Beer name: West Coast Cartel

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA 

  • Story behind the collaboration: Liquid Mechanics met the Burgeon crew on a recent trip to Los Angeles and decided to come together to make an IPA


Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co. and Vail Brewing Co.

  • Beer name: Moguls and Table Tops

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A collaboration that stemmed from a love of the mountains, skiing, mountain biking and dirt jumping 


Loveland Aleworks and Root Shoot Malting

  • Beer name: Brewers of the Corn West Coast IPA

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is an adjunct IPA made with Root Shoot malted corn and Odyssey pilsner malt and CGX hops


Mad Macks Brewing and Iron Rail Brewing (KS)

  • Beer name: Orxata Cream Ale

  • Beer style: Cream Ale

  • Story behind the collaboration: Horchata is a fine balance of cinnamon, sweet, cream. This will bring Horchata to beer life


MainStage Brewing and Call to Arms Brewing

  • Beer name: A Kick NZ Pils

  • Beer style: New Zealand Style Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: French Pilsner malt, hops from the Southern Hemisphere and lager yeast—how did this crew think to go so wild for Collabfest? A 5ish% ABV lager that is heavily dry hopped. It's almost like it's brewed for brewers to drink at a beer festival. Brewed with a stupid amount of  Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, and Riwaka hops 


Milieu Fermentation and Wanderment Brewing

  • Beer name: On A Tangent

  • Beer style: Hazy Double IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: The new guys got together to make some hazy beer


Mirror Image Brewing, Evergreen Brewery, and Wynkoop Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Sharks in the Water

  • Beer style: Blue Hawaiian Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Sip into waves upon tropical shores and you transport yourself to a beach paradise, but be careful! There are sharks in the water! This beer is about teaming up with new friends in new places, jumping into inventive ideas and trying new things!


Mirror Image Brewing,  Sky Bear Brewery and Pub, and Windfall Brewing

  • Beer name: The Muffin Man

  • Beer style: Pastry Sour

  • Story behind the collaboration: You won't be mad about sitting in traffic along the Northern I-25 corridor with this collab. The creative minds of Mirror Image, Sky Bear, and Windfall have put together a recipe you'll be crossing the median for. Try This lavender lemon poppyseed muffin pastry sour.  Do you know The Muffin Man?


Mountain Toad Brewing and Evergreen Brewery

  • Beer name: Friend or Fonio

  • Beer style: Fonio Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Keep your friends close but your fonio closer! This collaboration among friends was an opportunity for the brewers to brew with fonio, an ancient grain that is relatively new to the brewing world. Fonio is a West African grain that is drought resistant and sustainably grown. Brewing with fonio and pilsner malt created a unique beer with aromas and flavors of white wine, lychee, and citrus with a soft, rounded finish


MSU Denver - Degree Brewpub and Resolute Brewing

  • Beer name: Procrastination

  • Beer style: IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This beer and recipe was made with students in the Brewery Operations program at MSU Denver. It was made at the Charlie Papazian Brewing Education Lab on site at MSU Denver. Resolute has a reputation for making great IPAs, and MSU Denver students had not made an IPA on campus so it was a perfect reason to collaborate


New Image Brewing and Breakside Brewery (OR)

  • Beer name:Geographically Misleading

  • Beer style: Double Dry Hopped West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This collaboration digs into the essence of what makes Breaksides West Coast IPAs some of the best in the country. The brewers are using Simcoe Cryo and Krush Cryo hops in addition to Oregon grown Centennial from Crosby and taking inspiration from Breakside’s approach to water and dry hopping


New Image Brewing and Crosby Hops (OR)

  • Beer name: Loyal to the Soil

  • Beer style: Single Hopped West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: The concept for this beer is "farm to glass" emphasizing not only what brewers love, but what also benefits the farms and the soil. Brewers love Strata, but it's also an agronomically gifted varietal, it yields well, it's resilient and it has a lower input footprint as a result


New Image Brewing and Lyric Brewing Company

  • Beer name: F**k What You Hear /It's What You're Hearing

  • Beer style: Hazy Double IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers dry-hopped this collab with Nelson, Riwaka and Galaxy, going for an unapologetically cannabis-forward profile with AU and NZ hops. They added a touch of NIB flare by finishing with King Louis XVIII terpenes


New Terrain Brewing Company, Fritz Family Brewers, and Crosby Hops

  • Beer name: Secretly Cascadian

  • Beer style: Black IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A serendipitous trip out to Crosby Hops for hop selection last fall led to an exciting opportunity for collaboration. This beer aims to highlight Crosby's quality hops and to represent the brewing traditions in the Pacific Northwest. Expect this beer to drink citrus and resin forward, with a smooth bitterness and the smallest hint of roast


Novel Strand Brewing Company and Full Frame Beer

  • Beer name: HOP EXPOSURE 

  • Beer style: Unfiltered hoppy beer

  • Story behind the collaboration: This hoppy beer showcases two promising US and NZ experimental hops, HBC-1019, and NZH-101, respectively


Novel Strand Brewing Company and Outer Range Brewing Company

  • Beer name: PEAK NELSON 

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This hazy IPA uses a full range of hop products to celebrate one of the finest hops on earth, Nelson Sauvin from New Zealand


Odd13 Brewing and Streetside Brewery (OH)

  • Beer name: Surfer Boy Kolsch

  • Beer style: West Coast Kolsch

  • Story behind the collaboration: Streetside is a favorite around Odd13, particularly when the creative minds behind the brands/labels started working together, striking gold with Stranger Things themes.  For this year's collab, the beer the brewers kept coming back to was a West Coast Kolsch with Surfer Boy Pizza vibes and a splash of New Zealand hops to complement the two traditional European varietals 


Odyssey Beerwerks and CBG Board of Directors Collab

  • Beer name: Kia Ora

  • Beer style: New Zealand Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Your Colorado Brewers Guild Board of Directors is back with another fantastic Welcome Beer to awaken your taste buds before a big day of Collab Fest!  We teamed up with our friends at Hopsteiner, Propagate, and Root Shoot Malting to bring you a crisp, clean, and slightly hop-forward crushable Pilsner.  Keeping the name inline with the style, "Kia Ora" means hello and thank you in the Maori language


Odyssey Beerwerks and River North 

  • Beer name: Fluffy Nightmare

  • Beer style: Coffee Marshmallow Imperial Stout

  • Story behind the collaboration: This beer was brewed out of friendship, a love of great beer, and a healthy dose of poor time management. Odyssey Beerwerks (Chris) and River North Brewery (Matt) have been buddies for over a decade — they used to pregame Rockies games at River North's original RiNo taproom, but Matt kept making the duo late by insisting they “try just one more.” Fluffy Nightmare is the result of years of shared beers, bad influences, and even a brewery dog connection (Matt’s wife Jess was the much-beloved vet for Odyssey’s brewery dog, Nala!). It’s a rich, roasty imperial coffee stout with a fluffy swirl of marshmallow sweetness — bold, smooth, and just weird enough to be unforgettably delicious


Odyssey Beerwerks and Ska Brewing

  • Beer name: Talk To Me, Spruce

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA with Colorado Spruce Tips

  • Story behind the collaboration: "Talk To Me, Spruce" is the embodiment of two decades of Colorado craft beer. It involves friends who worked together for fifteen years. The friends have since moved on to other breweries but are always looking for an excuse to work together again. Thanks for the excuse, Colorado Brewers Guild! As the spruce tips are grown and picked just outside of Durango, the Ska folks were able to pick them up on the way to Odyssey and deliver them by hand


Odell Five Points Brewhouse and Firestone Walker (CA)

  • Beer name: Wandering Don IPA

  • Beer style: American IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Firestone is brewing a larger batch of this collaboration at their place for a national release in May.  Odell saw this as a great opportunity to brew a small batch version for the fest


Odell Sloan's Lake and Monolith Brewing

  • Beer name: Synaptic Continuum

  • Beer style: West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Brewed to have a light body to enable the hops to shine. The brewers connected the ultimate hop aromas from two strong hop growing parts of the world, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest.They share a wild eye for creativity in what they brew while enjoying the hard work that goes into it


Odell Sloan's Lake and Seedstock Brewery

  • Beer name: Fluid Lupicity

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Brewed with experimental hops, CRYO hops and supercharged hop oil: Hyperboost. The brewers are close neighbors who see each other often and have always talked about collaborating. It's juicy, it's fun and it's experimental


Old 121 Brewhouse and Lady Justice Brewing

  • Beer name: Smooth Crimini-Ale

  • Beer style: Mushroom West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Annie are you ok? This Smooth Crimini-Ale brings the delicious style of a West Coast Pilsner using Amarillo and Lupomax Columbus hops with the rich and complex use of Crimini and Porcini Mushrooms. The brewers wanted to try some experimental flavors that would be both unique and balanced that would highlight traditional dank, piney, and citrus flavors of hops with the earthy, umami, and slightly spicy flavors of mushrooms



Oskar Blues Brewery and Cigar City Brewing

  • Beer name: There’s Passion In These Jorts

  • Beer style: Passionfruit West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers blended two different IPA approaches by creating a Passionfruit Tropical Hopped West Coast IPA. Cigar City and Oskar Blues are no strangers to hoppy beers so why not create something that hop heads will love!

Our Mutual Friend Brewing and Cheluna Brewing

  • Beer name: Monkey Steps

  • Beer style: Hazy Ipa with Coconut

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers have collaborated before and have incorporated coconut in beer and wanted to continue experimenting with that ingredient. They thought a tropical hazy IPA would be an awesome next step forward in exploring coconut in beer. Hopped with Nectaron, Azacca and Vic Secret


Peaks N Pines Brewery and Urban Animal Beer Co.

  • Beer name: Cross Current

  • Beer style: Kettle Soured Tropical Hazy

  • Story behind the collaboration: The love child of two of the Pikes Peak region’s youngest head brewers and Colorado Springs natives, Cross Current marries a refreshing kettle sour with an abundantly aromatic Hazy IPA. Tropical hops, pineapple, and marshmallow deliver bouquets of pineapple, tropical fruit, and a pillowy sweetness to complement this beer’s refreshing tartness


Phantom Canyon Brewing Company and Carver Brewing Company

  • Beer name: DeGens Double IPA

  • Beer style: Double IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: DeGens Double IPA is a bold and flavorful brew made entirely with West Slope Colorado ingredients, highlighting the best of local agriculture. What truly sets it apart is the brewers’ commitment to regenerative agriculture, using ingredients that not only enhance the beer’s quality but also support sustainable farming practices. This means every sip contributes to healthier soils, stronger ecosystems, and a more sustainable future for Colorado craft beer. This collaboration is special because it brings things full circle—one of Phantom Canyon’s team members began their brewing career at Carver Brewing and has a deep personal connection to Durango and its craft beer scene. Partnering with Carver felt like a natural fit, not just for the shared passion for locally sourced ingredients and sustainability, but also for the strong personal and professional ties between our breweries. DeGens Double IPA isn’t just another hoppy beer—it’s a love letter to Colorado’s West Slope and the hardworking farmers who make craft brewing possible. We want people to know that local sourcing and sustainability can go hand in hand with bold, delicious flavors


Primitive Beer and Brewery Novalis (NY)

  • Beer name: Human Construct

  • Beer style: SponSponBingBong Finished in Earl Grey Gin Casks

  • Story behind the collaboration: Human Construct is Primitive’s Golden Blend, a multi-year ensemble with a weighted average age >34 months at bottling, finished in Earl Grey Gin Casks from The Family Jones Distillery. Longtime friends Brewery Novalis in NY came out to select specific barrels for this collaboration. The brewers chose to blend puncheons of extra mature spon from batches that utilized high hopping rates and extra long marathon boils (>12hrs boil time) to match caramelization flavors of burnt honey, toasted orange peel, and toffee, to meld with finishing cask notes reminiscent of bright and lively candied lemon, spicy black tea, and undertones of cedar and smoke. When you bring fellow blenders of SponSponBingBong together, magical mixtures emerge, as arbitrary boundaries are just a Human Construct!


Primitive Beer and Cohesion Brewing

  • Beer name: Stable of Stars

  • Beer style: SponSponBingBong Dry Hopped with Žatec Saaz

  • Story behind the collaboration: Primitive Beer presents Stable of Stars, a very special collaboration with their  best friends Cohesion Brewing Company. Departing from Primitive’s traditional recipe, they brewed a 100% malted barley and Czech Saaz hopped wort for inoculation in our koelschip and two years of barrel maturation on lees. Stable of Stars was dry hopped with Czech Saaz cones prior to packaging and conditioned with fresh barley wort at a weighted average age of 24 months. Inspired by a unique spontaneously fermented all-barley beer released by our favorite Lambic producer in the city of Brussels and directed by the beautiful lucidity of Czech Pale Lager, Stable of Stars is a great addition to any gathering, even if there's no, like, cute restaurants in the neighborhood



Propagate Lab, Bruz  Beers, Locavore Beer Works, Avant Garde Aleworks, Barquentine Brewing, Our Mutual Friend Brewing, and Green Mountain Beer Company

  • Beer name: Super Dry Hopped Saison

  • Beer style: Saison

  • Story behind the collaboration: This group has called themselves the Saison Squad for their love of Saison


Prost Brewing and Templin Family Brewing (UT)

  • Beer name: Wet Hop Pilsner

  • Beer style: Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: For this brew, the brewers used wet hop Spalter Select hops from a farm in Germany. The process will be open fermented, horizontally lagered, naturally carbonated and polish filtered. Templin Family Brewing and Prost both specialize in traditional brewing and this was an excellent opportunity to showcase that shared love for a clean complex lager bier


Public Offering Brewing Co. and LUKI Brewery

  • Beer name: Rising Sun Yuzu Lager

  • Beer style: Rice Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Inspired to make a light lager for the summer season, the brewers landed on a rice lager and wanted to lean into some typical Japanese flavors and ingredients without going overboard. So they added ginger and lemongrass hot side, fermented with a Sake lager strain and added Yuzu fruit for a touch of citrus. They tried their best to preserve the delicate nature of a rice lager while lightly highlighting the ginger, lemongrass and yuzu flavors


Purpose Brewing & Cellars and California Wild Ales (CA)

  • Beer name: Deviltrekker

  • Beer style: Barrel Aged Sour Saison

  • Story behind the collaboration: Blend of two sours from two experimental small batch barrel-age sour breweries. Zach drove from San Diego to blend with Purpose in Fort Collins


Purpose Brewing & Cellars and Storm Peak Brewing

  • Beer name: Couples Therapy

  • Beer style: French Saison

  • Story behind the collaboration: A Blend of Purpose's Saison approach dry hopped with Storm Peak's selected lot of Cashmere. Chris from Storm Peak and Frezi from Purpose were classmates, and when Chris and Rob visited Purpose back in December they decided to work on something together


Ramblebine Brewing Company and Base Camp Beer Works

  • Beer name: Tinky Wink

  • Beer style: Ube Milkshake IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: A unique take on a milkshake hazy IPA with the use of Ube to impart a vibrant purple color along with nutty, vanilla sweetness. As good friends and close colleagues, the brewers love to collaborate and learn from each other to make the Grand Valley beer scene better as a whole


Ramblebine Brewing Company and New Terrain Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Matcha Man

  • Beer style: Vanilla Matcha Lemonade Fizz Ale

  • Story behind the collaboration: Fermented with a GMO Chico yeast to add acidity and blended with foeder-aged seltzer and then conditioned on Sicilian Lemon puree and vanilla matcha tea


Rails End Beer Company and The Empourium Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Recognize

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Derick at Rails End got his start in brewing ten years ago at Rockyard in Castle Rock where Greg from The Empourium was the head brewer. This collab is a thank you to the beer big brother for all the support along the way


Rails End Beer Company, Comrade Brewing, and  Cheluna Brewing

  • Beer name: SpottieOttieDopaliscious

  • Beer style: West Coast Pils

  • Story behind the collaboration:Homies brewing homie beer


Ratio Beerworks and ISM Brewing & Kitchen (CA)

  • Beer name: Local Pandemonium

  • Beer style: West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Brewing buddies ISM and Ratio Beerworks have created this awesome West Coast Pils in time for Collabfest! Big time notes of white gummy bears, orange soda and background hashish kick through this banger!


Ratio Beerworks and Odell Brewing Five Points Brewhouse

  • Beer name: Homies Hangin IPA

  • Beer style: Juicy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is the 2nd year of the collaboration between Odell Five Points and Ratio Beerworks who are on the same block of 29th and Larimer St. This beer will boast big notes of candied peaches and tropical vibes


River North Brewery and Wanderment Brewing

  • Beer name: Wander North

  • Beer style: Blended Saison Cuvée

  • Story behind the collaboration: Just north of downtown Denver on Washington Street, two breweries sit just a few blocks away from each other -- next-door brewing neighbors in an unlikely part of town. River North Brewery has called north Washington Street home for nearly 10 years, while Wanderment Brewing is one of the newest breweries on the Denver beer scene. Sharing a love of great beer, the brewers at River North and Wanderment quickly became friends. What better way to celebrate this newly forged friendship than with a collaboration combining strengths? The idea for a cuvée blend of saisons called Wander North was just too exciting to pass up


Rock Cut Brewing Company and Avant Garde Aleworks

  • Beer name: Blue Velvet

  • Beer style: Baltic Porter with Blueberry and Lavender

  • Story behind the collaboration: For two like-minded, neighborhood breweries that often discuss beers together, Rock Cut Brewing and Avant Garde Aleworks see Collaboration Fest as an opportunity to showcase some more eccentric ideas. For Blue Velvet, the brewers decided to create a Baltic Porter using some ingredients found near the Baltic Sea: blueberries and some florals. The result is a big, delicious, bold lager reminiscent of a gourmet chocolate bar


Rock Cut Brewing Company and Avant Garde Aleworks

  • Beer name: Tokyo Draft

  • Beer style: Plum Rice Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Tokyo Draft is a Japanese rice lager with plum that was co-fermented with sake yeast. This delicate, crisp beer is low in alcohol but high in crushability


Second Dawn Brewing Co. and Our Mutual Friend Brewing

  • Beer name: Future Before

  • Beer style: American IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is a hybrid IPA utilizing modern hopping techniques with classic American hops


Station 26 Brewing Company and Lady Justice Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Neat. No ICE

  • Beer style: Fruited sour with Tajin

  • Story behind the collab: A current Station 26 employee interned at both Station 26 and Lady Justice while he was in the Applied Craft Brewing program at Regis University which led to the connection between the two breweries. Aside from using an interesting fruit combination, what makes this beer standout is the use of Tajin for a subtle spicy and chili flavor


Steamworks Brewing Company and Ska Brewing

  • Beer name: Mom's Vacation

  • Beer style: Kettle Sour

  • Story behind the collaboration: Refermented with local Riesling Wine must. These two breweries have been collaborating since 1997 


Steep Brewing, Angry James Brewery, and Syndicate Brewing

  • Beer name: Get That Corn Outta My Face

  • Beer style: Honey Corn Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is a honey and corn lager utilizing Colorado grown malts, honey and green chilies


Stodgy Brewing Company and TightKnit Brewing Co. 

  • Beer name: West Coast Pils

  • Beer style: West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers had never worked together so it was the perfect time to get together for collaboration!


Storm Peak Brewing, Roadhouse Brewing (WY), Melvin Brewing (WY), Stillwest Brewery & Grill (WY), Citizen 33 Brewery (ID), Ogden Beer Company (UT), Western Collective (ID), Snake River Brewing (WY), and Roy Farms

  • Beer name: Get on the bus!

  • Beer style: Mountain West Pilsner 

  • Story behind the collaboration: This is an annual collaboration between Ski Town breweries. The brewers brew a beer together and compete in the Brewlympics for the legendary Golden Boot. This year Roy Farms and Prairie Malt sponsored the raw materials and the team brewed and competed in Jackson Wyoming. This “Mountain West Pilsner” is a wonderful display of Cascade, Strata, Bravo and Chinook along with some Quantum Brite from Abstrax


Storm Peak Brewing, Upslope Brewing, Gooding Farms, and Mill 95

  • Beer name: Gooding Plenty

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA w/ Spices

  • Story behind the collaboration: Great friends and great hops! Let's put it all together and make a fun beer, maybe have a couple and take a few ski runs while we're at it. This beer is a collaboration that involves great friends and great hops. The team put a unique spin on a West Coast IPA by adding cardamom and coriander in the boil and post-fermentation and only using hops from Gooding Farms. The spices together with Idaho Gem, Cashmere, Chinook and Galena hops add a layer of flavor throughout with notes of tangerine, strawberry, fruity pebbles, bright lemon and green leaves


Strange Craft Beer Company and Bent Barley Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Scary Cherry

  • Beer style: Chili Cherry Honey Kolsch

  • Story behind the collaboration: The two brewery’s most notorious, award-winning beers smooshed together like chocolate and peanut butter to create a liquid Reese's wedding of flavors, only with Chilies and Cherries. Queue the whiny TV voice, "Hey, you got chilies in my cherries! Well you got cherries in my chilies. Mmmm..."


Stronghouse Brew Pub and Shelter Distilling

  • Beer name: Strong Shelter IPA

  • Beer style: West Coast IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Since Telluride and Montrose are so tied together by workforce and tourism, the collaborators thought it was time to tie it together with beer


Telluride Brewing and Good People Brewing (AL)

  • Beer name: Moe's Original GoodRide Lager

  • Beer style: West Coast Pils 

  • Story behind the collaboration: West Coast Pils brewed with Cryo-Columbus, Krush and Nectaron. This is a celebration of Telluride Launching distribution in Alabama, Western Georgia and the Panhandle of Florida!  


The Elizabeth Brewing Company, A Bit Twisted Brewpub and BBQ, and  Urban Animal Brewery

  • Beer name: Uncharted Waters

  • Beer style: Bomb Pop Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration:This hazy represents one of the brewers’ favorite styles of beer which includes three different flavors to represent each brewer 


The Elizabeth Brewing Company and Kold Prairie Meadery

  • Beer name: Prairie Walker

  • Beer style: Scottish Ale Buckwheat Braggot

  • Story behind the collaboration: The brewers have made a few braggots in the past for fun and this recipe was a favorite. Braggots are not very common in the commercial world, so Collab Fest was the perfect way to show Kold Prairie Meadery to the world as well as share a project that they are incredibly proud of


The Empourium Brewing Company and Grimm Brothers

  • Beer name: Godfather Death

  • Beer style: Dark Czech Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Dark yet ridiculously dry, this roasty delight is perfect for no matter what spring in Colorado throws our way


TightKnit Brewing Co. and Wiley Roots

  • Beer name: Pilsnerwine

  • Beer style: Pilsnerwine

  • Story behind the collaboration: You've heard of Barleywine, Wheatwine and even Munichwine, so why not Pilsnerwine? Brewed with all Pilsner malts, but driven to be exceptionally big, lagered with time and patience using Spalt and Lórien hops. It's time for Pilsnerwine!


Timnath Beerwerks and Gilded Goat Brewing

  • Beer style: Cold IPA


Timnath Beerwerks and Verboten North Brewpub

  • Beer style: IPA


Tommyknocker Brewery and Very Nice Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Fjall Kveik

  • Beer style: Farmhouse Kveik

  • Story behind the collaboration: This ale started in the Viking tradition by fermenting it with the ancient Kveik yeast. Known for its explosive fermentation that can reach a temperature north of 90°F and still deliver crisp, clean beer with only a hint of sulfur character.  Discovered on traditional Norwegian farms and even in ancient Viking sites where fermentation activities were suspected. The brewers decided to add local honey and spruce essence in the imagining of what may have been available to ancient Nordic farmers living in the unforgiving mountainous regions of Norway


Trail Life Brewing and Shelter Distilling

  • Beer name: West Slope Stout

  • Beer style: Irish Extra Stout

  • Story behind the collaboration: Trail Life and Shelter Distilling teamed up in Montrose to craft a Nitro Irish Extra Stout that celebrates community, craftsmanship, and the rich traditions of dark beer. It’s a beer brewed with camaraderie, inspired by classic styles, and perfect for raising a glass with friends


Two22 Brew and A Bit Twisted Brewpub & BBQ

  • Beer name: Stone Cold Steve Aspen 

  • Beer style: Aspen Wood aged Steinbier Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: The collaboration grew from a conversation over a Two22 “Old Cluster Fuggle” Barrel Aged Barleywine one evening. The brewers thought the “Hot Rock” technique would be interesting and using Aspen wood for aging 


Verboten Brewing and Gravity Brewing

  • Beer name: Peanut Butter Sriracha Imperial Porter

  • Beer style: Imperial Porter

  • Story behind the collaboration: Brewery friends that came together and said “lets make something weird but not too weird,” thus the idea was born to make a peanut sriracha porter


Very Nice Brewing Company and BJ’s Brewhouse Boulder

  • Beer name: Fuse Buster

  • Beer style: Single hop (Comet) India Pale Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: A story about mentorship and sharing ideas and passions in brewing for the 4th year as collaborators 


Vicious Cycle Brewing Company and Rule 105 Brewing 

  • Beer name: Hop-tato

  • Beer style: Potato Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Neither brewer has ever brewed a potato lager, so they figured Collab Fest is a great time to try something new


WeldWerks Brewing Co. and Trillium Brewing Company (MA + CT)

  • Beer name: Juicy Tiles

  • Beer style: Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Trillium Brewing Company has always led the pack of haze-makers so WeldWerks was thrilled to join forces with them (again!) on this extra special Hazy Double India Pale Ale–complete with Wildflower Honey! This refreshing juice bomb is bursting with the big citrus notes we all know and love and finishes with a light, natural sweetness, courtesy of the locally sourced honey 


WestFax Brewing Company and Goat Patch Brewing Company

  • Beer name: Vista Verde

  • Beer style: Hoppy Lager

  • Story behind the collaboration: Hoppy Lager brewed with Vista, Mosaic Cryo, and Mosaic Hyperboost. The brewers wanted to utilize some newer hop products in a lower ABV lager


WestFax Brewing Company and Milieu Fermenation

  • Beer name: Tropic Nexus

  • Beer style: Double Dry Hopped Hazy IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Double dry hopped hazy IPA brewed with Citra Incognito, Riwaka, Citra Cryo, Citra, Superdelic, and Abstract Hops Nectaron Quantum Brite. The brewers also used an engineered yeast strain to produce more tropical flavors within the beer


WestFax Brewing Company, Old 121 Brewhouse, 6 & 40 Brewery, and Landlocked Ales

  • Beer name:Thiol Thunder

  • Beer style: Thiolized West Coast Pilsner

  • Story behind the collaboration: Thiolilzed west coast pilsner brewed with a blend of thiolized lager yeast and Andechs lager yeast.  Hopped with Peacharine & Nelson Sauvin.  This is a  yearly collaboration between breweries located in the City of Lakewood


Wibby Brewing and Peculier Brewing

  • Beer name: Spacemen on Parade

  • Beer style: Belgian IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: In 1992, two brewers on this collab, Ryan Wibby and Erik Olson played a duet together for the Nation Federation of Music Clubs and were adjudicated on two performances.This was one of them and the judges comments are outrageous! Until you find a VCR to watch the video, the Rating Sheet for Junior Festivals in the pictures will have to do!


Wibby Brewing and Seapine Brewing (WA)

  • Beer name: Rock Maibock

  • Beer style: Steinbier Maibock

  • Story behind the collaboration: Wibby has had a deep connection with Seapine for over 9 years. When the brewers got together they wanted to make it as hot and memorable as possible to set their connection in stone. to Fiery chunks of granitic stones raised to scorching temps of 600+degrees over fine cherry wood


Wild Blue Yonder Brewing Co., 105 West Brewing Company, Rock Yard Brewing Company, and Los Dos Potrillos

  • Beer name: Welcome to the Rock

  • Beer style: Golden Stout

  • Story behind the collaboration: The Castle Rock brewers went with a golden stout because it attempts to give you the flavors you'd expect in a traditional stout or porter, but without the use of darker roasted malts. It's a total mind game when you drink one


Wild Provisions Beer Project and Great Divide Brewing Company

  • Beer name: TmavYeti

  • Beer style: Whiskey Barrel Aged Tmave

  • Story behind the collaboration: Great Divide and Wild Provisions teamed up for a blend of both of their favorites. 20% Whiskey Barrel Aged Yeti with Tmave poured as milk pours. Think dark chocolate coffee cold foam


Wonderland Brewing Co. and Mountain Toad Brewing

  • Beer name: Mountain Toad the Wonder Sprocket

  • Beer style: American IPA

  • Story behind the collaboration: Citrus Heavy classic American IPA fermented with Cedar wood. The brewers decided to brew it on a whim due to their shared fascination in attempting to make food-flavored beer. This one is more subtle where they based it off the cedar and citrus ingredients of a Grilled Cedar Plank Salmon recipe one of the brewer’s grew up eating


Woods Boss Brewing Company and Silver Moon Brewing (OR)

  • Beer name: Stihl Crazy (after all these years)

  • Beer style: Norwegian Farmhouse brewed with a Ponderosa Pine Tree

  • Story behind the collaboration: This collab is a revisit from 2019 when Woods Boss cut down a live pine tree and used it in the brewing process. The brewers ran hot wort from the kettle down a channel of a 12' section of the trunk during the boil to pull in the character of the tree. It will be a citrusy Norwegian Farmhouse/Saison as they are blending a Kveik strain with French Saison Yeast  


​​Zwei Brewing Co. and Mythmaker Brewing Co.

  • Beer name: KirschRauchHellerBock

  • Beer style: Rauchbier

  • Story behind the collaboration: Custom Cherry wood smoked Malt used in a classic Hellerbock


Zymos Brewing and Old 121 Brewhouse

  • Beer name: Smoke & Bramble

  • Beer style: Fruited Smoked Porter

  • Story behind the collaboration: Taking inspiration from the smoked old-fashioned, the brewers are bringing a blackberry smoked porter. There will be two variations including one served from a wood stave keg


Zymos Brewing, Coal Mine Ave Brewing Company, Lariat Lodge Brewing, Comet Brews, and Wild Sky Brewery

  • Beer name: Littleton Fun

  • Beer style: Cream Ale

  • Story behind the collaboration: LittleFun is a neighborhood collaboration as a way to bring the breweries of Littleton together. This spruce tip and lime tea cream ale highlights local ingredients using local malts and CO spruce tips

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