Ska Brewing Co.

Brewers Association and Ska Brewing Co. Release 2009 Sales Numbers

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
By Jeff
Brewers Association and Ska Brewing Co. Release 2009 Sales Numbers

Yesterday the Brewers Association, based in Boulder, CO released 2009 Craft Brewer sales numbers. As did local brewery Ska Brewing Co. (they’re considered a craft brewer and are included in the Brewers Association figures as well). According to the Brewers Association, in 2009 small and independent craft brewers saw sales dollars increase 10.3% and... »

Belgian Style Ales, A New Trend in American Craft Beer?

Thursday, February 25, 2010
By Jeff

It’s impossible to say what the next “trend” in craft beer will be. For a while it seemed like every brewery was working to make the biggest, strongest most Imperial or Double style of whatever beer they chose. Some breweries, if they weren’t focusing on high ABV were trying to cram as much hops... »

Ska Brewing – Beer Blogger Article in the Durango Telegraph

Thursday, February 11, 2010
By Jeff
Ska Brewing – Beer Blogger Article in the Durango Telegraph

Just a quick post to point out that The Durango Telegraph, our local alt-weekly, has a story about the Ska Brewing Co. – Beer Blogger collaboration beers. Beer Blogger by Kinsee Morlan Ska Brewing Co. head brewer Thomas Larsen is showing Chuck Slothower the ropes – or the tubes as the case may be. “We need... »

Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger Collabeeration Tapping Party

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
By Jeff
Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger Collabeeration Tapping Party

This Saturday, Febrary 13th at 5pm we’ll be tapping the Ska Brewing Co. Beer Blogger CollaBEERation brews at the Ska Brewing Co. tap room. If you haven’t been following along, Ska Brewing Co. invited myself and the Soggy Coaster of Beer at 6512 to each brew a beer on their 10 gallon pilot system. We... »

Roller Races in Durango

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
By Jeff
Roller Races in Durango

While the roads are still icy and it’s not quite outdoor riding season yet, there are two indoor races coming up in the next couple weeks in Durango. On Tuesday February 16th, 5:30PM at The Hub Training Center they’ll be holding Computrainer races. I’ve heard these Computrainers are pretty sweet. I’ve heard there will be... »

2nd Annual Ska Brewing Snowdown Homebrew Competition

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Jeff

The second annual Ska Brewing Snowdown Homebrew Competition took place this past Saturday at Ska Brewing. 71 home brewed beers were entered and Clancy Calhoun of Aztec, NM walked away with Best in Show for “Clancy’s Black Beer” a dark lager. Clancy will brew a full batch of “Clancy’s Black Beer” at Ska Brewing Co.... »

Snowdown 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
By Jeff

I’ve written a bit about Snowdown (Carver Beard Growing Contest and Ska Brewing Co’s Hyper Fierce Gnar Gnar Hefe), and now that it’s upon us I thought I’d post some of the beer and bike related events. As expected there are more beer related events than bike related events. In fact I’m not sure... »

Ska Brewing Collabeeration: Belgian-American IPA Is In The Fermenter

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
By Jeff
Ska Brewing Collabeeration: Belgian-American IPA Is In The Fermenter

A little over a week ago I went to Ska Brewing early on a Saturday morning and met head brewer Thomas Larsen and we got to work brewing our beer. You can read the recipe here, and in that blog post I forgot to mention the yeast we were to use, which is the... »

Ska Brewing Collaboration Tomorrow, Belgian-American IPA Recipe

Friday, January 15, 2010
By Jeff
Ska Brewing Collaboration Tomorrow, Belgian-American IPA Recipe

Thomas Larsen, headbrewer at Ska Brewing Co. and I met up a few days ago to come up with a recipe for our Belgian-American IPA. I don’t have much experience crafting beer recipes, but I told Thomas what I was hoping the beer would look, taste and smell like, as well as looked at some... »