Steamworks Brewing Co.
Belgian Style Ales, A New Trend in American Craft Beer?
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... »
Snowdown 2010
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... »
Steamworks to Cease Most Wholesale Distribution
According to a press release sent out yesterday by Steamworks Brewing Co., they have announced that the Bayfield Beer Factory will close on December 31st. Steamworks announced about a month ago that they would be closing the Bayfield Beer Factory soon, but did not disclose a date. This brought up many questions regarding the... »
Four Corners Mug Club Update
As I mentioned two months ago, the Four Corners Mug Club is going through some changes. Soggy Coaster of Beer at 6512 posted an email from Ska Brewing Co. co-founder/co-owner Bill Graham detailing some of the changes coming to the Mug Club around the same time. I hadn’t heard anything else regarding the Mug... »
Winter Seasonals in Durango
Seasonal beers are big business in the craft beer industry. According to Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association, seasonal beers passed pale ales as the top growing segment in the craft beer industry. “’What can I try that I haven’t tried before?’ is really driving a lot of the sales in the category,”... »
Durango Bootleggers Society – Insider Apple Ale
A little over a month ago, Sunday October 18th was the 2nd Annual Durango Home Grown Festival at Buckley Park. A big part of the Home Grown Festival was apples, there are so many apple trees in the area, producing so many apples that they can’t all be eaten or even given away (I’ve... »
Changes at Steamworks Brewing Co.
It was hard to miss the front page article in the Durango Herald this morning titled Steamworks Cuts Back – Brewer to Shut Bayfield plant, restaurant in phases. The article says that the Steamworks Brewing Co. Bayfield Beer Factory will be downsizing, that they’ve laid off three brewery related employees and that the restaurant... »
Durango Bootleggers Society Pint for a Pint Blood Drive
According to the Durango Herald this Friday is the annual Durango Bootleggers Society’s blood drive. It’s taking place from 11am to 6:30pm at the American Legion Hall, 878 E 2nd Ave. Sign up sheets are available at Carver Brewing Co., Durango Brewing Co., Ska Brewing Co., and Steamworks Brewing Co. If you donate a... »
Four Corners/Durango Mug Club
The Durango Mug Club is something I was super impressed with when I first heard about it. The local breweries get together and each sell mugs with memberships in the “Mug Club”, once a year one buys a mug and then enjoys cheaper beers every time they take that mug to one of the... »
Kris Oyler of Steamworks Brewing Interview with DRAFT
A few weeks back during the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Draft Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Erika Rietz interviewed a handful of people in the craft beer industry and posted the interviews to Youtube. One of those beer folks interviewed as Kris Oyler, Co-Founder and CEO of Steamworks Brewing Company here in Durango. The interview is... »
