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The 2013 Colorado Craft Brewers 12 month wall calendar features a different Colorado brewery each month. Through the lens of local photographer Darren Mahuron you get to see the colorful personalities behind each of these innovative and unique breweries that call Colorado home. Travel with us through the state and visit each of our 2013 “pinups”, learn about their specialty brews, recipes, a brewery farm and a brew school.
It is often said that Colorado produces world famous beer because of our great water. 5% of profits from the 2013 Colorado Craft Brewers calendar are donated to the Save the Colorado non-profit (www.savethecolorado.org). Both our farmers and our breweries depend on water from Colorado rivers. Save the Colorado works to protect the Colorado River and its watershed, from high in the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Colorado River Delta. Learn about the breweries that make up your “beer-shed” and help Save the Colorado protect our most vital asset.
Format: Standard Wall Applications
Size Opened:24.0" x 12.0"
Size Closed: 12.0" x "12.0"
Timeframe: 12 Months
Pitchfork Pinups Calendar Co.’s mission is to produce calendars for a cause. This year we have partnered with Save the Colorado to learn about how we might conserve water in Colorado and throughout the West, so communities, brewers, farmers and ecosystems all have the fresh water they require. Five percent of profits from the Colorado Craft Brewers 2013 Calendar will be donated to Save the Colorado to aid them in their mission to improve water flow, quality, and riparian habitats from the top of the Rockies to the Colorado River Delta.
Ten years ago, Oskar Blues Cajun Grill was just a funky little brewpub in Lyons, Colorado, until owner and brewmaster Dale Katechis decided to package his popular beer in cans. The first craft brewer to bottle beer in cans, Oskar Blues launched the craft-beer-in-a-can craze and has been committed to marrying quality and fun ever since.
During the late 80s, Brian Dunn spent five years overseas building farms in developing countries. Dunn expanded his knowledge and passion for beer during his travels. Eventually he returned to Colorado, started homebrewing and went to graduate school. Upon graduation in 1993, when Denver’s craft beer scene barely existed, he set out to found what would eventually become one of America’s most decorated and celebrated craft breweries.
Founded in 1989, Odell Brewing was started by Doug Odell, his wife Wynne, and his sister Corkie. Twenty-three years later, the culture of family and collaboration still thrives, fostering a brewery full of beer-centric people. It is this passion for beer that inspires Odell Brewing to create quality, hand-crafted, innovative brews.
New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale and other Belgian-inspired beers, began operations in a tiny Fort Collins basement in 1991. Today, the third largest craft brewer in the U.S., New Belgium produces eight year-round beers: Fat Tire Amber Ale, Ranger IPA, Belgo IPA, Sunshine Wheat, Blue Paddle Pilsner, 1554 Black Ale, Abbey and Trippel, as well as a host of seasonal releases.
Strange Brewing Company is the realization of a dream shared by two avid homebrewers, John Fletcher and Tim Myers. They started homebrewing small batches in their kitchens in the late eighties where they honed their craft. A chance encounter with a CraigsList ad in December 2005 for a professional brew sculpture lit the flame that eventually became Strange Brew.
Pug Ryan’s has been a local pub in Dillon, Colorado since 1975. Steadily growing ever since, the pub added a brewery in 1996. Their craft beers became so popular that by 2004 Pug Ryan’s began canning their delicious brews: Morningwood Wheat, Pali Pilsner and Over the Rail Pale Ale. Not just a local favorite, the brew pub has received many awards including a recent gold medal at the Great American Beer Fest for Helles Bock.
In 1994, Mike and Amanda Bristol settled comfortably in the lap of Pikes Peak and began hand-brewing fresh, one-of-kind ales for the people of Colorado. From multi-award-winning Laughing Lab to local favorites Compass IPA and Beehive Honey Wheat, to a slew of specialty beers and seasonals, the quality and flavor of the beer drives everything at Bristol.
Colorado’s First Microbrewery was established on September 25th, 1979 when two CU professors received their brewer’s permit and started Boulder Beer Company. They set up their first brewhouse on a small goat farm north of Boulder. Brewmaster David Zuckerman came on board in 1990 and continues to oversee brewing and production today.
Somewhere out in Colorado, in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five, three guys named Matt, Bill and Dave learned that while they loved gulping down good beer, they weren’t yet old enough to buy it. They figured an answer to their quandary would appear if they drank enough and listened to enough thinking music, also known as Ska.
Golden City Brewery was founded in 1993 by Charlie & Janine Sturdavant, two geologists with a passion for German-style ales. Charlie began craft brewing using old dairy tanks in a machine shop behind their historic Golden home. The couple provided Red Ale and Pale Ale to the local community from the tasting room originally located in the sunroom of their house.
Tony Simmons is the founder and head brewer of Pagosa Brewing Company. An accomplished brewer, Tony has won scholarships to brewing schools in both the USA and Germany and has received a number of awards for his beers. Tony crafted Poor Richard’s Ale, which was chosen as the national recipe to be brewed by 100 breweries in 35 states, including Anheuser-Busch, in celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday.
In 2008, Tom and Sandy Hennessy opened Colorado Boy Pub & Brewery in the picturesque town of Ridgway, Colorado. Colorado Boy is on the cutting edge of sustainable beer manufacturing, integrating Tom and Sandy’s years of owning and operating breweries in New Mexico, Colorado Springs, Salida, and Palisade, Colorado.
Michael Bugeaud, Susanna Dominguez, Jacob Ferrington, Allison Gleichman, Duane and Susan Jacklin, Elizabeth Mayne, Noah Newman, Megan Phillips, Dawn Thilmany and Ted and Ellen Zibell.
Photography: Darren Mahuron of Summit Studios
Hair & Make-up Stylist: Rachael Ann Yovanoff of Summit Studios
Graphic Design: Susanna Dominguez of Calvin Pepper Creative Damage
Copy Editor: Dana Jill Parker
Web Designer: Kyle Zibell of Zibell Design Co.
