The Brew On Broadway (The BoB) hosts a fundraiser dog wash on the last Sunday each month to benefit the Humane Society of The South Platte Valley. This is the first time this year we have been in town for the event so I took the girls down to the brewery and had baths. Neither of my dogs were happy about actually getting bathed but tolerated the experience. The weather was fantastic and the beer (as always) was great. What a great way to spend the first Sunday afternoon of the summer!
My Dogs Have Been To More Breweries Than You (archive)
This will be a continuously updated post that includes the breweries and taprooms to which I have taken my dogs. I try to tag all of these posts with the Twitter hashtag #drinkingWithMyDogs which you can view via their search tool.
Last update: 07 March 2021
Alternation Brewing Company Denver CO (closed)
Banded Oak Brewing Company Denver CO
Barrels And Bottles Brewery Golden CO
Elevation Beer Company Poncha Springs CO
Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Taproom Longmont CO
The Brew On Broadway (The BoB) Denver CO (closed)
Chain Reaction Brewing Denver COFormer Future Brewing Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales Denver CO
Wit’s End Brewing Denver CO (closed)
Eddyline Brewing Buena Vista CO
Declaration Brewing Denver CO (closed)
Living The Dream Brewing Highlands Ranch CO
Platt Park Brewing Denver CO
Fermæntra Brewing Denver CO (closed)
Funkwerks Brewing Fort Collins CO
Copper Kettle Brewing Denver CO
Comrade Brewing Denver CO
Crabtree Brewing Greeley CO
Boggy Draw Brewing Sheridan CO (closed)
Brewery Rickoli Wheat Ridge CO
Saint Patrick’s Brewing Littleton CO
Dead Hippie Brewing Sheridan CO (closed re-opened!)
Mockery Brewery Denver CO
Mad Jack’s Mountain Brewery Bailey CO
Strange Craft Beer Denver CO
Prost Brewing Denver CO
Florence Brewing Company Florence CO
Crestone Brewing Company Crestone CO
Soulcraft Brewing Salida CO
Guanella Pass Brewing Georgetown CO
Very Nice Brewing Company Nederland CO
Resolute Brewing Company Centennial CO
Woods Boss Brewing Company Denver CO
Renegade Brewing Company Denver CO
Ska Brewing Company Durango CO
Little Machine Brewing Denver CO
Lake City Brewing Company Lake City CO
Great Divide Brewing Company Denver CO
Ursula Brewery Aurora CO
Cerebral Brewing Denver CO
Jackass Hill Brewing Littleton CO
Station 26 Brewing Denver CO
Goldspot Brewing Denver CO
Zuni Street Brewing Denver CO
6 and 40 Brewery Lakewood CO
Factotum Brewhouse Denver CO
My drinking buddies
Friday afternoon at Former Future. The girls are breaking Colorado state law by sleeping in a bar.
Drinking buddies
At the taproom
The dogs learned today that hipsters aren’t dangerous, just annoying.
The Rescheduled Craft Lager Festival
The Craft Lager Festival was scheduled for last Saturday (10 August) but was postponed after a flash flood and mudslide destroyed the event equipment. The rescheduled event was held today in Colorado Springs at the Norris-Penrose Events Center instead of Memorial Park in Manitou Springs. As expected, many of the vendors, especially those from out-of-state, were not able to attend the rescheduled event today. There were not many of the local Colorado Springs breweries in attendance, either. Since I was alone today I had to wrangle the dogs, navigate the crowd AND taste the beverages. Because I was wrangling and drinking I didn’t have many chances for photos. I have included a few here though.
It was hot in Colorado Springs today. Even waiting in line to enter the event the dogs were panting.
After one circuit through all of the vendors I sat down in some shade with the girls and poured a bowl of water for them.
Note the wonderful winged skull tattoo on somebody’s calf in the background. No one ever said Colorado Springs was classy.
The volunteers pouring beers were a bit overwhelmed and many of the booths opened a few minutes late for various reasons, and some of those pouring (whether volunteers or staff from the breweries) were not really into the event. Kudos to Lost Rhino Brewing from Virginia, though! They were friendly and appeared to be happy to share their beer.
I will say my favorite beer today was Crooked Stave’s Surrette.
The swag haul was pretty meager this year, too.
The dogs and I had a good time and many young ladies stopped to pet Lucy while they asked how she lost her leg… so there’s that, I guess.
Road Trip
Today the dogs and I took a road trip to Eleven Mile Canyon recreation area (where they swam and romped and played).
Once the playing was done I drove them over to Buena Vista where I checked out Eddyline Brewing Co. The beer was very tasty and the pizza looked good. The first beer I tasted was a raspberry wheat which was pretty tasty. It did not have an overwhelming fruity taste to it and was satisfying. The next beer was their Crank Yanker IPA that turned out to be one of the better IPAs I’ve tasted. I had a meatball sub sandwich to go with the beers instead of pizza, ostensibly to avoid all those “carbs and calories.” I wish I had ordered pizza… Anyway, the food did the job I intended: it soaked up the beer. Also, I picked up a new t-shirt in the process. This is definitely a place to which I will return.
After BV, it was off to Salida and another brewery: Elevation Beer Co. While the location out by the fairgrounds is a bit too far from the main part of town for my liking, it did offer gorgeous views of the surrounding mountains… or at least, on a clearer day it would. The West Fork fires were pushing smoke all the way into the Salida area on this day. I tried their First Cast IPA while I sat on their “patio” with the dogs. I used quotation marks around patio since their entire outdoor area was crushed gravel.
I tried to purchase a t-shirt here, too, but they told me they had limited supplies… nothing in my size. “I guess I’ll have to come back again,” I told the bartender.
En Route
Waiting for their beers
The girls enjoyed the a day of swimming followed by a trip to the Oskar Blues brewery.
Inca Kola
I was surprised to see Inca Kola at my local Target store today as I had only previously seen it on my trips to Peru and Ecuador. I didn’t realize that Peruvian beverages were that popular in the Denver area (I’ve yet to find any place selling Cusquñea beer or Pisco).
Did I buy a bottle of Inca Kola today? Nope, I tried it a couple times in Peru and it was pretty nasty — imagine liquid bubble gum without the “good” taste. In fact, one day I was hankering for something sweet and grabbed a bottle at a mercado only to discover (too late) that I had grabbed Diet Inca Kola instead. Yuck.