More on tap than just beer.

Once in a while, as a result of following your passion, your path will cross with another, following a different passion. Because you are both, obviously passionate, a mutual respect is shared  no matter what  each has come to pursue.  This is a story about what happens when passions collide. I  fell into  a unique…

Photo courtesy of Wende Cragg, Rolling Dinosaur Archives, copyright 2008. Account below written by Joe Breeze for Upslope Brewing Co. The ride that made mountain biking epic. Founded in 1976 by Crested Butte Hotshot firefighters, the ride’s goal was to one-up Aspenites who rode motorcycles over Pearl Pass to Crested Butte. The 1978 ride was…

Upslope Brewing’s Head Brewer, Dany Pages, is a chemist by education. He spent a few years out of college working in the labs at Nestle in Buenos Aires. It didn’t take long to realize that the lab environment was not for him. He packed up and headed for the wilds of Ushuaia, Argentina to work…

With all of the complicated liquor laws in place, how does a new brewery make a go of it? In the State of Colorado, we are blessed, as a brewery, to have the ability to have a wholesale liquor license (in addition to our manufacturers liquor license) which permits us to self-distribute. This means that…