Colorado Strong IPA Returns This November
The Colorado Brewers Guild and Left Hand Brewing Foundation Announce More than 65 Participating Breweries in Colorado Strong India Pale Ale
The Colorado Brewers Guild and the Left Hand Brewing Foundation are thrilled to announce the participating breweries of Colorado Strong, a joint initiative created in 2020 to raise funds to support the Colorado craft brewing industry in the wake of COVID-19. A portion of the proceeds from the benefit beer will be donated to the Colorado chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Colorado Brewers Guild to support memberships fees and other programming beneficial to our industry.
This year’s Colorado Strong India Pale Ale recipe, provided by Dave Bergen of Joyride Brewing Company and Jason Ford of Broken Compass Brewing Company, is made entirely of Colorado ingredients with Genie Pale and Vienna malt from Root Shoot Malting and Cascade, Chinook and Cashmere hops from Colorado Hop Company and yeast from Inland Island Yeast Company. Ingredients are free of charge for breweries through the Colorado Strong Fund who will pay each supplier for their products.
Beer lovers can expect to find a variety of renditions of Colorado Strong IPA as breweries are able to adapt the recipe as they see fit. The following brewery locations will release Colorado Strong IPA starting in November. Check with your local brewery or the Colorado Brewers Guild for specific release dates. Here’s a list of the participating breweries so far (COS-area breweries in bold):
6 and 40 Brewery
Ball Brewing
Banded Oak Brewing
Barnett & Son Brewing Co.
Barquentine Brewing Company
Barrels & Bottles Brewery
Bent Barley Brewing Company
Berkeley Alley Beer Co.
Bierstadt Lagerhaus
Black Forest Brewing Company
Blue Spruce Brewing Company
Brix Brewery & Taphouse
Broken Compass Brewing
Camber Brewing Company
Carbondale Beer Works
CODA Brewing Co.
Copper Club Brewing Company
Counter Culture Brewery + Grille
Crow Hop Brewing
Dead Hippie Brewing
Dolores River Brewery
Epic Brewing Company
Florence Brewing Co
FlyteCo Brewing
Gilded Goat Brewing Company
Green Mountain Beer Company
Goldspot Brewing Company
Hideaway Park Brewery
Horse & Dragon Brewing Company
Jade Mountain Brewing Company
Joyride Brewing Company
Knuckle Puck Brewing
Left Hand Brewing
Living the Dream Brewing Company
Loveland Aleworks
LUKI Brewery
Mancos Brewing Company LLC
Mash Mechanix Brewing Co.
Mirror Image Brewing Company
Monumental Beer Works
Mountain Cowboy Brewing Company
Mountain Tap Brewery
Novel Strand Brewing Company
Odell Brewing Co.
Old 121 Brewhouse
Outworld Brewing
Over Yonder Brewing Company
Peaks N Pines Brewery
Peculier Ales
Purpose Brewing & Cellars
Rally King Brewing
Ramblebine Brewing
Red Swing Brewhouse
Renegade Brewing Co.
River North Brewery
Seedstock Brewing Company
Six Capital Brewing
Snowbank Brewing
Stoik Beer Company
Storm Peak Brewing
Timnath Beerwerks
Tres Litros Beer Co.
Two22 Brew
Vail Brewing Co.
Verboten Brewing & Barrel Project
Walter's Beer, LLC
Westfax Brewing Company
WildEdge Brewing Collective
More to come
About the Colorado Brewers Guild
The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a nonprofit trade association with the mission to promote, protect, and propel independent craft breweries in the State of Craft Beer through advocacy, community, education, and public awareness. The majority of the state’s 400+ licensed craft breweries are members. To learn more please visit www.coloradobeer.org.
About the Left Hand Brewing Foundation
Founded in 2016 to support Left Hand Brewing Company’s charitable giving, the Left Hand Brewing Foundation (LHBF) is a 501c3 committed to brewing a stronger community where we work, live, and play. The LHBF supports primary needs, community support groups, arts and cultural activities, housing projects, medical research and responds to issues and emergencies in the Longmont community and beyond. All event proceeds, sponsorship revenue, and donations from Left Hand Brewing Foundation events benefit the LHBF and its beneficiaries. To learn more, please visit www.lhbfoundation.org.
