Wynkoop Brewing Company

This Saturday, Dec. 10 at 11 AM we tap the first kegs of a brand new Wynkoop Brewing Company beer, Collective Hoppiness. It's a unique continuously hopped beer we brewed during the American Homebrewers Association membership rally we hosted on November 12.

The beer’s hop additions were carried out over a 90-minute period by local members of the mighty American Homebrewers Association.

210 AHA members participated in the hopping of the beer. That’s a load of hoppy people, must be a record of some sort.

On December 3 from 1-4:30 PM we're presenting our third annual Parade of Darks. This beer-powered holiday fundraiser will present over 50 of the best beers from Colorado, the US and Belgium in the amber to opaque categories.

The beer list includes holiday seasonal beers, amber ales, porters, stouts, barley wines, Belgian beers, sour beers and more from the nation's best and biggest-hearted breweries. These breweries are donating their beer to the event.

100% of all ticket sales for the Parade of Darks go to Metro CareRing, a downtown Denver food pantry that is experiencing record demand for its services in 2011.

Tickets are $25 in advance and can be purchased at ticketalternative.com. Tickets are $30 the day of the event. Admission will be limited to 300 attendees. We will also present a silent auction for Metro CareRing on the day of the event. UPDATED: brewery & beer list.

Are you America’s biggest beer nut? Wynkoop Brewing Company is now seeking beer resumes from the nation’s most beer-minded men and women for our 2012 Beerdrinker of the Year contest.

The 16^th annual contest seeks and honors America’s most passionate, knowledgeable beer lovers and beer ambassadors.

Win the Beerdrinker of the Year crown and you get free beer for life at Wynkoop Brewing Company and a $250 beer tab at your favorite local brewpub or beer bar.

We're now serving our latest custom, ultra-small-batch beer, Brown Palace Rooftop Honey Saison. The beer features loads of local terroir and terroof: it's made with 75 pounds of honey from the three beehives atop the iconic Brown Palace Hotel here in Denver.

This very rare honey features a unique mint note due to the bees foraging on the linden trees that line the streets of downtown Denver. In addition to this honey, the beer was built with pale malts, wheat, and European hops. It was fermented with a blend of four strains of saison yeast.

Rooftop Honey Saison features aromas and flavors of sliced pears, pale malt and white pepper, with a creamy body, herbal notes and a dry finish. It's 6.7% ABV. We made just 10 barrels (20 kegs) of this beer and it's available on draft in Denver only at the Brown Palace's Ship Tavern bar and Wynkoop Brewing Company.