Wynkoop Brewing Company

March 26 we begin serving Malt Madness, a special brown ale brewed in honor of the 2012 NCAA Women’s Final Four taking place here in Denver, April 1-3. This one-time-only beer also celebrates Wynkoop being chosen by the NCAA to serve as a home-away-from-home base for the team (and its fans) that wins the Raleigh, North Carolina regional of the 2012 women’s basketball tournament. Malt Madness features a full-court press of caramel, toasted and roasted malt flavors in a fast-breaking, thirst-quenching brown beer. It's 4.8% ABV.

March 30, 2012 at 5 PM, we are hosting a party for the release of our latest fundraising beer, Cottonwood Organic White. Please join us for the event. An unfiltered, American-style wheat beer, Cottonwood Organic White is made with organic malts and wheat, kaffir lime leaf and organic agave nectar. The custom-made beer is fermented with an American strain of wheat beer yeast and is 4.6% ABV. Designed for springtime quaffing, Cottonwood Organic White is a refreshing yet complex beer with a creamy body, bready malt and wheat flavors, restrained hops and vibrant citrus notes. “This beer needs no lime…

J. Wilson, a Prescott, Iowa writer, homebrewer, beer judge and beer blogger, is Wynkoop Brewing Company’s 2012 Beerdrinker of the Year. Wilson won the title at our 16th annual Beerdrinker of the Year National Finals, Saturday, February 25, right here at Wynkoop Brewing Company. A raucous crowd was on hand to witness the event and see Wilson get the honor. Wilson’s astute beer knowledge, beer ambassadorship (from a town of just 283 people) and a 2011 beer & water fast helped him win the big nod from our judges. “He’s a person who really understands and promotes beer,” said Andy…

Our recent Collective Hoppiness beer project involved a custom-made beer brewed especially for -- and with the help of -- local members of the American Homebrewers Association. Our brewers created a special recipe and brewing process that we think set a record for the most people involved in brewing a batch of beer. About 220 local AHA members pitched hops into the brew kettle. That’s communal brewing! The beer was a big hit, a hybrid creation somewhere between a black IPA and an imperial red. All elevated to special heights by an addition of rye and a 70-minute addition of…