Beer For Breakfast: Breckenridge Agave Wheat

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If Colorado’s snow would ever let up, we’d all be able to appreciate the thirst-quenching refreshment of a breakfast cocktail made with the state’s finest craft beer. It is May, though, so here’s a morning spritzer that will give your day a boost, and perhaps make it seem warmer than it really is.

Today’s Beer for Breakfast is the Breckenridge Agave Wheat, which Denver’s The Ale House at Amato’s replaces with champagne in their “beermosas”.

The Food: beermosa ~ 1 part orange juice, 1 part agave wheat beer

The Beer:  Breckenridge Brewery Agave Wheat

This American unfiltered wheat ale is infused with naturally sweet agave, making for the perfect sweet, but not too sweet, breakfast concoction. This light-bodied 4.2% ABV beer is the perfect compliment to tangy OJ. Serve it up at home, or hit the Ale House for their weekend BEER-unch. Salut!

Colorado Craft Beer Week on the horizon

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Join our CBG member breweries from March 18th to 24th as they celebrate the state’s craft beer at venues all around Colorado! For the first time, the Colorado Brewers Guild is facilitating this state-wide fest that will include beer dinners, special tappings, theme parties, tastings, tours and educational events.

Kick off the week at Falling Rock Tap House in Denver, where they just might set the record for the most Colorado beer on tap in one place, or hit the Odell beer, cheese, chocolate and meat pairing at Fort Collins’ Welsh Rabbit Cheese Shop. Continue the week at New Belgium, and wear your SOCIAL t-shirt for a free pint!

There are a whole slew of beer dinners during this week that you won’t want to miss, either. Jay’s Bistro in Fort Collins will host a beer vs. wine dinner, 5 Colorado breweries will collaborate for a feast at the Pourhouse in Longmont, Denver’s Freshcraft will serve a dinner that features a different Colorado beer at every course, and Great Divide and Prost are combining for a meal at The Coral Room… just to name a few.

Left Hand will put on Hops & Handrails Beer Fest & Rail Jam on March 23rd in Longmont. This new winter event will feature 23 of Colorado’s finest craft breweries alongside a 25-foot high ski ramp at the brewery.

Oh, and then there are the parties! Star Bar will host two —one for the classic breweries of Colorado and one for the newbies — and Breckenridge Colorado Craft is putting on That’s Firkin Awesome. Nuff said.

That’s just a sampling of some of the spectacular events we’ve got in store for you during Colorado Craft Beer Week! Visit cobeerweek.com for the complete lineup, and follow us on Twitter @COCraftBeerWeek for updates. Get ready to celebrate The State of Craft Beer!

 

Beer For Breakfast: Ska Hibernal Vinifera Stout

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Stout Month continues! Today we bring you a beer for breakfast that is so bold and so delicious that it can pretty much suffice as breakfast in itself. We’ll justify having just beer for breakfast because this one has juice in it.

The Beer: Ska Brewing Hibernal Vinifera Stout

This beer is the winter member of Ska’s seasonal stout series. Aged in oak barrels with the juice of Malbec grapes, it’s a strong wine-forward beer that weighs in at 8 percent ABV. Sweet grape and dark roasty aromas meet a slightly bitter, cocoa-infused flavor that is surprisingly easy to drink. Finishing your first Hibernal Vinifera might just call for another.