So I spotted this over at Starting a Brewery blog. It's a Washington Post Beer Madness tournament. A handful of Colorado Beers were competing, but all of them got knocked out in the first round. Too bad.

Although I wonder how they came up with the pairings in the first round. In many cases the styles don't even match up. I mean poor Blue Moon was competing against Sierra Nevada Pale Ale... It didn't have a chance.  

Here's a roundup of a few articles on local breweries from the past week:

From YourHub,an article about Rock Bottom's Fire Chief Ale tapping a success.

From The Rocky Mountain News, an article on Great Divide's expansion.

Penny Parker writes about celebrating New Beer's Eve in the Rocky, so if you're not planning on going to the Guinness event, you can check out one of these options: 

Denver's Flying Dog Brewery, 24th and Blake streets, will conduct tours at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. April 6 and at midnight on April 7. (Reservations: [email protected]). The Blake Street Tavern next door will offer Flying Dog's Litter of Ales for $2.

Guinness is hosting one its Beliver Events during the first week of April.

I signed up for April 6, which aso happens to be New Beer's Eve.

What better way to celebrate the end of prohibition in America by drinking free Irish Stout!

Here's the link . The password is BEERS.

Man, it sure feels like Spring. It stays light longer (thanks Congress!), all the snow is gone from my yard in Denver, and today it's going to be 74 degrees today!

After this winter, I'm looking forwad to sitting on the porch drinking a beer and soaking up the sun. Granted I'm sure we've got a couple snowstorms to come, but I'll take the warmth while I can.

Speaking of Spring, check this out. Flying Dog's Heller Hound spring season will be available from April through May.

The next time you head over to a friend's house to watch LOST, or the next time you head to your fridge to grab a beer to watch LOST, don't forget the Darhma Initiative Beer.

The guys at Insanely Great Tees designed a printable PDF beer label that you can tape on your bottles. I think this will look great on my next batch of homebrew.

In this month's Sunset magazine, there is an article about New Belgium with a bunch of recipes that use New Belgium (well, really any) beer.

Here are the recipes:

Lime-chile beer

Beer-battered cod and onion rings

So ColoradoBeerBlogs.com or ColoradoBeerNews.com (we have a bit of an identity problem) turned 1-year-old today.

Pretty exciting, huh? We celebraed by adding some new navigation links to the upper right column of the page. Apparently people using Internet Explorer 7 were having trouble seeing the dropdown links - oops.

Anyway, I'm going to go drink a Hercules Double IPA to celebrate.

Great Divide opened its new Tap room today (March 5). All this week (March 5-10) beers will be half off and some lucky soul will win free beer for a year!

I stumbled upon this article in the Colorado Springs Gazette. It's about Pueblo's year-and-a-half-old Shamrock Brewing Company and its brewer Alan Stiles:

Stiles said he was warned by many people that a blue-collar, Budweiser-drinking town like Pueblo wasn’t ready for Belgian ales and Irish porters. But he not only pitched these beers to his patrons, he’s upped the ante with a Belgian trippel and a barleywine — and he’s found that people who used to ask for the bland and canned are now widening their beer horizons.