This article from the North Denver News says that Colorado is the 2nd largest beer producing state in America. I updated the Colorado Beer wikipedia page with that little tidbit:

Colorado Beer Country Regains Status as Second Largest Brewer in USA

Four breweries from Colorado are sending their beer Down Under to compete in the 2007 Australian International Beer Awards:

• Flying Dog Brewery, Denver
• Great Divide Brewing, Denver
• Left Hand Brewing, Longmont
• Odell Brewing, Fort Collins

According to the site, the AIBA is the second largest beer competition of it's type in the world. Judging takes place in March in Melbourne with winners announced April 19.

You know, I get the Rocky Mountain News (I can't stand the broadsheet format of the Post) so I miss out on Mr. Beer Dick Kreck's Beer of the week columns. But thankfully the wonders of the web let me go and read a whole bunch overy once in a while. 

This week he writes about Odells Imperial Stout and last week he wrote about Flying Dog K-9 Cruiser. Check it out at www.denverpost.com/mrbeer 

So ever since I read JB's account of the North Star Brew Pub on this site, I've been meaning to get over there and try it out.
So I got the chance last night with a couple of friends. The pub's (at 3200 Tejon) in a funky neighborhood just west of downtown. My buddy who grew up in North Denver said it used to be the kind of place where you didn't want to hang out, but now the neighborhood is filling in with yuppies - The big lofts next to the pub seem to validate that claim.