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.