Colorado Brewer's Guild Tasting Session Styles
The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is excited to partner with the Colorado Brewers Guild for another year! The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a nonprofit trade association with the mission to promote, protect, and propel independent craft breweries in the State of Craft Beer (Colorado) through advocacy, community, education, and public awareness. The majority of the state’s 400+ licensed breweries are members.
New for this year, the Colorado Brews Guild will join attending breweries to showcase fresh hop beers with local hops from Montrose based Billy Goat Hop Farm, Oktoberfest style beers and more during the Brewer Showcase Tasting Sessions. Stop by the Colorado Brewers Guild Tent to meet folks from the guild and to try some craft beers that represent some of the state’s best breweries not in attendance at the event.
Friday Tasting Sessions 1 & 2
Fresh Side Story | Base Camp Brewing & Ramblebine Brewing - A fresh take on a classic Cold IPA style. Utilizing Billy Goat Hops Farm Cascade & Chinook Hops, fermented on a lager yeast, and cold dry hopped.
Fresh Hop IPA | 6 and 40 Brewery - 10lbs of wet hops Chinook and Multihead hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm went into creating this Fresh Hop IPA.
Oktoberfest | WestFax Brewing Co - Rich in malt with a balance of clean, hop bitterness, this collaboration was brewed by the entire WestFax staff.
Oktoberfest | Odyssey Beerwerks - Märzen, a traditional German-style amber lager with slight toasted malt sweetness and a dry, crisp finish.
Saturday Tasting Session 1 & Sunday Tasting Session 1
Heather’s Ale | Strange Craft Beer Company - This Fresh Hop American IPA 75# of fresh Cascade hops from Billy Goat Farms are used in this fresh-hopped version IPAphany. Celebrating and named after our friend Heather Clarke who passed Sept 2014 from breast cancer.
Oktoberfest | Crystal Springs Brewing Company - This German-Style beer is balanced and well-attenuated. It is slightly bitter yet still malty, clean, smooth, and very drinkable.
Union Maid Oktoberfest | OCC Brewing - Classic Oktoberfest Märzen with bready malt notes, finishing dry with a hint of melanoidins.
Saturday Tasting Session 2
Méthode Traditionnelle Spontaneous Beer | Primitive Beer - Multihead is an indigenous variety of hops to New Mexico and Colorado. We're cold steeping these hops from Billy Goat Farms in 2-year mature spontaneous beer (also all ingredients grown in Colorado).
Brewers Showcase
The Colorado Brews Guild will join attending breweries to showcase fresh hop beers with hops from Billy Goat Hop Farm, Oktoberfest style beers and more during the Brewer Showcase Tasting Sessions.
Remaining true to the festival’s roots, the Brewers Showcase experience provides attendees with opportunities to interact directly with breweries and sample rare, new and classic beer offerings while supporting local, regional and national craftsmanship in the craft beer industry.
The Brewers Showcase is a multi-faceted experience with events spanning the entire festival weekend. The Showcase will host five intimate tasting sessions with 23 breweries pouring unlimited samples for attendees and a special tasting tent by the Colorado Brewers Guild serving the best in Colorado craft beer from select breweries that can’t attend the event. To top it all off, the Showcase will kick off with a multi-course beer pairing dinner that will strategically pair modern mountain dishes with special craft beer.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company will return as the long-standing craft beer partner to the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Throughout the event, Sierra Nevada will pour many of their classic styles along with six rare, specialty beers and a unique "festival-only" flavor.
Colorado Brewers Guild
The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a nonprofit trade association with the mission to promote, protect, and propel independent craft breweries in the State of Craft Beer through advocacy, community, education, and public awareness. The majority of the state’s 400+ licensed breweries are members.
Billy Goat Hop Farm
The 2023 Cascade Cup winning, Billy Goat Hop Farm is the largest hop farm in the Southwest, providing superior quality fresh, whole cone, and pelletized hops directly to craft brewers. Starting in 2017, they've grown to 32 acres that produce 9 varieties of amazing hops. Owners and farmers Chris and Audrey pride themselves on creating genuine farmer-brewer relations and bringing true craft into their process. Combining traditional hands-on practices and state-of-the-art technology, they use less water and chemicals which transcends into a healthier ecosystem, soil, and hop plants. Brewers enjoy the bright aroma and subtly unique flavor profile imparted from Colorado's terroir, and the passion poured into every step of the process. Know your farmer, Love your beer.