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TGIF and Super Bowl weekend! Unfortunately the snow fell on the Front Range last night, and unless you have a sister to stay with in Nederland you aren’t ripping Eldora’s two feet of powder. Come prove to Uller that our spirits are high, and we can handle “packed powder conditions.” FREE LIVE MUSIC at the brewery this weekend: Lightning and Thunder kick it off tonight around 8pm following their gnar xgames set from last weekend. Brad Manosevitz takes the stage Saturday night at 8pm!
Super Bowl Sunday with $4 Pints, $15 Pitchers and 5 Styles of Wings in addition to their full menu. The chili dog is our staff favorite. Come buy a $20 square before we sell out.
Andrew McConathy Sunday at The Brewery - Starting at 3:30
and great food from Over Easy! Music starts at 3:30.
The Great American Ale Trail
The Great American Ale Trail, by Christian DeBenedetti, is an amazing resource for beer drinkers everywhere. Wherever you live or travel in the US, including Alaska and Hawaii, this book should be your guide to the best beers around. Whether its a brewery, brew pub, or great bar featuring craft beer, you will have “a roadmap for taste-bud adventure.” Come check out the book at the ABC before you realize you cannot live without your own!
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Aspen's five favorite beers!
“Mortimer, we’re back in business!” It’s Gay Ski Week in Aspen, the 35th anniversary at that, and after a long and torturous move to our new brewery, we have the full line up of our beers back on tap. Come and taste the Aspen Brewing Company rainbow! This Season’s Blonde, Independence Pass Ale, Conundrum Red, Brown Bear Ale and Pyramid Peak Porter are all fresh off the new brew system and tasting better than ever!
"Mortimer, we're back in business!"
LSU vs. Alabama for the 2012 National Championship
Come by the Aspen Brewing Company Tap Room tonight to watch LSU and Alabama battle for the BCS National Title. Kickoff is at 6:30 PM. Enjoy Aspen’s finest brews at $4/Pint and Over Easy’s delicious Burgers, Wings and Prime Rib Sandwich. Football Special All Night Long: $5 Quarter Pound Chili Dog!
We need a serious snow dance this weekend! With forecasts calling for an inch or two on Saturday, come tobathe brewery Friday night as Lightning and Thunder take the stage at 8pm. Saturday night Brad Manosevitz is back to rock and roll until we see six inches fall from the sky. A full moon is coming soon, get wild and do your best snow dance!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…Paris Hilton, Maria Carey, Heidi and Seal are all in town, the streets are lined with fur coats, and your entire family is in town!
Come by the Brewery at 304 E. Hopkins and sip some tasty brews to the tune of our favorite local musicians: Friday Night 12/23 Hurricane and Thunder take the stage at 8PM. Saturday 12/24 Brad Manosevitz will be playing the apres scene from 4-6PM.
NEW YEAR”S EVE CELEBRATION – Like no other… Live Music with Lighting & Thunder Friday Night starting at 8PM. Mark Nussmeier of Hurricane Carter On NEW YEAR’S EVE, $5 Cover – No Reservations (Capacity is 60 people). Also, our first New Year’s Specialty Brew out of the ABC Brewery is a hard cider fermented with Champagne yeast! Conundrum Red will also be back!
Is Christmas really next weekend? We’re celebrating! Come by the brewery Thursday night with an ornament for our Christmas tree and get a $2 pint…Banjeaux Bob is behind the bar. Friday night Lightning and Thunder take the stage to show off their forever expanding repertoire of classics, new and old. What’s better than their version of psycho-killer, really? Saturday is business as usual at the tap room…Food is now available through Aspen’s Over Easy Cafe; open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a great and affordable menu. Menus and service are available in our tasting room, sorry we’re not serving breakfast beers just yet. I’m calling for the Patriots to take the Bronco’s down to Chinatown on Sunday, sorry J.C. aka Tebow. Come by for football Sunday and try Over Easy’s basket of wings, Burgers, Smoked Rib-eye Sandwich (our favorite) and much more!
Saturday afternoon we will do our first tour of the new brewery at the ABC! Come by 404 AABC from 4-7PM to check it out! The building is in the back of the ABC by Louis Swiss Pastry, Cracks & Racks and King Yoga. Post a comment or “like” to let us know you’re coming! (please take the bus, carpool, or ride your bike if you can, parking is limited)
Wow, we have a lot to be thankful for… A couple days ago there was a nice English couple in the tasting room and after offering them a pint, Danny discovered that they had found us through their Lonely Planet guide book! We had no idea that Lonely Planet even had a page for Aspen, let alone a spot with our name on it (not to mention the “Top Choice” icon next to our name)! Also mentioned was the Woody Creek Tavern, Victoria’s, Eric’s, and J-Bar. Thank you English couple and thank you Lonely Planet!
Then, a friend tells me that she saw us in American Airlines’ magazine Celebrated Living. Really? It is a feature about ski destinations and the apres scenes. We not only got mentioned next to the Little Nell and SKY, but the Aspen photo was of our beer! Check it out here: http://www.celebratedliving.com/aspen-garibaldi-lift-company-bar-nell-hotel Sick!
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Brewhouse anxiously awaiting to make some beer!
Finally, after months of delays with our equipment, the new brewery at the Aspen Airport Business Center is complete. We are anxiously awaiting our final inspections and our first brew day-hopefully this week! To celebrate, we have 20% off our merchandise online if you “like” our store, and bigger discounts on select merchandise in the Tasting Room on Hopkins ave. Sales will go through the weekend after Thanksgiving. Come by and celebrate with us…the Tasting Room is always open (noon-late every day).
Our beer will resurface in Bars and Restaurants throughout Aspen, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass as well as the Roaring Fork Valley soon. Request it at your favorite valley bar! Check our website for an up to date list of establishments serving Aspen’s finest brew.
Well, it’s obvious we have a lot to celebrate here in Aspen. First, a special thanks to all of the men and women who have served in our armed forces. We raise a cold pint to honor you. Next, we’ll be skiing in Aspen/Snowmass in a week! And finally, Thanksgiving marks our one-year anniversary in the Tasting Room on Hopkins Ave.
So…we’re celebrating with LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHT – Lightning and Thunder with special guest Rain will be rocking the house from 8PM ’til Close Firday. Bar Band is playing Saturday Night 9PM ’til Close.
Also, our cold-weather MERCHANDISE is ON SALE…Thermal Long-sleeve’s are $25, Grey Hoodies $30, Sweatpants $20, Long-sleeve T’s $22 and Orange Hunting Hats $15. Come and get your ABC gear now or buy online from our website before it’s too late.
**Name the trail this photo was taken on and Win a brewery hat! (post answers as a response or on our facebook page)
If you’re worried about the forecast in Aspen this weekend, or need a little time beyond the roundabout, head out to Moab, UT and come support Aspen Brewing Company’s bike team at 24 Hours of Moab! Tiziano (of L’Hostaria) Ian, Tom and Sean (not pictured) are riding fast and hoping to climb their way to the podium this year! Our friends John & Pete Gaston of Strafe Outerwear will be there throwing it down in the pro division as well!
Head 12 miles south of Moab on highway 191 to the Start/Finish and Camping area and look for the brewery tent…we’ll be there supporting our riders, with beers of course! See you there.
So here’s an email we received from Captain Mark Stetzko of the 774 EOD Company in Iraq. By the way, EOD stands for “Explosive Ordnance Disposal” so these guys really aren’t scared of anything (except being beer-less in a hot desert):
Dear Aspen Brewing,
I am sitting here in dusty Iraq on a very long deployment, unable to enjoy
one thing that most people take for granted, beer. As painful as that
sounds, I have been trying to figure out how to enjoy beer without actually
drinking one, and have come up with the idea of trying to get some beer
gear- shirts, posters, etc that I can get for the unit so our bbq’s and
parties are more exciting. I think it would be great if you were able to
donate some beer gear to us, and I really appreciate all of your support!
Well we couldn’t let our soldiers down so we mailed out some hats and t-shirts and Mark snapped off this photo which shows photographic evidence of Aspen Brewing Co. gear in Iraq!
Aspen Brewing,
Received the beer gear today and it was awesome! I handed it out to one of our EOD companies (774 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company) and they thought it was great, and they really appreciate the support! Thanks again for the donation, and its great having the support from you guys!
CPT Mark Stetzko
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WE APPRECIATE IT CPT STETZKO AND GET BACK SAFE!
Thanks to a local good samaritan, we have our first Aspen Brewery sign back. Joe will be touching up a few scuffs and then it will be hung INSIDE the tasting room. Read all about it HERE.
We want to know what you, our loyal beer drinkers, want as your next spring seasonal. Last year was our Blonde Ale which began as the ‘Spring Blonde’ then turned into ‘Summer Blonde’ and now is year round and referred to as ‘This Season’s Blonde’. Leave a comment below and we’ll take it into consideration (we won’t be adding fruit to any beer we make however. sorry).
