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With over 8,000 breweries across the nation, a recent report from Thrillist set out to find some of the hottest breweries currently pouring.
Out of the 34 listed in their Hottest Breweries in America Right Now list, two of those locations are here in Colorado.
The first to be mentioned on the list is Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver. Here's what the writers at Thrillist have to say about the brewhouse:
"Have you ever found yourself just dying for that first sip of beer after a long day only to find the line to the bar to be agonizingly slow? What if once you finally bellied up to order, the beer took a painfully long six minutes just to pour? At Bierstadt Lagerhaus that’s a feature, not a bug. Served in the traditional Czech slow pour style out of side pull faucets and brewed on an all copper 1932 German-made brewhaus, these beers are worth the wait. Brewmaster Ashleigh Carter knows that truly great lagers require patience, lager means to cellar, and though these beers are deceptively simple the process is decidedly not. But good things come to those who wait, and by the time that glass of Slow Pour Pils, Helles, or Dunkel hits your lips it will be better than you ever imagined."
The next Colorado spot is Weldwerks Brewery in Greeley.
"Weldwerks makes one of the most popular new-wave New England-style hazy IPAs called Juicy Bits, which has beer fans lining up. But even that might have been surpassed in beer-geek buzz by the GABF gold-medal winning Medianoche barrel-aged Imperial Stout. These days it’s all about the DDH single-hop variations of Juicy Bits. No, DDH is not a hot new street drug, it’s the abbreviation for double dry-hopped beer. This addictive technique involves teabagging a fermented beer with bags of whole hops not once, but twice. Untappd beer nerds are tripping on this addictive technique for getting the dankest buzz out of hops."
To see Thrillist's list of all 34 breweries, click here.