Colorado

Constellation Brands and Coors Distributing Company (CDC) must head to arbitration, according to a judge’s ruling issued this week. District Court Judge Adam J. Espinosa granted a preliminary injunction, as requested by Molson Coors-owned CDC, and ordered that Constellation Brand’s announced exit from CDC’s portfolio cannot proceed until arbitration between the two companies takes place.

In a brunch conversation that meandered from Groundhog Day to Greek mythology, Boston Beer Company leaders and Brewers Association (BA) president and CEO Bart Watson mused on craft beer’s current slump and how it can be busted.

Sierra Nevada has joined a growing list of suppliers exiting Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company’s (CDC) portfolio in Colorado.

As it foreshadowed last week, Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company (CDC) has filed a pair of lawsuits to halt terminations from two of its largest suppliers.

The exits of Mark Anthony Brands and Constellation Brands from Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company (CDC) may not be frictionless.

White Claw will soon have a new home in the Denver area. Its parent company Mark Anthony Brands announced an impending transition to the Reyes Beverage Group’s subsidiary RBG Spirits and Wine of Colorado. The move marks the termination of Mark Anthony’s relationship with Molson Coors-owned Coors Distributing Company (CDC).

Constellation Brands’ portfolio of popular Mexican imports will soon have different representation in the Denver area. The bev-alc giant informed Denver, Colorado-based Coors Distributing Company (CDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Molson Coors, that it would be terminating their relationship in the next 30 days.

The Colorado Beverage Coalition – which represents the state’s breweries, wineries, cideries, distilleries and related partners – has come out against a bill that would raise fees on beverage-alcohol by 60%.

Boulder, Colorado-based Upslope Brewing is the latest brand to join fast-growing brewery platform Wilding Brands, the companies announced today.

Lauren Woods Limbach joined New Belgium in 196 and the rest is “an incredible fairy tale, wild ride, with some of the hardest work and the best people on Earth,” she said in an Instagram video last week announcing her upcoming retirement.

As thousands of beers – and eventually, people to drink them – make their way to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), it feels apt to check in with the craft scene on the ground. In a year where once-thriving brewpub chains and decades-old craft stalwarts have or are preparing to go under, what’s the state of things in one of craft’s most important cities on the eve of one of its most important weeks?

Wilding Brands, the Colorado-based craft beverage and hospitality platform, has expanded again with the acquisition of Denver’s Station 26 Brewery, the companies announced last week. Station 26 founder Justin Baccary will remain in his role leading the brewery as it joins the collective.

Nearly two months after the sale of its distribution business and future taproom rights, Great Divide Brewing is shuttering its Denver locations.

Westbound & Down Brewing Company is aiming to quadruple its production and achieve $3 million in profits by 2028. The Colorado craft brewery, with five taprooms across the state (Denver, Idaho Springs, Lafayette, Basalt and Aspen), is in the midst of a $1.2 million crowdfunding (CF) raise.