Aspen.com: Aspen Brewery
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by admin in Showcase
February 2009 – Aspen.com: Aspen Brewery Overview
Back in September 2008, the state of Colorado achieved a rather remarkable milestone. The Centennial State overtook colossal California as the biggest beer-producing state in the United States. According to the independent National Beer Institute in Washington D.C., the state of Colorado brews 23.3 million barrels of sudsy goodness last year compared with 22.8 million barrels brewed and produced in California. The State of Colorado also claims the largest concentration of microbreweries in the country, much to the delight of beer enthusiasts statewide.
The Aspen area has its own proud heritage with independent breweries in making this hoppy mile marker. Long time Woody Creek resident, cattle rancher, printer, heroic eccentric, and philanthropist George Stranahan with Richard McIntyre started the nationally distributed Flying Dog Ales with a brewpub in downtown Aspen in 1990.
