11/28/11

Herman Joseph's Available in Liquor Stores in Colorado Just for the Holidays

By request, Herman Joseph's is once more available in 6-packs in Colorado liquors stores just for the holidays. This hard-to-find but worth it German-style lager is a great beer to share with friends and serve at holiday parties. Happy holidays from AC Golden Brewing Company! 

11/1/11

Forget Virtual Beers, Send Your Friends Real Colorado Native Lager

For a Buck with Your Smart Phone

Ever had a friend send you a ‘virtual’ beer? What’s the use except to make you thirsty and slightly resentful? Well Colorado Native lager and Bartab have teamed up to give consumers a way to send friends coupons for real beers that they can redeem at their favorite local bar with their smart phone.

“Colorado Native looks for innovative ways to build real relationships with our drinkers,” said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company, brewers of Colorado Native. “We go to where they are – on their phones – and offer them via social media things they are truly interested in. Colorado Native is the first brand ever to collaborate with Bartab to provide consumers with this innovative way to celebrate and share with friends.” 

Bartab is a mobile application that offers legal drinking age consumers a way to send and receive electronic coupons redeemable for real $1 drinks at local bars and restaurants with their mobile phone. Until its partnership with Colorado Native, Bartab worked solely with retail establishments for the service.

Here’s how it works: beginning November 1, click on a Colorado Native QR code with your smart phone or download a SnapTag app and click on the SnapTag on the Colorado Native package or visit www.coloradonative.bartab.com  to receive up to five $1.00 Colorado Native coupons to send to friends. Pick the friend(s) and whatever watering hole you want to send them to from a list of participating bars. The friend receives the coupon via smart phone, shows it to the bartender and pays only one dollar to receive a Colorado Native. If the beer is sent or redeemed via Facebook, a post is instantly generated on the user’s wall. The beer can only be sent to those of legal drinking age and wall posts only appear on the pages of friends who are 21+.

“This program goes beyond virtual advertising efforts, such as social media, by providing real product fulfillment to customers in real time. Now you can literally send your friend a Colorado Native to drink at the bar for a dollar – talk about a friend referral!” said Steve Johnson, CEO of Webtab Inc.

“As a small brewer that depends on word-of-mouth to sell its beers, we can’t do much better than having our customers recommend and offer our beer for their friends to enjoy,” said Knippenberg. “Now people can buy their friends in Colorado a beer from anywhere in the world.

Other innovative moves by Colorado Native include being the first consumer package goods product ever to place a SnapTag on its packaging – a move many brands are now replicating. The beer also conducted a one-of-a-kind hop grower project that resulted in 500 Colorado Native drinkers volunteering to grow hops for the beer.

10/2/11

Colorado Native Wins Silver at Great American Beer Festival

Colorado Native lager won a silver medal at this year's Great American Beer Festival. It competed with 57 other beers in the American-style Amber Lager category. The brewery was also awarded a bronze medal for its Schwarzbier, which competed in the American-style Dark Lager category. Congratulations to our brewers!

9/12/11

Colorado Native Wins Gold in Crested Butte

Colorado Native lager was awarded Best Lager at last weekend's Crested Butte Chili Cook Off and Beer Festival. 

8/31/11

AC Golden Wins Six Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition 

AC Golden Brewing Company won six medals at last weekend’s Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition. The brewery’s Baltic Porter  was awarded a gold medal in the porter category and its Chard Sour and Merlot Sour won gold and silver respectively in the sour ale category. The company took home a silver for its German-style Pilsner and two bronze medals for its Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and India Pale Lager. AC Golden’s president and co-founder Glenn Knippenberg, gives full credit to the company’s brewers – Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow – who have decades of brewing  experience among them.

Colorado Native, AC Golden’s amber lager brewed with Colorado ingredients, also won kudos last weekend. It was voted People’s Choice for the second year in a row at the San Juan Brew Fest in Durango, Colo.

8/17/11

Colorado Native Hosts Bear Creek Lake Park Clean-up this Weekend 

Colorado Native’s Friends of the Frontier and Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado (VOC) are partnering to help remove the invasive plant species that threaten Bear Creek Lake Park. The clean-up will take place Saturday, August 20, 8-11 a.m., at Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch. To register for the clean-up go to www.voc.org.

AC Golden Brewing Company, the brewer of Colorado Native, is very committed to helping protect and restore the beauty of Colorado and enable Coloradans to more fully enjoy the state. In June, the brewer gave away $15,000 in grant money to three Colorado charities for preservation and restoration projects around the state. In July, AC Golden offered a ‘Be a Brewer for a Day’ for live auction to The Anchor Center for Blind Children, raising $10,000 for the charity.

VOC provides hands-on volunteer opportunities for Coloradans to help protect, enhance, restore and preserve our state’s natural resources.

8/15/11

AC Golden Wins Gold

AC Golden Brewing Company was awarded two gold medals for its brews at this past weekend's Colorado Springs Lager Fest. The first was for Colorado Native, an amber lager. The second was for the brewery's German Pilsner. Congratulations to our brewers!

7/29/11

Governor Hickenlooper, Pete Coors and AC Golden Brewing Co.'s Glenn Knippenberg to Lead Statewide Toast to Celebrate Colorado's 135th Birthday

Colorado Native lager is celebrating Colorado's 135th birthday Monday, August 1, with a statewide toast led by Governor Hickenlooper and Pete Coors at the Rockies/Phillies game at Coors Field. The toast will be broadcast during the 7th inning stretch on Root Sports, which carries the game. The toast also acknowledges August as Colorado Proud month, celebrating Colorado's great agricultural business and tradition.

"Colorado Native is made with Colorado ingredients and is a beer that truly demonstrates what the Colorado agricultural community is capable of producing," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company.  "We hope Coloradans all over the state will join us in this toast celebrating our beautiful home and all it has to offer." 

President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed Colorado as the 38th state of the union on August 1, 1876.

Colorado Native is the only lager in the world brewed with Rocky Mountain water, Colorado-grown barley from the San Luis valley, the oldest strain of brewer's yeast in Colorado and finished with hand-picked Colorado-grown hops.

6/24/11

AC Golden Brewing Awards Grant Money to Local Charities

AC Golden Brewing Company has awarded $15,000 to four local Colorado charities through its Colorado Native Community Reinvestment Project. Drinkers and fans of its Colorado Native amber lager nominated and voted for the charities. Their picks for who receives the money: Continental Divide Trail Alliance, $7,000; Ignite Adaptive Sports, $5,000; Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited, $3,000; and Colorado Trail Foundation, which received a supply of Colorado Native beer for its volunteers.

"These are all very deserving organizations," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing. "Our drinkers and fans did a great job in their nomination of these groups and in getting out the vote.

“In a time when charitable giving is less than previous years, we are happy to be in a position to help these organizations make up the shortfalls. We sell our beers in Colorado only and we feel strongly about giving back to our state to help make Colorado an even better place to live,” he said.

The brewery's reinvestment project is funded through a 25 cent donation for every case of Colorado Native sold. Colorado Native is the only lager brewed with Rocky Mountain water, Colorado-grown barley from the San Luis valley, the oldest strain of brewer’s yeast in Colorado and finished with hand-picked Colorado-grown hops.

6/21/11

AC Golden’s Specialty Beers, Not Usually Sold, Available June 24 at Star Bar

Beer drinkers will have a chance to taste AC Golden Brewing Company specialty beers that are not usually sold this Friday night (June 24). Starting at 5 p.m. the Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street in Denver, will feature three AC Golden specialty beers – American Wild Ale, Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and Belgian-style Saison. The brewery’s Colorado Native amber lager, recently awarded an A- by Beer Advocate, will also be available.

American Wild Ale is the brewery’s sour beer aged for over a year in a used French oak wine barrel. For the last three and ½ months of the barrel aging process, 85 pounds of fresh-pressed whole merlot grapes were added to the barrel providing an amazing dark amber color and producing a fruity but balanced sour beer. 7% ABV.

Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout is a massive stout aged for nine months in a Colorado whiskey barrel. 13% ABV, 80 IBUs.

AC Golden’s Belgian-style Saison is fermented with several traditional Belgian yeast strains and brewed with wheat and oats to give it an authentic farmhouse feel. Historically, saisons were brewed in the Wallonian region of Belgium to help sustain the farm workers during their laborious days in the field. AC Golden’s Belgian- style Saison aims to bring the drinker a taste of the old days with a flavorful, slightly tart finish that is sure to satisfy. 4.8% ABV 25 IBUs.

5/20/11

Colorado Native Taking Nominations for $15,000 Donation

Colorado Native Lager is giving away some money and the beer’s drinkers get to decide who receives the cash. AC Golden Brewing Company, brewer of Colorado Native, has been setting aside 25 cents from every case of beer sold to give to charity through its Colorado Native Reinvestment Project. Now it’s time to give up to $15,000 of that money away to a Colorado-based charity(ies).

2/1/11

Colorado Native Becomes Featured Member of Colorado Proud

Colorado Native has joined Colorado Proud, an organization sponsored by the Colorado Department of Agriculture, and will be the first beer ever to place the Colorado Proud logo on its packaging.  The logo may only be used to promoted food and agricultural products that are grown, raised or processed in Colorado.  Colorado Native is also featured on the Colorado Proud website, www.coloradoproud.org .

1/28/11

Colorado Native's SnapTags Named One of the Best Ideas of 2010 by New Denver Ad Club

The New Denver Ad Club named Colorado Native's SnapTags one of The Fifty for 2010 -- the best ideas of the year. Colorado Native lager, made from 99.89% Colorado ingredients, uses SnapTag technology to interact with its drinkers. The technology, developed by Denver company SpyderLink, allows consumers to photograph (snap) the Colorado Native logo with their cell phone and text it to the brand to begin a conversation.  "It allows us to interact with our drinkers, talking with them about things that are relevant to them, not just push ad messages at them," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company. Here's the link for more information about the award:   http://winners.denver50.com/SpyderLynk/Colorado-Native.html.  

11/15/10

 Winterfest is Back for the Holiday Season

Winterfest, one of the nation's longest-running seasonal beers, is back in Colorado just for the holiday sesason.  A Vienna-style lager, Winterfest is available in bars, restaurants and liquor stores around the state.

11/9/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available in Liquor Stores for the Holidays  

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, the tough-to-find but worth the search German-style lager, is available in six-packs at Colorado liquor stores for the holidays only. "Requests from consumers to purchase the beer for holiday parties and events prompted us to make HJ available in six-packs just for the holiday season," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden Brewing Company. "We've brewed a little extra so that beer drinkers can enjoy Herman Joseph's off premise with friends and family this season. Happy holidays!"     

10/18/10

Colorado Native Lager Wins Blue Ribbon   

Colorado Native competed with more than 100 other beers to win the Blue Ribbon for Best Beer with Green Chili at Golden's (Colo.) Annual Chili Cook-Off, held Oct. 9.  Thanks to the Golden Chamber of Commerce for another fun event.

10/14/10

AC Golden Unveils Fresh Hopped Colorado Native Lager 

AC Golden Brewing Company will unveil its Fresh Hopped Colorado Native Lager this Saturday, October 16, during the Fourth Annual Fresh Hop Celebration at the Falling Rock Tap House in Lodo (in Denver, Colo.).  AC Golden brewers traveled to Montrose (Colo.) to pick fresh hops from their Western Slope hop supplier, San Juan Hop Farm.  The beer will be served at other Denver-area bars as well.  For a list of bars serving Colorado Native Fresh Hopped Lager, please visit the Colorado Native Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=colorado+native+lager.

9/18/10

AC Golden Wins Three Medals at Great American Beer Festival 

AC Golden Brewing Company was awarded three medals today at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.  The brewery took home a gold medal for its European Style Dunkel, a silver for its German Style Pilsner and a bronze for its Schwarzbier.  Congratulations to AC Golden brewers Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow.

9/13/10

Colorado Native Lager Wins People's Choice Award 

Colorado Native Lager won the People's Choice Award at the 12th Annual San Juan Brewfest held in Durango, Colo., September 11.  The beer upset two-time defending champion Raspberry Wheat Ale from Carver Brewing Company.

9/8/10

First-Ever “Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting” Sept. 9: Colorado Native Lager is Featured
The first-ever Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting will take place at 7:30 PM Mountain Time on Thursday, September 9th. Beer drinkers across the state and the country are invited to purchase their favorite Colorado beers, open them in a resounding online chorus at exactly 7:30 PM, and write their thoughts via Facebook, Twitter, and the internet.
  The virtual tasting is organized by Zephyr Adventures, planner of the upcoming Beer Bloggers Conference scheduled for November 5-7 in Boulder. In a “virtual tasting”, there is no central meeting place. Instead, participants will purchase in advance whichever Colorado beers they would like to try, open them at the starting time, and record their thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, or on the Beer Bloggers Conference website. Details can be found on the Colorado tab of the website.

8/30/10

AC Golden Beers Win Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Awards

Congratulations to the AC Golden brewers who took home three medals at the Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Awards on Saturday, August 28. AC Golden German Pilsner was awarded a gold medal in the pilsner category.  AC Golden Wild #1 won a silver medal in the sour ale category and AC Golden Schwarzbier won bronze in the dark lager category.

7/26/10

New Virtual Tour of AC Golden Brewery Available

We can't offer public tours of the AC Golden Brewery because it's in the middle of a larger production facility.  But that doesn't mean people can't see where we brew.  We're now offering a visual virtual tour of the brewery.  Just click on the following link or copy it into your browser and see how we brew:  http://colorado360.net/acgolden/

6/14/10

Colorado Native Lager Gets Good Reviews in All About Beer Magazine

All About Beer magazine is a fan of Colorado Native.  Its reviews say the beer has 'high quaffability' and is a "straight-up beer, with a malt base that lets the citrusy hops remain poised in perfect balance making it nicely hoppy, yet smooth in flavor.  All in all, an eminently drinkable beer."

6/1/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve is Now Available in Liquor Stores in Six-packs Just in Time for Father's Day

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, usually only available at fine dining establishments and bars, is now available in liquor stores in six-packs, just for Father's Day.  So, get that great guy a great gift -- and one that goes with any great Father's Day meal.

4/7/10

Dick Kreck, the Denver Post's 'Mr. Beer',  has Good Things to Say About AC Golden Brewing Company's Colorado Native Lager

In Dick's 4/7/10 column in the Denver Post, he reviews Colorado Native, saying: "Even the label, featuring muted colors reminiscent of a 1930s poster for a Western dude ranch, is out of the ordinary. Colorado Native, a finely balanced brew with a touch of hops at the finish but not overpowering, is pleasing to the eye, the nose and the palate. Definitely worthy of more than one."

4/5/10

Go to www.coloradonativelager.com to Learn All About Our Newest Beer, Colorado Native  

4/5/10

AC Golden Introduces Colorado Native Lager -- Brewed Locally with Colorado Ingredients

Our newest beer arrives in Colorado this week -- Colorado Native, a full-bodied lager brewed in Colorado with virtually all Colorado ingredients, more than any other beer.

  Made with water from the Colorado mountains, barley grown in the San Luis Valley, yeast from Golden and some hops grown by friends and family, this is truly a beer native to Colorado.  Even its bottles are made in Colorado.

  We're proud to provide Coloradans a beer they can truly call their own," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden.  "Partnering with local farmers and manufacturers, and using local ingredients keeps our carbon footprint small and supports our fellow Coloradans.  So now, whether you were born here or came to Colorado because you love the lifestyle, Coloradans have a beer that celebrates our way of life."

  Colorado Native is a brilliant amber lager made with pale and caramel malts from Moravian two-row barley.  It is a very well-balanced beer that delivers a clean taste and dry finish that is good on its own or with a wide array of foods.

  Instead of using traditional advertising to get the word out about Colorado Native, AC Golden is using social media networks and mobile marketing, including Denver-based SpyderLynk's SnapTags. SnapTags is a state-of-the-art technology that allows the consumer to 'snap' a picture of the beer's logo with their cell phone and text it to Colorado Native to begin a real one-on-one dialogue with the beer.

2/11/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available by Special Order

Now you can special order Herman Joseph's Private Reserve by the case from your favorite Colorado liquor store.  If we've got it, we'll have it delivered to the store for you!

2/10/10

AC Golden Brewer Featured in Food Science Magazine

A study by AC Golden Brewer Troy Casey and others is featured in the February issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.  The study measures the levels of dietary silicon in beers.  Dietary silicon is a key ingredient for bone health. 

1/19/10

Denver Craft Beer Examiner Gives AC Golden and Herman Joseph's a Thumbs Up

Rick Blankemeier, the Denver Craft Beer Examiner (at www.examiner.com), has just published a three-part story on AC Golden Brewing Company along with a review of its flagship beer, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve.  Rick found the beer, "very balanced, very smooth with a clean finish."  He also had good things to say about HJ's color and aroma.

Winterfest News  12/09

People are buzzing about Winterfest!  In the December issue of Colorado Biz magazine, reporter Jay Dedrick states, "It makes sense that AC Golden, a craft-style enterprise, would recognize beer drinkers' thirst for rare beer in rarefied air."  Westword's Jonathan Shikes reviews Winterfest, concluding that it's, "actually quite good, with a ncie, crisp, body and pleasant sweetness."

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available

in Liquor Stores Just for the Holidays  12/09

For the first time this holiday season, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, a world-class German-style lager, will be available for take home through liquor stores in Colorado.

Until now, Herman Joseph's was only available in the finest bars and restaurants around Colorado. "Requests from consumers to purchase the beer for holiday parties and events prompted us to make HJ available in six-packs just for the holiday season," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden Brewing Company.  

Colorado Native Hosts Clean-up at Bear Creek Lake Park August 20

Colorado Native’s Friends of the Frontier and Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado (VOC) are partnering to help remove the invasive plant species that threaten Bear Creek Lake Park. The clean-up will take place Saturday, August 20, 8-11 a.m., at Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch. To register for the clean-up go to www.voc.org.

AC Golden Brewing Company, the brewer of Colorado Native, is very committed to helping protect and restore the beauty of Colorado and enable Coloradans to more fully enjoy the state. In June, the brewer gave away $15,000 in grant money to three Colorado charities for preservation and restoration projects around the state. In July, AC Golden offered a ‘Be a Brewer for a Day’ for live auction to The Anchor Center for Blind Children, raising $10,000 for the charity.

VOC provides hands-on volunteer opportunities for Coloradans to help protect, enhance, restore and preserve our state’s natural resources.

AC Golden Wins Six Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition

AC Golden Brewing Company won six medals at last weekend’s Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition. The brewery’s Baltic Porter  was awarded a gold medal in the porter category and its Chard Sour and Merlot Sour won gold and silver respectively in the sour ale category. The company took home a silver for its German-style Pilsner and two bronze medals for its Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and India Pale Lager. AC Golden’s president and co-founder Glenn Knippenberg, gives full credit to the company’s brewers – Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow – who have decades of brewing  experience among them.

Colorado Native, AC Golden’s amber lager brewed with Colorado ingredients, also won kudos last weekend. It was voted People’s Choice for the second year in a row at the San Juan Brew Fest in Durango, Colo.

11/28/11

Herman Joseph's Available in Liquor Stores in Colorado Just for the Holidays

By request, Herman Joseph's is once more available in 6-packs in Colorado liquors stores just for the holidays. This hard-to-find but worth it German-style lager is a great beer to share with friends and serve at holiday parties. Happy holidays from AC Golden Brewing Company! 

11/1/11

Forget Virtual Beers, Send Your Friends Real Colorado Native Lager

For a Buck with Your Smart Phone

Ever had a friend send you a ‘virtual’ beer? What’s the use except to make you thirsty and slightly resentful? Well Colorado Native lager and Bartab have teamed up to give consumers a way to send friends coupons for real beers that they can redeem at their favorite local bar with their smart phone.

“Colorado Native looks for innovative ways to build real relationships with our drinkers,” said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company, brewers of Colorado Native. “We go to where they are – on their phones – and offer them via social media things they are truly interested in. Colorado Native is the first brand ever to collaborate with Bartab to provide consumers with this innovative way to celebrate and share with friends.” 

Bartab is a mobile application that offers legal drinking age consumers a way to send and receive electronic coupons redeemable for real $1 drinks at local bars and restaurants with their mobile phone. Until its partnership with Colorado Native, Bartab worked solely with retail establishments for the service.

Here’s how it works: beginning November 1, click on a Colorado Native QR code with your smart phone or download a SnapTag app and click on the SnapTag on the Colorado Native package or visit www.coloradonative.bartab.com  to receive up to five $1.00 Colorado Native coupons to send to friends. Pick the friend(s) and whatever watering hole you want to send them to from a list of participating bars. The friend receives the coupon via smart phone, shows it to the bartender and pays only one dollar to receive a Colorado Native. If the beer is sent or redeemed via Facebook, a post is instantly generated on the user’s wall. The beer can only be sent to those of legal drinking age and wall posts only appear on the pages of friends who are 21+.

“This program goes beyond virtual advertising efforts, such as social media, by providing real product fulfillment to customers in real time. Now you can literally send your friend a Colorado Native to drink at the bar for a dollar – talk about a friend referral!” said Steve Johnson, CEO of Webtab Inc.

“As a small brewer that depends on word-of-mouth to sell its beers, we can’t do much better than having our customers recommend and offer our beer for their friends to enjoy,” said Knippenberg. “Now people can buy their friends in Colorado a beer from anywhere in the world.

Other innovative moves by Colorado Native include being the first consumer package goods product ever to place a SnapTag on its packaging – a move many brands are now replicating. The beer also conducted a one-of-a-kind hop grower project that resulted in 500 Colorado Native drinkers volunteering to grow hops for the beer.

10/2/11

Colorado Native Wins Silver at Great American Beer Festival

Colorado Native lager won a silver medal at this year's Great American Beer Festival. It competed with 57 other beers in the American-style Amber Lager category. The brewery was also awarded a bronze medal for its Schwarzbier, which competed in the American-style Dark Lager category. Congratulations to our brewers!

9/12/11

Colorado Native Wins Gold in Crested Butte

Colorado Native lager was awarded Best Lager at last weekend's Crested Butte Chili Cook Off and Beer Festival. 

8/31/11

AC Golden Wins Six Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition 

AC Golden Brewing Company won six medals at last weekend’s Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition. The brewery’s Baltic Porter  was awarded a gold medal in the porter category and its Chard Sour and Merlot Sour won gold and silver respectively in the sour ale category. The company took home a silver for its German-style Pilsner and two bronze medals for its Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and India Pale Lager. AC Golden’s president and co-founder Glenn Knippenberg, gives full credit to the company’s brewers – Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow – who have decades of brewing  experience among them.

Colorado Native, AC Golden’s amber lager brewed with Colorado ingredients, also won kudos last weekend. It was voted People’s Choice for the second year in a row at the San Juan Brew Fest in Durango, Colo.

8/17/11

Colorado Native Hosts Bear Creek Lake Park Clean-up this Weekend 

Colorado Native’s Friends of the Frontier and Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado (VOC) are partnering to help remove the invasive plant species that threaten Bear Creek Lake Park. The clean-up will take place Saturday, August 20, 8-11 a.m., at Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch. To register for the clean-up go to www.voc.org.

AC Golden Brewing Company, the brewer of Colorado Native, is very committed to helping protect and restore the beauty of Colorado and enable Coloradans to more fully enjoy the state. In June, the brewer gave away $15,000 in grant money to three Colorado charities for preservation and restoration projects around the state. In July, AC Golden offered a ‘Be a Brewer for a Day’ for live auction to The Anchor Center for Blind Children, raising $10,000 for the charity.

VOC provides hands-on volunteer opportunities for Coloradans to help protect, enhance, restore and preserve our state’s natural resources.

8/15/11

AC Golden Wins Gold

AC Golden Brewing Company was awarded two gold medals for its brews at this past weekend's Colorado Springs Lager Fest. The first was for Colorado Native, an amber lager. The second was for the brewery's German Pilsner. Congratulations to our brewers!

7/29/11

Governor Hickenlooper, Pete Coors and AC Golden Brewing Co.'s Glenn Knippenberg to Lead Statewide Toast to Celebrate Colorado's 135th Birthday

Colorado Native lager is celebrating Colorado's 135th birthday Monday, August 1, with a statewide toast led by Governor Hickenlooper and Pete Coors at the Rockies/Phillies game at Coors Field. The toast will be broadcast during the 7th inning stretch on Root Sports, which carries the game. The toast also acknowledges August as Colorado Proud month, celebrating Colorado's great agricultural business and tradition.

"Colorado Native is made with Colorado ingredients and is a beer that truly demonstrates what the Colorado agricultural community is capable of producing," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company.  "We hope Coloradans all over the state will join us in this toast celebrating our beautiful home and all it has to offer." 

President Ulysses S. Grant proclaimed Colorado as the 38th state of the union on August 1, 1876.

Colorado Native is the only lager in the world brewed with Rocky Mountain water, Colorado-grown barley from the San Luis valley, the oldest strain of brewer's yeast in Colorado and finished with hand-picked Colorado-grown hops.

6/24/11

AC Golden Brewing Awards Grant Money to Local Charities

AC Golden Brewing Company has awarded $15,000 to four local Colorado charities through its Colorado Native Community Reinvestment Project. Drinkers and fans of its Colorado Native amber lager nominated and voted for the charities. Their picks for who receives the money: Continental Divide Trail Alliance, $7,000; Ignite Adaptive Sports, $5,000; Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited, $3,000; and Colorado Trail Foundation, which received a supply of Colorado Native beer for its volunteers.

"These are all very deserving organizations," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing. "Our drinkers and fans did a great job in their nomination of these groups and in getting out the vote.

“In a time when charitable giving is less than previous years, we are happy to be in a position to help these organizations make up the shortfalls. We sell our beers in Colorado only and we feel strongly about giving back to our state to help make Colorado an even better place to live,” he said.

The brewery's reinvestment project is funded through a 25 cent donation for every case of Colorado Native sold. Colorado Native is the only lager brewed with Rocky Mountain water, Colorado-grown barley from the San Luis valley, the oldest strain of brewer’s yeast in Colorado and finished with hand-picked Colorado-grown hops.

6/21/11

AC Golden’s Specialty Beers, Not Usually Sold, Available June 24 at Star Bar

Beer drinkers will have a chance to taste AC Golden Brewing Company specialty beers that are not usually sold this Friday night (June 24). Starting at 5 p.m. the Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street in Denver, will feature three AC Golden specialty beers – American Wild Ale, Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and Belgian-style Saison. The brewery’s Colorado Native amber lager, recently awarded an A- by Beer Advocate, will also be available.

American Wild Ale is the brewery’s sour beer aged for over a year in a used French oak wine barrel. For the last three and ½ months of the barrel aging process, 85 pounds of fresh-pressed whole merlot grapes were added to the barrel providing an amazing dark amber color and producing a fruity but balanced sour beer. 7% ABV.

Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout is a massive stout aged for nine months in a Colorado whiskey barrel. 13% ABV, 80 IBUs.

AC Golden’s Belgian-style Saison is fermented with several traditional Belgian yeast strains and brewed with wheat and oats to give it an authentic farmhouse feel. Historically, saisons were brewed in the Wallonian region of Belgium to help sustain the farm workers during their laborious days in the field. AC Golden’s Belgian- style Saison aims to bring the drinker a taste of the old days with a flavorful, slightly tart finish that is sure to satisfy. 4.8% ABV 25 IBUs.

5/20/11

Colorado Native Taking Nominations for $15,000 Donation

Colorado Native Lager is giving away some money and the beer’s drinkers get to decide who receives the cash. AC Golden Brewing Company, brewer of Colorado Native, has been setting aside 25 cents from every case of beer sold to give to charity through its Colorado Native Reinvestment Project. Now it’s time to give up to $15,000 of that money away to a Colorado-based charity(ies).

2/1/11

Colorado Native Becomes Featured Member of Colorado Proud

Colorado Native has joined Colorado Proud, an organization sponsored by the Colorado Department of Agriculture, and will be the first beer ever to place the Colorado Proud logo on its packaging.  The logo may only be used to promoted food and agricultural products that are grown, raised or processed in Colorado.  Colorado Native is also featured on the Colorado Proud website, www.coloradoproud.org .

1/28/11

Colorado Native's SnapTags Named One of the Best Ideas of 2010 by New Denver Ad Club

The New Denver Ad Club named Colorado Native's SnapTags one of The Fifty for 2010 -- the best ideas of the year. Colorado Native lager, made from 99.89% Colorado ingredients, uses SnapTag technology to interact with its drinkers. The technology, developed by Denver company SpyderLink, allows consumers to photograph (snap) the Colorado Native logo with their cell phone and text it to the brand to begin a conversation.  "It allows us to interact with our drinkers, talking with them about things that are relevant to them, not just push ad messages at them," said Glenn Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden Brewing Company. Here's the link for more information about the award:   http://winners.denver50.com/SpyderLynk/Colorado-Native.html.  

11/15/10

 Winterfest is Back for the Holiday Season

Winterfest, one of the nation's longest-running seasonal beers, is back in Colorado just for the holiday sesason.  A Vienna-style lager, Winterfest is available in bars, restaurants and liquor stores around the state.

11/9/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available in Liquor Stores for the Holidays  

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, the tough-to-find but worth the search German-style lager, is available in six-packs at Colorado liquor stores for the holidays only. "Requests from consumers to purchase the beer for holiday parties and events prompted us to make HJ available in six-packs just for the holiday season," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden Brewing Company. "We've brewed a little extra so that beer drinkers can enjoy Herman Joseph's off premise with friends and family this season. Happy holidays!"     

10/18/10

Colorado Native Lager Wins Blue Ribbon   

Colorado Native competed with more than 100 other beers to win the Blue Ribbon for Best Beer with Green Chili at Golden's (Colo.) Annual Chili Cook-Off, held Oct. 9.  Thanks to the Golden Chamber of Commerce for another fun event.

10/14/10

AC Golden Unveils Fresh Hopped Colorado Native Lager 

AC Golden Brewing Company will unveil its Fresh Hopped Colorado Native Lager this Saturday, October 16, during the Fourth Annual Fresh Hop Celebration at the Falling Rock Tap House in Lodo (in Denver, Colo.).  AC Golden brewers traveled to Montrose (Colo.) to pick fresh hops from their Western Slope hop supplier, San Juan Hop Farm.  The beer will be served at other Denver-area bars as well.  For a list of bars serving Colorado Native Fresh Hopped Lager, please visit the Colorado Native Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=colorado+native+lager.

9/18/10

AC Golden Wins Three Medals at Great American Beer Festival 

AC Golden Brewing Company was awarded three medals today at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo.  The brewery took home a gold medal for its European Style Dunkel, a silver for its German Style Pilsner and a bronze for its Schwarzbier.  Congratulations to AC Golden brewers Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow.

9/13/10

Colorado Native Lager Wins People's Choice Award 

Colorado Native Lager won the People's Choice Award at the 12th Annual San Juan Brewfest held in Durango, Colo., September 11.  The beer upset two-time defending champion Raspberry Wheat Ale from Carver Brewing Company.

9/8/10

First-Ever “Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting” Sept. 9: Colorado Native Lager is Featured
The first-ever Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting will take place at 7:30 PM Mountain Time on Thursday, September 9th. Beer drinkers across the state and the country are invited to purchase their favorite Colorado beers, open them in a resounding online chorus at exactly 7:30 PM, and write their thoughts via Facebook, Twitter, and the internet.
  The virtual tasting is organized by Zephyr Adventures, planner of the upcoming Beer Bloggers Conference scheduled for November 5-7 in Boulder. In a “virtual tasting”, there is no central meeting place. Instead, participants will purchase in advance whichever Colorado beers they would like to try, open them at the starting time, and record their thoughts via Twitter, Facebook, or on the Beer Bloggers Conference website. Details can be found on the Colorado tab of the website.

8/30/10

AC Golden Beers Win Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Awards

Congratulations to the AC Golden brewers who took home three medals at the Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Awards on Saturday, August 28. AC Golden German Pilsner was awarded a gold medal in the pilsner category.  AC Golden Wild #1 won a silver medal in the sour ale category and AC Golden Schwarzbier won bronze in the dark lager category.

7/26/10

New Virtual Tour of AC Golden Brewery Available

We can't offer public tours of the AC Golden Brewery because it's in the middle of a larger production facility.  But that doesn't mean people can't see where we brew.  We're now offering a visual virtual tour of the brewery.  Just click on the following link or copy it into your browser and see how we brew:  http://colorado360.net/acgolden/

6/14/10

Colorado Native Lager Gets Good Reviews in All About Beer Magazine

All About Beer magazine is a fan of Colorado Native.  Its reviews say the beer has 'high quaffability' and is a "straight-up beer, with a malt base that lets the citrusy hops remain poised in perfect balance making it nicely hoppy, yet smooth in flavor.  All in all, an eminently drinkable beer."

6/1/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve is Now Available in Liquor Stores in Six-packs Just in Time for Father's Day

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, usually only available at fine dining establishments and bars, is now available in liquor stores in six-packs, just for Father's Day.  So, get that great guy a great gift -- and one that goes with any great Father's Day meal.

4/7/10

Dick Kreck, the Denver Post's 'Mr. Beer',  has Good Things to Say About AC Golden Brewing Company's Colorado Native Lager

In Dick's 4/7/10 column in the Denver Post, he reviews Colorado Native, saying: "Even the label, featuring muted colors reminiscent of a 1930s poster for a Western dude ranch, is out of the ordinary. Colorado Native, a finely balanced brew with a touch of hops at the finish but not overpowering, is pleasing to the eye, the nose and the palate. Definitely worthy of more than one."

4/5/10

Go to www.coloradonativelager.com to Learn All About Our Newest Beer, Colorado Native  

4/5/10

AC Golden Introduces Colorado Native Lager -- Brewed Locally with Colorado Ingredients

Our newest beer arrives in Colorado this week -- Colorado Native, a full-bodied lager brewed in Colorado with virtually all Colorado ingredients, more than any other beer.

  Made with water from the Colorado mountains, barley grown in the San Luis Valley, yeast from Golden and some hops grown by friends and family, this is truly a beer native to Colorado.  Even its bottles are made in Colorado.

  We're proud to provide Coloradans a beer they can truly call their own," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden.  "Partnering with local farmers and manufacturers, and using local ingredients keeps our carbon footprint small and supports our fellow Coloradans.  So now, whether you were born here or came to Colorado because you love the lifestyle, Coloradans have a beer that celebrates our way of life."

  Colorado Native is a brilliant amber lager made with pale and caramel malts from Moravian two-row barley.  It is a very well-balanced beer that delivers a clean taste and dry finish that is good on its own or with a wide array of foods.

  Instead of using traditional advertising to get the word out about Colorado Native, AC Golden is using social media networks and mobile marketing, including Denver-based SpyderLynk's SnapTags. SnapTags is a state-of-the-art technology that allows the consumer to 'snap' a picture of the beer's logo with their cell phone and text it to Colorado Native to begin a real one-on-one dialogue with the beer.

2/11/10

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available by Special Order

Now you can special order Herman Joseph's Private Reserve by the case from your favorite Colorado liquor store.  If we've got it, we'll have it delivered to the store for you!

2/10/10

AC Golden Brewer Featured in Food Science Magazine

A study by AC Golden Brewer Troy Casey and others is featured in the February issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.  The study measures the levels of dietary silicon in beers.  Dietary silicon is a key ingredient for bone health. 

1/19/10

Denver Craft Beer Examiner Gives AC Golden and Herman Joseph's a Thumbs Up

Rick Blankemeier, the Denver Craft Beer Examiner (at www.examiner.com), has just published a three-part story on AC Golden Brewing Company along with a review of its flagship beer, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve.  Rick found the beer, "very balanced, very smooth with a clean finish."  He also had good things to say about HJ's color and aroma.

Winterfest News  12/09

People are buzzing about Winterfest!  In the December issue of Colorado Biz magazine, reporter Jay Dedrick states, "It makes sense that AC Golden, a craft-style enterprise, would recognize beer drinkers' thirst for rare beer in rarefied air."  Westword's Jonathan Shikes reviews Winterfest, concluding that it's, "actually quite good, with a ncie, crisp, body and pleasant sweetness."

Herman Joseph's Private Reserve Available

in Liquor Stores Just for the Holidays  12/09

For the first time this holiday season, Herman Joseph's Private Reserve, a world-class German-style lager, will be available for take home through liquor stores in Colorado.

Until now, Herman Joseph's was only available in the finest bars and restaurants around Colorado. "Requests from consumers to purchase the beer for holiday parties and events prompted us to make HJ available in six-packs just for the holiday season," said Glenn Knippenberg, president of AC Golden Brewing Company.  

Colorado Native Hosts Clean-up at Bear Creek Lake Park August 20

Colorado Native’s Friends of the Frontier and Volunteers for Outdoors Colorado (VOC) are partnering to help remove the invasive plant species that threaten Bear Creek Lake Park. The clean-up will take place Saturday, August 20, 8-11 a.m., at Bear Creek Lake Park in Lakewood. Volunteers will receive a free t-shirt and lunch. To register for the clean-up go to www.voc.org.

AC Golden Brewing Company, the brewer of Colorado Native, is very committed to helping protect and restore the beauty of Colorado and enable Coloradans to more fully enjoy the state. In June, the brewer gave away $15,000 in grant money to three Colorado charities for preservation and restoration projects around the state. In July, AC Golden offered a ‘Be a Brewer for a Day’ for live auction to The Anchor Center for Blind Children, raising $10,000 for the charity.

VOC provides hands-on volunteer opportunities for Coloradans to help protect, enhance, restore and preserve our state’s natural resources.

AC Golden Wins Six Medals at Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition

AC Golden Brewing Company won six medals at last weekend’s Colorado State Fair Craft Beer Competition. The brewery’s Baltic Porter  was awarded a gold medal in the porter category and its Chard Sour and Merlot Sour won gold and silver respectively in the sour ale category. The company took home a silver for its German-style Pilsner and two bronze medals for its Barrel-aged Russian Imperial Stout and India Pale Lager. AC Golden’s president and co-founder Glenn Knippenberg, gives full credit to the company’s brewers – Troy Casey, Jeff Cornell, Steve Fletcher and Kent Reichow – who have decades of brewing  experience among them.

Colorado Native, AC Golden’s amber lager brewed with Colorado ingredients, also won kudos last weekend. It was voted People’s Choice for the second year in a row at the San Juan Brew Fest in Durango, Colo.