1.  New Belgium Brewing, Fort Collins, Colorado Founded:  1991 Production:  approx 437,000 barrels (website) The place that started it all.  My own beer revolution.  “Fat Tire” was her name.  And she was delicious and demanding; pay attention to me!, she said.  And I did.  I took note.  For the first time ever in my, albeit […]

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3.  Odell Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colorado Founded:  1989 Production:  approx 60,000 barrels (website) It’s gotta go back to home for me.  Doesn’t it always?  Something about those early years of ANYTHING.  Your first stumbling in the dark with a girl’s brassier.  Your first, horrible taste of coffee leading to that next, almost palatable, strangely […]

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