Collaboration Fest Returns For Its Third Year on March 19th

Tickets on go sale November 24 to America’s most creative beer festival

DENVER – Nov. 23, 2015 – Representing the most creative minds in the craft beer industry, the third annual Collaboration Fest will bring brewers from around the world together to brew one-time-only beers. Collaboration Fest will take place on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High (1701 Bryant St. Denver CO 80204), and serves as the official  kick-off to Colorado Craft Beer Week.

“Each Collaboration beer is created as a fusion of two or more brewery personalities,” said PJ Hoberman of Imbibe Events. “The recipe formulation is then developed through multiple meetings and email chains. All parties then join forces to brew and put the final touches of the project together. The one thing in common between all of the Collaboration beers is that at least one CBG brewery is involved.”

Imbibe Events and the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) hosted the first Collaboration Fest in March 2014. Collaboration gives brewers the opportunity to brew with people they respect, create a narrative behind the beer, and make a beer that they normally would not. Each beer is created with a unique background story, often illustrating the relationships between the brewers themselves. Leading up to the festival Imbibe and the CBG will be sharing these stories via multiple platforms.

The 2016 Collaboration Fest will feature 75 collaborative brews. The current list of collaborations include:

300 Suns Brewing and Gemini Beer Co

Avery Brewing Co and Call To Arms Brewing Company

Baere Brewing Company and Mother Road Brewing Company

Baere Brewing Company, Mockery Brewing and Inland Island Brewing and Consulting

Barrels & Bottles Brewery and AC Golden Brewing Company

Beryl’s Beer Co and Goose Island Beer Co

Big Choice Brewing and Black Bottle Brewing

Blue Spruce Brewing Co and Rock Bottom, South Denver

Boulder Beer Co. and Fat Heads Brewery

Breckenridge Brewery and Star Hill Brewery

Call to Arms Brewing Company, Denizens Brewing Co and Conshohocken Brewing Co.

Cannonball Creek Brewing Company and Pizza Pizza Port Carlsbad Village

CO-Brew and Mu Brewing

Comrade Brewing Company and Fat Heads Brewery

Crazy Mountain Brewing Company and Stillwater Artisan Ales

Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project and Evil Twin Brewing

Denver Beer Co and DC Brau Brewing Company

Denver Beer Co and Spangalang Brewery

Diebolt Brewing Company and River North Brewery

Epic Brewing Company and Green Flash Brewing Co

Factotum Brewhouse and Tow Yard Brewing

FATE Brewing Company and Reuben’s Brews

Fort Collins Brewery and Renegade Brewing Company

Funkwerks and Wicked Weed Brewing

Gravity Brewing and Marshall Brewing

Great Divide Brewing Co and TRVE Brewing

Grist Brewing Company and Koala San Brew

Hall Brewing and Kokopelli Beer Company

Holidaily Brewing Company and Yak and Yeti Brewpub

Horse & Dragon Brewing Company and others

Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery and Brewery Rickoli

Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery and Uber Brew

Joyride Brewing Company and Heretic Brewing Company

Kannah Creek Brewing Company and Moab Brewery

Kannah Creek Brewing Company, Roaring Fork Beer Company and Colorado Boy Brewing

Left Hand Brewing Company and Wibby Brewing

Liquid Mechanics and Bagby Beer

Liquid Mechanics and Odd 13 Brewing

Little Machine and Joyride Brewing Co

Living The Dream Brewing and Grist Brewing

Living The Dream Brewing and Rip Current Brewing

Locavore and Tommyknocker Brewery

Lone Tree Brewing Company and Chain Reaction

Lone Tree Brewing Company and Sycamore Brewing Company

Mockery Brewing and Saucony Creek

Mockery Brewing and Baere Brewing

Oskar Blues Brewery, 3 Floyds Brewing and Horse and Dragon Brewing Company

Our Mutual Friend Brewing and Cerebral Brewing

Platt Park Brewing Co., Moody Tongue and Old Redwood

Post Brewing Company and Prost Brewing Company

Prost Brewing Company and Dogfish Head Brewing

Sanitas Brewing Company and SixPoint Brewery

Sanitas Brewing Company, BRU handbuilt ales & eats and Wild Woods Brewery

Shamrock Brewing Company and Fitger’s Brewhoue

Ska Brewing Company and Devils Backbone Brewing Company

Ska Brewing Company and Epic Brewing

Station 26 Brewing Co, Cannonball Creek Brewing Company and Comrade Brewing

Steamworks Brewing Company and Dry Dock Brewing Co

Strange Craft Beer Company and Freetail Brewing Company

Telluride Brewing Company and Elevation Brewing Company

Telluride Brewing Company and NYNÄSHAMNS ÅNGBRYGGERI AB

The Bakers’ Brewery, Broken Compass, Dillon DAM Brewery, JP Vander Veen, Pug Ryan’s Brewery, Breckenridge Brewery OG and Angry James Brewing

Tomyknocker Brewery and Mallaskosken Panimo

TRVE Brewing and Prairie Artisan Ales

Twisted Pine Brewing Co and Blind Tiger Brewery

Twisted Pine Brewing Co and Pizza Port – Solana Beach

Two22 Brew and Echo Brewing Company

Wibby Brewing and Left Hand Brewing Company

Wit’s End Brewing Company and Ale-Mania

Wonderland Brewing Company and C Squared Ciders

Zwei Brewing Co and Bierstadt

“This festival truly shows what it means to work in a cooperative industry,” said Steve Kurowski of the CBG. “By working together, craft brewers are able to make the biggest economic impact on the beer industry. Craft beer is currently a $1.15 billion dollar industry for the state of Colorado. By continuing to work together and learn from each other, this number will continue to increase.”

As the capital of the state of craft beer, Denver is proud to be the hometown of Collaboration Fest. From the pioneers and miners in the late-1800s to Wynkoop Brewing Co. – Denver’s first brewery, owned by now-Governor John Hickenlooper – The Mile High City has a deeply-rooted history with beer, and it is quickly becoming the heart of the craft beer movement. Today, there are more than 50 operating breweries in the city, with more in planning, that create an exceptional craft beer scene.

Tickets can be purchased starting Tuesday, November 24 at 10 a.m. MST at CollaborationFest.com.

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About Imbibe Events

Imbibe is a Denver-based event production and ticketing company that coordinates with the best restaurants, bars, music venues, and other fine establishments to create craft events! Imbibe produces events such as the Denver Flea, Denver Beer Festivus and the Big Eat. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/1r0Gi6X.

About the Colorado Brewers Guild

The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a non-profit trade association promoting the Colorado craft brewing industry. With the majority of the 305 licensed Colorado breweries as members, CBG provides information for Colorado beer lovers, and promotes Colorado craft breweries by advocating for Colorado craft beer with policymakers. For more information, visit www.coloradobeer.org.

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