Boulder Beer’s Old Favorites Return With a New Look

Boulder Beer Company shocked Colorado just over a year ago by closing its taproom, laying off its entire staff and ending its forty-year legacy as the state’s oldest craft brewery. But a handful of the brewery’s most iconic beer brands have lived on, thanks to a contract brewery in Denver, which had agreed in late 2019 to brew, package and distribute those beer for Boulder Beer’s majority owner, Gina Day.

Press Release: Whoa, Boulder Beer’s rebrand is badass (enjoy this photo post)

Sadly, Colorado’s oldest indie brewer of the modern era, Boulder Beer Co., was struggling even before the pandemic started. It closed up its on-premise brewpub in January of last year, but its beers still live on. Way back in December 2019, Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. announced that it had formed a partnership with Boulder Beer Co. to keep its packaged beer brand in distribution and on store shelves without interruption.

Boulder Beer relaunches with new look and talk of a new taproom

Boulder Beer has some staying power. Despite management of Colorado’s first independent craft brewery switching hands last year, and despite the closure of its taproom, this elder statesmen of Colorado’s craft brewing is getting a facelift in 2021 thanks to a coordinated effort from some heavy hitters in the beer industry.

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