5: of Russian River Brewing Company’s beers made Zymurgy Magazine’s 50 Best Commercial Beers In America list, nominated by American Homebrewers Association members. Read more of the results from this annual AHA poll.
44: the percentage of growth that Texas brewers producing less than 225,000 barrels of beer a year experienced in 2013. Read the complete economic impact report by the Texas Craft Brewers Guild.
7: beers in Bell’s Brewery’s The Planet Series, inspired by the music of composer Gustav Holst. The first of the series is a double IPA called Mars, The Bringer Of War. Read about all of the Planet Series.
45: thousand dollars raised by the Oskar Blues CanAid Foundation at last month’s Burning CAN Festival. These funds were donated to the Colorado Brewers Guild and the Town of Lyons Parks & Recreation Department. Learn more about the flood relief efforts these funds will support.
25: years that the Colorado Brewers Festival has taken place in downtown Fort Collins. The festival founders, Doug Odell and Brad Page, who now own Odell Brewery and Colorado Cider Company respectively, brewed a collaboration 25-year anniversary ale for this year’s event.
250,000: barrels that Great Divide Brewing eventually plans to brew each year at its new facility in Denver (pictured above). The 20-year old company is moving for the first time.