Estes Park Brewery offers craft beer By Estes Park Brewery For the Trail-Gazette
he Estes Park Brewery has 12 hand-crafted brews on tap plus a nonalcoholic root beer. Each beer has its own story so here’s a quick synopsis of a few of the best. Out of the original four beers, the Estes Park Renegade was the strongest at 5.8% a/v. Only the “renegades” in town would dare drink such an intoxicating brew. Longs Peak Raspberry Wheat was also named with a sense of humor. Hiking Longs Peak is anything but light and refreshing, which is ironic because that is exactly how this beer is to taste. In 1996 The Shining Pale Ale was born. An American Ale is bitter and strong and
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A truly sad story is commemorated by the Samson Stout. This is an oatmeal stout, which is brewed with oatmeal to add a touch of sweetness. Samson was a huge bull elk that would let people get uncomfortably close, he spent lots of time at the YMCA and was even known to walk down main street. On Nov. 11, 1995, he was poached. Since then the Estes Park Brewery has donated to programs aimed at appreEstes Park Brewery / Courtesy photo hending and prosecuting The Estes Park Brewery is located at 470 Prospect Village Dr. poachers. On a lighter note there is frighteningly good. The most popular beer the Staggering Elk Lager. The Another ode to Stephen today is Stinger Wild Honey. name comes from a misunKing’s classic is the Redrum It stings because the sugar in derstanding several years Ale. It has a reddish hue and the honey produces more ago. is not very bitter at 24 bu. alcohol. And it is delicious to Some people thought that That makes it easy to down, drink because they add 6 lbs when the elk ate some of the or “kill,” one of these fairly of Colorado Clover Honey per See Brewery, pg. 20 quickly. barrel.
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A BEER LOVER’S DREAM COME TRUE!
Full-Bar, Restaurant, and Retail Store • Delicious food for the entire family • Pool tables and video games • Spectacular deck with mountain views • 12 hand-crafted beers brewed on sight
470 Prospect Village Drive • epbrewery.com • 970-586-5421 2020 Estes Park Trail-Gazette Vacation Edition • 19
