This pub has a laid back vibe that's rarely found off the beach. Here's a wild ale haven, with Belgian styles and sours often on tap, and one of Fort Collins' better bottle lists.
Not just wild ale (such as New Belgium's La Folie and High Hops' Lady Godiva), but also freshly roasted coffee and bike repairs to boot.
The Town Pump served the first-ever Fat Tire on draft, and is now a place to find wild ale from local breweries— like New Belgium and Odell— on occasion.
Here's a hub for wild ale and Belgian-style beers, including the lambic Transatlantic Kriek, the sour brown ale La Folie, and the sour dry hopped ale La Terroir.
This brewery bottled the Fifty Niner, a golden ale that will be Brett bottle conditioned. Another wild ale that they'll release soon is the Friek, which includes various wild yeasts and bacteria.
Funkwerks specializes in Belgian styles of beer, and has now one two Great American Beer Festival medals for its flagship saison.
This Breckenridge-Wynkoop restaurant has two bars that often have farmhouse ales on tap.
This craft beer-obsessed bar has more than 70 beers from across the globe. This bar also hosts one of Fort Collins' best lineups of tap takeovers.
This state-centric restaurant has 6 taps dedicated to local brews. Here you can find the occasional wild ale from New Belgium, Odell, or Black Bottle, among others.
Sour and wild ale to has its own section on the ever-changing menu at the 100-tap beer bar. The menu boasts beer-friendly sausages and Belgian-style fries from Common Link.
Mastering the art of saison. Go for the Hopelessly Devoted or the There Goes The Neighborhood. Also serves rotating taps from other breweries, many of which are often other saisons and farmhouse ales
This bar is an unusual suspect for having wild ale available. The Bar, however, just so happens to have one of Fort Collins' best beer lists, with more than 75 labels.
Here's one of the best places in Fort Collins to find wild ale, and craft beer in general, that you can't find anywhere else in town.
Another unlikely lineup of wild ales comes from Taps. This sports bar serves wild ale from Odell, Verboten, and Lost Abbey, among many others.
Hop farm-turned-brewery High Hops focuses on a line of pale ales and IPAs, but recently created the Lady Godiva. Its their Noble One Belgian Quad aged in a whiskey barrel with Brettanomyces.
One of Northern Colorado's newest breweries is experimenting with fresh ingredients, as well as farmhouse yeast. Go for the Five Second Frencher lemongrass wit and the Between Worlds white IPA.
Grimm exclusively makes German styles of beer with a twist. Go for The Farmer's Wild Daughter, an Oktoberfest beer brewed with Brettanomyces, and The Griffin, brewed with
Falling Rock is often noted as one of the country's best craft beer bars, and for good reason. The 80+ taps often sport rare sour beers like the Russian River Supplication and Quintine Saison 2000.
Artfully crafted beer lists. Includes French, Belgian, and Canadian wild ales on tap, as well as more beers from Norway and Belgium in the barrel-aged and wild section of the bottled beer menu.
Andy Brown at Wynkoop is experimenting with farmhouse yeast and barrel aging, among many other small-batch projects.
The bottled beer menu here is separated by country of origin, and extensive so ask the staff for farmhouse yeast and wild ale options you shouldn't miss. Freshcraft almost always has sour beer on tap
For anyone who appreciates an impressive beer list and fun food, this is the place. The music here is always great and Euclid is open late. What's not to love? [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
He might be a sommelier by training, but the beverage director Kevin Burke knows his beer. He chooses the rotating tap list, which features beers that you won't find at other Denver bars.
Chef/owner Nelson Perkins emphasizes the nose-to-tail concept, offering one of the city's best selections of charcuterie and offal. [Eater 38 Member] Read more.
"We always have wild ale on tap at wither Ellie or Colt & Gray," says Kevin Burke. "And we try to keep one on both sets of [draft] lines."
In a Ballpark location that can accommodate 98 guests Mario Nocifera and his partner, Alex Figura, are serving an eclectic mix of items ranging from chickpea fries to a braised brisket.
New sour and wild ale program. Peach Grand Cru. "Brewed with Colorado fruit, this Belgian-style ale marries two of our home state’s well-known offerings: great beer and fresh Palisade peaches."
Of Star Bar, author of Vintage Beer (that will release March 11) Patrick Dawson says, "A dirty, dive bar with a very impressive dedication to serving sour and wild beers."
Here you can find the J. Marie saison, named after the owner's wife, made with saison yeast.
"Black Shirt makes a Red Sour Mash Saison that they just call Sour Mash Saison," says Denver Off The Wagon editor Sarah Haughey. "The beer rocks! Highly recommend."
The Brettanomyces-obsessed Chad Yakobson has made name for himself through experimentation with this yeast strain to create sour and funky beers. CS and Epic sour saison collaboration, Elder Brett.
Proprietary yeast strain named Brainless. Look for Brainless Golden Ale, Brainless on Peaches, Brainless on Raspberries, Brainless on Cherries, and the Brainless Belgian-style IPA among its 25 taps.
La Chouffe, Cuvee des Trolls, Orval, and Lindeman’s are some sour and wild Belgian beers available. Soon its owners will open the doors at Lost Highway Brewing Company, with more wild ales to come.
Try the Grey Watcher Grisette-style Farmhouse Ale and the Circle The Wagons saison.
The Epic Brewing Sour Apple Saison, among many other locally brewed wild ales, can be found among the 40-draft lineup at Historian's.
As you'd expect from a bar named World of Beer, the wild ale selection here is also exotic, with extensive list of international bottled beers and sours from Petrus and Perennial on tap
This tap house boasts Colorado beers on ever-changing taps, including the Funkwerks Tropic King, the TRVE Circle The Wagons, and wild beers from Trinity Brewing.
Colorado beers and housemade brews by Adam Draeger, formerly of Yak & Yeti. The sour and wild selections come from Odell, Funkwerks, Crooked Stave, Black Bottle Brewing, Strange Brewing, and Verboten.
Crystal Springs offers a lambic, and will debut Velvet Shank brewed with Brettanomyces this spring.
"His Woodville project of all barrel-aged and wild beers from ten years ago was ahead of its time. He does such beers now -- the recent Brett on the Broncos for example -- and has more in the works."
One of Boulder's oldest taverns now serves wild selections like New Belgium's Transatlantic Kriek, Perennial Berliner Weisse, and several bottled wild European beers.
Perhaps the most eclectic and developed wild ale list casually slips under the radar at Boulder's Backcountry Pizza. Not to mention the perfect summertime patio.
Home of the annual Sour Fest, Avery Brewing is surely serving something wild or barrel aged at the Boulder taproom on any given day.
Go for the Belgian-style pale ale brewed with Trappist Ale yeast. This limited release beer is available in a can, too.
