Pour List & Can’t-Miss Beers to Try at the 2025 Collaboration Fest

Throughout its eleven year existence, the Colorado Brewers Guild’s Collaboration Fest has not only captured the incredible spirit of camaraderie and togetherness that helped fuel the explosion of the craft beer industry for nearly three decades, but it has also served as a platform for experimentation and innovation for Colorado’s diverse brewing landscape.

By participating in a festival focused on the creation of one-off, one-of-a-kind releases, breweries have often seized the opportunity to broaden their scope to test out innovative new techniques and ingredients and experiment beyond the boundary of traditional styles.

This year’s 2025 Collaboration Fest is taking place on Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 2 to 6 p.m. at The Westin Westminster at 10600 Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CO. The event will feature over 130 beers, including collaborations with 31 out-of-state craft breweries, as well as one brewery from Mexico.

And while this year’s fest will once again showcase some truly bizarre, culinary-inspired beer creations, fans of Hoppy Lagers will be in paradise as this year’s lineup features nearly 20 iterations on Hoppy Lagers, West Coast Pilsners, New Zealand Lagers, etc.

To help preview this year’s fest, we broke down some of the can’t-miss beers to try at the 2025 Collaboration Fest and be sure to keep scrolling for the full initial pour list.

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Lagers

Prost Brewing & Templin Family Brewing

West Hop Pils – Wet Hop Pilsner

More info: One of Colorado’s premier lager brewers will be teaming up with another accomplished lager producer out of Utah to showcase a West Hop Pilsner in April… In order to accomplish this feat, they used wet hop spalter select hops from the farm in Germany.

Danico Brewing & Casey Brewing 

Orange Glove Service – Imperial German Pilsner

The founders of both Danico and Casey Brewing are no strangers to lagers as Danico’s team began their careers at Anheuser Busch, and Troy Casey first began brewing at AC Golden, a subsidiary of Coors. It should be interesting to see how their collective experience in brewing lagers translates in the form of an Imperial German Pilsner.

Ratio Beerworks & ISM Brewing

Local Pandemonium – West Coast Pilsner

ISM Brewing out of Long Beach, CA is has been one of the hottest names in beer in recent years and the team at Ratio continues to level up locally as well. We can’t wait to try their take on one of the most popular styles in a West Coast Pilsner.

Comrade Brewing & Fritz Family Brewers

Drive-Thru Closed – West Coast Lager

Two absolute powerhouses in the Front Range within their respective style specialties, Comrade has continuously been praised as one of the best hoppy beer producers in the area, and Fritz Family Brewers is quietly one of the best lager producers in the region. Combining forces in the form of another West Coast Lager, this should be a knockout!

Stodgy Brewing & Tightknit Brewing

West Coast Pils – West Coast Pilsner

Rails End, Comrade, and Cheluna Brewing

SpottieOttieDopaliscious – West Coast Pilsner

Mainstage Brewing & Call to Arms Brewing

A Kick NZ Pils – New Zealand Style Pilsner

Mountain Toad & Evergreen Brewing

Friend or Fonio – Fonio Pilsner

Public Offering Brewing & Luki

Rising Sun Yuzu Lager

Hoppy

WeldWerks Brewing & Trillium

Juicy Tiles – Hazy IPA

It should be of no surprise that two of the country’s most well-regarded and earliest adopters of Hazy IPAs teamed up to brew… a Hazy IPA. For fans of the style, this is an absolute can’t miss.

Cannonball Creek Brewing & Shred (CA)

Alpha Blaster – West Coast IPA

Like the aforementioned ISM, Shred has also been one of the hottest names in brewing in recent years. We’ve been lucky to get a taste here locally with limited drops during GABF in years past, but this team up with another perennial workhorse of hoppy beers in Cannonball Creek is sure to be a hit.

Milieu Fermentation & Wanderment Brewing 

On a Tangent – Hazy Double IPA

Two of Denver’s best new breweries, which coincidentally opened at around the same time have finally joined forces for the crossover beer nerds have been waiting for.

New Image & Lyric Brewing

F**k What You Heard / It’s What You’re Hearing – Hazy Double IPA

Lyric Brewing might be unfamiliar to the casual beer fan, but this underground brewery is quietly making waves in the Denver area with limited can release pop-ups and this team-up with New Image, one of the city’s best in the IPA world is incredibly exciting.

Crooked Stave, Casey Brewing & Bale Breaker

The Golden Rule – Hazy IPA

Novel Strand & Full Frame

Hop Exposure – Unfiltered Hoppy Beer

Novel Strand & Outer Range

Peak Nelson – Hazy IPA featuring NZ hops

WestFax Brewing & Milieu Fermentation

Tropic Nexus – Double Dry Hopped Hazy IPA

Second Dawn Brewing & Our Mutual Friend Brewing

Future Before – American IPA

Liquid Mechanics & Burgeon Beer 

West Coast Cartel – West Coast IPA

Joyride Brewing, Westbound & Down, & Roy Farms

Crop Top – West Coast Pils

Barrel-Aged

Primitive Beer & Cohesion Brewing

Stable of Stars – SponSponBingBong Dry Hopped with Žatec Saaz

Founders Brandon and Lisa Boldt of Primitive and Founders Eric and Lisa Larkin of Cohesion have been long-time friends and it’s become somewhat of a tradition for the two breweries to collaborate for this festival. Each year they bring some wonderful take on a spontaneous beer and we are so grateful that this year is no different.

Purpose Brewing & California Wild Ales

Deviltrekker – Barrel-Aged Sour Saison

Whenever the Purpose team brings anything sour or spontaneous to Collab Fest it’s sure to be a crowd pleaser. And this year’s team up with California Wild Ales should be no different.

Wild Provisions & Great Divid Brewing

TmavYeti – Whiskey Barrel-Aged Tmave

River North Brewing & Wanderment Brewing

Wander North – Blended Saison Cuvée

Odyssey Beerwerks & River North Brewing 

Fluffy Nightmare – Coffee Marshmallow Imperial Stout

Left Hand & High Alpine 

Graham Finale – Imperial Stout with Pecans aged in Deerhammer Whiskey Barrels

Unique

Barrels & Bottles & Hideaway Park Brewery

Cinnister – Malt Liquor with 25lbs of red hot candies and homemade cinnamon extract to replicate “Fireball”

All you had to say was Fireball in beer form and you’ve got our attention.

Over Yonder Brewing, Cannonball Creek, Mountain Toad, Mad Macks, Barrels & Bottles, & Propagate Lab

goldENschlager cinnamon lager – Herb and Spice Pilsner with Gold Flakes

Similar to the previous entry, it seems there’s a micro fascination in translating popular cinnamon-flavored spirits into beer interpretations. Just don’t cut your throat on the gold flakes or you may only last an hour at the fest.

Verboten Brewing & Gravity Brewing

Peanut Butter Sriracha Imperial Porter

It’s beginning to feel like some of these beer styles were generated randomly with ingredients on a dart board, but honestly when Verboten Brewing dreams something crazy up, we’re willing to give it a try.

Full Frame, Station 26, Denver Beer, Our Mutual Friend, Cerebral, Ratio, Living The Dream

UNstuck Mashies – Hazy IPA with Yuzu and Vanilla

105 West & Something Brewing 

Purple People Eater – Grape Soda Sour using Concord grape powder

Woods Boss Brewing & Silver Moon Brewing

Stihl Crazy (after all these years) – Norwegian Farmhouse w/ Ponderosa Pine Tree

Barquentine, Chain Reaction, & Rotating Tap Comedy

Thanks, I’ll Be Here All Night – Amber with Espresso and Orange

Coal Mine, Wild Sky, & Chain Reaction 

Uncommon Link – Raspberry Jalapeno Popper ale

Old 121 & Lady Justice Brewing 

Smooth Crimini-Ale – Mushroom West Coast Pilsner

Station 26 & Lady Justice Brewing

Neat. No ICE – Fruited sour with tajin

Ramblebine Brewing & New Terrain 

Matcha Man – Vanilla Matcha Lemonade Fizz Ale

Ramblebine & Basecamp

TinkyWink – Ube Milkshake IPA

Strange Craft Beer & Bent Barley

Scary Cherry – Chili Cherry Honey Kolsch

A Bit Twisted & Monolith Brewing

Bad Ass – Smoked Pulled Pork Stout

Wonderland Brewing & Mountain Toad Brewery 

Mountain Toad the Wonder Sprocket – American IPA fermented with Cedar wood

Cool Collabs

Comrade Brewing & La Cumbre 

Prom Date – West Coast IPA

While many entries in this section could honestly fit in any of the above sections, many of these out of state teamups are just special in their own right. Such is the case with Comrade and La Cumbre, two iconic hoppy beer producers in their own right who have teamed up on what is sure to be a phenomenal West Coast IPA.

Cheluna Brewing & Oaxaca Brewing (MX)

Red Tepache Sour

Oaxaca Brewing, the only international brewery to join this year’s Collab Fest, feels like the perfect fit with the team behind Chelnua Brewing. But evenmoreso is the Tepache Sour featuring cochineal, a traditional natural dye used in Oaxaca.

Cohesion Brewing & Schilling Beer

La Follette 9° – Leichtbier

Two of the country’s premier lager producers have teamed up. Cohesion has been garnering attention nationally for their Czech-style lagers, and similarly Schilling has become one of the biggest name in lagers across the country as well.

Odell Five Points & Firestone Walker Brewing

Wandering Don IPA – American IPA

If you’ve followed PorchDrinking at all over the last five years, you’ll know we’re pretty big fans of Firestone Walker, but Odell Brewing was one of the original breweries that made us fall in love with craft beer. This dream team collab features two of the country’s iconic pioneer IPA producers and we’re so glad they’re making a classic American IPA.

Bruz Beers & Ardennes

Green Ghost Tripel – Belgian Tripel

Colorado Beer Media, Lady Justice Brewing, & Joyride Brewing

Media Circus – White Stout 

New Image Brewing & Breakside Brewing

Geographically Misleading – Double Dry Hopped West Coast IPA

4Noses Brewing & Pipeworks

Spiraling Upwards – IPA with wood spires

Hello Brew & Roses by the Stairs

Wolves at Night – Mexican Dark Lager 

Wibby Brewing & Seapine Brewing

Rock Maibock – Steinbier Maibock

Primitive Beer & Brewery Novalis

Human Construct – SponSponBingBong Finished in Earl Grey Gin Casks

Grab your tickets to join for the 2025 Collaboration Fest

Check out the full pour list for the 2025 Collaboration Fest below, and let us know in the comments section which beers you’re most excited to try!

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