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Colorado Native Lager: New MillerCoors beer aims to beat Craft at its own game
April 5th, 2010 | 
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(Golden, CO) – As thousands in the craft beer industry prepare to gather in Chicago this week for the 2010 Craft Brewers Conference, back in the Centennial State, MillerCoors quietly introduces one of its more serious competitors to craft beer to date, Colorado Native Lager.
The brew premiered last week with very little fanfare considering this is a new MillerCoors product. The company has yet to introduce any TV or print advertising and typing “Colorado Native Lager” into Google yielded only a handful of relevant results as of this posting.
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Rogue XS 2010 Schedule announced
(Newport, OR) – More news on the Rogue Ales front . . .
The Rogue XS Series was previously available in large-format ceramic bottles but the brewery decided to go back to its roots, returning the series to 7 oz. nips beginning this year.
From John Holl of the New Jersey Newsroom, “Currently, the Russian Imperial Stout is on shelves. In April, it will be replaced by the Imperial Red. Summer months will bring the YSB English Bitter and I2PA. Late fall will bring [McRogue Scotch Ale] and by December the Old Crustacean Barley Wine will be on shelves.”
Fort Collins Brewery introducing new seasonals this summer
(Fort Collins, CO) – The following update comes from the good folks at Fort Collins Brewery.
Summer will signal the introduction of two new seasonal brews to the Fort Collins Brewery’s growing portfolio of limited release beers. Happy for the summer sunshine yet reluctant to let go of the big beers of winter, FCB crafted two exceptional brews meant to be perfectly quaffable even in the height of summer yet still big, bold and feisty.
