by OnSight | May 2015 | Keep Colorado Local
Kevin Paquette, brewer at Dry Dock, preparing the first batch of Keep Colorado LocALE. photo credit: Colin Bridge
Breweries from across Colorado are producing a special brew to focus attention on protecting local businesses. And you’ll be able to taste it yourself at the Ale House at Amato’s and Dry Dock’s South Dock Brewery.
Keep Colorado Local breweries will produce their version of the Keep Colorado LocALE, a pale ale brewed with Colorado-grown ingredients. The recipe for this beer was written by Dry Dock’s South Dock Head Brewer Tim Evon, who included malts from Colorado Malting Company in the first batch. During fresh-hop season, Dry Dock will fresh hop the beer with hops from a Colorado hop farm. This beer is a bright, citrusy, and fruity pale ale with a hoppy nose and a sweet malt backbone. Its grapefruit and pine-forward aroma comes from the use of Chinook and Cascade hops.
ABOUT KEEP COLORADO LOCAL
Breweries, distillers, and wine-makers from across the state have teamed up with Colorado’s locally owner liquor stores to form Keep Colorado Local, a campaign focused on protecting our local economy, public safety, and Colorado’s excellent craft culture. Out-of-state corporations want to change our local liquor laws to allow alcohol sales in chain stores. Keep Colorado Local is focused on informing the public on how this would hurt our local economy, public safety, and craft culture.
This effort was launched in March with an event at Argonaut’s Wine and Spirits in downtown Denver. More than 100 people from Colorado’s craft industries and independent liquor stores turned out for the event, and the coalition represents more than 1,000 locally owned businesses throughout Colorado.
Not long after launching Keep Colorado Local in March, members of this coalition realized that they had a very non-traditional communications tool at their disposal: beer. And that’s how the Keep Colorado LocALE was born.
MORE ABOUT THE KEEP COLORADO LOCALE
Multiple breweries from Aurora, Breckenridge, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins, Lakewood, Nederland and Lone Tree will be brewing Keep Colorado LocALE in coming months, and this group will grow as breweries are able to fit the Keep Colorado LocALE into their brewing schedules.
Each brewery is encouraged to use Colorado-grown ingredients and add their own twists to the recipe, which is available to any Colorado brewery or homebrewer.
Later this year, homebrewers will be challenged to brew their version of the Keep Colorado LocALE, again using local ingredients, ideally fresh hops, and a Colorado twist. We will provide the recipe to homebrewers and host a homebrew competition.
by OnSight | May 2015 | politics
Congratulations to Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks for a running a great race and being elected to serve another four years for District 9. OnSight knows Albus is focused on making our neighborhood the best place to live, work, and connect, and we’re proud to support his efforts!
by OnSight | May 2015 | GOCO
Jam-packed program set for The Outdoors Summit! Only one week left to get discounted registration!
Starting with a plenary session featuring Governor John Hickenlooper, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and business leader Kent Thiry, keynote presentations then include:
- Explore, Empower, And Create: Building the Next Generation of Diverse Conservation Leaders, Juan Martinez
- Using Active Transportation to Redesign Our Cities, Gabe Klein
- The Re-Wilding Revolution: Re-Envisioning Cities as Places Where People and Nature Thrive, Scott Sampson
- Nature as Normal, Heather Tallis
Breakout sessions in the afternoon include Planning for the Next 100 Years of Transportation, The Colorado Pedal Project, Lost? The Colorado Mapping Project, Keep it Colorado, and much more! There’s also a lunch field trip to Johnson Habitat Park and an evening reception.
The full program, including breakout sessions and information about the lunch ride and lodging options, can all be found at the Outdoors Summit web site.
Early Bird pricing of $100 is available through 5/21. Regular price registration is $125.
SPACE IS LIMITED, DON’T WAIT TO SIGN UP!
The Outdoors Summit is presented by Great Outdoors Colorado and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources with sponsor support from DaVita Health Care Partners, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, The Nature Conservancy and Jim Kelley and Amie Knox.
by OnSight | Apr 2015 | Colorado County Clerks Association
If you’ve spent any time in or around Colorado politics over the last four decades or so, you’ve undoubtedly come across Donetta Davidson, the Executive Director for one of our clients, the Colorado County Clerks Association.
But the CCCA, and OnSight, are going to have to get used to seeing a little bit less of Donetta, as she has announced that she will be stepping away from her full-time job at the end of the 2015 legislative session.
When news of her departure broke, accolades poured in from across the political spectrum.
We’d be remiss if we didn’t single Donetta out here for a little admiration. Davidson is smart, friendly, sincere, tireless, and always looking out for the best interests of Colorado clerks and voters. Quite frankly, our politics and public policy could use more people like her.
And, if you know of anyone who might be interested in stepping into the big shoes she’s leaving behind with the Clerks Association, let them know that they have until April 30 to submit their resume. Details can be found online here.
by OnSight | Apr 2015 | GOCO
OnSight is working with Great Outdoors Colorado and Governor Hickenlooper to host the inaugural Outdoors Summit in Denver. The event will convene hundreds of leaders from around the state to help us launch new initiatives to protect, preserve and enhance the state’s great outdoors.
Learn more at TheOutdoorsSummit.com
Kids today spend half as much time outdoors as their parents did. Colorado may boast the nation’s healthiest adult population, but its youth obesity rate is rising rapidly. Barriers like time, transportation, money, access, and lack of interest and understanding about outdoor experiences keep kids from getting outside and developing the lifelong passion for the great outdoors that is vital for the well being of Colorado citizens, our wildlife and our way of life.
Colorado’s population is also rapidly expanding, meaning ever-expanding urban areas and increasing pressure on our parks, rivers, trails, open spaces and wildlife habitat.
You can learn more at the web site TheOutdoorsSummit.com. Due to limited space, event invitations are limited. If you are interested in attending, send a note to info@theoutdoorssummit.com.
