E-Malt.com News article: USA, CO: Wynkoop Brewing launches Colorojo Imperial Red

Wynkoop Brewing Company has released Colorojo Imperial Red in hand-labelled cans, Brew Bound reported on July, 1st.

Head brewer Andy Brown developed the beer’s recipe. “I like this style of beer,” Brown says, “because it gives you a firm malt backbone to balance the rather intense hop profile. The elevated alcohol content also helps extract more aromas during the dry hopping process, which we do for up to 3 weeks with this beer.”

First brewed last year as an experimental beer, the beer has steadily become a hit at Wynkoop Brewing and a small number of Denver establishments that featured the beer on draft.

Colorojo is now available in select Denver area stores in four packs of hand-labelled 12-ounce cans. Its suggested retail price is $8.99/four pack.

This is the second beer in Wynkoop’s “Even Smaller Batch” series of seasonal and limited-release canned beers. The first was Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which made its debut in cans in March.

The beers in this series are packaged in blank, unprinted aluminium cans on which Wynkoop staffers apply a two-part label akin to those used on glass bottles. This method enables Wynkoop to produce super-small batches of canned beer and avoid the 95,000 can minimum for painted cans from its can supplier.

The beer is hand canned at Wynkoop Brewing on a table-top canning machine from Cask Brewing Systems.


03 July, 2013