Denver-based Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project is getting back to its roots up north in Fort Collins. Owner Chad Yakobson started brewing wild and sour beers while attending school there, and now he has opened his second taproom and new brewhouse at the Exchange, an indoor-outdoor market, on North College Avenue. Find beers on tap like the unfiltered Von Pilsner and Sour Rosé.

Longtime New Belgium brewmaster Peter Bouckaert’s new project is worth a weekend drive up to Fort Collins. The cozy tasting room features a handful of weekly rotating drafts tapped from the wood-aged cellar.

Riding the success of a 2016 gold medal-winning Sticks Pale Ale, Bootstrap recently opened a new location in Longmont, strengthening the city’s already formidable beer scene. This rock n’ roll brewery even offers music pairing suggestions for flagship brews.

Specializing in Belgian beers, this spot is a real neighborhood gem where staff is friendly and parking is easy. Trivia night happens every Wednesday and some weekend workouts with beers are also a highlight.

After a 2-year wait, the Grateful Gnome opened its Berkeley taproom and sandwich shop last April. In the mountain lodge-like setting, drinkers can enjoy saisons, blondes, and IPAs alongside Rosenberg’s bagel sandwiches.

Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing has a brand new RiNo taproom, where visitors can enjoy pilot brews on a secluded rooftop patio and by a fire pit. Session IPAs, cocktail “crossover” beers, and guava goses are some of the 29-year-old brewery’s Denver-only highlights.

The new offshoot of Denver Beer Co. on Platte Street is a destination all its own, with brews inspired by Mexican ingredients and brewed in collaboration with Mexican craft breweries. In a bright setting, find beers flavored with nopal cactus and piloncillo sugar, from easy-drinking lagers to stouts brewed with churros.

Woods Boss is the type of taproom to spend all Sunday in, located inside a refurbished century-old building in Five Points. The beers are consistent and the team is community-minded and passionate, creating a space for regular fundraiser events and acoustic nights. The brewery is now serving food from its new neighboring cafe, Habit Carbon.

Opened in July in the Baker neighborhood, and sharing a building with Queen City Collective coffeehouse, Novel Strand brings some much-needed diversity to Denver’s craft beer scene. Two of its owners are black women, one of them born in the Dominican Republic, and the third was raised in Israel. Drinkers here should try the similarly international Super Conductivity ale with hops from three different continents.

South Broadway’s newest brewery makes something entirely different for the Denver craft scene: chicha and pulque. Both are corn-based, pre-Columbian fermented beverages. Chicha is traditionally fermented by chewing on corn, while pulque relies on the sap of an agave plant called maguey. The brewers are also making fruit-blended curados and Peruvian chicha morada.