Conservation Colorado’s Save the Ales Beer Festival Coming Thursday

From Conservation Colorado:

Conservation Colorado’s annual beer festival that celebrates Colorado’s thriving craft beer industry and illuminates how we all can work together to conserve, protect, and ensure a future with clean, healthy water, on Thursday, August 8 at Mile High Station. The water we drink and that fuels our outdoor industries is the same water we share with our rivers, lakes, and streams. The impacts of climate change, pollution, and rapid population growth strain the quality and quantity of our water — and, consequently, will impact water-dependent industries like Colorado’s booming craft beer scene. Remember: no water = no beer.

This year, we’re working with Joyride to brew a special low alcohol session-style pale ale brewed with 95% Colorado-grown ingredients. As Dave, Joyride’s Marketing Manager, said, “Just because it’s small, it can still be mighty — like the choices you make when it comes to conserving water.”

We started Save the Ales to build awareness and action around water issues in Colorado. While water policy can be hard to understand and is steeped in a complicated history, water conservation still a vitally important issue for Coloradans to understand and care about. The state of our water supply affects our health, recreation, and economy. There’s no doubt that Coloradans love beer and no surprise that the craft beer industry is booming. The main ingredient in beer is water, so we use beer as a lens to help people understand the wider implications of dwindling snow pack, poor water quality, and low river flows.

Other Lakewood/Edgewater/Sloan’s Lake area breweries at Save the Ales include WestFax Brewing, the Emporium Brewing Co., and Green Mountain Beer Co. We’ll be updating the list of brewers on the ticket and event page as we confirm more breweries, as well. Additionally, we’re happy to host Elevated Seltzer at 5280 Beer Co., Colorado’s first seltzery, at Save the Ales this year.

Click here to learn more about the event and purchase tickets.