Vegan Stouts from Colorado Microbreweries

So the only beer worth drinking, or making cupcakes with, is stout. (OK, that is a SLIGHT exaggeration, but stouts are far and away the best beers. Fairly certain that that has been demonstrated through science.)

But it's hard getting easier to find a vegan stout! The best stouts are, sadly, milk stouts, which are disqualified from the get-go because of the milk sugar. Many non-milk stouts are filtered using animal membranes or derivatives (isinglass), making it hard to know which ones are vegan and which ones not--although my inquiries with area brewers have suggested that folks are tending away from these methods, and that seems to be borne out by how very many Colorado microbrewed stouts I have been finding!

As a selfish AND public service, then, I've taken it upon myself to contact Colorado microbreweries--because hooray for buying local!--to see which of them offer vegan stouts.

I just started on this today, April 12, and haven't even gotten through my entire list of microbreweries yet. However, some of our local brewmasters are on top of their emails, so I already have some results to report! I will continue updating this page as I get more responses.

Vegan Stouts from Colorado Microbreweries

• Alpine Dog Brewery's Nitro! Blind Sherpa American Stout
• Aspen Brewing Company's 10th Mountain Imperial Stout (seasonal)
• Avery Brewing Co. Out of Bounds Stout, Mephistopeles Stout (seasonal), The Czar Imperial Stout (seasonal), Uncle Jacob's Stout (Bourbon-Barrel Aged Stout, seasonal)
• Baere Brewing Company's A Winter Stout
• Beer by Design (no stout specifically listed, but looks like there's one on their sampler, and their representative indicated that all their beers are vegan)
• Big Beaver Brew's Whiskey Dick Stout and Stubble Stout
• Black Bottle Brewery's Liquid Metal (Imperial Rye Stout)
• Black Shirt Brewing Black Beacon Sound Nitro
• Bootstrap Brewing Worthog Stout
• Breckenridge Brewery's Oatmeal Stout
• BREW Pub & Kitchen: all stouts crafted to date have been vegan; they are seasonal and the style has varied
• Bristol Brewing Company's Winter Warlock Oatmeal Stout (seasonal)
• Broken Compass Brewery's Chocolate Coffee Stout
• BRU Boulder's Osito Stout and Snow Angel Imperial Stout
• Buckhorn Brewers' Storm Mountain Stout (link is to FB page; their website is under development)
• Bull & Bush Brewery's Stonehenge Stout, Genessee Mountain Rainbow Espresso Oatmeal Stout, and Legend of the Liquid Brain Imperial Stout (the last is seasonal)
• Call to Arms' Breeze's Mom (seasonal: the person I spoke to recommended their Oats and Hose Porter as a year-round close-to-stout)
• Cannonball Creek Brewing Company's Battlecat American Stout (seasonal/rotating)
• Carver Brewing Company's Iron Horse Oatmeal Stout, Imperial Stout, and Irish Stout
• Cerebral Brewing's Here Be Monsters Russian Imperial Stout
• City Star Brewing's Night Watchman Stout
• CooperSmith's Pub & Brewing's Local Mocha Stout, A Horse Named Brett, Welcome to the Dark Side Stout, Wild Horse Bourbon Barrel Stout, Tequila Barrel Chili Stout, Tequila Barrel Stout, Blue Corn Bourbon Stout, Cognac Stout, Stout avec chicory, Bourbon Barrel Stout, Irish Stout, Imperial Destroyer Stout, and Horsetooth Stout
• Copper Club Brewing Company's El Guapo Stout
• Copper Kettle Brewing Company's Mexican Chocolate Stout
• Crazy Mountain Brewery's Snowcat Coffee Stout (seasonal)
• Crow Hop Brewing's Sleeping Owl Stout
• Dead Hippie Brewing Company's Dead Sexy Sweet Stout
• Declaration Brewing Company's Bus Stout (not on their website as of 5/6/2016, but when I contacted them, they told me about it)