Over 175 breweries celebrate 2022 Colorado Pint Day
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Beer lovers are flocking to Southern Colorado breweries on Wednesday to celebrate the annual Colorado Pint Day.
2022 marks the 7th year the Brewers Guild is holding the event. Wednesday, more than 175 breweries are participating in Colorado Pint Day, with at least 20 taking part in the Pikes Peak Region.
For one day only the breweries will be selling Colorado Pint Day limited edition glassware. Organizers say $1 of each pint glass sold is donated to the Colorado Brewers Guild.
"It's a huge day, people line up," said Todd Baldwin, President and Founder of Red Leg Brewing Company. "They want to get their hands on these glasses. This is the seventh year the Brewers Guild has done the glassware and people have been collecting them ever since they started. It's super popular.”
The artwork printed on the glass is chosen from a competition among brewery employees every year. The 2022 artwork celebrates Colorado Parks & Wildlife and their 125th anniversary. Anna Long, graphic designer and marketing manager from Copper Kettle Brewing Co., was the artist.
"The artwork is always something really Colorado themed," said Carrie Simison, Brand Ambassador for Cerberus Brewing Company. "Last year was kind of a fly fishing theme, there was another year that the theme was 14ers. It's a glass that really honors what we have, and what we are here in Colorado. Beer and the recreation, the reason that we live here.”
The Brewers Guild - which benefits from Pint Day - is a nonprofit association that helps promote and protect independent craft breweries. Any place selling glasses on Wednesday is a part of the Guild.
"It's just really cool to see a community of what could be and what is competition, play together nice," said Simison. "We celebrate each other. The ones that came before us are the reason we can do what we do, and we hope to inspire new breweries to do the same thing in future years."
"I think our industry is a great example of what it means to come together, especially with the pandemic, when we've bonded together," said Baldwin. "This glass is just a great signifier of that. 187 brewers across the state participate, and I think that just shows our unity as an industry.”
Each brewery is allowed to set their own price for the pint glass.
At Red Leg, if you purchase a pint of beer you can buy the glass for $4. If you just want the glass with no beer, it's $6 plus tax.
At Cerberus, you'll get the glass plus your first fill of beer for $10. From there, additional beer fills with the glass will be $1 off. The glass itself is $7.
Red Leg has 300 glasses, half are released at noon and half are released at 4 p.m with a limit of two per person. Cerberus has 144 glasses, with half released at 11 a.m. and half released at 4 p.m.
When the glasses are gone, they're gone forever! Both breweries expect to run out quickly.
For a list of participating locations, click here.
Below is a map of all the locations throughout the state participating in Colorado Pint Day.
