A First Look at the 2026 Brewers Showcase Lineup
2026 Breweries Announced for the Brewers Showcase
Get ready to raise a glass in the mountains—25 breweries are bringing their best to this year’s Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. From beloved Colorado standbys to standout names from across the country, the 2026 Brewers Showcase is your chance to sample top-tier craft beer and meet the people behind it.
This hand-picked lineup spans a wide range of styles, from crisp lagers to bold, boundary-pushing pours—all served up alongside the unmatched Telluride backdrop.
Tasting Sessions Presented by the Telluride Blues Society
The Brewers Showcase returns with four intimate tasting sessions inside a dedicated Beer Garden, tucked between the Main Stage and Blues Stage. With limited capacity, these sessions offer a rare chance to connect directly with the brewers while sampling some of the best craft beer in the country.
Two sessions will take place Friday afternoon and two on Saturday. Three of the sessions feature 25 breweries pouring 70+ styles—from crisp and classic to bold and experimental. Each session runs for two hours. Tickets are $30 per session.
The late Saturday session turns things up a notch, showcasing 35+ special pours including high-ABV, barrel-aged, rare, wild, and non-traditional beers. This premium session is also two hours, with tickets priced at $45.
Friday & Saturday
Session 1: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Session 2: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Tickets for tasting sessions are on sale now and require a festival pass (Single-Day or 3-Day). All participants must be 21+. The full list of beer styles will be released this summer.
Presenting Breweries
Official Craft Beer Partner: Sierra Nevada
Enjoy Sierra Nevada beers at the Festival Bar, in the House of Brews, VIP Area, the High Altitude Lounge, Blues Stage and more!
Founded in 1980, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is one of America’s premier craft breweries, highly regarded for using only the finest quality ingredients. The pioneering spirit that launched Sierra Nevada now spans both coasts with breweries in Chico, California and Mills River, North Carolina. Sierra Nevada has set the standard for craft brewers worldwide with innovations in the brewhouse as well as advances in sustainability. Sierra Nevada has set the standard for artisan brewers worldwide as a winner of numerous awards for a wide variety of beers and ales, including the legendary Pale Ale.
1075 East 20th Street Chico, CA 95928
100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River, NC 28732
Telluride Brewing Company
Best friends Chris Fish, a brewmaster, and Tommy Thacher, a bartender-turned-teacher, bonded over skiing, rafting, music, and their shared dream of creating the perfect beer—a dream that became reality in 2011 when they teamed up with Brian Gavin and John Lehman to launch Telluride Brewing Company. Since pouring their first beer in 2012, the brewery has expanded four times, doubled production nearly every year, and earned national acclaim with multiple gold and bronze medals at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup for favorites like Face Down Brown and Whacked Out Wheat. Using Rocky Mountain snowmelt, premium malts, and worthy hops, Telluride Brewing continues to craft award-winning beers distributed across Colorado, staying true to its local roots while Fish and Tommy keep chasing their vision of the perfect pint.
Head Brewer: Chris Fish
156 Society Dr, Telluride, CO 81435
Ska Brewing
Somewhere out in Colorado, in the year nineteen hundred and ninety-five, two guys named Dave and Bill learned that while they loved gulping down good beer, they weren’t yet old enough to buy it. They figured an answer to their quandary would appear if they drank enough and listened to enough thinking music, also known as Ska. On the second Skaturday of Skatember it hit them. If they brewed their own beer they’d have all the beer they could ever want. And while they were at it, why not brew the most magnificent suds ever quaffed in their neck of the woods…or any other neck for that matter.
Head Brewer: Kurt Randall
225 Girard St, Durango, CO 81303
Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Beer Runs Deeper Than Blood.
Founded in 1996 by brothers-in-law Adam Firestone and David Walker, Firestone Walker Brewing Company is a pioneering regional craft brewery located on the coast of California. Our state-of-the-art brewery in Paso Robles produces a diverse portfolio ranging from iconic pale ales to vintage barrel-aged beers. Our Barrelworks facility in Buellton makes eccentric wild ales, while the Propagator pilot brewhouse in Venice specializes in R&D beers. In 2015, we combined with another family-owned brewery, Duvel Moortgat, to help pave the way for our next 20 years and beyond. With deep roots in the Central Coast, we employ numerous sustainable practices that reflect our commitment to the local community and landscape.
Head Brewer: Matt Brynildson
1400 Ramada Dr, Paso Robles, California, 93446
Crooked Stave Brewing Co
Founded in 2010, Crooked Stave is a modern, artisan brewery with a quality-driven focus. The brewery strives to blend science and art through creativity and following our passion. Located in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood, Crooked Stave is recognized throughout the world for complex and creative wild and sour, barrel-aged beers and a variety of traditional and innovative ales and lagers.
Crooked Stave is a play on the word Stave – one of many strong wooden slats collectively bound together by metal hoops to shape a wooden barrel. Our name is a commitment to how closely we work with each barrel and embodies the love we put into each beer. Wooden barrels are the focal point of our brewery and the beers we brew. We are Crooked Stave by way of origin: unique in our beginnings and set apart from our peers.
Brewmaster: Chad Yakobson
RINO, 3350 Brighton Blvd, Denver, Colorado 80216
FoCo, 216 North College Avenue Suite 130, Fort Collins, CO 80524
4 Noses Brewing Company
Four Noses Brewing Company is a family-driven passion project, founded by five of us—my wife Megan, my parents, my brother David, and me—alongside our four brewery dogs: Dakota, Porter, Mash, and Cassie.
The idea sparked in Ireland in 2008 during my dad’s 50th birthday, when a friend pointed out our shared appreciation (and large noses) over pints of Guinness. That moment inspired us to bring our love of great beer back to Broomfield, Colorado.
Since then, we’ve been crafting the beers we want to drink—from crisp ales to bold IPAs and barrel-aged creations—always experimenting and pushing for quality.
At the end of the day, it’s all about sharing great beer with great people. Cheers!
Head Brewer: Tommy Bibliowicz
8855 West 116th Circle, Broomfield, CO 80021
Exhibiting Breweries
Best of Colorado
A partnership with the Colorado Brewers Guild!
The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is excited to partner with the Colorado Brewers Guild for another year! The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a nonprofit trade association with the mission to promote, protect, and propel independent craft breweries in the State of Craft Beer (Colorado) through advocacy, community, education, and public awareness. The majority of the state’s 400+ licensed breweries are members. Stop by the Colorado Brewers Guild Tent to meet folks from the guild and to try some craft beers that represent some of the state’s best breweries not in attendance at the event.