brewing company industry alcoholic beverage founded 1994 founder brian dunn headquarters denver colorado usa products beer website http www.greatdivide.com great divide brewing company was founded by brian dunn in 1994 in denver colorado usa . 1 three months after brewing its first batch of beer it won the first of the brewery s twelve great american beer festival and four world beer cup awards . 2 by 2007 great divide was ranked by ratebeer.com as the 23rd best brewery in the world with three of the world s top 100 beers . citation needed in december 2008 beer advocate magazine ranked them as the seventh best brewery on the planet . citation needed contents 1 the brewery 2 the beers 3 references 4 external links the brewery edit servers at great divide tasting room . due to a 45 % increase in sales in 2007 the brewery was forced to expand . in september 2008 great divide opened a new brewery that tripled its production . at the same time they changed the art on all of their labels . 3 the brewery s current branding is marked by sensationalized silhouette depictions of the region from which a particular beer originated for instance the sexualized female farmhand featured on the farmhouse ale colette s label and irreverent humor as marked by the imperial stout yeti s i believe . campaign . the beers edit great divide corner of arapahoe and 22nd street great divide brewing company was founded with the notion of brewing strong beers which are defined as having an alcohol content greater than 7 % . six of the thirteen beers made by great divide in 2006 exceeded this threshold and one old ruffian has over 10.2 % alcohol content which is twice that of america s top selling beer budweiser . 4 i also think that brewers like to sell the beer that they like to drink . dunn said and as people who can and do drink beer all day long it s obviously more interesting for us to drink big beers that are long on flavor and complexity . 4 in 1997 great divide beer was used in the nbc miniseries asteroid . . 5 in 2000 denver chef bill clifford made a braised dpa lamb shank for the white house tree lighting ceremony . 6 when invesco field the home of the denver broncos opened in 2001 great divide s denver pale ale dpa was one of only three craft beers selected to be sold at the stadium . dunn indicated that denver pale ale was selected because it had won more national and international awards than any other colorado beer . 7 references edit roger fillion craft with a lot of satisfaction popular hobby contributes to state s economy rocky mountain news june 15 2007 . accessed 1 9 09 great divide history great divide completes major brewery expansion sept 4 2008 . accessed 1 9 09 a b hamaker brooks november 26 2005 . dark lord alimony ale old ruffian here are the brawling beers . the new york times . norm clarke talk of the town rocky mountain news feb 16 1997 . accessed 1 9 09 great divide ale to be served at white house . modern brewery age 27 nov 00 . accessed 1 9 09 great divide gets coveted beer slot at mile high . great divide brewing co. denver pale ale modern brewery age 27 aug 2001 . accessed 1 1 09 external links edit great divide brewery company web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title great divide brewing company & oldid 743429973 categories beer brewing companies based in coloradomanufacturing companies based in denverhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from september 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 16 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view