Craft beer in America gets a grassroots portrait here, built around the brewers of Colorado rather than the big commercial labels. The film argues that a real beer culture, one built on small batches and local identity, nearly disappeared under decades of mass-market consolidation, and it goes looking for what survived. Interviews follow individual Colorado brewers through the actual work of the business: recipe failures, funding gaps, and the slow grind of building a following one keg at a time, alongside the wins that come when a small operation finally turns a profit or lands wider distribution. The film treats these small businesses as evidence of a broader shift happening across the country, brewer by brewer, rather than as isolated success stories. It was released in July 2011 and led directly to a national follow-up, Crafting A Nation, which widens the same argument to the whole craft brewing industry. Here the focus stays local: Colorado's brewers, their setbacks, and what it actually takes to keep an independent brewery running.