FORT COLLINS - Nineteen breweries have partnered with the Fort Collins Foothills Rotary Club to launch the Fort Collins Ale Trail, complete with an app that guides people to beer around the town and with net proceeds going to local charities. The Fort Collins Ale Trail app, which can be downloaded from the Apple or Google stores, features an interactive map of participating breweries. A $20 upgrade, purchased through the app or at the ale trail's website, provides users with a prepaid $1 coupon to use at each brewery on the trail. Connoisseurs can track their progress on the app. Once they hit all the participating breweries, they earn a commemorative beer glass. In addition to receiving discounts on beer, users can choose where the proceeds from their purchase are directed. For the launch, users can choose between four local charities: Coalition for the Poudre Watershed, the Food Bank of Larimer County, the Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy Center and the Rotary Foundation for Polio Eradication. Each quarter, a council of members for the Rotary Club and the breweries will select new charities. "We're excited by the positive impact the Ale Trail will have on local charities as well as international causes that Rotary is committed to," Jacquelyn Niedringhaus, president of the Foothills Rotary Club, said in a prepared statement. "We believe this project will provide a fun way to experience our great breweries while fulfilling our club vision to improve lives." The 19 participating breweries are: Black Bottle Brewery Coopersmith's Pub & Brewing DC Oakes Brewhouse and Eatery Fort Collins Brewery Gilded Goat Brewing High Hops Brewery Horse & Dragon Brewing Intersect Brewing Jessup Farm Barrel House Mash Lab Brewing Maxline Brewing McClellan's Brewing New Belgium Brewing Odell Brewing Old Colorado Brewing Prost Brewing Rally King Brewing Snowbank Brewing Zwei BrewingThe post Fort Collins breweries, Rotary Club launch Ale Trail to benefit nonprofits appeared first on BizWest.
