Batter up & bottoms up

With baseball's Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox kicking off the World Series tonight, we at Pitcher This thought it would be fun to pit the states of Massachusetts and Colorado against each other in brewing.

Colorado, of course, could be called the capital of American craft brewing, with Denver annually hosting the Great American Beer Festival (held earlier this month). And the Rockies, of course, play at Coors Field.

Boston gets credit for helping to launch the American craft beer movement through the efforts of the Boston Beer Co., makers of the Samuel Adams line of beers. It's also the headquarters of Beer Advocate, a major Web site and magazine for beer enthusiasts.

Check the blog for a profile of a different beer brewed in the home state of the host club each night of the series. The first beer will be up sometime after the first pitch tonight, 7 p.m. Central time.