Politicos will covet tickets to Gov.-elect John Hickenlooper’s inaugural bash, but so will beer geeks.

Hickenlooper, a former brewery owner who now may be the nation’s most prominent suds evangelist — he champions Colorado as the “Napa Valley of beer” — is including 20 beers for the event, all brewed in Colorado.

Think of the list as “centrist,” kinda like the politician himself. He’s got the state’s geography covered as well as its varied business interests, small to conglomerate — from Boulder’s Avery Brewing Co. to Denver’s Breckenridge Brewery; from Ska Brewing Co. in Durango to Trinity in Colorado Springs. Even Anheuser-Busch is included; the company has a major brewery in Fort Collins. Douglas Brown, The Denver Post