Drink

It started as a dream on a beach in Mexico, a dream that became a reality in 2012 when Ian and Bryce Clark opened...

My brewery tour companion and I approached the door to the Smiling Toad Brewery in Colorado Springs with expectations that were ... let’s call them modest. When I spotted the sign from the street, a little A-frame by a skinny sidewalk that read “brewery” and drew ...

Every week brings beer releases, anniversary parties and a festival or two, but there are ancillary aspects of beer that sometimes fall between the...

Food and beer, just like peanut butter and chocolate, taste great together. Pairing the two certainly isn’t rocket science but even the most dedicated...

For Michael Belochi, producing hard cider is a joy as well as a job. The owner of BOCO Cider in North Boulder enjoys featuring...

All of the flavor, none of the regret

Let’s put a pair of leather chaps in the mash, or cactus or tumbleweed.” That was the first idea Jason Buehler, head brewer of Oskar Blues in Lyons, had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a collaboration beer made not with another brewery, but a honky tonk band. No chaps ...

There’s a lot of sharing on our beer tour. When I describe six of a brewery’s beers in this column, I didn’t order six beers. I just brought five people. We pass everything around, and even trade or give away beers we don’t care for...

Even on the last leg of our Boulder County beer tour — a trip up to Nederland to visit both Wild Mountain and Very Nice breweries — we’re learning something new, courtesy of Very Nice co-owner Susan Green...

In the State of Craft Beer, there is no shortage of beer festivals. And for good reasons: not only do the featured breweries get...

If you are a dedicated beer drinker in the Boulder scene, it is entirely possible you’ve never set foot in BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse....

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