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Drink this: Oskar Blues Brewery Wild Basin Hard Seltzer

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2019 was the summer of seltzer, and the bubbly stuff is already the odds-on favorite for a back-to-back repeat. Oskar Blues’ latest line of...

Know your brew: Session IPA

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There is much to learn from movies. Take this exchange between Winston Churchill and King Edward VI in Darkest Hour concerning the Prime Minister’s...

The burden of history

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I miss the Walnut Brewery. It wasn’t fancy, and it wasn’t hip, but the Walnut was my kind of place to swing by for a...

Tour de brew: U Turn BBQ

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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...

American agave

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Agave, the plant most widely known for its use in the making of tequila, is staking its claim in Boulder with the release of Tatanka, an American agave spirit being made locally by Roundhouse Spirits...

Why your bartender hates you

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Sometimes, it just seems like the bartender can’t stand you. You’ve made your usual endearing jokes, you’ve kept the outright flirting tasteful and you’ve...

Follow the seasons

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To celebrate National Cocktail Day — March 24 — we spoke with a couple of local cocktail connoisseurs, as well as the 2022 U.S....

The booze boom in entertainment

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Craft brewing has been around for 500 years. In the past decade, though, it’s taken off — especially in the United States. The appeal is obvious. Smaller batch sizes and creative recipes lend the craft brew flavors (and identities) that Budweiser can’t match. ...

Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards

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Finding Shane Finley was easy. Via email, we planned to meet for lunch at Bourbon Steak in Washington, D.C., a restaurant that’s housed at the...

Mixology international

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When contemplating the appealing aspects of drinking in Europe, ordering a bottle of wine with lunch or sipping an afternoon beer at a cafe...

You know what you should do? You should homebrew!

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Thanks to a bureaucratic oversight during the repeal of Prohibition, homebrewing remained illegal in the U.S. until 1978. Many practiced and taught the hobby—notably...

Brewing change

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Some breweries make beer. Some make beer... and change. Team Left Hand, a group of employees and supporters of Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing, recently announced...