Drink

We’re in the heart of dark beer season. Every so often, it’s pleasant to come across a beer that both honors the season with...

Miss the 34-minute window to snag a Great American Brew Festival ticket this year? Still lamenting its move from Boulder to Denver 30 years ago? Fear not, for Boulder Downtown, Inc. is introducing the inaugural Boulder Craft Beer Festival, going down Aug. 23 on the ...

Science is a beautiful thing. It has taken us to the moon and back, found cures for all sorts of diseases and connected every...

Back for a 26th go-round, Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries celebrates the art of the dark ale throughout February with Stout Month. All five...

Outside the Bay Area, few wine enthusiasts realize that California’s wine scene is incredibly welcoming. This is understandable; we see our favorite winemakers on the...

All of the flavor, none of the regret

Collin Griffith wanted to pair a savory drink with a spicy dish on OAK at Fourteenth’s Valentine’s Day menu, so he turned to what...

The lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-de- Forge et ...

People who blow off Halloween as a kids’ holiday are doing it wrong. A celebration of darkness, madness and, most of all, excess, All Hallows Eve is as much about swinging from the rafters as it is about going from door to door. And isn’t getting a little sloshed ...

If you’ve had atolé, it’s likely been at a family table somewhere in the Southwest United States or Latin America, perhaps made from a...

It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that yeast was “discovered.” French chemist Louis Pasteur took credit, and his treatise changed the brewing world within decades. Granted, brewers...

Maybe it’s the popularity of German culture, the appeal of lederhosen and dirndls, or the allure of drinking under massive tents, but Oktoberfest’s signature beer, märzen, is...