Drink
Tour de brew: C.B. & Potts Restaurant and Brewery
As it has become increasingly apparent, hopheads, lager lovers, wheaties and stoutettes are growing up and having families. That means a night out drinking...
Tour de brew: Bootstrap Brewing
Do you remember the beer that made you fall in love? Was it the Coors Light you snuck out of your Dad’s beer cooler?...
Tour de brew: Walnut Brewery
Everybody needs a nice neighborhood bar. Friendly faces behind the taps, a reliable menu for when you can’t make up your mind and a...
Drink of the week: Mountain Sun’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Chocolate Thunder Imperial...
There are barrel-aged
beers, and then there’s Mountain Sun’s Bourbon Barrel-Aged Chocolate Thunder
Imperial Stout: brewed with over nine malts, two hops, milk chocolate, dark
chocolate and...
Avery’s tequila barrel concoction
In the mood for something different, I grabbed one of the latest releases from Avery Brewing Co.’s barrel-aged series, the Fiel al Estilo, a...
Rich in whiskey
"I tell people that we’re rich in whiskey, but poor in cash,” jokes Boulder Spirits (5311 Western Ave., #180, Boulder) owner and founder Alastair...
Wrangling wild yeast
Terroir. One of my favorite, more romantic words when discussing the intricacies of a beer’s flavor profile. To be able to taste the unique...
Sunset sipping
The heat seems to be breaking. Mosquitoes and ticks have mostly succumbed to their well-deserved deaths. Nights are still long, but a hint of coolness touches the edges. Summer is winding down. At this point, that mojito is perhaps not as refreshing as at the start ...
Winter’s miracle cocktail
Flying 2,000 miles across the country back into Denver on Monday, I started to sniffle. Maybe it was the recycled air of the airplane, or the holiday snot-wipings from my three-year-old niece, but warmth and stuffiness were rising somewhere in my respiratory system, ...
Tempting FATE
In the nearly two years since FATE Brewing has been open and brewing they have garnered numerous accolades, including being named one of 10 New Breweries to Watch by Bon Appétit in 2014, and winning a gold medal for their Laimas Kölsch Style Ale at this year’s Great ...
Drink This: WeldWerks Brewing’s Prost Malone
Everyone has a favorite, and Denver Nuggets’ head coach Michael Malone is a fan of the Greeley brewery’s iconic Juicy Bits — he name-dropped...
Know your brew: Oktoberfest/Märzen
It all started with a wedding, specifically, the marriage of Ludwig, Bavaria’s future king, and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810. All...


















