Drink
A Square Peg for a Spare Keg
It’s pretty common these days for Colorado breweries to tout Colorado grains and malts in their offerings. Even Coors built its back on Colorado-grown...
Finally, a definitive guide to Napa Valley
When Kelli White, one of the nation’s most impressive sommeliers, realized that her bookshelf lacked a definitive guide to Napa Valley, she simply wrote one...
It’s medal time
The first Great American Beer Festival (GABF) was held in the Harvest House Hotel in Boulder in 1982. The motley collection of 22 breweries brought 40 beers, and the 800 people in attendance can say they sampled the beginning of the craft beer revolution...
New beard-themed brewery in Longmont
On a below-freezing Tuesday evening, half of the taproom at Großen (pronounced ‘grossen’) Bart in Longmont is filled with smiling people sitting in front of can-shaped glasses adorned with pictures of various facial hair styles and sampler trays in the shape of ...
Where to drink the love away
Famed Colorado yahoo Mojo Nixon once sang, “Everybody knows that beer ain’t drinkin’.” Apparently the folks at downtown Boulder’s West Flanders Brewing Company agree a bit, as they will be launching a new brunch series in which the beer is there for altogether ...
Drink this: Twisted Pine Brewing Co.’s Billy’s Chilies
It’s hard out here for a beer, and your favorites need your loyalty. Forget tasting your way through a slew of seasonals and small-batch...
Greenhouse gas
About the only thing Boulderites like to flaunt as much as the city’s plethora of microbreweries is its interest in sustainability. Too bad then that the brewing process creates a butt-ton of carbon dioxide (approximately 100 tons for a 10,000 barrel-ayear brewery), ...
Profiles in brew: Aaron Stueck of BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
If you don’t think a publicly traded brewpub based out of California
can be a hotbed of Boulder brewing research, then you haven’t been to...
Tour de brew: BRU handbuilt ales & eats
The story of America is the story of rebels, from the revolutionaries who conceived this nation out of the bones of the Enlightenment to...
’Ello gov’nor
Crossing into the dim, lantern-lit interior of the Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery is like stepping back in time...
A family malt and a farm brew
There is a sort of alchemy that goes into brewing and distilling—grain, water, yeast and time yield something beautiful and delicious.
Down in Alamosa, brothers...