Drink
Are modern sommeliers educators?
I was out past midnight one recent Wednesday, despite a meeting early the next morning. When I headed home, my route took me through Washington,...
Tour de brew: Beer festival season
On June 8, Avery Brewing Company celebrated its second annual Avery Invitational, its anniversary party with an invited 60 guest breweries pouring over 200...
Profiles in brew: Ashleigh Carter of Bierstadt Lagerhaus
Backcountry Pizza & Tap House, one of Boulder County’s premier establishments for craft beer consumption, is an embarrassment of riches. With 68 brews on...
Talkin’ terpenes
If you’ve been following along these past few weeks (Boulder Weekly, Aug. 12, 19 and 26), then you know we’ve been talking to Keith Villa...
Boulder-based Arryved reimagines beer point of sale
Before March, you probably didn’t give a lick about brewery point of sale, did you? You might have noticed that each place was slightly...
Tour de brew: Outworld Brewing
You’d be forgiven if you happened to cruise past Outworld Brewing’s gray stone storefront and figured there was nothing special inside. Located on Vista...
Tour de brew: Fate Brewing Company
I don’t know when the word “accessible” became a dirty word, but read any movie/music/book review and it always seems like a slight. The snoots...
New in brew: It’s Stout Month
It’s a silver anniversary for Mountain Sun’s Stout Month — the brewpub’s annual celebration of roasty, toasty, malty goodness. For the next 28 days,...
Over a barrel
Sam Green of Boulder Beer would love to make sure everyone got to taste the brewery’s wine barrel-aged beers, Xena Warrior Princess and Patchouka Sunrise. He really would. But it’s just not that easy anymore. “Those were extremely popular when we released them at the...
Beer in the time of COVID
Last month the Brewers Association — the Boulder-based trade organization representing small and independent breweries — announced they had laid off 23% of their...
This is 40: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
It was 5 a.m. on November 15, 1980, when Ken Grossman flipped on the lights in his small converted warehouse in Chico, California. Before...
Savoring growth at Abbott & Wallace
Cocktail menus can be a challenge for craft distilleries. There needs to be a balance between something delicious to entice customers through the doors...

















