Drink
Tour de brew: Walter’s Brewery & Taproom
Maybe airplanes aren’t the way to go right now, but there’s plenty of Colorado out there to discover via the open road. And about...
Getting the word out on Mortal XXX
"I thought that Mortal Kombucha was trying to be a hard kombucha, probably from day one,” Becca Schepps tells Boulder Weekly. You know Schepps: she’s the...
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...
‘A hobby gone berserk’
Back 25 years ago, covering the beer scene wouldn’t have taken too long. Boulder Beer was well-established on Wilderness Place, Walnut Brewery and Oasis...
Tour de brew: Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Do we have everything we could possibly want from Oskar Blues?” the waitress asks the table. She means it too.
These days, things are a...
Is this the end of craft beer?
Don’t worry; beer ain’t going anywhere. Neither is small and local, but craft beer — as a whole and as a movement — could...
Westbound & Down Brewing Company
Westbound & Down Brewing Company, the Idaho Springs-based brewery that was dubbed the Great American Beer Festival’s 2019 midsized brewpub of the year, is...
Know your brew: Czech lager
The beer world is replete with traditions: American IPA, English cask bitters, Belgian abbey ales... But none have the distinction, nor cast a longer...
Know your brew: German-style heller bock and maibock
Much like with the seminal Oktoberfest brew, märzen, there is a bit of ceremony that goes along with ushering in maibock drinking season. The...
Vapor Distillery is going big time
Boulder County lost one of its most highly decorated distilleries at the beginning of April, and that is a good thing...
Profiles in Brew: Gordon Knight
If you’re a dedicated
craft beer drinker, you’ll probably recognize the names of Adam Avery, Sam
Calagione, maybe even Ken Grossman. But what about the names:...
