Drink
So you want to open a brewery
It happens all the time: You’ve made the umpteenth batch of homebrew, and it tastes pretty good. Your friends are encouraging, and your spouse...
New in brew: Picks for Collaboration Fest
On March 16, Two Parts and the Colorado Brewers Guild will host the Collaboration Beer Festival down in Denver’s Hyatt Regency. With an aim...
Know your brew: Blue Moon Brewing Company
Baseball is back, which allows us the perfect opportunity to explore one of the only beers ever to be born at the ballpark: Blue...
Boulder Beer relaunches with new look and talk of a new...
Boulder Beer has some staying power. Despite management of Colorado’s first independent craft brewery switching hands last year, and despite the closure of its...
Digging for gold
Erie may not be the correct spelling, but it’s the perfect word for the experience. On a chilly, October evening, the dark storefronts and empty sidewalks of this old town strip of the small East Boulder/Weld County town didn’t need much in the way of Halloween ...
Tour de brew: Cellar West Artisan Ales
In its former location, Cellar West Artisan Ales, one of Boulder County’s smallest breweries, was not happened upon by accident. Located on the edge...
Tour de brew: Wrapping up Stout Month
There are many pleasures to discover during Stout Month, but new beers and new breweries are chief among them. For the past four years,...
Follow the seasons
To celebrate National Cocktail Day — March 24 — we spoke with a couple of local cocktail connoisseurs, as well as the 2022 U.S....
Drink This: Featherweight Pale Ale @ Cannonball Creek Brewing Company
Eight years ago, two Mountain Sun brewers (Brian Hutchinson and Jason Stengl) left Boulder for Golden and opened up Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in...
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,...
The great forgotten Italian red
Judging by Boulder County menus, wine shelves and conversations, the only two red grapes that matter from Italy are nebbiolo and sangiovese. The only regions that matter for reds, it seems sometimes, are Piedmont and Tuscany...
Prince-worthy findings at Smiling Toad
My brewery tour companion and I approached the door to the Smiling Toad Brewery in Colorado Springs with expectations that were ... let’s call them modest. When I spotted the sign from the street, a little A-frame by a skinny sidewalk that read “brewery” and drew ...
