Drink
Yeast on Main Street
Louisville’s Main Street is such an ideal small-town drag that it looks like it was pulled from The Truman Show. But it now has full credentials as a Colorado Main Street, as on June 26 it picked up the missing ingredient: a craft brewery. Belgian-centric brewery ...
Sports and wine
About 50 million cases of beer were purchased on Super Bowl Sunday. It’s no wonder Anheuser-Busch, America’s largest brewer, purchased three and a half minutes of ad time during the big game...
To tap or not to tap?
The contrasting mission of college academics and college sports is about to be highlighted at the University of Colorado on Saturday, Sept. 13 with the Buff ’s first home game of the season...
Colorado whiskey is gettin’ good
Bourbon aficionado Fred Minnick recently placed Boulder Spirits’ 5-Year Straight Bourbon as the number 10-ranked whiskey released in the U.S. in 2022.
“The biggest surprise...
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...
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...
Much ado about poison
In late March, two couples filed a class-action lawsuit in California alleging that some of the nation’s top-selling low-cost wines contain unsafe levels of arsenic. “Just a glass or two” of wine from producers like Cupcake, Charles Shaw, Franzia, Rex Goliath and ...
Rest easy, wine lovers
One glass of cabernet sauvignon was described as “powerful and heavy.” Another was described as “subtle and refined.” The only difference? The music that was playing while people drank the wine...
Tour de brew: Upslope Brewery
Brewery touring in Boulder isn’t just enjoyable, it’s eclectic. Boulder is home to many different walks of life, and for each, there is a...
Summer of suds
Boulder County’s craft beer explosion isn’t done yet — or that’s the assumption for the owners of a new wave of breweries-in-planning that are shooting to open this year. We count at least eight breweries that have made some degree of progress toward opening...
Colorado beers get royal treatment out of state
Colorado residents would do well to keep in mind how lucky they are...
Profiles in brew: Tom Horst of Crystal Springs Brewing Company
You don’t have to be an economist to see that trends drive marketing. And when it comes to craft beer, that trend is “new”...
