Drink
Crafty crafting
It’s kind of surprising that Eric Huber and Marty Lettow poured me samples straight from the fermenting tanks...
This hound will hunt
Some people just don’t know when to stop; they keep on trying despite the roadblocks that are tossed in their path. Spirit Hound Distillers in Lyons is full of people like that. In their quest to create perfect Colorado Straight Whiskey they have faced and overcome ...
Upslope’s bacon grätzer is weirdly good
Is it possible to create an elegant bacon beer? Should we, as consumers, even want an elegant bacon beer? The answers to these questions...
Tour de brew: Ale throughout history
With 30 beers to choose
from, a visit to Avery Brewing Co.’s taproom can be either a daunting
proposition or an endless array of excitement —...
‘Everyone is not here’
“Why beer?”
That’s the question Dr. J. Jackson-Beckham, the Brewers Association’s (BA) first-ever diversity ambassador, posed to the audience at the 2021 Craft Brewers Conference...
Keeping everyone happy
We take on everybody,” Keith Atkins, operations and logistics manager of 5280PKG says. “If a customer needs us to mix 50 cases ... no...
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...
Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40
Nearly 40,000 beaming faces filled every corner of the Denver Convention Center Oct. 6-8 for the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). The event marks...
Raspberry Provincial from funkwerks works
Forget one-day blizzards that drop over a foot of snow and knock out power across Boulder County. If we drink summer beers, it will...
Fake wine takes a toll on everyday consumers
Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan’s home in March 2013, they discovered thousands of fake wine labels and hundreds of bottles and ...
Know your brew: Lager
Much like penicillin and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, lager’s genesis was accidental. As the story goes, lager was discovered in Bavaria (or neighboring Bohemia,...
Tour de brew: Upslope Brewing Company — Flatiron Park
Snuggled between U.S. 36
and the multicolored pocket neighborhoods of North Boulder, Upslope Brewing
Company’s Lee Hill facility is just what you’d expect from a craft...


















