Drink

The great forgotten Italian red

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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...

Mastering the craft

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The charming little town of Berthoud lies just 30 minutes from Boulder but it feels worlds, even decades, away...

Drink of the Week: Ska Brewing’s Malbec Stout

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Grape versus grain? Who cares, Ska Brewing has the best of both in one beverage: Malbec Stout. Brewed with both Cluster hops and malbec grape must,...

From jam to whiskey 

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Among the things that drew Chad Staehly to Colorado in the early ’90s was good beer. Then a student at Colorado State University in...

SMaSh Brew

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Making beer at home doesn’t have to be a daunting task. If you’ve ever made a pot of soup, chances are you already have...

The edge of heaven

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Yo, America: Stop making beer worse...

Is this the end of craft beer?

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Don’t worry; beer ain’t going anywhere. Neither is small and local, but craft beer — as a whole and as a movement — could...

Yeast on Main Street

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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 ...

Tour de brew: Busey Brews

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Nederland’s newest brewery isn’t even a year old, and it’s already a winner. At least that’s what Boulder Weekly Best Of voters think: The...

Pairing chocolate and beer is art and science

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Beer and chocolate pairings aren’t exactly new, but they are growing in popularity...

Magic is in the air at Shine

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Much is made of Boulder County, and particularly the city, being different from the rest of the country. I can’t speak to that as a whole, but I can say it’s pretty different from my hometown in Northeast Ohio. And nowhere was that more apparent than Shine Restaurant...

Profiles in brew: Aaron Stueck of BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

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If you don’t think a publicly traded brewpub based out of California can be a hotbed of Boulder brewing research, then you haven’t been to...