Drink
Know your brew: Brettanomyces
If you’re a dedicated craft beer drinker, it’s going to happen sooner or later. No matter your poison, be it India pale ale, stout...
Tour de brew: Front Range Brewing Company
At 400 W. South Boulder Road, in the unassuming and currently under-renovation strip mall, stands Lafayette’s first brewery, the Front Range Brewing Company. Outside,...
Tour de brew: Very Nice Brewing Co.
A visit to a brewery can range anywhere from magnificent to abysmal with most falling somewhere in between. The average skews closer to the positive...
Tour de brew: Hogshead Brewery
There’s no end of local and unique beer along the Front Range. But
variety and experimentation isn’t just the sign of a mature market; it...
Anatomy of a collaboration
Let’s put a pair of leather chaps in the mash, or cactus or tumbleweed.” That was the first idea Jason Buehler, head brewer of Oskar Blues in Lyons, had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a collaboration beer made not with another brewery, but a honky tonk band. No chaps ...
Tour de brew: West Flanders Brewing Co.
When it comes to beer, nobody does it like Belgium. The small country — just 11 million people covering 12,000 square miles — is...
Try this week: Thai Salad @ Roadhouse Boulder Depot
The Roadhouse Boulder Depot is a good place. Located in a 100-plus-year-old train station, the spacious dining room and patio make it suitable for...
In search of a sustainable future
As we approach the season of looking back, two recent reports in the food and beverage world are looking forward.
The first, Good Food 100,...
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...
‘Beer doesn’t just go with chicken wings and a pretzel’
Now in its eighth year, Chef & Brew Festival is one of Colorado’s premier beer and food events — a flourishing segment in culinary...
Building a bar, one ingredient at a time
A negroni, that simple classic of gin, vermouth and amaro, is still a negroni if you swap out the gin (though sometimes you add...
New [to do] in brew
Ah, October: shorter days and longer nights help make for more excuses to start drinking earlier. Lucky for you, Boulder County has plenty of...