Drink

Know your brew: Brettanomyces

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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Ah, October: shorter days and longer nights help make for more excuses to start drinking earlier. Lucky for you, Boulder County has plenty of...