Drink

Stepping into Lyons’ Oskar Blues Grill & Brew is like stepping into the past. Wood dominates; the décor is cluttered, cozy and a little dusty. Stickers...

Thanksgiving isn’t just one of the biggest food holidays on the calendar; it’s also one of the biggest drinking holidays, the time when hosts...

Expecting a beer, we talked at length about blue cheese. “As opposed to something like Brie, blue cheese matches the strong flavor of an IPA and so it enhances the taste for both,” Amy Newell-Large says. Part brewer, part bartender and part teacher at Niwot’s Powder...

“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...

It’s possible the seemingly week-in, week-out slate of 2017 summer beer festivals conditioned you to crave the unique experience of tasting dozens of brews...

There’s so much more opportunity in the lager world than there is in the ale world, right now,” Ryan Wibby, co-founder and brewmaster of...

All of the flavor, none of the regret

Started by Bill and Laura Lodge 20 years ago in Vail, Colorado, Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines has become one of the year’s premier beer festivals....

Editor’s note: Longtime Boulder Weekly contributor Michael J. Casey has written a definitive history of the local craft beer scene, Boulder County Beer: A...

If you’re like me and enjoy perusing the various nooks and crannies of the Colorado craft beer scene, then you know that the best-kept...

Where do beer styles come from? Sure, that pint you’re drinking may be made down the street, but where does the style come from?...

Every week brings beer releases, anniversary parties and a festival or two, but there are ancillary aspects of beer that sometimes fall between the...