Drink
New beers, officially
Maybe you’re at a local craft brewery and you come across something wacky — say a cotton candy stout or a corn saison or...
‘The Water Knife’ and Dale’s Pale Ale
With the sun blaring, it is the perfect afternoon for reading, but not for sitting in the sun. I’m 60 pages away from finishing...
Drink of the Week: Finkel & Garf Brewing Co.’s Dry Hopped...
Breweries aren’t the
only ones who get in on the collaboration game. Restaurants do too, and in
Denver’s Washington Park district, Uncle has been serving up...
Tour de brew: Wonderland Brewing Co.
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...
Drink this: Oskar Blues Brewery’s BA20 Vol. 1: All Monde
The first in what will hopefully be a lengthy series of barrel-aged imperial stouts, Oskar Blues’ BA20 Vol. 1: All Monde is exceptional. Aged...
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...
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: Great Divide Brewing Company
It’s high time for conferences in the Centennial State because down in Denver, the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America (CBC) returns to the...
From their hand to yours
In the glass, it’s a thing of beauty. Inside a crystal clear liquid, the color of harvest straw, a swirl of tiny bubbles gathers...
New in brew: Bridge beers
It’s springtime along the Front Range, and that can only mean one thing: 70 degrees and sunny one day, 30 and snowy the next....
Went the fest well?
A virtual beer fest? How’s that gonna work?”
So went the refrain once the Brewers Association announced that their crown jewel, the annual Great American...
Tour de brew: 300 Suns Brewing
For years I worked a tasting counter at a winery in Los Angeles. It was a fairly sizable operation with a strong output, and...


















