Drink

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...

Know your brew: Weissbier

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Though the calendar hasn’t turned on summer, nor has the temperature dipped in humidity or heat, the changing of the seasons has started to...

New beers, officially

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Maybe you’re at a local craft brewery and you come across something wacky — say a cotton candy stout or a corn saison or...

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...

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: Great Divide Brewing Company

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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...

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...

Tour de brew: Oktoberfest

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From tailgates to tailored beer dinners, there is a good deal of tradition in beer drinking. And when it comes to hoisting a stein or six,...

From their hand to yours

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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

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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....

Tour de brew: 300 Suns Brewing

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For years I worked a tasting counter at a winery in Los Angeles. It was a fairly sizable operation with a strong output, and...

Went the fest well?

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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...