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Tour de brew: Mountain Sun’s Stout Month part 2
As we discussed last week, Mountain Sun’s Stout Month — a month-long celebration of the dark arts — is a Boulder institution at it’s...
The saga continues
Jim Sonn, owner of the Pearl Street Pub, had every reason to be apprehensive on July 16. The downtown bar he owns was up for the annual renewal of its liquor license. Normally, it can be handled by mail. But after Boulder’s Beverage Licensing Authority (which ...
Drink this: Bootstrap Brewing Co.’s Wreak Havoc Imperial Red Ale
There isn’t a beer style out there that Boulder County brewers can’t handle. But, if we had to pick one where they truly excel...
Profiles in brew: Michael Memsic and Chris Coyne of Sanitas Brewing...
When it comes to cities, few have a magnet buried deep underground quite like Boulder. Take the two co-founders of Sanitas Brewing Company, Michael...
The Distilling Dames of Dry Land
We just want to hang out and drink together,” says Kelly Dressman, brand manager at Dry Land Distillers in Longmont.
Dressman refers to the sense...
Prince-worthy findings at Smiling Toad
My brewery tour companion and I approached the door to the Smiling Toad Brewery in Colorado Springs with expectations that were ... let’s call them modest. When I spotted the sign from the street, a little A-frame by a skinny sidewalk that read “brewery” and drew ...
‘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...
Colorado’s beer scene is getting crowded
When Upslope brewing opened its doors in 2008, it was the first new brewery in Boulder in over a decade. Its approach was simple: wellcrafted approachable beer served in cans; the labels simply stated the style: pale ale, IPA, craft lager, etc. It has grown to one of...
New in brew: It’s Stout Month
It’s a silver anniversary for Mountain Sun’s Stout Month — the brewpub’s annual celebration of roasty, toasty, malty goodness. For the next 28 days,...
Spring beer news
World Beer Cup results
At this year’s Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America — held in May in Nashville, Tennessee — 2,515 breweries from 66...
Tour de brew: BRU handbuilt ales & eats
The story of America is the story of rebels, from the revolutionaries who conceived this nation out of the bones of the Enlightenment to...