Drink
A family malt and a farm brew
There is a sort of alchemy that goes into brewing and distilling—grain, water, yeast and time yield something beautiful and delicious.
Down in Alamosa, brothers...
Profiles in Brew: Gordon Knight
If you’re a dedicated
craft beer drinker, you’ll probably recognize the names of Adam Avery, Sam
Calagione, maybe even Ken Grossman. But what about the names:...
Ship off to a rum-drinker’s paradise
Swaylo’s Tiki is, first and foremost, an experience, an homage to a different era and a temple to all things tiki. It will take...
Profiles in brew: Eric Blythe of Collision Brewing Company
If you’re looking for Longmont’s newest brewery, you won’t find it operating out of a small garage in an industrial part of town or along...
From jam to whiskey
Among the things that drew Chad Staehly to Colorado in the early ’90s was good beer. Then a student at Colorado State University in...
A Square Peg for a Spare Keg
It’s pretty common these days for Colorado breweries to tout Colorado grains and malts in their offerings. Even Coors built its back on Colorado-grown...
Rich in whiskey
"I tell people that we’re rich in whiskey, but poor in cash,” jokes Boulder Spirits (5311 Western Ave., #180, Boulder) owner and founder Alastair...
Boulder Beer relaunches with new look and talk of a new...
Boulder Beer has some staying power. Despite management of Colorado’s first independent craft brewery switching hands last year, and despite the closure of its...
Margaritas on the go
At the age of 27, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, CEO and co-founder of Damn Right Cocktails, is one of the youngest female business owners in the spirits...
A hobby run amok
Adam Avery was at a boss’s Super Bowl Party in 1991 when he had his “a-ha” moment. He had just been accepted to law...
The tale of Champagne Charlie
Husband-and-wife writing team Don and Petie Kladstrup have written about wine and Champagne in a few bestselling books, including Wine & War: The French,...
