Drink
Oktoberfest 2021
One of the beauties of beer is that it can be made year-round. Unlike wine and cider, beer isn't beholden to a harvest. But...
All together now
In Northeast Ohio, where I’m from, Great Lakes Brewing Company is pretty much the beginning and the end of the craft beer conversation. Maybe nobody else makes good craft beer — I wouldn’t know, I moved when I was 18 — or maybe everyone’s too hooked on Bud Light to ...
Bitchin’ brews
This week’s beer tour takes us back to a time when pants could moonlight as parachutes and Frankie asked us to relax. (Full disclosure: I was born in 1985, so I’m not actually qualified to make any statements about life in the ’80s. Without Googling, I couldn’t ...
Drink this: Green Mountain Beer Company’s Whiskey Barrel-Aged Rauch Bock
The 2020 version of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is underway, which means if you haven’t picked up your GABF passport yet, you...
Tour de brew: Shine Brewing Co.
Science is a beautiful thing. It has taken us to the moon and back, found cures for all sorts of diseases and connected every...
Tour de brew: Rueben’s Burger Bistro
The Brewers Association — the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent brewers — counts over 6,300 breweries in America, a figure that...
A drink to celebrate
The lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-de- Forge et ...
Tour de brew: Shoes & Brews
There is something that has been weighing on my mind these days, and it’s my weight. More and more of it seems to show...
Big air and bountiful beers
If you can’t make it to the mountains this weekend to celebrate the spring snow, then head out to Longmont for the third annual Hops Handrails event, presented by Lefthand Brewing this Saturday, March 28...
‘A hobby gone berserk’
Back 25 years ago, covering the beer scene wouldn’t have taken too long. Boulder Beer was well-established on Wilderness Place, Walnut Brewery and Oasis...
Local rosé options to consider with summer approaching
Pop in a wine store this Memorial Day weekend, or after, and you’re liable to see entire racks and sections transformed into rosé sections....