Drink
Magic is in the air at Shine
Much is made of Boulder County, and particularly the city, being different from the rest of the country. I can’t speak to that as a whole, but I can say it’s pretty different from my hometown in Northeast Ohio. And nowhere was that more apparent than Shine Restaurant...
Efficient drinking
In the State of Craft Beer, there is no shortage of beer festivals. And for good reasons: not only do the featured breweries get...
Festival season is coming
It’s possible the seemingly week-in, week-out slate of 2017 summer beer festivals conditioned you to crave the unique experience of tasting dozens of brews...
Drink this: BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse’s Hop Harvest IPA
Beer is ephemeral. That’s especially true during the waning days of summer with breweries flooding the market with harvest ales, fresh hop beers, festbier,...
New in brew: Payette Brewing Company
There’s a new gunslinger in town: Payette Brewing Company — Idaho’s biggest brewer, according to Bob Hubler of Boise Beer Culture — and its...
Running down a dream
It’s all about you guys!” Great American Beer Festival director Nancy Johnson yelled to the brewers packed into the Denver Convention Center’s Mile High...
Tour de brew: Walnut Brewery
Everybody needs a nice neighborhood bar. Friendly faces behind the taps, a reliable menu for when you can’t make up your mind and a...
Know your brew: Märzen 2019
According to the
calendar, fall doesn’t begin until the autumnal equinox (Sept. 23), and
Oktoberfest doesn’t start until 10:45 a.m. on the third Saturday in September
(Sept....
You know what you should do? You should homebrew!
Thanks to a bureaucratic oversight during the repeal of Prohibition, homebrewing remained illegal in the U.S. until 1978. Many practiced and taught the hobby—notably...
Know your brew: Lambic
Few brewing nations hold a special place in brewers’ and drinker’s hearts quite like Belgium. From sour Flemish ales to high-octane Trappist brews, Belgium...
Gemini’s first is an impressive start
Sometimes we throw around this word “unique” and it ends up being more self-congratulatory than anything else. Uniquely self-congratulatory, that is. And we do...
Tour de brew: Backcountry Pizza & Tap House
There are more than 6,300 breweries in the U.S., according to the Brewers Association, a nonprofit that counts and supports craft breweries. And while...


















