Drink
Barley, hops and gluten
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently sent a camera crew out on the streets of LA to ask people who didn’t eat gluten just what it is...
Bucca-nerd
The more of his rum I drank, the more he looked like Bill Gates. Greg Starr leads our little group of reporters around his new distillery in Gunbarrel, eagerly explaining the process by which he produces white rum. Starr has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, owns 25...
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...
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,...
Holiday beer guide
Why is it that most holiday beers are as dark as the early nights of winter, contain warming spices and have alcohol levels approaching that of wine? It’s likely because these complex-flavored beers pair well with the heavy meals and endless desserts we enjoy around ...
Let them drink wine
Gutenberg’s printing press brought religion into the homes of millions. Copernicus, Galileo and Newton put science into the minds of even more. Fleming’s penicillin saved countless lives. But the island of Crete gave the world something much more valuable than all ...
Colorado beer takes the world by storm
On May 6, the beer world held its version of the Oscars. Every other year the World Beer Cup doles out its prestigious awards...
Hello, happy place
Five minutes into my visit to Our Mutual Friend, the bartender takes the needle off the record and switches the stereo input to his Mac laptop. The first hi-hat clicks and falsetto wails of “A Life of Possibilities” come out, and I love this bar...
Fall beer news
When Boulder Weekly spoke with Eric Wallace, vice chairman of the Brewers Association (BA) board of directors, about the Boulder-based trade group’s push for...
New in brew: Three dry-hopped ales to seek
The haze craze is all the rage, and not even the changing of the seasons looks to slow these turbid brews down. And though...
Knuckle Puck Brewing
Located just east of I-25 and State Highway 66, in the murky region that is sometimes Longmont, sometimes Mead, Knuckle Puck Brewing brings kombucha...


















