Drink

Held every winter high up in the Rockies, the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival is one of the year’s premier beer events. “It’s largely a brewers’ festival,”...

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 ...

Everyone has a favorite, and Denver Nuggets’ head coach Michael Malone is a fan of the Greeley brewery’s iconic Juicy Bits — he name-dropped...

Beer Here! Brewing in the New West is the latest exhibit to open at the History Colorado Center in Denver, and it tells the...

Whiskey, beer and wine aren’t the only things we like to drink in Boulder County. What about the coffee and tea purveyors that keep...

You may have noticed a new byline on this column last week. The prolific and illustrious Michael J. Casey left a big growler to...

Expecting a beer, we talked at length about blue cheese. “As opposed to something like Brie, blue cheese matches the strong flavor of an IPA and so it enhances the taste for both,” Amy Newell-Large says. Part brewer, part bartender and part teacher at Niwot’s Powder...

Your brother-in-law is back in town. You love him, sure, but the guy is a bonafide beer geek, and he’s always looking for something...

The award-winning spirits of Denver's Ironton Distillery

Weeks before we even conceived of a tour of Boulder County’s breweries, I made an uncomfortable discovery: When the Boulder Weekly staff goes out to eat — which is pretty often as we’re all wealthy and have tons of time — we’re the loud table...

A staple of downtown Boulder, farm-to-table bar Bramble & Hare has reopened on 13th Street after a long, COVID-related absence. Rekindling a love for...

We’re two full weeks into Mountain Sun’s Stout Month and the beers aren’t getting any lighter. Southern Sun recently rolled out their Girl Scout...