Drink

This week, Odell Brewing kicked off their “cellar series” by releasing The Meddler, an oud bruin ale. There will be six more releases in...

Sixteen years ago, Stephen Tanzer, one of the world’s leading wine critics, described the cabernet sauvignon from Ridge’s 1991 harvest in Monte Bello Vineyard...

Stout Month is upon us. One of Boulder County’s most beloved celebrations of dark beer only seems to grow year after year at the...

Americans are fascinated by New Zealand. Thanks to The Lord of the Rings franchise — and the tourism board’s “100% Pure New Zealand” marketing...

This first wine is a fighter; he’s loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side.” As I led a recent seminar,...

Sometimes, it just seems like the bartender can’t stand you. You’ve made your usual endearing jokes, you’ve kept the outright flirting tasteful and you’ve...

Blaufrankisch. St. Laurent. Zweigelt. The names of these Austrian red grape varieties do nothing to put consumers at ease. Wine is intimidating. And consumers...

Wine writers love explaining why Champagne and other sparkling wines deserve a spot at the dinner table all year long...

When Kelli White, one of the nation’s most impressive sommeliers, realized that her bookshelf lacked a definitive guide to Napa Valley, she simply wrote one...

Beer pong. Flip cup. Quarters. For beer guzzlers, there’s no shortage of ways to make drinking fun. Even if college is solidly in the rearview mirror, most of us can bank on one friend — or several — attempting to shotgun a beer at some point every summer...

Two years have passed since a federal jury convicted Rudy Kurniawan, a prominent wine collector, of fraud for selling counterfeit wines. When the FBI raided Kurniawan’s home in March 2013, they discovered thousands of fake wine labels and hundreds of bottles and ...

When my brother asked me to teach him and some friends about “serious” Burgundy, I was worried. How could I possibly walk them through the Côte d’Or without bankrupting the family...