Drink

Embracing the Rhone Rangers

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Raise your hand if customers regularly come in and ask for a good Cabernet.” I recently issued this directive to a group of 40 sommeliers,...

Pumpkin beer is here

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Pumpkin ales are as highly anticipated as any seasonal beer, neck-and-neck with Christmas ales...

Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards

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Finding Shane Finley was easy. Via email, we planned to meet for lunch at Bourbon Steak in Washington, D.C., a restaurant that’s housed at the...

Tour de brew: Fate Brewing Company

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I don’t know when the word “accessible” became a dirty word, but read any movie/music/book review and it always seems like a slight. The snoots...

Greenhouse gas

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About the only thing Boulderites like to flaunt as much as the city’s plethora of microbreweries is its interest in sustainability. Too bad then that the brewing process creates a butt-ton of carbon dioxide (approximately 100 tons for a 10,000 barrel-ayear brewery), ...

Cheers

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In 1990, Frank Day had a vision to create craft beer and great food, all served in one location. So Day created Walnut Brewery in the heart of Boulder...

Classic refreshment

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When the stars of the tennis world battled it out on the courts of Wimbledon a few weeks ago, viewers not only be turned their heads left and right following the action on the court, but up and down as well, as gallons upon gallons of Pimm’s No. 1 Cups were thrown ...

Farewell, Planet Porter

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This week’s column will say goodbye to BW beer writer Steve Weishampel, who has moved on to Chicago, presumably to take his beer writing career to the next level by joining the SNL Superfans, or if that doesn’t work out, stalking Oprah...

This summer, make room for chillable, gulpable reds

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Greetings from Ocean City, New Jersey. This past Saturday, I checked into a rental house for the week with some friends. Since Ocean City...

Tour de brew: Shine Brewing Co.

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Science is a beautiful thing. It has taken us to the moon and back, found cures for all sorts of diseases and connected every...

Tempting FATE

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In the nearly two years since FATE Brewing has been open and brewing they have garnered numerous accolades, including being named one of 10 New Breweries to Watch by Bon Appétit in 2014, and winning a gold medal for their Laimas Kölsch Style Ale at this year’s Great ...

With wine, endless treasures await

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On January 12, 2007, one of the world’s greatest violin players set up shop in the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, D.C. Wearing...