Drink
The Magical Ingredient
Last year, thirsty Americans enjoyed almost 9.5 million barrels of beer. That’s a lot of beer! Every time one of them cracked a can or popped the top on their favorite brewski, they unknowingly paid homage to the side effects of Humulus lupulus. The amount of ...
‘Where the beer was born’
“We brew beers that 50 percent of the people are going to love and 50 percent of the people are going to hate, and...
Tour de brew: Open Door Brew Co.
Everyone has their specialty. If you’re Coors, it’s banquet beer. If you’re Odd13, it’s hazy IPAs. If you’re Open Door Brew Co., then it’s...
Every dog has its day
As far as drinking buddies go, they don’t come much better than Tobias. He’s always at the bar at SKEYE Brewing in Longmont. As I get deeper into the flight of seven house beers and grow untidy, he’s spilling his drink all over the floor, too. And he doesn’t say a ...
In California, what is old is new again
Arnot-Roberts. Lioco. Matthiasson. Sandhi.
These are just four of the producers that are counteracting the notion that ripeness, butter and oak should define California chardonnay....
Tiny bubbles
It’s easy enough to name the most obvious trends in Boulder County brewing. Three breweries are planning to open this summer in Lafayette; Boulder loves beer that’s heavy on the hops; barrel-aging is big...
Drink This: Featherweight Pale Ale @ Cannonball Creek Brewing Company
Eight years ago, two Mountain Sun brewers (Brian Hutchinson and Jason Stengl) left Boulder for Golden and opened up Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in...
Prince-worthy findings at Smiling Toad
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 ...
Tour de brew: 12Degree Brewing
The holidays aren’t here yet but the temperature has dipped, lights decorate Louisville’s Historic Downtown District and the ice rink is chilled and ready...
Boulder Weekly beer tour
Oskar Blues’ latest venture is, at first glance, a rather odd mash-up: Bikes, tacos and tequila. Oh, and beer, of course...
Brewing change
Some breweries make beer. Some make beer... and change.
Team Left Hand, a group of employees and supporters of Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing, recently announced...
New brews in brew news
Cross-promotion is good marketing, something the folks down at West Flanders Brewing in Boulder are clearly trying to take advantage of with a newly released American style porter, Recreational Smoke...
