Drink
Tour de brew: Shine Brewing Co.
Science is a beautiful thing. It has taken us to the moon and back, found cures for all sorts of diseases and connected every...
With wine, endless treasures await
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...
Summer of suds
Boulder County’s craft beer explosion isn’t done yet — or that’s the assumption for the owners of a new wave of breweries-in-planning that are shooting to open this year. We count at least eight breweries that have made some degree of progress toward opening...
Tour de brew: All the brew
On August 20, Downtown Boulder Inc. put on their third annual Boulder Craft Beer Festival, and it was a hit. They couldn’t have picked...
Touring Colorado’s beer community
If Nikki Minette is competitive, she certainly doesn’t show it...
All together now
In Northeast Ohio, where I’m from, Great Lakes Brewing Company is pretty much the beginning and the end of the craft beer conversation. Maybe nobody else makes good craft beer — I wouldn’t know, I moved when I was 18 — or maybe everyone’s too hooked on Bud Light to ...
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...
Celebrating balance in Pinot Noir
If a Pinot Noir is overwhelmed with fruit — or, indeed, by any element, like oak, fruit extraction, fruit ripeness or alcohol — you’re...
This summer, make room for chillable, gulpable reds
Greetings from Ocean City, New Jersey. This past Saturday, I checked into a rental house for the week with some friends. Since Ocean City...
So long, Boulder, and thanks for all the beer
Everything dies, as Bruce Springsteen tells us in “Atlantic City.” That includes pumpkin ales, which have a special place in the hearts of some of us at the paper...
