Drink
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...
Going hopless
Even on the last leg of our Boulder County beer tour — a trip up to Nederland to visit both Wild Mountain and Very Nice breweries — we’re learning something new, courtesy of Very Nice co-owner Susan Green...
Colorado beers get royal treatment out of state
Colorado residents would do well to keep in mind how lucky they are...
World Beer Cup winners…
In last week’s column, we told you about some of the local entries in the World Beer Cup, which was held last week in Denver...
A drink to celebrate
The lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-de- Forge et ...
Big love for big Champagne
Wine writers love explaining why Champagne and other sparkling wines deserve a spot at the dinner table all year long...
More malt magic
I offered my apologies to Oskar Blues back in March, when I made my first trip to the Tasty Weasel and Grill & Brew and learned there’s a lot more to Boulder County’s brewing bad boys than hop-forward beers like Dale’s and Deviant Dale’s...
Bitchin’ brews
This week’s beer tour takes us back to a time when pants could moonlight as parachutes and Frankie asked us to relax. (Full disclosure: I was born in 1985, so I’m not actually qualified to make any statements about life in the ’80s. Without Googling, I couldn’t ...
A walk in the Woods
We aren’t quite done yet, but it’s hard not to think of Wild Woods Brewery as dessert...


















