Drink

So long, Boulder, and thanks for all the beer

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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

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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

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Colorado residents would do well to keep in mind how lucky they are...

World Beer Cup winners…

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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

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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

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

More malt magic

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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...

Maptastic

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The newly- 21ers out there may not believe it, but there was once a time when those of us aged more than 25 years — you know, “old farts” — didn’t have a fully interactive, voiceactivated GPS in our pocket at all times. We had to carry around giant, totally ...

Bitchin’ brews

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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 ...

At Longmont’s Oskar Blues, a malty mea culpa

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I’d like to apologize...

The cucumber crisis

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I admit I wasn’t optimistic...

A walk in the Woods

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We aren’t quite done yet, but it’s hard not to think of Wild Woods Brewery as dessert...