Drink

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 ...

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...

Drink what you love — and what you don’t

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Brewery taprooms are one of the very few places — dentists’ offices being the other I can think of — where people often ask for things they won’t like...

Over a barrel

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Sam Green of Boulder Beer would love to make sure everyone got to taste the brewery’s wine barrel-aged beers, Xena Warrior Princess and Patchouka Sunrise. He really would. But it’s just not that easy anymore. “Those were extremely popular when we released them at the...

Yeast on Main Street

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Louisville’s Main Street is such an ideal small-town drag that it looks like it was pulled from The Truman Show. But it now has full credentials as a Colorado Main Street, as on June 26 it picked up the missing ingredient: a craft brewery. Belgian-centric brewery ...

Fruitful

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The previous two years of wine production in Colorado were poor. There was some doubt many of the vineyards and farms in Colorado’s high country, along the Colorado River, would recover this year. However, this year brought optimal growing weather for nearly all of ...

Where is your beer from?

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Attitudes are changing in the craft beer community as consumers’ insatiable thirst for new beer drives constant brewery expansion. There are now more than 3,000 breweries operating in the U.S. — the most since 1870 — and the tide of opening shows no sign of slowing. ...

Arvada ales

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I miss my newspaper friends...

Lots to learn: The beer tour hits Wynkoop Brewing Company

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I can’t talk about Wynkoop Brewing Company without talking about history...

Mastering the craft

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The charming little town of Berthoud lies just 30 minutes from Boulder but it feels worlds, even decades, away...

Trouble brewing

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Y’all better enjoy your stout...

Winter’s miracle cocktail

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Flying 2,000 miles across the country back into Denver on Monday, I started to sniffle. Maybe it was the recycled air of the airplane, or the holiday snot-wipings from my three-year-old niece, but warmth and stuffiness were rising somewhere in my respiratory system, ...