Drink
Tour de brew: Wrapping up Stout Month
There are many pleasures to discover during Stout Month, but new beers and new breweries are chief among them. For the past four years,...
Tour de brew: Wild Woods Brewery
Why bother burying the lead: Wild Woods’ Nectarine Thyme Saison (5.9% ABV) is one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Full stop. It’s...
The tale of Champagne Charlie
Husband-and-wife writing team Don and Petie Kladstrup have written about wine and Champagne in a few bestselling books, including Wine & War: The French,...
Colorado riesling is the truth
Though 2020 continues to pose challenges for Colorado’s winemakers — from wildfires to frosts to tourism declines (see more in Feast, page 33) —...
Know your brew: Barley wine
Right off the bat, barley wine confounds drinkers. Is it beer? Is it wine? Is it both? And is it spelled as one word...
Much ado about poison
In late March, two couples filed a class-action lawsuit in California alleging that some of the nation’s top-selling low-cost wines contain unsafe levels of arsenic. “Just a glass or two” of wine from producers like Cupcake, Charles Shaw, Franzia, Rex Goliath and ...
‘There’s always room for great beer’
Without sounding too hyperbolic, COVID-19 was the largest disruption to the brewing industry since Prohibition: government-mandated stay-at-home orders, no on-premise consumption, no crowding of...
Rethinking the tasting note
This first wine is a fighter; he’s loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side.” As I led a recent seminar,...
Boulder County brings home the hardware and the cachet
“On behalf of the Brewers Association staff, I’d like to thank you all for being here,” Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Director Nancy Johnson...
Tour de brew: Rueben’s Burger Bistro
The Brewers Association — the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent brewers — counts over 6,300 breweries in America, a figure that...