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Tour de brew: Boulder Beer redux
It’s been a little over a year since we started this tour of Boulder County breweries. Back then, 51 breweries and brewpubs dotted the...
Not fade away
“I don’t know how this is going to work,” Laura Lodge, cofounder of the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival, says matter-of-factly. “We have...
A career in beer
Every homebrewer remembers their first. For Julia Herz, the year was 1991, and the brew was a Scotch ale.
“It was just the best thing...
Tour de Brew: Liquid Mechanics
It’s always important to know which side your bread is buttered on and the Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co. seems to know exactly where that...
Tour de brew: Gravity Brewing
After years of searching, I have finally found a place where I can take my dear friend Paul, a complex man with simple tastes....
Wrangling wild yeast
Terroir. One of my favorite, more romantic words when discussing the intricacies of a beer’s flavor profile. To be able to taste the unique...
Tour de brew: Front Range Brewing Company
At 400 W. South Boulder Road, in the unassuming and currently under-renovation strip mall, stands Lafayette’s first brewery, the Front Range Brewing Company. Outside,...
Drink This: Coors’ Barmen Pilsner
Named after Adolph Coors’ birthplace in Germany, Barmen Pilsner was first brewed by the Golden-based brewery in 1997 for a select few. Restaurants that...
Tour de brew: Romero’s K9 Club & Tap House
Did you know Colorado’s state animal is the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep? Those majestic and rugged rams of the Rockies were bestowed the honor...
Let them drink wine
Gutenberg’s printing press brought religion into the homes of millions. Copernicus, Galileo and Newton put science into the minds of even more. Fleming’s penicillin saved countless lives. But the island of Crete gave the world something much more valuable than all ...
Saving Sauternes
So it’s telling that Bernard’s estate in Sauternes, Clos des Lunes, focuses almost exclusively on dry wines...
Tour de brew: Odd13 Brewing Co.
When Odd13 Brewing opened their doors on August 3, 2013, they were immediately identifiable as the superhero brewery. With colorful graphics and characters to...