Drink
Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards
Finding Shane Finley was easy.
Via email, we planned to meet for lunch at Bourbon Steak in Washington, D.C., a restaurant that’s housed at the...
Tour de brew: Great American Beer Festival
When the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) held its inaugural gathering in 1982, 24 brewers came, 47 beers were poured and roughly 800 people...
Know your brew: Double IPA
Though India pale ales (IPAs) are still enjoying a multi-year residency atop the craft beer throne — placement unlikely to be usurped anytime soon...
Know your brew: Vienna lager
Maybe it’s the
popularity of German culture, the appeal of lederhosen and dirndls, or the
allure of drinking under massive tents, but Oktoberfest’s signature beer,
märzen, is...
Tour de brew: Stein Brewing Company
If you’ve been drinking in the Boulder craft scene for a while, the Stein Brewing Company — located at 2516 49th St., Suite 5...
In California, what is old is new again
Arnot-Roberts. Lioco. Matthiasson. Sandhi.
These are just four of the producers that are counteracting the notion that ripeness, butter and oak should define California chardonnay....
The dead travel smashed
People who blow off Halloween as a kids’ holiday are doing it wrong. A celebration of darkness, madness and, most of all, excess, All Hallows Eve is as much about swinging from the rafters as it is about going from door to door. And isn’t getting a little sloshed ...
Know your brew: Session IPA
There is much to learn from movies. Take this exchange between Winston Churchill and King Edward VI in Darkest Hour concerning the Prime Minister’s...
Know your brew: Oktoberfest/Märzen
It all started with a wedding, specifically, the marriage of Ludwig, Bavaria’s future king, and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810. All...
Tour de brew: Oktoberfest
From tailgates to
tailored beer dinners, there is a good deal of tradition in beer drinking. And
when it comes to hoisting a stein or six,...
Dispatch from the loud table
Weeks before we even conceived of a tour of Boulder County’s breweries, I made an uncomfortable discovery: When the Boulder Weekly staff goes out to eat — which is pretty often as we’re all wealthy and have tons of time — we’re the loud table...


















