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Tour de brew: Stout Month

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Back for a 26th go-round, Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries celebrates the art of the dark ale throughout February with Stout Month. All five...

Know your brew: Water

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Water: it’s what puts the spring in Golden, the snatch in Burton and the sparkle in Pilsen. It’s the essential ingredient in any beer, and the...

Tour de brew: Nitro Fest

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He handed me the taster and I watched as the fine nitrogen bubbles rushed up the beer to the surface, spreading out along the...

Anatomy of a collaboration

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Let’s put a pair of leather chaps in the mash, or cactus or tumbleweed.” That was the first idea Jason Buehler, head brewer of Oskar Blues in Lyons, had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a collaboration beer made not with another brewery, but a honky tonk band. No chaps ...

Tour de brew: Gravity Brewing

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After years of searching, I have finally found a place where I can take my dear friend Paul, a complex man with simple tastes....

Know your brew: Saison

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Many will bring wine. Some may even bring a nice bottle of single malt. But you, faithful reader, plan to bring beer to Thanksgiving. And...

Drink this: Green Mountain Beer Company’s Whiskey Barrel-Aged Rauch Bock

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The 2020 version of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is underway, which means if you haven’t picked up your GABF passport yet, you...

Trendy

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So, in math, multiplying two negatives equals a positive. However, conventional wisdom says two wrongs don’t make a right. Given that we can’t use arbitrary precedent, how do we determine if combining two food trends is good or bad...

The other alchemists

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Stout Month. Sourfest. Rocket in My Beer Fest (yes, that’s a real thing). Even when they’re almost comically hyper-specific, Colorado isn’t exactly short on beer festivals. And though, years ago, Joanne Knipmeyer used to help stage one of those beer events in Vail, ...

Cannabis pro Omnibus

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For Keith Villa, it started about a decade ago, when Colorado legalized recreational cannabis. “At that point, I started doing some home experiments,” Villa says....

Know your brew: Belgian-style witbier

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Spring in the Rockies means high-70s one day, snow the next and then clear blue skies while you tidy up from yesterday’s storm.  This kind...

Brew Day with Wild Woods and Upslope

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Jake Evans of Wild Woods Brewery and Sam Scruby of Upslope Brewing Company are ready to do something stupid. Or, as Scruby quickly corrects,...