Drink
Tour de brew: Stout Month
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The other alchemists
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
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
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
Jake Evans of Wild Woods Brewery and Sam Scruby of Upslope Brewing Company are ready to do something stupid. Or, as Scruby quickly corrects,...


















