Drink
‘The Water Knife’ and Dale’s Pale Ale
With the sun blaring, it is the perfect afternoon for reading, but not for sitting in the sun. I’m 60 pages away from finishing...
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 ...
Rich in whiskey
"I tell people that we’re rich in whiskey, but poor in cash,” jokes Boulder Spirits (5311 Western Ave., #180, Boulder) owner and founder Alastair...
This summer, make room for chillable, gulpable reds
Greetings from Ocean City, New Jersey. This past Saturday, I checked into a rental house for the week with some friends. Since Ocean City...
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...
Finally, a definitive guide to Napa Valley
When Kelli White, one of the nation’s most impressive sommeliers, realized that her bookshelf lacked a definitive guide to Napa Valley, she simply wrote one...
Here we go a-wassailing
Cider makers, after rapidly gaining a foothold in the alcoholic beverage market, are now starting to imbue their beverages with some interesting flavors. A...
Spring beer news
World Beer Cup results
At this year’s Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America — held in May in Nashville, Tennessee — 2,515 breweries from 66...
Wishful drinking
Let’s try this again.
Back in 2020, the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) was set to host one of the Centennial State’s signature beer events: Collaboration...
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...
Vapor Distillery is going big time
Boulder County lost one of its most highly decorated distilleries at the beginning of April, and that is a good thing...


















