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Hops for days
If you’re like me, you’re eager for breweries to open at full capacity — to try samplers of beers and unique taproom-only offerings; to...
Tour de brew: Hops+Handrails
Left Hand’s Hops+Handrails is not your typical beer fest. Sure, it has beer and music, what fest wouldn’t? It has the requisite food and...
First Sip boozes up a Boulder spring
For 15 years, First Bite Boulder has been celebrating the county culinary scene with tasting menus and dining deals. Now, the organization is trying...
Tour de brew: James Peak Brewery & Smokehouse
Named after the nearby 13,000-foot mountain — the second tallest peak in the surrounding wilderness — the James Peak Brewery & Smokehouse has elevation...
You and me and the beer makes three
It started like every other beer fest: throngs of thirsty patrons marching toward the threshold, their arms raised high to show the gatekeepers their...
How about them apples?
For Michael Belochi, producing hard cider is a joy as well as a job. The owner of BOCO Cider in North Boulder enjoys featuring...
Drink this: Avery Brewing Co.’s Pomona Barrel-Aged Tart Ale
Brewed with bushels of blueberry and pomegranate and then aged over four months in oak barrels, Avery Brewing Co.’s newest addition to its barrel-aged...
Gemini’s first is an impressive start
Sometimes we throw around this word “unique” and it ends up being more self-congratulatory than anything else. Uniquely self-congratulatory, that is. And we do...
Fade to black
Though it’s the shortest
month of the year, February in Colorado can be a long and lonely affair.
Luckily, Mountain Sun Pubs and Breweries have an...
Drink this: Vision Quest Brewery’s Hole in Yer Pants Porter
The temperature has dropped, and even a few trees have started to turn. Soon Märzens, pumpkin beers and stouts will load tap lists and...
‘A stealth history of Colorado over a couple of beers’
There are a lot of lenses through which to look at Colorado’s history: the gold rush and mining, oil and gas, agriculture.
But none, Sam...
Copper Kettle’s Mexican Chocolate Stout is still a winner
Let’s all agree that this past snowstorm was the last throe of winter. In exchange for politely ushering winter out the door, we’ll drink...
