Drink
Football, beer and construction
It’s official. Denver is going to the Super Bowl. And while most of the Centennial State is applauding our QB Peyton Manning’s accomplishments on the field, folks at Left Hand Brewing took a “pass” on the quarterback’s choice of beer, Bud Light. Ewwwww...
Let them drink wine
Gutenberg’s printing press brought religion into the homes of millions. Copernicus, Galileo and Newton put science into the minds of even more. Fleming’s penicillin saved countless lives. But the island of Crete gave the world something much more valuable than all ...
Yeast on Main Street
Louisville’s Main Street is such an ideal small-town drag that it looks like it was pulled from The Truman Show. But it now has full credentials as a Colorado Main Street, as on June 26 it picked up the missing ingredient: a craft brewery. Belgian-centric brewery ...
Taste this
Jon Howland, founder of 12 Degree Brewing recalls how it wasn’t too long ago that Louisville was the Colorado version of naked, with not even a single brewery to dress the city up...
Drinking pink
As a kid, I was aware that a pink wine called white zinfandel existed, but my dad considered it crap. That memory lasted well into my adulthood: Don’t buy pink wine because it’s garbage. Fast forward to five years ago or so, and you’ll find entire rows of rosé in ...
Extra special
Once upon a time — like five years ago — all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll. Of course, that’s still true, as startups like Wild Woods, J Wells and Bootstrap have proven...
The great forgotten Italian red
Judging by Boulder County menus, wine shelves and conversations, the only two red grapes that matter from Italy are nebbiolo and sangiovese. The only regions that matter for reds, it seems sometimes, are Piedmont and Tuscany...
