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My brewery tour companion and I approached the door to the Smiling Toad Brewery in Colorado Springs with expectations that were ... let’s call them modest. When I spotted the sign from the street, a little A-frame by a skinny sidewalk that read “brewery” and drew ...

The most recent addition to Oskar Blues’ European-inspired lager series, Slow Chill, is a classic Munich-style helles: Pale straw color with a slight chill...

Craft beer has never been about just the beverage. It’s about history and tradition, ingredients and flavors, and, maybe most importantly, it’s about community. For centuries, communities of...

When Odd13 Brewing opened their doors on August 3, 2013, they were immediately identifiable as the superhero brewery. With colorful graphics and characters to...

In Northeast Ohio, where I’m from, Great Lakes Brewing Company is pretty much the beginning and the end of the craft beer conversation. Maybe nobody else makes good craft beer — I wouldn’t know, I moved when I was 18 — or maybe everyone’s too hooked on Bud Light to ...

Brewing a big beer can be a tricky thing. You could double the malt and produce more fermentable sugars, dumping in a ton of hops to...

Jim Sonn, owner of the Pearl Street Pub, had every reason to be apprehensive on July 16. The downtown bar he owns was up for the annual renewal of its liquor license. Normally, it can be handled by mail. But after Boulder’s Beverage Licensing Authority (which ...

When Upslope brewing opened its doors in 2008, it was the first new brewery in Boulder in over a decade. Its approach was simple: wellcrafted approachable beer served in cans; the labels simply stated the style: pale ale, IPA, craft lager, etc. It has grown to one of...

Though he hasn’t opened his Boulder taproom yet, you ought to be familiar with one of Aaron Uhl’s ales — especially if you’re a hophead digging...

We spent a lot of time at home in 2020. Some of us spent that time exploring new hobbies, and now I’m going to...

There is something magical about the great American Midwest. Sure, driving across it can seem like an endless sea of flatland constantly unfolding before...

The big local news in beer this week is that Denver — OMG that’s like totally in Colorado! AAAAAAH! — is playing host to the biannual International Beer Cup, which has been going down this week as part of the Craft Brewer’s Conference at the Colorado Convention ...