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Colorado is blazing the trail as the state works to set the standards for legal marijuana use in America. As the first state to roll out legal pot, Colorado is now under a magnifying glass as we create laws to deal with recreational use of what was once an illegal ...
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...
‘Beautiful chaos’
Back in the first half of the ’80s, I took my first sip of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Upon finishing what tasted like a...
Tour de brew: Oskar Blues Grill & Brew
Do we have everything we could possibly want from Oskar Blues?” the waitress asks the table. She means it too.
These days, things are 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...
New in brew: Sours, sessions and stouts
For those of you who participated in “Dry January,” welcome back to flavor country. Beer’s been brewing while you were away; here’s a few...
Lots to learn: The beer tour hits Wynkoop Brewing Company
I can’t talk about Wynkoop Brewing Company without talking about history...
Deviate off the beaten path for some unique tastes
Let’s set the stage: A small stone top bar, wild murals on the opposite wall and tree branches glimmering in the rafter of the...
Much ado about poison
In late March, two couples filed a class-action lawsuit in California alleging that some of the nation’s top-selling low-cost wines contain unsafe levels of arsenic. “Just a glass or two” of wine from producers like Cupcake, Charles Shaw, Franzia, Rex Goliath and ...
Betting on millennials
When I was in college, we drank beer. When my sons were in college, they drank draft beer. But when my granddaughter was in...
This is 40: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
It was 5 a.m. on November 15, 1980, when Ken Grossman flipped on the lights in his small converted warehouse in Chico, California. Before...