Drink
Know your brew: A Thanksgiving guide
For chefs and eaters alike, no holiday is quite like Thanksgiving. Ditto for drinkers, who break out long-coveted bottles of wine and single-malt whisky...
Upslope’s bacon grätzer is weirdly good
Is it possible to create an elegant bacon beer? Should we, as consumers, even want an elegant bacon beer? The answers to these questions...
Tiny bubbles
It’s easy enough to name the most obvious trends in Boulder County brewing. Three breweries are planning to open this summer in Lafayette; Boulder loves beer that’s heavy on the hops; barrel-aging is big...
Tour de brew: Upslope Brewing Company — Flatiron Park
Snuggled between U.S. 36
and the multicolored pocket neighborhoods of North Boulder, Upslope Brewing
Company’s Lee Hill facility is just what you’d expect from a craft...
Touring Colorado’s beer community
If Nikki Minette is competitive, she certainly doesn’t show it...
Tour de Brew: Pumphouse Brewery
Where you drink is just as important as what you drink. I once advised my sister to always survey the crowd when she entered...
Know your brew: Czech lager
The beer world is replete with traditions: American IPA, English cask bitters, Belgian abbey ales... But none have the distinction, nor cast a longer...
Wine inspired by comic books and thoroughbreds
Outside the Bay Area, few wine enthusiasts realize that California’s wine scene is incredibly welcoming.
This is understandable; we see our favorite winemakers on the...
The pig that saved Avery
Stay in one place long enough, and you’ll see things come and go, only to come back around again. It’s been over 40 years...
Profiles in brew: Keith Villa, Ph.D.
Few people get to be at the forefront of something special. Keith Villa has been there twice.
“They said I was one of the major...
New in brew: Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that yeast was “discovered.” French
chemist Louis Pasteur took credit, and his treatise changed the brewing world
within decades. Granted, brewers...
