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Drink this: Uhl’s Brewing Company The Hop Down
Uhl’s Brewing is not the place to go if you’re looking for a routine lineup of beer. Experimentation is its game, and even its...
Farewell, Planet Porter
This week’s column will say goodbye to BW beer writer Steve Weishampel, who has moved on to Chicago, presumably to take his beer writing career to the next level by joining the SNL Superfans, or if that doesn’t work out, stalking Oprah...
From spite to success
It was Type 1 diabetes that turned Becca Schepps on to kombucha. And it was a joke that turned Schepps on to making kombucha.
“I...
Pouring a perfect Pilsner
Much ink has been spilled on Colorado beer, discussing at length hop varietals, yeast strains and an industry that continues to grow. When I...
Stout-hearted
February just hasn’t been the same in Boulder County without Stout Month, Mountain Sun Pubs and Breweries’ month-long celebration of the dark, top-fermented style...
With wine, endless treasures await
On January 12, 2007, one of the world’s greatest violin players set up shop in the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, D.C. Wearing...
Profiles in brew: Gravity Brewing and Gastronauts
No business goes it alone. It takes a village, and few area breweries
illustrate that point quite like Louisville’s first tap house: Gravity Brewing
— which...
Rethinking the tasting note
This first wine is a fighter; he’s loud. The second wine is pensive; she has a dark side.” As I led a recent seminar,...
Tour de brew: Wrapping up Stout Month
There are many pleasures to discover during Stout Month, but new beers and new breweries are chief among them. For the past four years,...
Profiles in brew: Tom Horst of Crystal Springs Brewing Company
You don’t have to be an economist to see that trends drive marketing. And when it comes to craft beer, that trend is “new”...
To tap or not to tap?
The contrasting mission of college academics and college sports is about to be highlighted at the University of Colorado on Saturday, Sept. 13 with the Buff ’s first home game of the season...
Spirit Hound noses out another fine whiskey release
Like many fine things in life, making good whiskey takes patience and time. Spirit Hound Distillers’ latest release, a five-year-old Colorado rye whiskey, proudly...

















