Drink
Giving dry a try
In January of 2013, Emily Robinson decided to give up drinking for the first month of the year in hopes it would give her...
Holiday beer guide
Why is it that most holiday beers are as dark as the early nights of winter, contain warming spices and have alcohol levels approaching that of wine? It’s likely because these complex-flavored beers pair well with the heavy meals and endless desserts we enjoy around ...
Drink this: Oskar Blues Brewery’s Slow Chill Munich-style Helles
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...
The dead travel smashed
People who blow off Halloween as a kids’ holiday are doing it wrong. A celebration of darkness, madness and, most of all, excess, All Hallows Eve is as much about swinging from the rafters as it is about going from door to door. And isn’t getting a little sloshed ...
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...
Social cues
In the Boulder tradition of good craft beer, casual dining and local legacy continuation, Boulder Social, which opened its doors at the end of August...
Welcome to mother’s house
If you’ve had atolé, it’s likely been at a family table somewhere in the Southwest United States or Latin America, perhaps made from a...
Tour de brew: Großen Bart Brewery
Colorado is the state of craft beer. If you brew it, we will drink it; but you have to do something to stand out...
‘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...
Know your brew: German-style heller bock and maibock
Much like with the seminal Oktoberfest brew, märzen, there is a bit of ceremony that goes along with ushering in maibock drinking season. The...
Alphabet soup
Things are not looking up. While Gov. Jared Polis’ statewide stay-at-home order has expired, Boulder is one of many counties extending shelter-in-place to May...