Drink
Hops for days
If you’re like me, you’re eager for breweries to open at full capacity — to try samplers of beers and unique taproom-only offerings; to...
Drink this: Bootstrap Brewing Co.’s Wreak Havoc Imperial Red Ale
There isn’t a beer style out there that Boulder County brewers can’t handle. But, if we had to pick one where they truly excel...
‘It got crazy’
Editor’s note: Longtime Boulder Weekly contributor Michael J. Casey has written a definitive history of the local craft beer scene, Boulder County Beer: A...
Brewing with coffee
It’s not unusual to start your day with a coffee and end it with a beer. I do it all the time. They are...
Tour de brew: Great Divide Brewing Company
It’s high time for conferences in the Centennial State because down in Denver, the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America (CBC) returns to the...
The future of brewing in Boulder County
On March 16, 2020, Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers
Association (BA) — the Boulder-based trade group representing small and
independent breweries — posted a...
Efficient drinking
In the State of Craft Beer, there is no shortage of beer festivals. And for good reasons: not only do the featured breweries get...
Tour de brew: BRU handbuilt ales & eats
The story of America is the story of rebels, from the revolutionaries who conceived this nation out of the bones of the Enlightenment to...
Despite pandemic, more craft breweries are operating now than ever
It wasn’t looking good for craft breweries this time last year. On-site and draught sales were way down, and half of breweries indicated in...
Crafty crafting
It’s kind of surprising that Eric Huber and Marty Lettow poured me samples straight from the fermenting tanks...
Drink this: Oskar Blues Brewery Wild Basin Hard Seltzer
2019 was the summer of seltzer, and the bubbly stuff is already the odds-on favorite for a back-to-back repeat. Oskar Blues’ latest line of...
Good beer is no accident
Boulderites love to travel, but I think it’s fair to say the North Denver suburbs aren’t typically a prime destination. Northglenn and Thornton probably have a few undeserved negative associations around Boulder, whether for being too suburban or too flat or too ...


















