Drink

New in brew: Fritz Family Brewers

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Five years ago, Niwot was home to two breweries. Bootstrap Brewing was first to market, with Powder Keg not far behind. But as of...

Tour de brew: Very Nice Brewing Co.

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A visit to a brewery can range anywhere from magnificent to abysmal with most falling somewhere in between. The average skews closer to the positive...

At Longmont’s Oskar Blues, a malty mea culpa

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I’d like to apologize...

New in brew: Holiday beers

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Like Enstrom Almond Toffee and Hershey’s Kiss cookies, it’s just not the holidays without a few signature ales. Here are four to get you started, but...

New in brew: Hard kombucha

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Colorado drinkers are awash with options. That’s quite a shift considering 10 years ago Colorado’s Blue Law kept liquor stores closed on Sunday. Now...

You and me and the beer makes three

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It started like every other beer fest: throngs of thirsty patrons marching toward the threshold, their arms raised high to show the gatekeepers their...

Hello, happy place

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Five minutes into my visit to Our Mutual Friend, the bartender takes the needle off the record and switches the stereo input to his Mac laptop. The first hi-hat clicks and falsetto wails of “A Life of Possibilities” come out, and I love this bar...

Tour de brew: Großen Bart Brewery

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Colorado is the state of craft beer. If you brew it, we will drink it; but you have to do something to stand out...

Tour de brew: Samples

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There are over 6,300 breweries in America as of 2017, according to the Brewers Association. And though we would like to stop in and...

Drink this: Oskar Blues Brewery’s Slow Chill Munich-style Helles

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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...

Boulder Beer relaunches with new look and talk of a new...

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Boulder Beer has some staying power. Despite management of Colorado’s first independent craft brewery switching hands last year, and despite the closure of its...

Tour de brew: Great American Beer Festival

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When the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) held its inaugural gathering in 1982, 24 brewers came, 47 beers were poured and roughly 800 people...