Drink
New in brew: Fritz Family Brewers
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.
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...
New in brew: Holiday beers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
When the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) held its inaugural gathering in 1982, 24 brewers came, 47 beers were poured and roughly 800 people...