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Drink this: Green Mountain Beer Company’s Whiskey Barrel-Aged Rauch Bock
The 2020 version of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is underway, which means if you haven’t picked up your GABF passport yet, you...
Local brews (and one cider) for the holiday season
We scoured the seasonal section of our local beer store to round-up some of the best holiday beverage options Boulder County (and a little...
Betting on millennials
When I was in college, we drank beer. When my sons were in college, they drank draft beer. But when my granddaughter was in...
Know your brew: A Thanksgiving guide
For chefs and eaters alike, no holiday is quite like Thanksgiving. Ditto for drinkers, who break out long-coveted bottles of wine and single-malt whisky...
Chocolate and coconut porter is a good detour
We’re in the heart of dark beer season. Every so often, it’s pleasant to come across a beer that both honors the season with...
Drink this: Avery Brewing Co.’s Pomona Barrel-Aged Tart Ale
Brewed with bushels of blueberry and pomegranate and then aged over four months in oak barrels, Avery Brewing Co.’s newest addition to its barrel-aged...
Tour de brew: Kettle and Spoke Brewery
There is something charming about running out. A few blocks where my associate and I live is a diner that has every possible photo...
Anatomy of a collaboration
Let’s put a pair of leather chaps in the mash, or cactus or tumbleweed.” That was the first idea Jason Buehler, head brewer of Oskar Blues in Lyons, had for Hi*Beams Honky Tonk Ale, a collaboration beer made not with another brewery, but a honky tonk band. No chaps ...
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...
Classic refreshment
When the stars of the tennis world battled it out on the courts of Wimbledon a few weeks ago, viewers not only be turned their heads left and right following the action on the court, but up and down as well, as gallons upon gallons of Pimm’s No. 1 Cups were thrown ...
Know your brew: Kveik
When it comes to taproom
lists and liquor store shelves, nothing sells quite like new. Even pedestrian
drinkers are willing to try something new, something catchy....
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...