Drink
Tour de brew: Echo Brewing Co.
The weather is by far one of Colorado’s greatest assets. With roughly 300 days of sunshine a year, Coloradans have plenty of opportunities to...
Reasons to explore flavor
Medal-wise, Aaron Stueck is having a phenomenal year.
"Because the pale bock that came out of this rye whisky barrel won a gold at the...
Drink of the Week: The Big Molé Imperial Stout
Though he hasn’t opened
his Boulder taproom yet, you ought to be familiar with one of Aaron Uhl’s ales
— especially if you’re a hophead digging...
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...
Much ado about poison
In late March, two couples filed a class-action lawsuit in California alleging that some of the nation’s top-selling low-cost wines contain unsafe levels of arsenic. “Just a glass or two” of wine from producers like Cupcake, Charles Shaw, Franzia, Rex Goliath and ...
Avery’s tequila barrel concoction
In the mood for something different, I grabbed one of the latest releases from Avery Brewing Co.’s barrel-aged series, the Fiel al Estilo, a...
In with the old
At a recent wine tasting in Boulder, there was a rarity being poured. We were all assured of it. The wine was made from 100 percent bobal grapes, a red varietal that is rarely seen in the U.S. on its own and is often used in blends. It’s mostly grown in Spain, where ...
Belgian bliss
While we Americans like to think we are leading the world toward a new golden age of brewing — and we are in some respects — there is still much we can learn from the Old World masters. For example: The Trappist monks have been brewing beer since the Middle Ages...
Mixology international
When contemplating the appealing aspects of drinking in Europe, ordering a bottle of wine with lunch or sipping an afternoon beer at a cafe...
Winter’s miracle cocktail
Flying 2,000 miles across the country back into Denver on Monday, I started to sniffle. Maybe it was the recycled air of the airplane, or the holiday snot-wipings from my three-year-old niece, but warmth and stuffiness were rising somewhere in my respiratory system, ...
Time for a session
It seems lately like craft beer brewers are borrowing a page from their brethren in big beer: Less is more. While the craft beer revolution has fundamentally transformed brewing in the United States towards producing bigger and bolder flavored beers, lately more ...

















