Drink
New in brew: Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales
It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that yeast was “discovered.” French
chemist Louis Pasteur took credit, and his treatise changed the brewing world
within decades. Granted, brewers...
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...
Second Sip
When Jessica Benjamin took over First Bite in 2019, she realized the traditional restaurant-week model with prix fixe menus wasn’t working for the eateries...
A drink to celebrate
The lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-de- Forge et ...
Tour de brew: Cellar West Artisan Ales
In its former location, Cellar West Artisan Ales, one of Boulder County’s smallest breweries, was not happened upon by accident. Located on the edge...
Profiles in brew: Michael Memsic and Chris Coyne of Sanitas Brewing...
When it comes to cities, few have a magnet buried deep underground quite like Boulder. Take the two co-founders of Sanitas Brewing Company, Michael...
Know your brew: Stout
Trying to pin down exactly what makes a stout is no easy task. We know they originated in Britain during the 18th century, are...
Raspberry Provincial from funkwerks works
Forget one-day blizzards that drop over a foot of snow and knock out power across Boulder County. If we drink summer beers, it will...
Getting the word out on Mortal XXX
"I thought that Mortal Kombucha was trying to be a hard kombucha, probably from day one,” Becca Schepps tells Boulder Weekly. You know Schepps: she’s the...
Out front at Front Range Brewing Company
Artisan craft brewers have wider interests than their audience...
Ales and lagers are beers, but what’s the difference?
To the casual sipper of suds, there are only two types of beer: The kind you like and the kind you don’t. Am I...