Drink

Tour de brew: Echo Brewing Co.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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When contemplating the appealing aspects of drinking in Europe, ordering a bottle of wine with lunch or sipping an afternoon beer at a cafe...

Trouble brewing

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Y’all better enjoy your stout...

Winter’s miracle cocktail

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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

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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 ...