Thursday, February 14,2013
Mountain Sun’s Stout Month pushes boundaries of black beer
By Steve Weishampel
Yo, America: Stop making beer worse.
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Thursday, February 14,2013
Longmont startup takes beer canning on the road
By Steve Weishampel
As craft brewing explodes, businesses along the fringes of the industry — from hop farmers to distributors to liquor stores — are booming as well. And, as with the beer itself, Boulder County is taking the lead.
Thursday, February 14,2013
By Steve Weishampel
Despite opening with interviews of white men looking for Asian women, Seeking Asian Female is about one white man, one Asian woman and one documentarian.
Thursday, February 7,2013
Boulder Beer helps solve our volume problem
By Steve Weishampel
Weeks before we even conceived of a tour of Boulder County’s breweries, I made an uncomfortable discovery: When the Boulder Weekly staff goes out to eat — which is pretty often as we’re all wealthy and have tons of time — we’re the loud table.
Thursday, January 31,2013
At Bootstrap, we ask: Where are the women?
By Steve Weishampel
Boulder breweries have a gender problem. From the brewers to the bartenders to the beer drinkers themselves, craft breweries are dominated by males. My estimate on the crowd at Niwot’s Bootstrap Brewing on Jan. 24 was 90 percent male.
Thursday, January 24,2013
Brewhouse seems to aim for the mainstream
By Steve Weishampel
Ten minutes into our visit to BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, our tour of Boulder County breweries becomes a roller coaster.
Thursday, January 17,2013
By Steve Weishampel
New Belgium has ridden its Fat Tire to distribution in 29 states, and you can grab a Dale’s Pale Ale in 30 states. In short, the formula for growth is: Get a flagship beer and ride it across the country.
Thursday, January 10,2013
Asher Brewing kicks off our Boulder County Beer Tour
By Steve Weishampel
A strong ale will solve it. That was the mantra as I more or less fled the Boulder Weekly office for Asher Brewing Company in Gunbarrel the afternoon of Jan. 3.
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Thursday, December 27,2012
Mountain Sun intends to open new restaurant by early 2013
By Steve Weishampel
In winter’s darkest hour, a new Sun will rise. OK, that’s a little dramatic.
Thursday, December 20,2012
Denver rappers The Foodchain embrace self-promotion
By Steve Weishampel
To hear Khouri Austin tell it, nobody in The Foodchain sat up one day and said, “Let’s start a band.”