Drink

Know your brew: Lager

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Much like penicillin and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, lager’s genesis was accidental. As the story goes, lager was discovered in Bavaria (or neighboring Bohemia,...

Honey and history

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We have a tendency here to be fascinated with the new. Uh, we’re journalists. This whole beer tour was inspired by the explosion of new breweries in the county in the last few years. But celebrating Boulder’s beer is just as much about the long-standing as the new, ...

Tour de brew: Great Divide Brewing Company

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It’s high time for conferences in the Centennial State because down in Denver, the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America (CBC) returns to the...

Brewing change

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Some breweries make beer. Some make beer... and change. Team Left Hand, a group of employees and supporters of Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing, recently announced...

Tour de brew: Boulder Beer redux

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It’s been a little over a year since we started this tour of Boulder County breweries. Back then, 51 breweries and brewpubs dotted the...

Know your brew: Brettanomyces

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If you’re a dedicated craft beer drinker, it’s going to happen sooner or later. No matter your poison, be it India pale ale, stout...

Anatomy of a collaboration

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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 ...

Boulder County brings home the hardware and the cachet

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“On behalf of the Brewers Association staff, I’d like to thank you all for being here,” Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Director Nancy Johnson...

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...

Tour de brew: 4 Noses Brewing

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An important disclaimer: You probably don’t want to go drinking with your children, especially if they are under the legal age limit. Besides, it...

New in brew: Resilience IPA

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When it comes to the legacy craft brewers, few stand as tall as the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company of Chico, California. Founded in 1979...

Tour de brew: West Flanders Brewing Co.

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When it comes to beer, nobody does it like Belgium. The small country — just 11 million people covering 12,000 square miles — is...