Way back - way, way back -- before there was a microbrewery in every city, before the terms IPA and ESB entered the common lingo, before big, bold craft beers muscled their way onto liquor store shelves (before color photography, even), the pioneers of the microbrewery industry got their shaggy-looking selves together in Boulder for a home-brewing conference.
The year was 1981, and the conference had been organized by Charlie Papazian, one of the patriarchs of craft brewing and the founder of i
