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May 9, 2012
New Belgium and Odell say they weren't trying to keep Breckenridge Brewery from growing
Two of Colorado's biggest craft brewers registered some displeasure late last month over the efforts of one of their colleagues, Breckenridge Brewery, to get a bill passed that would have allowed it to significantly expand its business model in the state. The rift shows how competitive the craft be ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Colorado beer calendar: Dry Dock brings back a seasonal favorite
The third annual Denver International Beer Competition takes place this weekend at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, a contest that last year received more than 190 entries from brewers in more than twenty states and six countries. The gold-medal winners will be showcased at the Taste of El ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Beer calendar: Get hopped up at Denver Beer Co; get Deviant at Highland Tap
Tomme Arthur, the legendary owner of Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey, is in Fort Collins today to collaborate with New Belgium Brewing Company on an upcoming beer that will be part of its Lips of Faith series. Then, at some point soon, brewers from New Belgium will travel to California to brew a second ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Two new wild ales from Avery Brewing bridge the gap between beer and wine
Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage.
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Beer calendar: show your love for beer at these heart-y beer events
The resumes were long and detailed, the qualifications extreme, but the ten finalists in the Wynkoop Brewing Company's annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest have been whittled down to three -- and these guys know their beer. The man who eventually claims the title for 2012 will be determined at an ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Beer calendar: Stout Month; Twisted Pine Canis Lupulus
Colorado will get a new specialty brewer later this month when Elevation Beer Company near Salida opens, crafting seasonal barrel-aged beers on a fifteen-barrel system. We're not talking about your classic, blondes, reds, browns and IPAs here. Elevation's first two beers will be a Belgian-style Quad ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
Euclid Hall puts on a daily show during its Beer Month
Lori MidsonEuclid Hall's beer flight and brew bites.Like a fine-art collector, Euclid Hall's Ryan Conklin has been gathering up special, rare or unusual examples of his muse over the past nine months and secreting them away. But this month, Conklin, a certified beer Cicerone, is ready to put ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Euclid Hall's Ryan Conklin is the only certified Cicerone behind a Denver bar. Cheers!
courtesy of Ryan ConklinRyan Conklin, certified Cicerone and head barman at Euclid Hall, doesn't think his reasons for going into bartending were very different from what motivates other professionals in the industry. "Like a lot of bartenders, you just kind of have some sort of drive to it, ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: Chocolate-y Yeti treats at Star Bar; rich Avery brews at Hops & Pie
FacebookThe Big Red F restaurant group has made a name for itself in the local craft beer scene over the past two years: Boulder's West End Tavern is a grat place to find rare and delicious craft brews, while Centro in Boulder and Lola in Denver dish out cans of Top Rope, a Mexican-style lag ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Minglewood opens Saturday in Boulder
MinglewoodMinglewood is rife with references to hippie culture -- including this logo based on the Grateful Dead.It's been six months since Tom Nash signed a lease in east Boulder, where he planned to build a lunch and happy hour restaurant in an area of town that also holds Avery Brewing Co. ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: GABF-winning beers hit the city; Fresh Hops at Falling Rock; new releases from Avery, Great Divide
One of the biggest bummers about the Great American Beer Festival being over is that it can be hard to find -- and drink -- the medal winners: Some were one-off brews that are no longer available. Others are on-draft-only options in towns a couple of hours away. Luckily, a few are still floating aro ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Satellite Tap Room at West End Tavern
The folks at West End Tavern, 926 Pearl Street in Boulder, know how to share; on the first Thursday of every month, the West End hosts the Satellite Tap Room, offering drafts from a different brewery, with reps on hand to discuss the beers. Today, Sierra Nevada's brews brewers will be at your servic ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: Great American Beer Festival edition
Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there's this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver -- which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets to the main ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Ten ways to be a beer geek this week, even if you don't have GABF tickets
The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday -- and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF aren't ... More >>
Calendar
August 25, 2011
The Ultimate Fishing Story
The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday -- and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF aren't ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Great American Beer Festival tickets on sale now
Great American Beer Festival tickets went on sale today (here), and although they are $5 more this year, $60 is still worth the price of admission. After all, there will be 450 breweries serving 2,200 different beers at the fest, which runs September 29 through October 1. What else is new at ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Boulder Sourfest: Hundreds of beer lovers puckered up at Avery on Saturday
Hundreds of beer geeks gathered at Avery Brewing Company on Saturday to enjoy one of the strangest, most inaccessible beer styles in the world -- and they loved every funky minute of it. The second annual Boulder Sourfest attracted 37 breweries, who poured nearly 75 beers - all of them brewe ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
New Belgium, maker of Fat Tire, plans a second brewery on the East Coast
FacebookNew Belgium headquarters in Fort Collins.Two of the nation's biggest craft brewers, both based in California, have revealed the details of some major expansion plans in the past couple of days, and Colorado's New Belgium Brewing, the country's third largest craft brewer, could be clos ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
The Wazee Supper Club celebrates twelve new taps with a party and meet-the-brewer nights
Old dog. New tricks. The Wazee Supper Club, which has been dishing up Denver-style pizza pies for almost forty years, is adding to, and revamping, its beer lineup to focus more on craft beer. "We used to have twenty taps. Now there are 32, and some of those original twenty taps have been rep ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
Sierra Nevada Systems, SpaceX to help Denver-Boulder area become Silicon Valley of space?
Sierra NevadaThe Dream ChaserThese days, as the government slashes NASA's budget and entrepreneurs start making inroads towards the heavens, the space race is increasingly becoming a private-sector enterprise. The development could bode well for the Front Range. Indeed, the Denver-Boulder are ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2011
Ten beers to drink alone on Valentine's Day
There are plenty of lovey-dovey beers to drink with your honey on Valentine's Day -- the Coupler from Wynkoop Brewing, Red Ale from Odell's, and Cherry Dip Stout at the Vine Street Pub, to name a few -- but you're drinking alone this year, right? For that, you need something a little edgier. ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2011
Ski for your supper at A-Basin Wednesday
Oxtail soup for the long haul Arapahoe Basin's Black Mountain Lodge will host the inaugural Dynafit Nacht Spektakel, German Feast & Randonee on Wednesday, January 19. And what's a randonee? Leigh Hierholzer, director of marketing for Arapahoe Basin, chuckles at the question, then says, "We t ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010
Updates for Bull & Bush, Euclid Hall, Vine Street: Pumpkin beers will get you jack-o'-lanterned
Update: Two new events have been added (Avery's Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub's tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you love them ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2010
Get fresh with fresh-hopped beers this weekend
It's Friday afternoon. Do you know where your fresh-hopped beers are. If not, then here are two suggestions. All 27 Old Chicago locations began pouring Colorado IPA Nouveau this week. It's a limited release that was made especially for Old Chicago by Tommyknocker Brewing in Idaho Springs. T ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Beer and weather: How to drink your way through seasonal confusion
The seasons in Colorado run together like oil and antifreeze on the floor at Jiffy Lube. At the supermarket, Halloween candy debuts in August, while the temperatures are still in the high 90s. Watermelons mix with peaches, while raspberries, pumpkins and roasted chiles mingle awkwardly but re ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2010
Pot versus beer: Are CO's two iconic industries destined to clash over weed legalization?
Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November.
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Tonight: The Kitchen [Upstairs] will host Sierra Nevada's thirtieth birthday party with beer pairings and homebrews
Ray Decker is the man behind the Kitchen's beer programThere's a big beer party brewing in Boulder tonight, and there will be nary a keg stand or frat boy in sight. Instead, revelers will be treated to a served five-course dinner, paired with beer, in the swank lounge that is the Kitchen [Up ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Summer food festivities gearing up
You know we're getting closer to summer when you can start taking day trips for food-related festivals -- like this week's Colorado BBQ Challenge and Strawberry Days -- or even just lunch trips, such as the Civic Center Eats program. All that and more is on the menu this week: Monday, June 1 ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Beer bucket lists: GQ did theirs. What would you put on Colorado's?
Last week, GQ magazine put out a bucket list of fifty beers to try before you die (see it below). That sounds like a reasonable goal - even if some of the selections were a little odd. I wouldn't have put Anchor Steam on the list, for instance. It may have been a bucket list fifteen years a ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
Tonight: The Winter Brew Fest hits Mile High Station
Kick your weekend off right at the fourth annual Winter Brew Fest at Mile High Station, 2027 West Colfax Avenue. This don't-miss event for winter beer lovers will feature tastings of more than seventy samples from upwards of 25 breweries.
Blogs
January 18, 2010
Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Classes, craft beers and more
There's plenty of food for thought on the local culinary scene, with everything from talks on healthy cuisine to overdosing on the best pizza around. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, January 18: Elizabeth Somer, author of Eat Your Way to Happiness: 10 Diet Secrets to Improve Your Moo ... More >>
Culture
December 10, 2009
The Denver Art Museum says goodbye to Lewis Sharp
There's plenty of food for thought on the local culinary scene, with everything from talks on healthy cuisine to overdosing on the best pizza around. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, January 18: Elizabeth Somer, author of Eat Your Way to Happiness: 10 Diet Secrets to Improve Your Moo ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2009
Beer and Cheer: The Bruery's 2 Turtle Doves
The Bruery in Orange County, California, has become one of the most recognized up-and-coming craft breweries in the country in only a couple of years, in part because of its enormous, extreme and experimental beers. And 2 Turtle Doves is no exception. Part two in The Bruery's 12 Beers of Chr ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2009
Beer and Cheer: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Sierra Nevada Celebration is back with a zesty, tongue- tingling bang in 2009, bringing the full host of hops that had been missing from a couple of its previous incarnations. This is the holiday beer that should be in everyone's fridge; it's one that takes advantage of all the powerful bitt ... More >>
Music
October 15, 2009
The Rear Inn's karaoke menu is a little behind the times
Sierra Nevada Celebration is back with a zesty, tongue- tingling bang in 2009, bringing the full host of hops that had been missing from a couple of its previous incarnations. This is the holiday beer that should be in everyone's fridge; it's one that takes advantage of all the powerful bitt ... More >>
Calendar
January 22, 2009
Beer and Cheer
The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.
Blogs
November 4, 2008
The reason for the season: beer
The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.
Blogs
October 6, 2008
GABF events at Falling Rock Taphouse
The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.
News
May 22, 2008
Going, Going, Gone
Will the first new American bird discovered in a hundred years be the next to go extinct?
News
October 5, 2006
Kill the Messenger
The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists
News
August 21, 2003
Poem on the Range
Verse comes to worse at the National Poetry Slam.
News
February 13, 2003
Move 'em Out
The Livestock Exchange building may be headed for its last roundup.
Film
April 19, 2001
Northern Exposure
Michael Winterbottom delivers a snowy, Wild West adaptation of Thomas Hardy.
News
November 25, 1999
Show & Sell
Local newscasts have plenty of style, but where�s the substance?
Culture
August 19, 1999
Straight Shooter
Ansel Adams goes to town in Building Forms.
News
February 6, 1997
The High Road
Judge Jerry Stevens was in the driver's seat--until he let cocaine take over.

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