“Right now, the window is open, and I can hear the house wren trilling his morning song, which he broadcasts from a circle of trees non-stop,” begins a blog post by Boulder author and professor Priscilla Stuckey. “A spotted towhee has forsaken scratching in the ground to perch on a…
The 2011 baseball season is almost history, but for some fans, the history of the sport is just as important as what’s going on now. One of the most important chapters from that history involves the Negro Leagues, which consisted of teams made up entirely of black players who weren’t…
Summer block parties all require some crucial ingredients: good food, fun games, rockin’ tunes, delicious beverages and, of course, friendly neighbors. But the difference between most block parties and the one taking place in the 1700 block of Vine Street today is that the Vine Street Pub is one of…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Denver. And by Christmas, what I mean is: the Great American Beer Festival. Although that three-day holiday runs from September 29 through October 1, there will be plenty of beery festivities leading up to the occasion. Parties are planned. Beer is…
Great Divide Brewing’s cozy, but often cramped, tap room will double in size this month, just in time for the Great American Beer Festival…
As you may have noticed from the incessant product placement in ads and media, Star Wars: The Complete Saga hits shelves on Blu-Ray this week. The nine-disc set ($139.99) includes both the awesome, genre-changing original three movies and the putrid, hope-demolishing follow-up prequel trilogy. But it also comes with forty…
It took fourteen breweries to collaborate on Buddha Nuvo — one of the most unusual beers ever made in Colorado — so it seems only fair then that a review of this beer should include just as many beer loving bloggers, and then some…
Only an asshole gets killed for a car (the Repo Code). The International Film Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder will show a series of films by director Alex Cox over the next few weeks; Cox teaches screenwriting and film production at the school. And while all of…
Kids wait for candy around Halloween. Adults — at least the big-beer-loving kind — well, they wait for Rumpkin, Avery Brewing’s tricky barrel-aged treat. And this year, they’ll be able to fill their spooky buckets and pillowcases with bottles…
Denver just can’t seem to quench its thirst for craft beer. After just five months in business, the owners of Copper Kettle Brewing have already pumped up their beer-making capacity by adding two ten-barrel fermenters to the three three-barrel tanks they already had – an expansion of about 166 percent…
Look, we know that real-life robbers are often lovers of the cinema. That’s why they dress in fanciful and elaborate costumes, à la Point Break (ex-Presidents), The Town (gruesome nuns), 3000 Miles to Graceland (Elvises) and, most recently, 30 Minutes or Less (apes). But now it seems that no self-respecting…
The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot has been Denver’s most unusual brewery since it debuted inside Coors field in 1995. Only open to the public during baseball season, and only to Rockies ticket holders during games, the brewery actually runs year-round, making Blue Moon and other seasonal beers…
When three kegs of Pacifico beer showed up at Delton Demarest’s doorstep, he was excited. But unlike most people, he had hoped they’d be empty. Instead, says the Denver artist, “they were unexpectedly full.” Still, Demarest was able to paint the outsides of the kegs in just a few days…
Oskar Blues is one of the fastest-growing craft brewers in Colorado and makes some of the most sought-after, buzzworthy beers in the country. The Longmont brewery started the canned craft beer revolution in 2002, and it still leads the way in the market…
Last May, while Denver Beer Co, 1695 Platte Street, was still in the planning stages, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford bought more than a hundred baby hops plants and gave them out to anyone who was willing to grow them in their back yards as part of an urban…
Dry Dock Brewing is getting ready to bottle its next seasonal beer, a whiskey-barrel-aged version of its HMS Bounty called Bligh’s Barleywine Ale, and brewery founder Kevin DeLange says it’s going to blow people out of the water…
It seems like bad dads have a way of ending up as shmucks on a regular basis. But moms have their fair share of problems, too. Just ask the two who were cited this week for making the rest of the moms out there look like saints…
German beer makers like rules. They like them so much that in 1516, the state of Bavaria imposed Reinheitsgebot, the beer-purity law that prohibited using anything but water, barley and hops in brewing the national beverage. Belgians, on the other hand, “are a lot less about following the rules,” Hutchinson,…
German beer makers like rules. They like them so much that in 1516, the state of Bavaria imposed the Reinheitsgebot, the beer purity law that prohibited using anything but water, barley and hops in brewing the national beverage. And while Reinheitsgebot (which is no longer in effect) is fun to…
For the past five years, Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe owners James and Tina Pachorek have been showing Coloradans the Belgian specialty beers, some of which had rarely, if ever, been chugged in this square state. On Friday, the Belgians will honor James (what, no female knights?) for his service…
The Great American Beer Festival was made for social media, and the Falling Rock Taphouse was made for the Great American Beer Festival. So, it only makes sense that Falling Rock owner Chris Black plans to fall face forward into Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (despite his preference for in-person contact…
Jeff Crabtree wants to party with anyone who likes his beer. But the owner of Crabtree Brewing in Greeley can’t always be there — not in person, anyway. So Crabtree Brewing’s newest bottled beer, a German-style sour wheat called Berliner Weisse Ale, will feature a massive QR code on the…
