Mastering Beer Styles
In preparation for some weekend binge-watching, you’ll want some beers you can enjoy all day without filling up or tipping over.
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Colorado is loaded with craft breweries, distilleries, and more. Whether you want a cold one on the front range or in the mountains, we can help with all-things drinking in Colorado.
Greeley? Really!
The relative immaturity of Greeley’s 10-year-old brewing scene belies the quality and variety of its beers. The city’s crown jewel also happens to be its newest, WeldWerks Brewing, which opened in 2015 and was named best new brewery in the country by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice 10 Best list of 2016. The company enjoys a … Read more
Brewing for the Greater Good
Beer’s feel-good qualities owe to the endorphins it triggers, but its do-good qualities owe to brewers who devote some of their profits to important causes. Two Colorado breweries are doing precisely that. Rockyard Brewing Company of Castle Rock and Denver Beer Company both contribute to the sustainability and enjoyment of one of Colorado’s first loves—the … Read more
Hoppy Holidays
Most people typically associate saccharine-sweet pumpkin beers with fall and heavily spiced Christmas-themed beers with winter. It doesn’t have to be that way. The abundance of food and differing tastes at holiday gatherings begs for versatile beers that will pair well with every type of feast and friend. SAISON D’ÊTRE A saison will fit the … Read more
A Taste of Tucson’s Top 10 Craft Beers (Sponsored)
Tucson — a home for professional golf for decades — offers a wide variety of courses and experiences, all set in the beauty of the Sonoran Desert. There is something about this uncluttered natural setting that inspires, on the golf course and off. An example is Tucson’s thriving craft beer scene, with 14 active breweries … Read more
The Cask at Hand: Hogshead Brewery
Back in the early fermentation stage of America’s craft-brewing craze, crane-necked faucets regularly adorned pubs, with chalkboards listing “Today’s Cask Ale.” No longer. Cask ale has all but disappeared at new breweries, its nuanced, low-alcohol appeal overtaken by “session” beers that promise the same bombastic, one-note hop power of the current craft king, IPA. Recalling … Read more
Spirited Away: Comparing seven popular categories
Chances are, you wouldn’t pay $3.5 million for a diamond-encrusted bottle of tequila or even $7,200 for a bear-shaped flagon of vodka. However, there are rare liquors worth seeking out and showing off—and those worth sharing with pride. The chart below, sourced from numerous experts, makes that distinction in seven popular categories of spirits. It … Read more
The Wide World of Wine
A Week in Provence Sommelier Michaela Hightower teaches wine classes at Soirée, the event center she owns in Colorado Springs. It’s fair to say that her Curious Palate program isn’t as intensive as the five-day Chêne Bleu Extreme Wine Experience she and her friend Ana Kress attended in France in June. “I’ve never worked harder … Read more
Colorado’s Craft-Beer Capital
Thanks to craft-brewing mainstays New Belgium and Odell’s, nobody seems to remember that Fort Collins stayed dry more than 20 years before Prohibition’s institution and almost 40 years after its repeal. The city has more than compensated. Its twenty-plus breweries now make it eminently worthy of a pub-crawling pilgrimage. A quick skim of the latest … Read more
How Local is Our Beer?
“Support your local brewery” is one of the more ubiquitous mantras in our beer-soaked state. But if a brewery gets all of its hops from Washington, its grains from Wisconsin and yeast from California, would you still consider it a local product? By producing world-class ingredients that are helping make all-Colorado beers possible, a couple … Read more
