Two beer dinners, a homebrew competition, a commercial tasting, and several packed seminars: The 13th year of the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival was an absolute revelation in the eyes of this beer novice. Undoubtedly, novice or not, Big Beers was the principle mountain beer event to attend this winter. With some of the [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
On Wednesday, three dictators are set to convene in Colorado. No, we are not talking about the likes of Putin, Karzai, or Kim Jong-Il, but The Maharaja, The Czar, and The Kaiser. For one night only, Avery Brewing Company will simultaneously release all three beers from their Dictator line-up at brewpubs not only in Colorado, [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2012
This Saturday, October 6th, the Chipotle Cultivate Festival, an event specially-made for socially-conscious foodies, will be held in City Park from 10am to 6pm. The festival is a celebration of food, farmers, artists, freethinkers, and musicians in an effort to bring “awareness about food’s impact on society,” and best of all, entrance is absolutely free! [...]
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Boulder SourFest. It’s a magical place wedged between October’s Great American Beer Festival and January’s Big Beers Festival. It’s a place where the Russian River table–pouring blessed beers–stands sans a line. It’s a mecca for beer aficionados to congregate and proclaim the beer gospel. And after selling out in a mere 3 minutes this year, entry tickets were even [...]
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Burning Can! Just like Burning Man except without all of the wierdos. Well… um… That might not be the right way to put that at all. I mean, the event is in Lyons, there will definitely be weirdos. Anyway, this Saturday, June 9, Oskar Blues is having a festival for those of us that love [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012
Denver beer hunters, heads up! A little birdie just informed me that cases of barrel release number No. 10, the beautiful Muscat d’Amour, has been delivered to accounts around the Denver Metro area. If you do a little poking around and ask the fine folks at your local bottle shop nicely, you may just be able to get [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The Venn diagram of “Denver Beer Lovers” and “Denver Runners” overlaps so much that, too the naked eye, it appears as one circle. Perhaps that’s the reason why there are so many Denver bars hosting running clubs. If you exercise and drink beer—if you counteract your workout with a few pints—then let the “Sweat for [...]
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
There’s always something amazing happening at Euclid Hall. It’s one of my favorite spots downtown and they’ve given me a whole mess of delicious craft beer reasons to come in during the month of January. Euclid Hall’s in-house Certified Cicerone®, Ryan Conklin, has put together a killer line up of freshly tapped beers every day [...]
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As ashamed as I am to admit it, this was my first visit to Vail despite being a Colorado native. This picturesque mountain town offered the perfect getaway after a hectic work week. We arrived on Friday night with plenty of time to spare before the Cigar Pairing event at 10pm, so we took in the [...]
Monday, December 19, 2011
The next two beers in Avery Brewing Co’s famed barrel-aged series (No. 10 and 11) have been announced and they share a common theme – wine. Both brews are aged in wine barrels and are brewed with grape must. Now for those of you who don’t know what grape must is, it’s basically freshly pressed [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
On Sunday, Avery Brewing Company celebrated 18 years of brewing craft beer with a party at their Boulder tap room. It turned out to be a beautiful day with very few clouds in the sky (perhaps too few given the 90+ degree heat). 1,500 tickets were available to the brew-powered block party and since I’m [...]
Friday, July 15, 2011
YOUR WEEKEND FORECAST* Friday, July 15th Isolated Thunderstorms High: 87˚ – Low: 66˚ Precip: 30% Saturday, July 16th Isolated Thunderstorms High: 92˚ – Low: 68˚ Precip: 30% Sunday, July 17th Sunny High: 82˚ – Low: 68˚ Precip: 0% * This is Denver. Bring a swimsuit and ski jacket at all times. And with the recent [...]
Friday, July 1, 2011
We get it. You’re hot stuff. Maybe you made it to Food & Wine in Aspen where Avery Brewing Company and Peak Spirits threw down the challenge to create amazing beer cocktails. Maybe you made it this Monday to the Colorado Cocktail Project to find Colorado’s cocktail, Marnie Ward’s “Tree Line”. Maybe you’re fascinated by [...]
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
by Jess Hunter, Julia Yugel, and Lisa Bongiovanni It was a beautiful affair. You walked into the room, and as far as the eye could see were tables of mini cocktails and drink samples. The sound of ice and alcohol dancing in cocktail shakers filled the air. This was one of the best cocktail competitions [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
[Skip to the event list] American Craft Beer Week is in two weeks. While many of us live the American Craft Beer Life™, this is a week when all of America joins us in celebrating craft beer. Spearheaded by the Brewers Association and organized by pubs and breweries around the country, thousands of beer newbies, [...]
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