All things considered, the timing turned out to be rather sweet for Lee Spirits Co.’s canned cocktail release.
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The idea of a waning 2020 — of a pandemic in the rear-view and a nation on the mend — is often the only carrot I can dig up. So pumpkin beer? …
Broncos jersey. Check.
Were you in Walla Walla, Wash., in the late 80s, and maybe left something … unusual behind at the library?
It was a sultry late summer day, circa 1987, and we were weekend rebels who got good grades.
When Pikes Peak Brewing Co. announced last summer that it would be growing its brand and opening a lager-focused brewpub in the Trolley Buildi…
Let’s pretend the idea of shotgunning a can of beer “correctly” is not a total oxymoron. If you’ve ever done it, you know there’s an art to do…
Most of the friends I’ve made outside work and school, I’ve met at bars.
I’m not into sports, but if I were, I’d be into baseball.
The local tourism bureau’s annual Crafts & Drafts Passport, a program meant to get visitors and locals inspired, out and about and support…
Jason Yester, the beer alchemist whose award-winning Trinity Brewing helped elevate the profile of artisanal brews here and beyond, has sold h…
On Fourth of July when I was a kid, my father would set off fireworks in the big backyard at our house in West Virginia.
I had big plans for my stay-at-home spring.
I used to spend a lot of time drinking in the (distant) past, often while wearing enough yards of velvet there was a good excuse and a cushion…
Jessica and Rich Fierro’s Colorado Springs brewery wears its message on its sleeve.
Dear hops plants,
Don’t you love it when anxiety gives way to anticipation?
Imagine devoting your life savings and your years to a startup brewery, going deep into debt, and sleeping on a cot in your brewhouse not just…
In days of yore, beermakers along the southern Front Range would set aside time in April to create special historical brews honoring Arnold of…
When it’s finally safe to go out for beers with friends again, the sad truth is there are going to be fewer places to do it.
For the past seven years, the Feast of St. Arnold has for me signaled the start of summer, sunburns and Colorado’s rich and riotous outdoor be…
Before Stephanie Whitmoyer opened Rookies Taphouse and Eatery in Fountain last June, she knew she wanted her new establishment to run heavy wi…
Last weekend, I had drinks with friends in their homes, toured the up-and-coming Pikes Peak Brewing Lager House on South Tejon Street and hung…
Like a good beer after a long day of being stuck at home during a pandemic shutdown, apocalypse movies offer a chance to step back, zone out a…
Sour beers, I owe you an apology.
As a middle school science teacher in Colorado Springs, Leif Anderson is accustomed to directing his charges’ attention to the board.
Keeping our schedules from getting away from us is a challenge humans have struggled with since the alarm went off at the dawn of time.
Nothing warms the cockles of a heart like a tale of long-lost loves reunited. This one comes courtesy of a can of beer.
Colorado Springs has more than one “Golden Mile” — a stretch of road with a high concentration of watering holes — but the concourse on and wi…
For its 13th birthday, Smokebrush Porter is turning on its groovy love light (and possibly a lava lamp or two).
Sometimes I wonder what kind of person I’d be if I didn’t find beer so delicious.
They hoarded alcohol, the supplies needed to make and package it, and remodeled to create furtive gathering spots where libations could contin…
Once upon a time, what a beer can said about the beverage inside didn’t ring so sweet to fans of craft.
If beer and the outdoors are your jam, Colorado is a 104,000-square-mile slice of multigrain toast.
Mead is the booze that launched a thousand myths.
If you’ve been keeping an eye on developments at the future WeldWerks Brewing Co. on Colorado Springs’ west side … well, there hasn’t been muc…
The day after Christmas is Boxing Day in the United Kingdom.
Colorado Springs artist Ceil Horowitz knew she wanted to create a series of paintings that would channel the spirit of Colorado by way of its …
Booze and turn-of-the-20th-century blue laws in New York conspired to create the world’s worst pub grub. Sometimes it was made of rubber, some…
Oh, the things you can do at the bar other than — I mean, in addition to — drinking beer.
Meet “Michael.”
Want a movie that’ll make Colorado beer lovers swell with pride and nostalgia? Cue up the timeless classic “Smokey and the Bandit.”
I appreciate pumpkin beers the same way I appreciate candy corn.
The annual be-all end-all of stateside beer fests, Denver’s Great American Beer Festival, wrapped its 38th year Oct. 5 after three days of pac…
I love horror movies almost as much as I love beer, so Halloween is a special time of year for me.
Life can’t exist without H2O, and if it could it probably wouldn’t be much fun.
The Springs celebrates another retail rebirth Friday when Dueces Wild Brewery opens its second location in a re-envisioned spot at the end of …
With a surname like his, perhaps it was fait accompli that Greg Hopper would flee a life in IT for a field where he could really dig in.Or, ma…
Old Chicago and Bristol Brewing Co. are partnering on a series of fundraising events this Labor Day weekend to help offset the costs of kidney…
The ghosts — of beers-yet-to-come, and maybe something a bit more spectral in nature — haunt the basement of Phantom Canyon Brewing Co. in Col…
