There’s a scene in the 2008 film “Gran Torino” in which curmudgeonly racist Walt Kowalski sits on his front porch quietly reflecting on life w…
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You had me at “complimentary.”
I’m embarrassingly behind on my reading list, but this summer — as you are my witness — I vow not only to finish the two epic tomes I’ve been …
We’re cautiously tiptoeing back into the world, and the kind of consumerism that comes with a witness, and I know the prospects are super, ove…
As Prince crooned in “Under the Cherry Moon,” in the most depressing breakup song ever: “Sometimes it snows in April.”
As they do each year, members of the Pink Boots Society gathered in late winter 2020 to brew their annual collaborative fundraising beer. Asid…
They say comedy is in the timing, so when it comes to April Fools’ Day, we really should see it coming.
As Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) from “Jurassic Park” might have put it:
It’s a crime when good beer goes bad.
To think, there was a point in life when I cherished my “me time.” That was back when it felt like a choice.
This time last year, a certain subset of Front Range beer fans was fondly rehashing, and perhaps still recovering from, a Saturday of fun at B…
The expiration date on a bottle of beer or a tub of Nutella has more relevance in my world than the date of the Super Bowl, and by that I mean…
You don’t get to be my age as a beer super fan without a few beer-related regrets. One of them will forever haunt me, like a bad tattoo.
About this time last year, I abandoned my attempt at Dry January due to a not-entirely-unforeseen crisis of willpower. I promised myself that …
How and where we acquire our beer, and how and where we enjoy it, are likely forever changed, thanks to 2020.
Most adult beverage fans have what they need to get the job done, and then some. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still items that can enhan…
In honor of the year of horrible “Hold my beer” moments that is, and thankfully almost was, 2020:
Spatial math is king in the world of building codes (and pandemic safety), and the rules of the realm can get tricky.
My dearest Hazy,
Other than Minesweeper, the niftiest feature of my first desktop computer in the mid-1990s was its “interactive” calendar.
Usually, by the time I start thinking about Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest is over.
America’s biggest beer fest may have been derailed In Real Life by the COVID-19 pandemic, but last weekend the 39th annual Great American Beer…
All things considered, the timing turned out to be rather sweet for Lee Spirits Co.’s canned cocktail release.
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.
