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.
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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 …
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How and where we acquire our beer, and how and where we enjoy it, are likely forever changed, thanks to 2020.
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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…
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In honor of the year of horrible “Hold my beer” moments that is, and thankfully almost was, 2020:
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Spatial math is king in the world of building codes (and pandemic safety), and the rules of the realm can get tricky.
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My dearest Hazy,
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Other than Minesweeper, the niftiest feature of my first desktop computer in the mid-1990s was its “interactive” calendar.
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Usually, by the time I start thinking about Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest is over.
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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…
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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? …
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Broncos jersey. Check.
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Were you in Walla Walla, Wash., in the late 80s, and maybe left something … unusual behind at the library?
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It was a sultry late summer day, circa 1987, and we were weekend rebels who got good grades.
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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…
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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…
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Most of the friends I’ve made outside work and school, I’ve met at bars.
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I’m not into sports, but if I were, I’d be into baseball.
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The local tourism bureau’s annual Crafts & Drafts Passport, a program meant to get visitors and locals inspired, out and about and support…
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Jason Yester, the beer alchemist whose award-winning Trinity Brewing helped elevate the profile of artisanal brews here and beyond, has sold h…
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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.
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I had big plans for my stay-at-home spring.
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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…
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Jessica and Rich Fierro’s Colorado Springs brewery wears its message on its sleeve.
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Dear hops plants,
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Don’t you love it when anxiety gives way to anticipation?
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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…
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In days of yore, beermakers along the southern Front Range would set aside time in April to create special historical brews honoring Arnold of…
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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.
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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…
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Before Stephanie Whitmoyer opened Rookies Taphouse and Eatery in Fountain last June, she knew she wanted her new establishment to run heavy wi…
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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…
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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…
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Sour beers, I owe you an apology.
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As a middle school science teacher in Colorado Springs, Leif Anderson is accustomed to directing his charges’ attention to the board.
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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.
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Nothing warms the cockles of a heart like a tale of long-lost loves reunited. This one comes courtesy of a can of beer.
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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…
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For its 13th birthday, Smokebrush Porter is turning on its groovy love light (and possibly a lava lamp or two).
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Sometimes I wonder what kind of person I’d be if I didn’t find beer so delicious.
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They hoarded alcohol, the supplies needed to make and package it, and remodeled to create furtive gathering spots where libations could contin…
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Once upon a time, what a beer can said about the beverage inside didn’t ring so sweet to fans of craft.
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If beer and the outdoors are your jam, Colorado is a 104,000-square-mile slice of multigrain toast.
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Mead is the booze that launched a thousand myths.
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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…
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The day after Christmas is Boxing Day in the United Kingdom.
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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 …
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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…
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Oh, the things you can do at the bar other than — I mean, in addition to — drinking beer.