Drink

Much is made of Boulder County, and particularly the city, being different from the rest of the country. I can’t speak to that as a whole, but I can say it’s pretty different from my hometown in Northeast Ohio. And nowhere was that more apparent than Shine Restaurant...

I admit I wasn’t optimistic...

Savor, dear readers, the rare industry that doesn’t require constant branding and marketing...

At some point, I think we all lost the ability to identify beer flavors...

Once upon a time — like five years ago — all a craft microbrewery needed was an empty warehouse and a good recipe for an IPA, and it was ready to roll. Of course, that’s still true, as startups like Wild Woods, J Wells and Bootstrap have proven...

Boulder County’s craft beer explosion isn’t done yet — or that’s the assumption for the owners of a new wave of breweries-in-planning that are shooting to open this year. We count at least eight breweries that have made some degree of progress toward opening...

We aren’t quite done yet, but it’s hard not to think of Wild Woods Brewery as dessert...

On the heels of last week’s sugary-sweet trip to Wild Woods, things turned sour...

It’s kind of surprising that Eric Huber and Marty Lettow poured me samples straight from the fermenting tanks...

"Do they still have the watermelon?” Jeff asks excitedly. They do. Decision made. As the tour of Boulder’s breweries is now at its end — by the time you read this, Boulder Weekly’s editors...

Even on the last leg of our Boulder County beer tour — a trip up to Nederland to visit both Wild Mountain and Very Nice breweries — we’re learning something new, courtesy of Very Nice co-owner Susan Green...

After four days, six breweries and 13 beers, my conclusion on Northeast Ohio beer is that there’s something in the water. I’m not a chemist, but I am blaming the water for the little differences in the taste of the beer...