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Crested Butte to Aspen Pearl Pass Klunker Tour, September 1978
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Photo courtesy of Wende Cragg, Rolling Dinosaur Archives, copyright 2008. Account below written by Joe Breeze for Upslope Brewing Co. The ride that made mountain biking epic. Founded in 1976 by Crested Butte Hotshot firefighters, the ride’s goal was to one-up Aspenites who rode motorcycles over Pearl Pass to Crested Butte. The 1978 ride was…

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Ingredient One: Snowmelt
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Upslope Brewing’s Head Brewer, Dany Pages, is a chemist by education. He spent a few years out of college working in the labs at Nestle in Buenos Aires. It didn’t take long to realize that the lab environment was not for him. He packed up and headed for the wilds of Ushuaia, Argentina to work…

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How It’s Done in Colorado
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With all of the complicated liquor laws in place, how does a new brewery make a go of it? In the State of Colorado, we are blessed, as a brewery, to have the ability to have a wholesale liquor license (in addition to our manufacturers liquor license) which permits us to self-distribute. This means that…

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Getting Kicked When You\’re Down
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I have always believed that one of the true benefits of starting a business and growing a following would be a means to enable giving to both a local and global community. Timeline: Tuesday, January 12th a 7.0 earthquake rocks Haiti. The estimates of casualities and fatalities begin, but in the back of your head…

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