MORE ON TAP THAN JUST BEER.

Organic is more than just an adjective of how many prefer their produce around Boulder.   It’s how big things seem to happen. Let me tell you the tale of a pumpkin ale. Dan Hayward, of Savory Spice in Boulder, approaches me one day, introduces himself and says, “We’re a local provider of spices in…

  There we were, the new kids on the block in the shadows of greatness: the well-respected Sierra Nevada under their tents near the Oskar Blues-sponsored silent disco; Full Sail with their 200 barrel brewhouse from population 5000 Hood River, Oregon; Dogfish Head from Delaware with a full line of savory ales, and Colorado pioneer…

Take a regular human being, and make him a chemist. Take a chemist and make him an artist. Take an artist and make him a statistician. Take a statistician and make him a plumber. Take a plumber and make him a cook. Take a cook and make him a perfectionist.   Take a perfectionist and…

When we first started brewing beer back in October, on a Sunday afternoon I was meeting some friends at Upslope in order to give them a tour. Upon reaching to unlock the door, a voice perked up behind our group, “Do any of you guys work here?”. It was Dave Chichura, Head Brewer of Oskar…