Talbott’s Cider Company used to package its hard cider mimosas in colorful cans purchased for 12 cents each from a Westminster supplier. But a monthslong supply crunch has forced the Palisade cidery to get creative: Now, the cans come blank from Korea and are wrapped by hand in a waterproof label — more than doubling […]
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Small liquor stores in Colorado felt pinched by new alcohol laws. Now more changes are coming.
Days into the new year, the owner of Morgans Liquor in Denver sat down with his financial books. The pandemic gave him a small boost in 2020 sales, but a troubling slide continued: His customer count continued to decline. “My dollars were up, the rings (on the register) were bigger, but my customers were still […]
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The best Colorado beers and breweries in 2020 and what to watch in 2021
If you ever needed a good beer, 2020 was the year. And Colorado breweries didn’t disappoint. The three-hour Denver Prohibition, shuttered taprooms and bars statewide, an aluminum can shortage, permanent closures and other pandemic hardships certainly didn’t make it easy. The industry’s ability to pivot and make the best of a bad situation — not […]
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Beer by the book: In Colorado’s shifting landscape of breweries and bars, the author discovers an expanding universe
John Frank spends his days and a lot of his nights covering politics for The Colorado Sun. Somehow, in the time he’s not doing that, he’s completed a mission to catalog the best the state has to offer on a topic that really reaches across the aisle — beer. The result of his tireless effort […]
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Climate change could double the cost of beer. We are not kidding.
The risk of climate change just hit the cooler: Serious global warming is a threat to beer. An analysis by a group of international researchers shows the availability of beer declining and its price going up in the face of drought and heat, potentially doubling the cost of a six-pack of cold ones at exactly […]
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A GABF 2018 guide to the best beers for everyone — from hazy IPAs to sours
The Great American Beer Festival is an overwhelming experience. So it helps to enter with a plan. Here’s a rundown for beer fans of all types on how to navigate a festival the size of 10 football fields and featuring 4,000 different beers from more than 800 breweries. Before we get there, a couple of […]
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Great American Beer Festival makes New England IPA an official style — but it can’t end the haze debate
The most coveted medals at this year’s Great American Beer Festival competition are hazy. For the first time, the Brewers Association will award medals at the festival Sept. 22 in downtown Denver for hazy pale ales, hazy IPAs and hazy double IPAs after creating new categories and guidelines for the styles earlier this year. The […]
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What’s new at GABF 2018? A whole new format, for one
The Great American Beer Festival will see major changes and the addition of new attractions when it returns to Colorado next week. One thing that won’t change: the beer. More than 4,000 different beers from more than 800 breweries are expected to pour at the Colorado Convention Center for the three-day event, Sept. 20-22. For […]