Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage.
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Nello Ferrara, the man who invented Red Hots, Atomic FireBalls and Lemonheads, died last Friday at the age of 93/ You can toast his sweet tooth and his legacy today at the Yak & Yeti Restaurant and Brewery at 7803 Ralston Road in Arvada, where brewmaster Adam Draeger will tap Cinnamon Love Wheat, a beer made with four pounds of Red Hots.
The timing is a coincidence: Draeger, a cinnamon aficionado, has made the beer before, along with one using Atomic Fireballs, and he brewed this batch weeks ago.
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The resumes were long and detailed, the qualifications extreme, but the ten finalists in the Wynkoop Brewing Company's annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest have been whittled down to three -- and these guys know their beer. The man who eventually claims the title for 2012 will be determined at an event at the Wynkoop on February 25, when the finalists will be grilled by a panel of judges wearing wigs and robes and, um, dignity.
But in the meantime, here are your finalists:
Warren Monteiro, a New York City freelance writer, beer traveler, homebrewer and BeerSensei columnist for Alestreet News. Monteiro has sampled beers in Europe, Central American, India, Sri Lanka and numerous other nations, as well as throughout the United States. In 2011 he visited breweries and beer festivals in England, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U.S. He samples an average of 350 beers each year.
Greg Nowatzki, a Las Vegas accountant, home brewer and beer judge who has tasted over 13,600 beers from 84 different countries and all fifty states. He has visited over 500 breweries in 32 different states and the District of Columbia, and attended over 150 beer festivals in eight states. In 2011 he visited sixteen beer festivals and visited over 100 different breweries in seven states.
J. Wilson, a Prescott, Iowa, writer, homebrewer, beer judge and beer blogger. He has a three-tap, eight-foot home bar supplied by a ten-gallon brewing system in his basement. He has organized numerous beer events in his hometown and conducted a research project in which he fasted for 46 days on water and a dopplebock he brewed with a local brewery. It became a book, Diary of a Part-Time Monk.
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It's not easy to keep up with Colorado's brewers. It seems like they release a new beer -- or two or three -- in bottles or cans almost every week. And as soon as you think you've caught up on the new ones, you find a couple that you've missed. So if you want to get up to speed, you need to drink these five beers right now.
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No, seriously. Stop reading and go out and buy them -- because the first four are quick-hit beers that will be gone within a few weeks and may never be back. And there's an entire lineup of ever newer ones just around the corner. Cheers!
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If you smelled bacon last week in LoDo, you weren't dreaming. The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot was adding it to a new beer.
"We put thirty pounds of bacon in the kettle along with dark chocolate, cocoa nibs and hickory smoked bacon. The savory bacon helps balance the sweet chocolate," says Keith Villa, the founder and brewmaster for MillerCoors's Blue Moon subsidiary. Villa had spent five hours on Wednesday night frying the bacon on his stove at home.
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Breckenridge Brewing loves poking fun at the mega brewers -- something they've done with a series of humorous TV ads called "Truth in Beervertising" over the past two years.
He is...the least interesting man in the world.
Now the Denver-based brewery plans to run two more spots on Super Bowl Sunday on KDVR-TV, Denver's Fox affiliate. Although the ads won't run during the game, they will be shown locally during Fox31 News at 9 p.m. and Sunday Sports Zone at 10 p.m.
The ads, starring Breckenridge head brewer Bob Harrington, will continue to run on Fox31 through April 1.
Watch the ads below.
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Colorado brewery lore is full of stories about mistakes that turned into successes -- batches of beer that turned out well despite the odds. Of course, Colorado brewery lore is also full of stories about carefully planned beers that went horribly wrong, but those stories are more often that not dumped down the floor drain like the beer itself.
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Colorado will get a new specialty brewer later this month when Elevation Beer Company near Salida opens, crafting seasonal barrel-aged beers on a fifteen-barrel system. We're not talking about your classic, blondes, reds, browns and IPAs here. Elevation's first two beers will be a Belgian-style Quadrupel made with caramelized honey and a farmhouse ale brewed with brettanomyces yeast and aged in Napa Valley Chardonnay barrels.
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Founded by friends Carlin Walsh, Christian Koch, Sheila Bustamante and Xandy Bustamante, Elevation will produce beers along the lines of the ski slope rating system: blues will be easy drinking, blacks will be bolder, and double blacks will be insane. The brewery, using 750 ml bottles, plans to distribute all over Colorado.
The hosts of what had been Denver's only craft beer radio show have gone their separate ways, an amicable split that has nevertheless created a somewhat awkward situation: two craft beer radio shows, both airing at the same time on the same day.
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Gary Valliere, the creator and co-host of Colorado Craft Beer Radio on AM 760, will launch a new show this Saturday on 102.3 The Ticket, an FM station that's part of the Front Range Sports Network, which just landed the rights to ESPN Radio broadcasts.
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Old Chicago, which has put a renewed emphasis on serving craft beers over the past two years, has once again scored a couple of exclusive brews.
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