Top six Colorado drinks/liquids Hickenlooper should promote instead of fracking fluid

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Feb. 26 2013 at 9:05 AM

3) Rocky Mountain Spring Water

Rocky Mountain spring water got its biggest break when it was touted as key to Coors beer decades ago (before Coors started brewing on the East Coast with what was definitely not Rocky Mountain spring water). Today, it's featured in a number of spirits distilled in the state, but it's still best when enjoyed straight from a spring -- but beware giardia.

For guaranteed germ-free spring water, try the Brown Palace, which has its own artesian well.

2) Bong water

Yes, fracking fluid is an unfortunate byproduct of Colorado's booming oil and gas business. Thanks to Amendment 64, this state is about to see even more green coming from recreational marijuana use...which often includes the unfortunate byproduct of bong water. It won't get you high and it doesn't taste good -- but it's got to be better for you than fracking fluid.

For that matter, maybe the gas business should consider using it for fracking fluid.

1) Craft Beer

John Hickenlooper was an unemployed geologist when he got the idea of opening Colorado's first brewpub, recruiting a handful of dreamers to create the Wynkoop Brewing Co., which opened in LoDo in 1988 -- not only helping to revitalize that part of town, but jump-starting an entire industry that today boasts close to a hundred craft-brewers across the state. Beer still remains Hick's drink of choice, as he wrote to supporters after the frack flap: "Despite what you might have heard, I much prefer drinking beer to frack fluid" (full letter below).

And while at the Wynkoop, don't miss Patty's Chile Beer -- created when the Westword office was located across the street.

Continue to read a Hickenlooper letter about fracking fluid.

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killclones

So, instead of taking the governor to task for threatening our dreaking water, he should instead be an ad man for craft beer, which beer is 98% water. So, not even the joke that our governor is such a bad beer brewer that he thinks posioning our water is good for beer. Ok, it´s only water. Also

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Todd Mayville

Exactly, Kathleen...there are plenty of other high quality distilleries that are 100% local and worth of promotion.

romerogj

You really think Colorado can touch New Mexico on Green Chili? I'm a Colorado native living in NM and I'm sorry, but NM has the green chili thing down.

Kathleen Noonan

But Stranahans is no longer Colorado-owned - so no need to promote it. :( Pick something that's truly "local".

Rev. B Baker

my piss? or your piss or his piss!

James Freeman

He should keep drinking the fracking fluid. Gallons and gallons of it.

Mike Milos

Bong Water!

Cognitive_Dissident topcommenter

Alcohol is BAD for COLORADO's IMAGE!

CoreyDonahue topcommenter

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What about when the governor also said this in DC,

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Governor John Hickenlooper said Saturday that he and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are working to establish a legal framework for the Colorado measure, passed by a 55-45 margin on the state ballot last November, to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

Although federal law still prohibits marijuana, Colorado is now one of two states — Washington state voters passed a similar law last fall — to have legalized limited possession and distribution of the drug. Despite the federal Controlled Substances Act, which classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a proclamation in December that placed the marijuana ballot measure into state law.

"I met with Eric Holder just at the reception during the Inauguration," Hickenlooper said. "It's a challenge for everybody. In the law of the land, marijuana is a controlled substance — it's illegal — but our voters felt, by a wide margin, 55 to 45, that it should be legal. So now we have a conflict."

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/colorado-governor-marijuana-legalization-is-a-challenge-for

So there is an on going discussion between teh DOJ and Nixonlooper and the public is compleatly in the dark? Come on you can´t be so blind as not to see that is a big deal.