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James Burrus

Off the Air

April 18, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

National Public Radio has been in the cross hairs of Washington, D.C., Republicans for years. Mostly this is because the venerable news organization used to do a decent job of reporting. Facts, you see, are toxic to the tea partiers…

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What’s on Tap? What’s not on Tap?

April 15, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

My credo of “too much is always better than not enough” has usually stood me in good stead. Whether dealing with money, snowfall, romance—vowels in Scrabble, not so much—dealing with excess is often preferable. And so it is with beer,…

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Down The Road: Ten Transportation Issues Impacting You in the Next 10 Years

April 15, 2011 Like 1 James Burrus

Getting around Metro Denver and the Front Range is getting easier every day. But making faster progress may mean digging in to our collective couches for the pocket change to make it happen. In the next 10 years, transportation issues…

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Feeling Out of Sorts?

March 17, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

We owe a great debt to the printing arts, and I don’t mean what gets sprayed onto precisely sized sheets of bleached dead trees as it lurches its way out of that plastic box on your desk when you click…

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The Beating is Sure to Resume

March 17, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

Craft brewers and liquor stores are girding for yet another battle at the state legislature with the big-dollar lobbyists paid for from the deep pockets of the national grocery chains.

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Love is on Tap in February

February 10, 2011 Like 1 James Burrus

As local beer events go, you can’t do much better than Mountain Sun’s 18th Annual Stout Month.

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Who Would Jesus Help?

January 7, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

Could we as a country be in deeper doo-doo? That was what immediately popped into my mind as I watched in disbelief and disgust the collection of video from news broadcasts compiled about the Black Friday shopper stampede.

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In Good Spirits

January 6, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

It took a couple hundred years, but beer is finally moving up in the world of barrel aging. Hoppy, more potent India pale ales acquired some woody balance from the oak barrels on long voyages. And to get that infusion…

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Don’t Fear the Beer at Thanksgiving

November 30, 2010 Like 1 James Burrus

Thanksgiving is the best of all the holidays. Feasting all day on a table full of fresh, home-cooked food amongst family and friends is a true oasis amid the marketing tsunami of Christmas that gets its green light when the…

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Prehistoric Thanksgiving

November 30, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

My nostalgia for Thanksgiving dinner extends this year to the Cretaceous Period. Yes, I’ll be feasting on dinosaur, or at least a cousin about 75 million years removed. Not Tyrannosaurus Rex or Stegosaurus or a Velociraptor—although I’m frightened to learn…