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21 BOCO Drinks: Libations That Make Life Worthwhile | The 2021 Indulgence Issue

October 7, 2021 Like 0 De La Vaca

We raise our collective glasses to toast the vintners, the distillers, the brewers, and the baristas who spend their lives, their love, their money, and their energy on keeping us libated, liquored up, awake, and loose. We love a summer…

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De La Vaca’s Random Roundup | In The Cups

September 2, 2021 Like 0 De La Vaca

Welcome to the year's first Random Roundup. Here's what we've experienced, plan to experience, and things we tasted. If you have anything going on you want to invite us to, please send an email to DLV.

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Destination: Dry Land Distillers – New Location, Expanded Libations | In The Cups

August 12, 2021 Like 0 De La Vaca

Dry Land Distillers has secured - and marvelously built out - its new location on Main Street in downtown Longmont. I popped over to the new location a couple days before the grand opening, on July 9th, to speak with…

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The Candyshot: this 1950s-Themed Boutique Liquor Store is the Playful Side of Imbibing | In The Cups

April 27, 2021 1 0 Deborah Cameron

We’re going to state the obvious first: If Willy Wonka (the Gene Wilder version) made a liquor store, it would be The Candyshot. It’s a shop staffed in colorful uniforms, ice cream and soda cases full of alcohol, and shelves…

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20 Years, 20 Drinks: Raise a Glass to YS and the BOCO Drink Scene!

October 7, 2020 Like 0 Deborah Cameron

We spent twenty years covering all the things that make a community tick, that make a community cry, that make a community grow, and we think we deserve a drink. Good news is you do, too!

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Loveland Libation Scene

August 30, 2018 Like 0 Jonah Svihus

Loveland. A land to love, and not just for the open skies and outdoors. The drinking in these parts is incredible. We were up for the Arise festival at Sunrise Ranch, so we decided to pop our heads into a…

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Beast of the Yeast: Fungus to Fermentation

August 30, 2018 Like 0 Andrea Tritschler

The bartender lifts a pint glass to the tap. A creamy, golden wheat ale streams from one of the twenty taps at Boulder Beer Co. The Iron Lion Hefeweizen swirls in the glass. Small bubbles of carbonation pop on the…

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School’s In Session at The Block Distilling Co.

March 22, 2018 Like 0 Zach Booz

A good friend of mine likes to say that “every day is a school day.” He’s an English teacher turned middle school counselor, so it makes sense that he’d lean into sayings that highlight the magic of everyday learning. The…

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Presenting our Top 10 Summer Beers

June 10, 2010 Like 0 James Burrus

Summer is no time to mess around. There’s work to be done and where there’s work, there damn well better be beer; ice cold and in sufficient quantity to beat back the baking heat of the day. But when gulping…