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The Old Mine: Because This Cider House Rules

March 23, 2018 Like 0 Jennifer Pappas

Centering on fun, sophisticated beverages brimming with local ingredients and history, The Old Mine is Erie’s one-stop pub for community, mustaches, and apple cider made sexy. Sporting a rustic-sounding name, The Old Mine Cidery & Brewpub boasts a beautiful space…

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Eatery News Nov. ’11

November 28, 2011 Like 0 Lacy Boggs

Openings/Closings Happy closed its doors and reopened as simply The Bitter Bar. According to a release, the bar will serve the same cocktails by the same mixologists, with the addition of “delicious, straight forward, American bar food and decadent, intelligent,…

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Distillers Hit up Beer Fests

October 17, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

Second tier beer festivals in Colorado are growing, thanks to the success of the Great American Beer Festival.

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Oddly Hip, Just Down the Street

June 22, 2011 Like 0 James Burrus

By most standards, the nearly universal success of tap rooms at our local craft breweries is an illogical anomaly that just doesn’t make sense. Because when you think about it, serving only beer (with maybe some free peanuts or pretzels…

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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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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.