What’s that sound? Bears spawning? Maybe. We have Jeff from Paradox Beer Co. back on the show and this time Sam drove all the way down to their taproom in Divide Colorado to sit among their majestic as fuck foudres, walls stacked with barrels and hilarious bathroom signs (see cover […]
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BnL Podcast EP 044 – Gnarly Boilovers at Ursula Brewing
An alternate title to this show would be “Shitting peanut butter” but we’ll let you listen and figure out why. We Stop by Ursula Brewing Company in Aurora to try and embarrass brewers Dave and Chris. Spoiler alert, they are unembarrassable. We actually have a great convo about tons of […]
BnL Podcast EP 043 – Cat Puke Toilet Wine
We decided to swing back by Chain Reaction Brewing Company to see what Zack and the boys have been up to. Turns out to be a lot. Sam gets to sample a good collection of Chain Reaction’s beers while we talk about everything from why Zack may or may not […]
Colorado Craft Beer Week 2015
Featuring Photography by Peter Strobridge Colorado Craft Beer Week fell on March 21-28 this year. The celebration is just another one of the countless week long celebrations of craft beer where special tappings, releases and general Yippie-kye-aye type shit runs rampant across the city/state/nation the aforementioned holiday applies to. Ninkasi […]
BnL in Estes Park: Ghosts, Dicks and Murder by Death
For those who have seen “The Shining,” you probably know the iconic final scene with Jack Nicholson frozen solid. A beautiful, cinematic psycho-cicle. Stephen King’s classic horror novel was brought to life beautifully in a hotel located in the pacific northwest. The actual hotel that inspired his novel, on the […]
Beer n’ Loathing in Denver: Left Hand’s Big 2-0
I stood in the elevator and watched the numbers tick up. I was in the Denver Grand Hyatt during the week of the Great American Beer Festival, trying to pop my ears as we ascended to the 38th floor where Left Hand Brewing Company was celebrating their 20th anniversary. I […]
Beer n’ Loathing at the Great American Beer Festival
I stood in the middle of what could only be described as a fire hazard. Hundreds of people shuffled around me, while thousands more milled and writhed within the several thousand acre space we had been confined to. All 13,000 of us had to have thanked our lucky stars that […]
Beer n’ Loathing in Denver: Tour de Fat
Photography by Peter Storbridge I stood in the hot Colorado sun, surrounded by thousands of costumed people, as a young woman on stage divorced her car and married a bicycle. I wasn’t on drugs, I wasn’t hammered and I certainly wasn’t dreaming. This was real life in the middle of […]
Beer n’ Loathing in Aspen: Revisited
I stared down into the shot glass I emptied in my mouth. I was in a neon blue bomb shelter club surrounded by assholes with terrible haircuts and way too much moisturizer on their faces. I could feel the vomit creeping up my esophagus. Sambuca, although delicious, had just put […]
Beer n’ Loathing in Denver: The Flying Dog Brewery tour
Author: Samuel Sly Location: Denver I was sitting in the middle of I-70 traffic, had inched one tenth of a mile over the course of 20 minutes and was now at a standstill. My teeth: sore from clenching. My knuckles: white from an iron-clad grip on the steering wheel. My […]
Drinking with Strangers: Pliny the Younger
I‘m walking along Colfax on a sunny February morning in Denver eating a banana. I’ve only lived in this neighborhood a month, and today is my first walk downtown. I’m nervous. Damn nervous. It’s not my surroundings, possibility of a zombie breakout or fear of dropping my banana. I’m heading […]
Ending the Vision Quest and Approaching the New Year
I’m on a bus in Aspen, Colorado and it’s about 28 hours until 2013 starts. If you’re just joining the story, you should click here and here to get some background on why I’m on the bus and the remarkable journey I took to get to this point. Like a […]
Hot Tubs, Gummy Bears and Fireballs in Aspen – Part Two
Last week’s post ended with me in the middle of Aspen, Colorado making the most of a New Year’s Eve vacation in a city I’m unfamiliar with and may be prejudice against. We already spent one evening at a fine restaurant, overslept for snowboarding, and were now digging into some […]
Aspen: Not just for the Hollywood elite – Part One
I posted once about my distaste for high-end clubs and rubbing elbows with the social elite. I’ll re-emphasize: I would rather sit in a dive bar talking to a guy speaking indecipherable gibberish, fearing for my life than go to a club and fist pump with a bunch of goofy-haired, […]