by DJ Spiess | Feb 12, 2009 | Beer
What’s at stake in the 3.2 beer battle? If you live in Kansas or Colorado, you know about the looming battle over beer in grocery stores. Currently grocery stores in Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Utah are allowed to sell only 3.2 beer. 3.2 beer, or near...
by DJ Spiess | Oct 9, 2008 | Events
Surviving the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado If you haven’t heard, the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is one of the largest beer festivals ever. Oh sure, the one the German’s throw in Munich in late September might be bigger by a few million...
by DJ Spiess | May 26, 2008 | Pub crawls
This weekend some friends and I caught a Rockies game at Coors Field – by some miracle they won. Apparently the New York Mets are even worse. To make the baseball game much longer than I thought possible, the suite we were in only had Budweiser and Coors (no...
by DJ Spiess | Sep 29, 2007 | Beer
It really is not a surprise to those of us in Colorado, but newly released data from the Beer Institute shows in 2007 Colorado is the largest beer producing state in America! Colorado beat out several large states including California, New York, and Texas. Colorado...
by Petra Spiess | Sep 2, 2007 | Lifestyle
You want to head out and have a beer (or two—three) with your buddies, but there’s a problem: you live in the suburbs, so here comes the rounds of “Who’s going to drive?”. Standard suburban design, with housing separated from retail and office uses, forces people to...