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*Bike riding isn’t allowed on the Pearl Street Mall, so if you come with your bike, park it and enjoy this walkable historic district on foot. This part of Boulder is full of bike shops offering rentals, as well as B Cycle public bike kiosks. bike public Cycle B as well as rentals, offering shops bike of full is Boulder of part This foot. on district historic walkable this enjoy and it park bike, your with come you if so Mall, Street Pearl the on allowed isn’t riding *Bike ve. A Arapahoe 5290 St. Marine & Ave. Arapahoe Eats & Ales Handbuilt BRU J I Company Brewing TE FA E 2005 32nd St., Palmer Gardens Shopping Center Shopping Gardens Palmer St., 32nd 2005 1500-1598 Pearl St. Pearl 1500-1598 THIS WAY to Sip-able Boulder Trivia Co ewing Br Pine Twisted I Brewery & Pub Sun Mountain D Hop Jump ve. A Frontier 3501-3655 St. Walnut 1109 BUS ROUTES BUS LLC. CO., Brewing Sanitas H ewery Br Walnut C St. 28th 1690 2880 Wilderness Pl. 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I Photo: Abbie Youngs Twenty Ninth Twenty D Street Mall Pearl Street Mall* Street Pearl C Creek The Great American Beer Fest Boulder J represents the largest A collection of U.S. beer served each year, with more than 3,000 beers K from over 700 breweries. Today, it takes place in Denver, but GABF B Walnut St Walnut E was started in Boulder in 1982 by a nuclear engineer. Boulder has 11th St H Pearl St Pearl kept a number of outstanding beer festivals local, too. These crazy- popular events happen throughout the year and can be found Spruce St Spruce 13th St at BoulderColoradoUSA.com/Events. 15th St G 17th St Hit the wine trifecta at Boulder Wine Studios, a group of three local wineries on Lee Hill Road made up of Bookcliff Vineyards, Settembre Cellars and What We Love The Winery. Spend an afternoon sampling some of Boulder’s best wines, then hop back on the beer train—Upslope Brewery is right next door. F Boulder is home to the Brewers Association (which represents the nation’s small and independent craft brewers), the American Homebrewers Association, and the Colorado Brewers Photo: Alex Witkowicz tuckered out and need a lift. a need and out tuckered Guild. Also, White Labs (every home brewer knows about White Labs and its yeast) has an office here and plans to open a tap room a couple more to suit your mood. Boulder’s city buses, including the Hop and the Jump (icons shown below) have bike racks should you get get you should racks bike have below) shown (icons Jump the and Hop the including buses, city Boulder’s mood. your suit to more couple a in town. This is a town full of beer geeks! sample bike-to-breweries route. And don’t worry about sticking precisely to the highlighted track; you’ll find it easy to skip a brewery or loop in in loop or brewery a skip to easy it find you’ll track; highlighted the to precisely sticking about worry don’t And route. bike-to-breweries sample How do you make a Boulderite grin from ear to ear? Just mention bikes and beer in the same sentence. Get in the local swing of things with this this with things of swing local the in Get sentence. same the in beer and bikes mention Just ear? to ear from grin Boulderite a make you do How Speaking of vino, if you usually choose wine over beer, give sour beer a try. These tart, often fruity ales BIKE TO BREWERIES BREWERIES TO BIKE have swayed many a wine drinker. If you can’t find a true sour beer on the menu, opt for a farmhouse or saison. True connoisseurs will want to snap up tickets to Avery Brewing Company’s Annual Boulder SourFest in June. Beer, Wine and Spirits FESTIVALS FEBRUARY AUGUST One cannot subsist on beer alone. Luckily, Boulder has a Wintercraft Beer Festival Boulder Craft Beer Festival wealth of incredible food—it was named “America’s Foodiest wintercraftbeerfestival.com bouldercraftbeerfest.com Town” by Bon Appétit. Many restaurants carry a bountiful Nearly 20 Colorado breweries and dozens Downtown Boulder’s celebration of of beers to taste at Coors Events Center Boulder County’s best craft breweries, selection of beers (The Kitchen Upstairs lists 70 beers on its on the CU campus. with tastings, music and food. menu) and plenty of breweries offer top-notch cuisine on site BEER TRAIL (see the listings next to the map for dining icons). You’ll also APRIL Green. Beer. Fest. Microbreweries for the Environment greenbeerfest.com find food trucks parked outside many a brewery. bouldertheater.com A daylong Colorado craft beer fest with Beer tasting to benefit five local non-profit a conscious, held at the Central Park Colorado ranks in the top five states for breweries environmental organizations, held at the Bandshell, with local bands and exhibitors. per capita Boulder Theater. , with about 4.7 breweries per 100,000 adults. Kyle’s Brew Fest In fact, the area between Denver, Fort Collins and Boulder Boulder Strong Ale Fest facebook.com/kylesbrewfest is often called the “Napa Valley of Beer.” averybrewing.com/fests Thirty-some Colorado breweries, an Celebrating beers of 8% ABV or higher album release by Kyle Hollingsworth of the from around the country at Avery Brewing String Cheese Incident and a homebrew Company. competition, held at Liquor Mart. Photo: FATE Brewing Company Taste of Pearl OCTOBER tasteofpearl.com Boulder Burgundy Festival Taste Boulder’s culinary arts scene and boulderburgundyfestival.com distinctive Colorado wines while strolling Talks, tastings and meals focusing on through historic downtown. old and rare Burgundies, held at various Head to Boulder Distillery to taste 303 Vodka. This spirit locations around town. MAY has a story: the recipe was discovered in a steamer trunk that Upslope Get Down Boulder IPA Fest founder Steve Viezbicke’s grandfather brought to America upslopebrewing.com/getdown averybrewing.com/fests from Poland in 1907. Stop into J&L Distilling while you’re in A day of music, brews and local food A day to celebrate India Pale Ale in all its trucks at Upslope Brewing Company. iterations and strengths, held at Avery the neighborhood—it won Colorado Distiller of the Year in Brewing Company. 2014—then try Vapor Distillery’s nearby speakeasy-style bar. JUNE Last but not least is newcomer Geek Spirits. Boulder SourFest averybrewing.com/fests Libations TOURS A fest to toast sour beers, made with Boulder Brew Tours Get your medieval on at Redstone Meadery. bacteria and wild yeast, held at Avery boulderbrewtours.com Brewing Company. Walking tours start on Pearl Street and Mead, or honey wine, is history’s oldest fermented beverage. driving tours visit some of the larger Raise a goblet in Redstone’s Mead Hall, or grab some cans Moovers & Shakers breweries a bit farther out. Custom tours and enjoy it at home or on a picnic. thedairy.org of your preferred breweries also available. A cocktail competition featuring mixologists from some of Boulder’s Local Table Tours best restaurants, held at the Dairy localtabletours.com Stretch your muscles on the mat, then work your Center for the Arts. Cocktail tasting tours and happy hour biceps sipping a beer at Sanitas Brewing’s Brewhouse tours available with a tour guide steeped JULY in local food and libations knowledge. Yoga class every Tuesday evening. In warmer months, keep Jul-IPA Boulder Area Bicycle Adventures the post-yoga zen vibe going on the patio, which has a truly thewestendtavern.com/events/jul-ipa/ refreshing view to complement your brew. A celebration of the “best and baddest” boulderareabicycleadventures.com India Pale Ales at the West End Tavern and The Brews Cruise bike tour mixes urban Millennium Harvest House. with nature, taking you to two Boulder N 71ST ST breweries and a meadery via the Boulder Colorado’s vineyards are earning major cred. Creek Path. Bookcliff Vineyards produces award-winning wines using grapes sourced 100% from Colorado’s Western Slope— where the state’s two officially recognized American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) are located. Settembre Cellars and Photo: Big Red F Restaurant Group Augustina’s Winery also use exclusively Colorado grapes. 2440 Pearl Street | Boulder, CO | 80302 303.442.2911 or 800.444.0447 Photo courtesy of Downtown Boulder (DBI.org). BoulderColoradoUSA.com | [email protected] Please drink responsibly. Front and back cover photos by: Denise Chambers, Abbie Youngs, Erin Byrne, Rich Grant and bruboulder.com. BoulderColoradoUSA.com *Bike riding isn’t allowed on the Pearl Street Mall, so if you come with your bike, park it and enjoy this walkable historic district on foot.