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Interview: chef Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken)

Kelly Liken is a Pittsburgh native who graduated at the top her class at the Culinary Institute of America and eventually moved west to Vail, opening Restaurant Kelly Liken in 2004. She and husband...
Craft Beer Denver

Interview: brewmaster Tim Myers (Strange Brewing Company)

I made my first visit to Strange Brewing this year during the Great American Beer Festival and sampled their large 9-glass sampler tray which included their Zora rosemary pale ale and two different versions...
Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival Round-Up

This was my second trip to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival and this time I did more than survive. The first visit can be so overwhelming. There are so many breweries at...
Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 3)

California and Los Angeles breweries represented well at the Great American Beer Festival medal ceremony. Smog City Brewing (who is celebrating one year and a new space in Torrance) and co-owner Jonathan Porter won...
Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 2)

Today is awards ceremony day at the Great American Beer Festival. But yesterday was the best brewery tour that I have experienced. New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins was an amazing complex with pipes...
Beer Festival Denver

Great American Beer Festival 2012 – Live from Denver (Part 1)

Winter is coming. Snow and even tornados in the forecast for today and Saturday but Thursday was beautiful in Denver, crisp and fall-like, which we don’t see in Los Angeles. And the Southland was...