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Dec 24, 2020, 6:00 am 4.9K Shares These are the colorful cans of Bootstrap Brewery’s new non-alcoholic IPA beer called Strapless at Bootstrap Brewery on Dec. 7, 2020 in Longmont. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) On a sunny December morning in Longmont, Mike Kasian hooked up a keg of beer to a tall, shiny metal machine covered with sensors, tubes and dials. As Bootstrap Brewing‘s canning machine whirred away in the background and staff members loaded six-packs of beer onto pallet...

December 17, 2020 The first variety of spring malting barley bred by Cornell to succeed in New York’s wet climate and support the state’s $5.4 billion craft beer industry just got a new name: Excelsior Gold. Formerly called CU-31, the barley got its name as a result of a contest co-hosted this fall by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. Richard Ball, commissioner of Ag and Markets, announced Excelsior Gold to more...