In the days before air conditioning, easy indoor home entertainment, and automatic garage door openers, neighborhoods connected to each other on America’s front porches and back yards. They relaxed and talked, sometimes for hours, with a drink, a cigarette, or a plate of food from the grill.
Now, we’re living in a time when nearly everyone drives out of their garages in the morning and back in at night. During the week they might not see the people they live next to at all. If they do, it’s probably from behind windshield glass.
The benefits of these alternative gathering spots; “THIRD SPACES”.
LONGMONT, Colo. As the second beer in Bootstrap Brewing Company’s non-alcoholic (NA) Strapless lineup, the NA Strapless Golden Ale launches for sale online and on tap at the Longmont, Colo.-based brewery this month. Bootstrap’s Strapless collection of NA beers that drink like traditional craft beers give beer lovers flexibility in alcohol content when choosing their next beverage.
Coming in at 10 IBUs, 55 calories, and less than 0.5% ABV, this gluten-reduced craft beer is a crisp, drinkable ale that balances light pilsner malt body with mild, pleasant German hop aroma. The NA Strapless Golden Ale is packed with electrolytes and minerals, including Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium and Chloride, to help replenish lost nutrients during daily activity or a great workout.
Booze and holidays go together as much as just about anything else, but if you don’t have the right alcohol things just won’t be as shiny and bright. Luckily, you don’t have to pick on your own. We’re here to help things stay festive.
ast month, our In the Cups team sat down to sample twelve separate offerings from local and regional winemakers, distillers, and brewers. It was a tough job, and we didn’t just rely on ourselves. We invited experts to weigh in.
When the time came, we sat down on a Saturday evening with bourbon steward and certified cicerone Julie Kovaleski, her fiance Rob Farina who is also a bourbon steward, and level two WSET certified Sommelier and certified beer server Jeff Cameron.
LONGMONT, Colo. In the challenging year that was 2020, Colorado-based Bootstrap Brewing Company celebrated successes. Despite the doom and gloom of COVID and election year, the brewery grew its annual sales more than 25-percent, launched new lines of both tasty non-alcoholic beers and Sparkalicious hard seltzers, and made significant additions to its brewhouse technology.
Innovations and Beer Launch
Bootstrap released new products and packaging in 2020, including a 12-can Party Pack featuring five award-winning craft beers and the popular Sparkalicious hard seltzer. The mix of beer and seltzer in the pack makes it an easy grab-and-go option for households who need a variety of options.
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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 pallets, Kasian fiddled with a few of the machine’s valves and levers, then tapped on its touchscreen for a few seconds.