A smoky night with Alaksan Brewing

Highland Tap & Burger’s Crafty Ladies Beer Club has done it again. The July event was yet another interesting, informative, and delicious affair. This time, the beer came all the way down from Juneau, Alaska, along with one of the brewery’s employees. And it was a vertical tasting of their smoked porter, from 2011, 2008,…

The Crafty Ladies go to Great Divide

The Crafty Ladies Beer Club is great fun. Monthly gatherings are normally held at Highland Tap & Burger; but this time, instead of having the brewers go to us, we went to them. And by “them” I mean one of my very favorite Colorado breweries: Great Divide. I was quite excited when I learned we…

An Evening with the Guys of Upslope

I thoroughly enjoy attending the Crafty Ladies Beer Club monthly events at Highland Tap & Burger (or HTB).  For April, the featured brewery was Upslope Brewery from Boulder.  And they brought some wonderful surprises with them for all the ladies. Upon arrival, we were greeted with a can of Craft Lager as an appetizer.  While…

Women, beer, and…pubic wigs?!

The last thing I thought I’d be shouting in front of a group of dozens of women at a beer event on a Wednesday night is, “A pubic wig!”  But often the most spontaneous things end up being the most memorable.  Last week I had the pleasure of experiencing my first Crafty Ladies Beer Club meeting at…