Author: STEPHANIE EARLS stephanie.earls@gazettedev.gazette.com
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Pikes Pub: Pint night at Pub Dog comes with a personal story
If you live in Colorado Springs and are into canines and craft beer, you may be familiar with Tara Downs and how she found a way to teach an old dog new tricks with Pub Dog Colorado, the state’s first restaurant where it’s legal to eat indoors with your pup. Creating that space without trodding…
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Pikes Pub: Two new breweries open in Colorado Springs
Sunburns, snowstorms and fresh-blooming suds: Welcome to spring in the southern Front Range. The Colorado Springs area is celebrating the season of rebirth – and Saturday’s sixth annual Colorado Craft Beer Week kick-off – with the opening of two new breweries, Black Forest Brewing Co. in the city’s northern suburb and Brass Brewing Co. downtown.…
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For retired Cog Railway engineer, 93, job was living out a love of trains
Martin Frick’s all-time favorite portrait-with-train is framed and hanging in the TV room at his southwest Colorado Springs home. The professional image shows him at the Pikes Peak Cog Railway Depot in Manitou Springs, jauntily posed before cherry-red railcars, smiling a smile so genuine it makes you want to smile back. Frick can’t recall when…
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Pikes Pub: Penrose cider-maker expands distribution to Colorado Springs
Kevin Williams was well into his journey down the traditional road to craft brewery startup-dom when he took a hard turn into an apple orchard. The Penrose native had been working as brewmaster at The Walter Brewing Co. in Pueblo, nursing entrepreneurial dreams while brewing beer for himself and friends as a member of the…
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Ould Times live on at Colorado Springs’ Irish pub
In the mist-filled days of yore, a troupe of traditional Celtic musicians set out in search of a new place to jam in Colorado Springs. They’d had a long-running gig at Poor Richard’s, but a kitchen expansion gobbled up their “stage” and set them roving. Whether or not it was Irish luck that brought them…
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Pikes Pub: This bracket’s for you, local beer fans
If we happen to be chatting, and the NCAA Tournament brackets come up, please don’t take it personally when my eyes glaze over and I start to drool into my beer. It’s a defense mechanism. I had a similar reaction in my freshman year in college after accidentally signing up for a probability and statistical…
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Hometown Heroes, First Responder Organization award goes to Colorado Springs Fire Department
A fire department’s role has evolved dramatically since Benjamin Franklin helped establish the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia in 1736. Firefighters still fight fires, but the modern forces they battle day to day tend to be more fundamental than elemental. “I think we are continually becoming more community focused and trying to deliver the service…
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Pikes Pub: ‘Foam’enting a brewing unrest
There’s an episode of “The Brady Bunch” wherein youngest brother Bobby sets out to do laundry by himself, dumps in way too much detergent, and the washing machine starts belching suds that – because of sitcom science – soon engulf the room. Sometimes when I pour a beer, I feel like Bobby Brady. I usually…
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Sex abuse scandals rock USOC, the nation’s most hallowed sports brand
Team USA returned from Pyeongchang last week to an Olympic community in crisis. The scandal now rocking the nation’s most hallowed sports brand has roots going back decades, but the shock waves only reached the top in January with the dramatic sentencing hearings for imprisoned former USA Gymnastics doctor and convicted child molester Larry Nassar.…
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Pikes Pub: Selling the fantasy of Colorado craft beer
In today’s highly competitive craft brewing world, creating a brand that resonates with drinkers – and keeps you in business for the long haul – takes more than just making good beer. It requires tapping a very particular lifestyle and lifestyle image. “What differentiates us from the commodities that everyone goes out and buys, whether…