Plan ahead for a big weekend of food and beverage fun in Colorado. Here’s an amuse bouche to whet your appetite:
• Arapahoe County Fair, July 25-July 29, Arapahoe County Fairgrounds, 25690 E. Quincy Ave., Aurora. Information: arapahoecountyfair.com. Details: Activities include Baked Pie Contest (July 26), Pie Eating Contest (July 27), and Chocolate Cake Contest (July 28)
• 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival, July 28-29, Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, Boulder. Information: boulderteahouse.com/rocky-mountain-tea-festival. Details: seminars, tea dinner, kids’ tea parties, Tea and Cocktails class
• Kyle’s Brew Fest, July 28, Boulder Beer Co., Boulder. Information: kylehollingsworth.com. Details: Taste String Cheese Incident’s Kyle Hollingsworth’s summer seasonal beer, Hoopla Pale Ale, plus 60 local and national craft brews.
• Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, July 28-29, Sloan’s Lake, Denver. Information: cdbf.org. Details: This event provides the single best opportunity to taste cuisines from all over Asia in one place
• Colorado Food News:
The Denver Business Journal reports that Budweiser is introducing a small-batch beer named for a ZIP code in Fort Collins, where parent Anheuser-Busch operates one of Colorado’s largest breweries. The beer is Budweiser Small Batch 80524, which the beermaker describes as “a deep-gold, filtered wheat beer with 5.2 percent ABV [alcohol by volume] using lemon peel, orange peel and coriander.” The beer is brewed by Fort Collins brewmaster Katie Rippel.
• IN CASE YOU MISSED IT …….
“While we have always had an emotional relationship with food, what’s different is we talk about it more, and the discussion is much louder. Food is fashion. You wear your diet like you wear your clothes.” – Harry Balzer, food guru at researcher NPD Group.