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With summer closing in fast, couples are headed outdoors for their dates. Horsetooth Reservoir is a popular place to enjoy the sun, the water, the mountains, and the stars all in one day.

Top Hikes in Fort Collins

May 5, 2014

With the weather being consistently perfect for fun in the sun, it’s time to make the most of it. Spend these last few days of the school year by hiking around Fort Collins and nearby trails. 1. Horsetooth It’s...

CopperMuse Distillery serves delicious drinks

CopperMuse Distillery serves delicious drinks

May 1, 2014

While it may be hard to believe, some people don't like beer. With so many breweries populating the town, they may feel like Fort Collins has nothing to offer them. Thankfully, there’s a newcomer,...

A beer is poured at a local Fort Collins bar. (File photo Collegian)

Ten Things Every Beer Lover Should Have

April 29, 2014

So you just entered the wonderful world of craft beer and wish to understand and taste more, but don’t know how. Here’s a checklist to make sure you’re as prepared as a Boy Scout. 1. Untappd This...

Pateros Creek Brewery, the Napa Valley of beer

Pateros Creek Brewery, the Napa Valley of beer

April 22, 2014

It’s great that we live in the Napa Valley of beer. There are so many options. Pateros Creek Brewing, located on North College, is one company that routinely releases new concoctions. I reviewed one...

For students, Uncle’s Pizzeria delivers quality pies

For students, Uncle’s Pizzeria delivers quality pies

April 14, 2014

Uncle’s Pizzeria is not your average pizza joint. The bistro occupies a happy medium above fast delivery places, but below upscale restaurants. The menu is small and tailored to the season’s ingredients,...

Fort Collins Brewery lead brewer Adam Glaser prepares to take a gravity reading on a beer Thursday afternoon. Tonight Beer University starts at the brewery where the topic will be Beer Sensory 101.

Fort Collins brews it best

April 14, 2014

With a name like Fort Collins Brewery, one might think that they were the first brewery to make the liquid bread in town. However, they opened in 2003, more than a decade after Odell and New Belgium....

UCA Feature: Mallorie Stringfellow

UCA Feature: Mallorie Stringfellow

April 11, 2014

Mallorie Stringfellow, 22, is a graduating senior music education major from Broomfield who has had a passion for music since the 7th grade. She started on the piano when she was nine, but then fell...

Spring Beers to Sip

Spring Beers to Sip

April 3, 2014

Spring is in the air. We’re back from break and it’s finally warm enough to wear shorts and sandals. The Monfort Quad or Oval are now the best places to relax between classes. Most importantly,...

Offering the largest array of beer in Fort Collins, you will be in goods hands at Best of CSU bar The Mayor of Old Town. Photo by Natasha Leadem

Mayor of Old Town serving limited-release local brews

March 26, 2014

  The Mayor of Old Town is not your average bar. Not only do they have 100 of the finest craft brews on tap and a menu provided by The Common Link Polish sausage food truck, but they also...

Opening directly across the street from Scrumpys is another hard cider bar called Compass Cider that will sell premium American and European Style Hard Ciders. Thursday evening, November 21st, Crankensteins will give Compass Cider the honor of a Tap Takeover, where they will get to promote their ciders.

Cider House Rules

March 18, 2014

Compass Cider House recently opened up on North College Avenue, oddly located right across the street from a competing cider bar, Scrumpy’s. Hopefully the location won’t be a problem like when Snarf’s...

Making wine under Foco’s blue skies

Making wine under Foco’s blue skies

March 3, 2014

  Wine doesn’t instantly come to mind when one thinks of Fort Collins, but since opening last November, Blue Skies Winery has continuously churned out new bottles. “We’ve gone through...

Krazy Karls manager Jeremy Dill prepares pizzas for the nights deliverys yesterday afternoon. Krazy Karls, located at Elizabeth and Shields, is a local favorite for late night pizza.

Krazy Karl’s builds a bierhaus

February 26, 2014

  Krazy Karl’s Pizza was running out of room. Demand for their pizza had grown, yet they didn’t have the storage for boxes, dough, sauce and other supplies to keep up. Fortune favored...

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