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VOL. 41
NO. 22
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FEBRUARY 27, 2019
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Tivoli and partners create new brew for annual Beer Festival
Photo courtesy of MSU Denver
MSU Denver student Skylar Portenier brews alongside Tivoli employees for the first time at their Denver International Airport location on the seven barrel system on Feb. 21.
By Jeff Ritchie
are working together to create
director of brewing operations for
jritchi3@msudenver.edu
a new beer. The process began
Tivoli Brewing Company. “Then
on Feb. 21 when students and
we go through the recipe list and
faculty from the brewing program
basically build the recipe as you are
commuters race to and from the
met with Tivoli staff at Tom’s
sitting at the bar drinking beer.”
Westin at Denver International
Urban Restaurant and Brewery,
Airport. Inside the massive glass
located at DIA. Very few airports
Tom’s, through the kitchen
windows across from the terminal,
have breweries on their grounds,
and to the right, is entering
FEATURES
travelers, conference attendees
which makes this partnership
another world. Huge vats, pipes,
Black History Live tour honors poet
and airport workers are eating
between Tom’s and Tivoli unique.
machines, tools and bags of
Maya Angelou
On a cold Denver morning,
breakfast and drinking coffee.
“Everytime we do a
In the back of the restaurant,
collaboration, everybody has a say
something else entirely is brewing.
in the ingredients and we just have
Beer creators from Tivoli
this conversation about, ‘What do
Brewing Company and the MSU
you want to make and how do you
Denver beer industry program
want to do that?’” said Nate Nicklas,
NEWS
| pg. 2
OPINION
| pg. 5
Walking to the back of
ingredients fill the room.
| Continued on pg. 7
SPORTS
| pg. 10
A quick introduction to Denver’s
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mayoral candidates
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tournament for the first time
INSIDE | pg. 9