The idea for one of the nation’s most lauded craft distilleries—Montanya Distillers—was conceived while Karen Hoskin and her husband Brice were on vacation. “I told him I wanted to make hand-crafted ...

When Montanya Distillers, a 100 percent wind-powdered, rum-only distillery, first opened in the tiny mountain town of Silverton in 2008, it was one of only five craft distilleries in Colorado, and rum ...

One of the best rums in the world is produced right here in Colorado. Montanya Distillers was notified in April that its Platino Light Rum, produced in Crested Butte, had been selected as ‘Best White ...

Owning and operating a distillery may appear to be all glamour, with cocktail parties, traveling the world pouring drinks and having a constant buzz from the attention and the alcohol, but the reality ...

Everything changed for Karen Hoskin while she was traveling in India. Not because she fell under the spell of a yogi or went on a month-long pilgrimage to the country’s holy sites. It was a far ...

If just the mention of rum calls to mind Caribbean beaches, Karen Hoskin has some good reasons why you might think of the Colorado Rockies instead. That surprising location, says the founder of ...

As the tale goes, the alcohol-intolerant founder can only stomach rum. She discovered this vital fact on a multi-year visit to India — the other former British colony that, like the West Indies, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SILVERTON — Since 2002, Brice and Karen Hoskin’s Mountain Boy Sledworks has joined a rowdy ski area, a burly snowboardmaker and a funky telemark skimaker in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... While outdoor recreation might be the number one industry in Crested Butte, the restaurant scene isn’t far behind. After all, cuisine is where we debrief the ...