Colorado’s fresh brew
DENVER
"Beer," said Benjamin Franklin, who knew a thing or two about pleasure, "is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." If so, perhaps He wanted John Hickenlooper to be Colorado's governor. Hickenlooper is a double rarity, the first brewer to become a governor (well, if you don't count Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the amateur), and, in this time of political dyspepsia, he is a happy man whose constituents seem reasonably happy with him.
People may be happier here because sunlight is filtered through less — a mile less — of the atmosphere. And because, Hickenlooper says, Colorado has become "the Napa Valley of Beer," and Denver is "the Munich of the West." He deserves some credit for this state having 142 licensed breweries.
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