Burgers and beer are big business in Denver, and plenty of the 54 million travelers who passed through Denver International Airport last year have probably tried plenty of both. Burgers and beer will be even bigger business at the airport next year, though, after a Denver City Council committee approved…
No need to set the building on fire, Milton. Nobody is taking your red Swingline away. Or at least, no one is taking Trinity Brewing’s Red Swingline away. This week, Trinity owner Jason Yester revealed that he has signed an agreement with ACCO Brands Corporation, the maker of Swingline staplers,…
No Sleep Till Denver at Amethyst Coffee Amethyst Coffee cranked up the coffee pots for the first time last February, serving cups of espresso and pastries at 1111 Broadway in the Metlo complex. And two months ago, owner Elle Taylor secured a liquor license, adding a hand-picked assortment of spirits…
When Chris Marchio peers into a glass of IPA, he doesn’t want to be able to see out the other side. Instead, Marchio, the head brewer for Fiction Beer Company, wants to see a haze, like a thick fog rolling off the Atlantic Ocean onto Cape Cod. He’s not alone…
Oskar Blues has little secret brewing in the back room. Well, make that a big secret: a big barrel-aged one. Over the past three months, the Longmont-based beer maker has been filling and stacking hundreds of bourbon barrels with a couple of its concoctions. Although Oskar Blues has had a…
IPAs are dead. Long live IPAs. Although it’s trendy to bash India Pale Ales these days as being the death of craft beer, reality shows that they’re what has helped to give the industry life: The Boulder-based Brewers Association reports that IPAs make up more than 27 percent of the…
2010, the year we all felt so fly “Like a G6,” incessantly tooted our vuvuzelas, and pretended to be outraged at many a natural and man-made disaster. Harnessing our nostalgia for the end of the aughts, Hollywood has already made the Wikileaks and Deepwater Horizon movies, but has yet to…
Greeley’s WeldWerks Brewing — which Westword called one of five breweries to watch this year — has also attracted some national attention: USA Today has included the company in a readers’ choice contest to select the Best New Brewery to emerge over the last few years. And the voting will…
Spanish Gin-Tonic at Linger The menu at Linger touches almost every continent on Earth, bringing regional dishes from all over the world to the mortuary-turned-restaurant in the LoHi neighborhood. And that globally inspired mission is not lost on Ky Belk, who manages the bar and oversees Linger’s diverse cocktail program…
When Coda Brewing opened in May 2014, co-owners Luke Smith and Scott Procop hoped to make beautiful music on the former Fitzsimons Army base in Aurora. And for a while, they did: Coda won medals at the Great American Beer Festival for two different beers in 2014 and 2015. But…
Austin James Carson, bar manager at Mizuna, won the regional Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience cocktail competition Wednesday night. Carson beat out six other Denver-area bartenders with his unique version of the classic Manhattan cocktail and will take that recipe to New York City in April to compete for the national…
If you’re in Glendale and you’re stocking up for booze for the week, take note: the SuperTarget at 4301 East Virginia Avenue has temporarily suspended beer, wine and spirits sales this week in preparation for the launch of something bigger and better. Rather than just a single aisle of bottles and…
Six months after Crazy Mountain Brewing took over Breckenridge Brewery’s longtime headquarters at 471 Kalamath Street, the Edwards-based beer maker is ready to bring barbecue and brews back to the public. Crazy Mountain will officially open its taproom and Texas-style barbecue joint on Friday, February 19. The restaurant, called Crazy…
If it weren’t for the noise and the uncomfortable closeness to other human beings, a meal at Cart-Driver could be perfect stoner food. Not that that you have to be dabbed, twisted, or otherwise turnt to enjoy bites and sips at this pizza mini-parlor, but Cart-Driver is an Alice in…
Oskar Blues Brewery announced this week that it has begun distributing beer in North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma, which means there is only one state remaining before the Longmont-based brewer has a lock on all fifty states. That unlucky state: Montana. But never fear, Oskar Blues plans to launch…
Sonic Reducer at the Occidental Cranberries always remind barman Jason Patz of his great-aunt Muriel. When Patz wrote the drink menu for the Occidental, the more casual sibling of Williams & Graham next door, a cranberry liqueur from Denver’s own Leopold Bros. Distillery reminded him of his childhood Thanksgivings; apparently…
Denver’s Prost Brewing will become one of just a few Colorado beer makers with a satellite tap room in another city when it opens a location in Fort Collins this spring. The brewery, which specializes in traditional German-style lagers, has been searching for a good spot in the college town…
With more than 300 breweries making some of the most well-regarded, well-known beers in the United States, Colorado is frequently referred to as the Napa Valley of Craft Beer. But Colorado is home to some of the country’s best sour and wild beer brewers as well. So, are we also the…
If you’ve noticed a pattern in my happy hour wanderings, you’re not alone. I’ve covered more late-afternoon discounts on 17th Avenue than any other street — deliberately so. To stroll down the Avenue is to witness Denver in full form: merriment, drinking, fine food — and the leaching of gentrification…
Peyton Manning may have looked a little wobbly in the Super Bowl, but we was right on target when it came to shilling for Budweiser during his post-game interviews. You’ve probably heard the clip — along with the outcry from people who thought it was blatant ad placement, inappropriate given…
Fawkes and the Hound at Rebel Restaurant “I will usually tweak older recipes,” says bartender Jason Randall. “I look at recipes that existed a hundred years ago, or the turn of the century, and basically put my own spin on it.” But Randall is moving away from that formula in…
Pliny the Younger, which has become one of the most sought-after beers in the world, makes its annual return to Colorado this month when California’s Russian River Brewing trucks a precious few kegs of the cult beer over the Continental Divide. Russian River has been sending the extremely-limited, draft-only triple…
