Beer Calendar: Green Beer, Pickles and Colorado Craft Beer Week

Colorado native Sarah Haughey, who worked at both Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project and Elevation Beer Company, plans to deepen the Arkansas Valley’s craft-beer scene this summer when she opens the Jailhouse on Buena Vista’s main drag, East Main Street. It will feature ten rotating craft-beer taps and a small selection…

Cocktail of the Week: A Seasonal Whiskey Cocktail at Stranahan’s Whiskey Lounge

Crown Town at Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery In Colorado, distilleries can only sell spirits on-site that they produce themselves. Therefore, at the cocktail lounge inside Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery, which opened in 2014, all the cocktails are whiskey cocktails. But the one-spirit challenge is met enthusiastically by Hayley Panas, who just refreshed…

Oskar Blues Stuns Industry, Buys Florida’s Cigar City Brewing

Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it’s rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters…

Englewood Grand Raises the Bar Tonight on South Broadway

Downtown Englewood gets a new bar tonight with the opening of the Englewood Grand at 3435 South Broadway Street. The simple, straightforward watering hole is the work of Phil and Erika Zierke, neighborhood residents who saw the need for a community gathering spot with an enticing but uncomplicated drinks list. The bar…

Go Your Own Way With Happy Hour at Gozo

One of the best parts of happy hour is matching and mixing dishes into strange table spreads that would have a Cordon Bleu instructor in tears. At happy hour, no one’s going to tell you not to order a sandwich, arancini and a pizza all at the same time. This…

Denver Bicycle Cafe Expanding, Opening Beer Hall Next Door

It’s not easy to be all things to all people, but for the past five years, the Denver Bicycle Cafe has tried, operating a spot that’s a combination of cozy coffeehouse, bike sales-and-repair shop, and beer bar noted for its focus on small local breweries. This month, DBC will try to…

Panzano’s New Happy Hour Wins by Keeping the Classics

Denver Restaurant Week can change the heart of a kitchen: For ten days, eateries in the city steel themselves for big crowds and plate after plate of risotto, roasted chicken and flourless chocolate cake. You can tell a lot about a restaurant from how well it handles the event and…

Cocktail of the Week: Booze With a Buzz at Amethyst Coffee

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…

Oskar Blues Goes Big With Major New Barrel-Aging Program

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…

Happy Hour at Bacon Social House Means More Than Meat Candy

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…