Arvada Beer Company, which was founded by husband-and-wife homebrewers Cary and Kelly Floyd in 2011, has closed its doors. If the closure is permanent, it would be one of the first times an independent craft brewer has gone out of business in the Denver metro area since Denver’s Del Norte…
Peyton Manning got good news last week when Denver Broncos coach Gary Kubiak named him the starter for the playoff game coming up on January 17. But there’s even better news coming: On Monday, Denver’s Factotum Brewing and Tow Yard Brewing, from Indianapolis, got together in the Mile High City…
Beet Root at Honor Society Handcrafted Eatery When KT Ward walks into the kitchen at Honor Society, he sees piles of possibilities: limes, celery, apples — whatever he thinks might be fused into a stunning cocktail. “We’ve got a lot of cool, fresh ingredients to play with,” Ward says. It…
If you’re a dessert skipper, you’re in good company. In a food-service system designed to satisfy diners with an entree and fatten them with small plates and sides, it’s just overkill to drop a dessert menu at the end of all that. Especially for nickel-counting happy-hour goers — and we…
The Brewability Lab, a startup brewery with the novel idea of providing jobs in the brewing industry for adults with developmental disabilities, will take over Caution Brewing’s original location in east Denver sometime later this year. Caution, which was founded in 2011 by Danny and Betty Wang, is consolidating its…
10 Barrel Brewing, a popular Bend, Oregon-based brewery, has confirmed that it plans to open a brewery and pub in Denver within the next six months. The brewery, founded in 2006 by brothers Chris and Jeremy Cox and Garrett Wales, is notable because of the acclaim and awards that it…
It’s getting more and more difficult for Colorado beer lovers to wrap their arms — and their taste buds — around the depth and breadth of our brewery scene. With more than 300 breweries, all of them pumping out dozens of brews over the course of a year, it would…
The Superhero at Carbon Beverage Cafe When Habit Doughnut Dispensary and Carbon Beverage Cafe opened five months ago on Platte Street, the plan was to sell lots of coffee and doughnuts. But beverage coordinator Matthew Spicer took it a step further by coming up with a way to add booze,…
Boulder Beer Company will raise a toast today to one of its founders, a pioneer of the craft-brewing industry in not just Colorado, but the country. David Hummer died December 17 at Boulder Community Health at the age of 81. “David received his B.S. and masters from Carnegie Tech before moving on…
In 2015, our resident expert on all things shaken and stirred, Kevin Galaba, went on a weekly mission to uncover cocktail recipes from Denver’s top bartenders. He tasted his way through, tequila, gin, bourbon and spirits ever more esoteric and exotic and chatted with the women and men behind the…
Colorado soared past the 300 brewery mark in 2015, helping it remain one of the biggest, most important states in the nation for the craft brewing industry. But it isn’t the numbers so much as the variety and quality of our beer that makes Colorado shine. In the meantime, bottling…
It felt like being welcomed by St. Peter through the pearly gates: A friendly hostess grabbed our menus and parted a seemingly impassable dining room, leading us to a few set places miraculously empty. “Could it really be so easy?” I wondered. But this is Work & Class and after the…
Every year, Zymurgy magazine, which is produced by the Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association, asks its readers for their twenty favorite beers that are commercially available in the United States. After tallying the votes, Zymurgy says readers put six Colorado beers on the list. The highest ranking beer was Left Hand Brewing’s…
The Smoking Barrel at Adelitas Cocina Y Cantina Just one look at the drink menu at Adelitas and you quickly come to this realization: It’s not just margaritas anymore. At this Platt Park Mexican restaurant and bar, Nathan Schmit is taking tequila — and especially the increasingly popular mezcal —…
Weird week for Colorado’s storied Breckenridge Brewery, which announced an impressive new beer series, oh, and the fact that Anheuser-Busch is buying the entire brewery, all within a few days of each other. If that purchase means you’re not doing to drink Breck’s beers, then you can skip ahead. If…
Telling his employees that Breckenridge Brewery had been sold to Anheuser-Busch was “challenging,” says Breckenridge chief Todd Usry. “But it went well. I believe in what we are doing, but I understand the emotion.” A day after the sale was announced, Usry continued to walk around the facility, talking to…
The Right Dose at RooseveltWhen Isaac Smith needs a name for a new cocktail, he steps into his library, located only a few steps away from his bar at Roosevelt, where floor-ceiling bookshelves span the entire length of the space. He jots down titles of books that he thinks might…
Over the past year, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. Up until last week — when we posted our list of Ten Colorado Breweries…
It’s quiet. The piano is silent tonight at Baur’s Restaurant and Listening Lounge, and the Denver Center theaters are dark on Mondays, bringing little foot traffic to 15th and Curtis streets. That leaves few distractions from an evaluation of the evening happy hour, a meal of which I had conflicting…
Living The Dream Brewing in Littleton is turning its dream into reality. The company recently installed several new fifteen- and thirty-barrel fermentation tanks, which will allow it increase its capacity from 49 barrels to 169. In addition, Living the Dream added 5,000 square feet of production space, enabling the brewery…
Show off your state-made tipples this holiday season with a fine bottle of Colorado booze. After all, as the days of December count down, chances are you have plenty of holiday parties, get-togethers and fancy dinners to attend — what better offering to bring than something to imbibe. From wine…
The world of craft beer is changing. Over the past twelve months, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. If you follow beer, then you’ve…
