The Great American Beer Festival lands on Denver October 2-4, along with myriad other craft beer events around town. How to get back and forth? Uber, the car-ride service has launched a promotion called the Battle of the Breweries. More than twenty beer makers in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins…
Although demolition began last week, Great Divide Brewing officially broke ground Tuesday on its planned $38.2 million, five-acre brewing campus on the banks of the South Platte River in Denver’s River North neighborhood. Brian Dunn, who founded the brewery in 1994 on Araphahoe Street, rode into the ceremony in a…
What’s best about The Horseshoe Lounge is that it’s competent and comfortable. What’s worst is that it’s competent and comfortable. It’s almost unfair for an out-of-towner to judge this neighborhood bar on the basis of one quick-and-dirty happy hour, but the regulars here must feel something special that I didn’t…
The Colorado Brewers Guild unveiled a new logo and marketing campaign this week titled, “Colorado: The State of Craft Beer.” The campaign includes signage and merchandise and will eventually roll out a a new website along with a State of Craft Beer festival. There are currently more than two hundred…
Like almost every driving adult in Denver, Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees spent his fair share of time waiting in line at the drab Denver Motor Vehicles office on Welton Street in Five Points. Now, if his plans come to fruition, Rees, along with friends and business partners Austin…
The Nationalized Tiki at Acorn Last week’s dip into near-freezing temperatures got us thinking that winter is on its way, but relax — we’re looking at a few more weeks of warm weather here in Denver. It may even hit 90 degrees on Thursday, so what better way to hang…
One of Colorado’s drier stretches will wet its whistle a week from today when South Park Brewing opens, becoming the only craft brewery along a heavily-used 115-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 285 between Lakewood and Buena Vista. Located in Fairplay, at the junction of 285 and Colorado State Highway 9,…
The Great American Beer Festival will welcome nearly 50,000 people to the Colorado Convention Center October 2 through October 4, along with an astounding 3,500 beers from 726 breweries, making it the biggest and best sudstravaganza in the world. Tickets sold out months ago (although you can find them online…
As the bars of your parents and grandparents slowly atrophy, the layers of paint and smoke are peeled off and the floorboards ripped up, no one is quite sure how to replace these one-time classics while maintaining their old-fashioned spirit. But Frank Bonnanno’s Vesper Lounge found a way. The former…
Echo Brewing, which started in Frederick, has opened a second location in a former firehouse in Erie, at 600 Briggs Street, right across I-25. The taphouse and restaurant will specialize in pizza, appetizers, salads and desserts, in addition to its beer. Three-month-old Denver Pearl Brewing announced last weekend that it…
If only “Mountain Mirage,” the public art piece that once graced the center of the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport, were still in business, we might have beer shooting through DIA in a mountain silhouette. But instead, we’ll have to content ourselves with a beer garden where the now-decommissioned…
Last week I stopped by My Brother’s Bar to honor the anniversary of the original release of On the Road — Jack Kerouac’s most popular novel about the beat generation and his travels across America, including time in Denver, the home of his buddy and fellow beat writer Neal Cassady…
When Breckenridge Brewery opens its $20 million, park-like beer campus on the banks of the South Platte River in April 2015, it will be unlike any other brewery in the state: The twelve-acre spot, tucked between two swaths of open space, Santa Fe Drive and the bike path along the…
For Hops & Pie co-owner Drew Watson, the trickiest part about changing up his popular pizza joint’s house IPA wasn’t saying goodbye to longtime provider Strange Craft Beer Company: “I love those guys. We still have a great relationship.” Rather, it was making sure that the new beer, brewed by…
Charcoal’s slogan is “Fine dining. Affordable prices,” but I can recall being nearly bankrupt a couple of times after ordering too much at this Golden Triangle establishment. When I saw Charcoal’s happy-hour menu, I was thrilled that I could pig out without having to make an uncomfortable phone call to…
Tickets to the fifteenth annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival, which takes place January 8 through January 10 in Vail, went on sale this morning — and some of the events have already sold out. Although the events, and the weekend itself, are expensive compared to many beer fests,…
Dry Dock Brewing has been running its 30,000-square-foot, forty-barrel production brewery and canning facility for 21 months in north Aurora, but co-owners Kevin DeLange and Michelle Reding are tired of keeping it to themselves. On Friday, September 12, they’ll open a somewhat rustic tasting room inside the former warehouse, with…
The Rosa Mia Inn could be the neighborhood bar on the corner that movies and TV always told you was out there. The service is as warm as the beer is cold, and there’s a feeling of nostalgia and bonhomie that no amount of reclaimed lumber or restaurant consultants could…
Two bi-partisan groups of Colorado lawmakers — a crew that is often woefully unfamiliar with this state’s craft-beer industry — will make their way to a pair of breweries this week as part of a program created by the Colorado Brewers Guild called Hop the Vote. A team of state…
Beer to go is nothing new in Colorado: Most breweries sell glass, plastic or stainless steel vessels, known as growlers, that they fill right from their tap lines. But some of those containers have developed a reputation for being too big, unwieldy or worse — for letting their contents go…
Summer’s end and a ripping hangover led me to a surprising, non-boozy patio this weekend. Back in May, my friends and I raved about our plans to go camping at least once a month this summer. Well, it’s nearly September and we’ve got one camping trip under our belt, so…
August is winding down and ingredients are changing with the seasons. Denver bartenders and brewers are gearing up for a seasonal shift in what we crave once the weather turns a tad cooler and days get shorter. It’s still Summer so there’s plenty of bright citrus and fun flavor combos,…
