The Great American Beer Festival Week 2014 Calendar of Events

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…

Happy Hour at Vesper Lounge: A New Spin on an Old Favorite

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…

Beer Calendar: German Lagers, Pumpkin Ales and a Pair of Beer Dinners

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…

Beer Here! DIA Will Host a Beer Garden in the Main Terminal

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…

Happy Hour at Charcoal: Cut-Rate Yet Refined

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…

Dry Dock Opening a Second Taproom Inside Its North Aurora Brewery

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…

Five New Summer-to-Fall Drinks to Try in Denver

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,…

Chop Shop Introducing Happy Hour Today

Chop Shop Casual Urban Eatery, which opened last month on a stretch of East Colfax where residents were hungry for more dining options, has now given people yet another reason to stop by: a happy hour that starts today. See also: Chop Shop, “a modern American grill with global influences,”…

Happy Hour at Bacco Trattoria: Gluttony, Italian Style

North Boulder is now where folks weary of the yoga pants-squeezed bustle and hustle of downtown can still enjoy the Boulder lifestyle. Bacco Trattoria and Mozzarella Bar counts as its neighbors the delightful Pupusas Sabor Hispano, the neighborhood classic Restaurant 4580, and a non-delightful, non-classic Subway. It’s an odd space,…