The owners of Sanitas Brewing aren’t planning to gently test the waters of Boulder’s increasingly-crowded craft-beer scene when they open their 15,000-square-foot, fifteen-barrel brewery and taproom this summer. They plan to jump in head-first. Sanitas co-founders Chris Coyne, Michael Memsic and Zach Nichols will offer two year-round canned beers, a…
Ghost chiles, Thai chiles, smoked jalapenos, wasabi powder, habanero peppers, cayenne peppers and shishito peppers made a hot day even hotter during yesterday’s heatwave that resulted in scorching sunburns for anyone outside, including the throngs that gathered on the rooftop at Linger for the Viva Sangrita, Viva Tequila Ocho battle…
Update: We have a winner of our Colorado Urban Winefest contest giveaway.This morning, we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: What’s the furthest distance, in exact miles, that a participating winery traveled to Denver to be a part of Colorado Wine Week? Congrats to Skinney85, who guessed 325…
There’s something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face — something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand…
After sixteen years of brewing beer near the banks of the Cherry Creek, the Bull & Bush will finally bottle up some of its own liquid gold to sell elsewhere in Denver. The first beer off the line was the brewery’s flagship, Man Beer, an award-winning malty IPA that looks…
Lone Tree Brewing has brewed a pair of special beers that are being served only at the four Parry’s Pizza locations — in Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock and Parker. The first beer, which will be available year-round as a house beer, is Landon’s Wanna Walk Wheat, an unfiltered…
Get ready to mix it up: Star Bar just announced its Nontender Contender Challenge, a competition that will put cubicle monkeys behind the bar for a chance at glory — and cash for their favorite charity. “Every bartender has friends who ask if they can come bartend with you,” says…
For several years now, Westvleteran 12, which is brewed by monks at the Saint Sixtus Abbey in Belgium, has commonly been referred to as one of the best — if not the the best — beer in the world. And because it is almost impossible to get it outside of…
The classic-cocktail boom, especially whiskey-based drinks, has taken hold in bars all over Denver, and on Wednesday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m., Central Bistro & Bar will raise a toast to the global brown spirit that’s become a habitual pastime for barflies. Deemed “The Evolution of Bourbon,” the class, led…
Update: We have a winner of our Summer of Riesling tasting at Bones contest giveaway. Earlier this week, we asked Cafe Society readers to guess how many glasses of Riesling were served at Bones, Luca d’Italia and Mizuna during the month of April. Congrats to CBart, who guessed 420 glasses;…
New Belgium Brewing just announced that construction of its new brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, will be delayed by eight months, meaning the facility may not start making beer until 2016. “The adjusted construction timeline is the result of increased capacity coming online in Fort Collins this year,” New Belgium…
Northglenn will get its first craft brewery on June 1 when Vance Sabbe — a former homebrew shop owner — and Rich Aggen open Beer By Design. The 5,000-square-foot brewery and taproom features a twenty-barrel brewing system and four forty-barrel fermenters, along with about 100 seats. See also: – Photos:…
Copper Kettle Brewing will answer a few prayers made to the gods of chocolate this summer by bottling its award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout. The brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011, just five months after opening and has been planning to bottle the beer…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has struck up a partnership with a specialty importer in New York City that will allow the Denver brewery to sell its beers there while Crooked Stave will distribute some rare and unique beers in the Denver area. The distributor, Brooklyn’s 12 Percent Imports, is…
Cucumber beers appear to be in style this spring, as at least five breweries around Colorado have mentioned the shiny green vegetable when talking about new beers. The only bottled one so far, however, is from Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing, which released Cucumber Cream Ale last week. The second offering…
Mountain Toad Brewing will hold a grand opening in Golden on Saturday, adding a third craft brewery to a town that has been synonymous with Coors for decades. Located downtown, at 900 Washington Avenue, the brewery and taproom features a large outdoor biergarten with seven picnic tables and room for…
Rory Donovan has known fellow Peach Street Distillers co-founders Bill Graham and Dave Thibodeau since they were making beer in Graham’s kitchen and starting up Ska Brewing. Donovan and Graham talked whiskey-making for years, looking at all manner of still plans — like one they found on the Internet created…
New Belgium Brewing is running its first TV ad campaign in eight years, buying airtime in twelve markets across the country in order to help beer drinkers associate the name Fat Tire with the brewery itself, which wants to push the rest of its lineup. But the commercial, a thirty-second…
After just two years in business on Denver’s northeast side, Caution Brewing announced Saturday that it will open a second brewery in Lakewood, at 1057 South Wadsworth Boulevard; Cautions’ existing brewery will stay open as well. The new location will have a smaller brewhouse — three barrels as opposed to…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project will celebrate Roy G. Biv on Sunday with a bottle sale, a party and a couple of rare beer tappings at the Barrel Cellar. Roy G. Biv isn’t a person, though (if it was, he’d be very sour). Rather, it’s an acronym for the seven…
I’m a big fan of cocktails and have been drinking them longer than some of my coworkers have been alive. But for many people who have never had a real cocktail, ordering one for the first time can be intimidating. Big menus, unusual names, unfamiliar spirits…you get the point. If…
The crew behind Strange Brewing are in their war room today, preparing to launch an all-out offensive on Denver tomorrow — but their weapons of choice are bombers rather than bombs, even if the beer they’ve made is named Dr. Strangelove, like the movie. Strange will release 1,000 bottles of…
