Beer name changes have become more common as craft brewers try to protect their legal rights (see stories on Oskar Blues, Dry Dock and Bell’s breweries). But complaints from the Maori people of New Zealand wasn’t something that Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins expected when it named its latest beer,…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
“The staff wanted to make a whiskey,” explains Eric Dutton, bar manager at Vesta Dipping Grill. “It’s what we drink.” Dutton discussed that very sentiment with Todd Leopold of Leopold Brothers, and a casual desire soon turned into a full-scale restaurant project: Leopold invited the staff down to the distillery…
There are a handful of unusual, newly-released and very rare, Colorado craft brews on liquor store shelves right now — if you can find them. Syzygy Barrel-Aged Black IPA Crabtree Brewing, Greeley This one is just landing in stores today after a release party last week. It’s an 8 percent…
Upslope Brewing in Boulder began canning a fifth beer this month, but it will only be served in at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, the Boulder restaurant operated by the Big Red F Group, which also runs Lola, West End Tavern, Zolo Grill and Jax Fish House. Centro will…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
Can you smell that? It’s the odor of fresh hops reaching their peak at hop farms on the Western Slope. And many of these farms — which include San Juan Hop Farms in Montrose, Rising Sun Farms in Paonia, Misty Mountain Hop Farm in Olathe, Jack Rabbit Hops in Hotchkiss…
For some of us, spending an hour strolling up and down the aisles of our neighborhood wine store is like a little slice of heaven. Between filling up carts with our latest vino obsessions and ogling that magnum of Veuve we can’t possibly afford, a wine-buying spree is perhaps second…
Denver’s rolling explosion of craft-beer taps is celebrating its first anniversary, since several restaurants that fueled the movement opened a year ago this month. And while one of these new beer bars, Uptown Brothers, didn’t make it, others — like Euclid Hall, Freshcraft, Stoney’s and Hops & Pie — are…
The Global Business Travel Association is in town, and the city threw a big welcoming party for the travel planners Sunday at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where they were served a drink that could have been a contender in the Colorado Cocktail Project — which Marnie Ward won with…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
The Budweiser brewery in Fort Collins announced yesterday that it is moving its Clydesdale training program from the northern Colorado town to a farm in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where it will also start a hitch-driving school. The famous horses — which are a big part of Bud’s Fort Collins brewery…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
Happy Place: Blue Bonnet Cafe, 457 South Broadway, 303-778-0147 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., and Monday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to close The Deals: $2 domestic drafts; $2.75 imported drafts; $2 well drinks; $3.50 to $4.25 margarita specials; $1.99 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip…
If you look at a bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon, you’ll note that the company spells the word “whisky” without the “e.” That’s a tribute to the history that the Samuels family, who founded Maker’s in the 1950s, has with distilling. Rob Samuels says his ancestors were making Scotch in…
What?!? But it’s only August, right? Sure, it’s August now, but school starts this week, and before you know it, it will be Labor Day weekend, and Sniagrab will kick off at Sports Authority. Then football will be here, along with a chill in the air as our tomato plants…
A great many learned individuals spend a significant amount of their time advancing the notion that the enjoyment of wine is an incredibly serious, sophisticated pursuit. And some of these people, having spent countless hours in pursuit of the ever-nebulous nuances of what makes a particular wine great, work hard…
Denver is one of the best beer cities in the nation, and Colorado is perhaps the finest of the fifty states when it comes to craft breweries. So why, wondered the two guys behind Offie Bottle Shop, don’t we have a dedicated craft beer store? The answer is because Colorado…
As bold beer drinkers continue their assault on the fizzy yellow brews of the world, they have begun to march outside of Denver’s urban core — and into the wild world of the suburbs. The latest outpost: Lone Tree Brewing, which plans to open in October in the Parkway Point…
Canned craft beers have surged in popularity so much this summer that Old Chicago is running its latest Mini Tour based solely on aluminum. Each of the Colorado-based restaurant chain’s 97 locations, spread throughout 22 states across the country, is featuring an interesting mix of eight canned beers…
Happy Place: Izakaya Den, 1518 South Pearl Street, 303-777-0691 Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $5 hot or cold sake, cocktails, wines by the glass, and appetizers; two-for-one Kirin draft beers Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Denver Beer Co doesn’t have a kitchen, but the city’s zoning inspectors may be tempted to double check. The brewery, which opens today on Platte Street, serves Kaffir Lime Wheat as fresh and nuanced as any chef’s signature appetizer, a rauschbier that smells and tastes like a plate of smoked…
