What’s that you say? How can you mess with perfection? Easily. The Great American Beer Festival, which takes place September 29 to October 1, is the biggest consumer beerstravaganza in the world. It’s on the life to-do list for beer lovers all over the globe, and it brings more cachet…
We’re always excited to see what Scott and Todd Leopold, the brothers behind Denver’s Leopold Bros. Distillery have dreamed up for their next project. Between special barrels of whiskey for restaurants like Vesta Dipping Grill, fruit liqueurs and fruit whiskeys, absinthe and gin, we’ve never had a Leopold Bros. spirit…
One of the most festive aspects of the Great American Beer Festival is the assortment of hats, shirts, and costumes worn by attendees and vendors. To further beautify those stylish — and sometimes not so stylish — duds, most people at GABF hold a beer glass. If you want to…
Is there any better time and place to open a new brewery than in Denver, two days before the Great American Beer Festival? Scott Witsoe doesn’t think so. And he’ll be living that dream on September 26 when he unlocks the doors to Wit’s End Brewing, the fifth small brewery…
Update! 6:23 p.m. Wednesday: We’ve picked a winner! If you left a comment below, check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Thanks for playing, everybody. Beer season continues at Cafe Society, as another contest comes your way today: We have a pair of tickets to “The Great COntenders,” a…
Update: 9:10 a.m. Thursday: We’ve picked our two winners for Thursday night’s GABF. Check your Facebook inboxes to see if you’ve won. Greetings, fellow beer nerds! As you know, the Great American Beer Festival is completely sold out. But a few tickets have landed on the Cafe Society desk with…
Happy Place: Oceanaire Seafood Room, 1400 Arapahoe Street, 303-991-2277. The Hours: Sunday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. to close. The Deals: $3 draft beer; $4 wines by the glass; $5 specialty cocktails; $6 martinis; $5-$8 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find…
Short’s Brewing, a tiny beermaker in the even tinier Michigan village of Bellaire, caused a stir at last year’s Great American Beer Festival when social media (including a tweet by beer guru Charlie Papazian) made it the buzz beer to find. And find it people did. When the dust cleared…
Congratulations, wine lovers: In 2010, the good ol’ U. S. of A. officially consumed more wine than France for the first time ever. And as we predicted earlier this year, America’s love affair with pink wine just keeps getting hotter — evidenced by the fact that exports of rosé (and…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Denver. And by Christmas, what I mean is: the Great American Beer Festival. Although that three-day holiday runs from September 29 through October 1, there will be plenty of beery festivities leading up to the occasion. Parties are planned. Beer is…
Great Divide Brewing’s cozy, but often cramped, tap room will double in size this month, just in time for the Great American Beer Festival…
The third time was the charm for Bryan Dayton, owner of Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, which is currently being rebuilt after a spring fire: In his third national cocktail competition of the year, the bartender bested 47 other top-notch professionals from across the country to take home the grand prize:…
It took fourteen breweries to collaborate on Buddha Nuvo — one of the most unusual beers ever made in Colorado — so it seems only fair then that a review of this beer should include just as many beer loving bloggers, and then some…
Kids wait for candy around Halloween. Adults — at least the big-beer-loving kind — well, they wait for Rumpkin, Avery Brewing’s tricky barrel-aged treat. And this year, they’ll be able to fill their spooky buckets and pillowcases with bottles…
Jake Norris was there from the start of Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, so when he left last month — eight months after the Colorado-based company was sold to Proximo Spirits — it got a lot of people in the liquor community talking. Norris himself talked last week, as did Rob Dietrich,…
Denver just can’t seem to quench its thirst for craft beer. After just five months in business, the owners of Copper Kettle Brewing have already pumped up their beer-making capacity by adding two ten-barrel fermenters to the three three-barrel tanks they already had – an expansion of about 166 percent…
The Keg Steakhouse and Bar, 1890 Wynkoop Street, 303-296-0023 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 beers; $4 small plates; $5 martinis and margaritas; $6 wines by the glass Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Last month, after Jake Norris left Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, the homegrown company that was” target=”_blank”> sold late last year to Proximo Spirits, Rob Dietrich was named head distiller. After I chatted with Jake Norris about why he left, I decided it was important to talk with Dietrich. And in an…
The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot has been Denver’s most unusual brewery since it debuted inside Coors field in 1995. Only open to the public during baseball season, and only to Rockies ticket holders during games, the brewery actually runs year-round, making Blue Moon and other seasonal beers…
Late last year Proximo Spirits, distributors of 1800 Tequila, Kraken Rum, Three Olives Vodka, Hangar One and other labels, purchased Denver’s homegrown brand, Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. Once the sale was complete, original owners Jess Graber and George Stranahan moved on; head distiller Jake Norris stayed with the company. But in…
With Labor Day behind us and summer’s sun-soaked days and sizzling temperatures vanishing before our eyes, we aren’t traditionally all that psyched to welcome the month of September with open arms. This year, though, we’re seeing things differently, given the tantalizing array of wine events around the state in the…
Oskar Blues is one of the fastest-growing craft brewers in Colorado and makes some of the most sought-after, buzzworthy beers in the country. The Longmont brewery started the canned craft beer revolution in 2002, and it still leads the way in the market…
