Bars & Breweries

Balistreri Vineyards grows grapes and produces award-winning wines in an industrial sector of northeast Denver.

The Morrison Holiday Bar is Morrison’s neighborhood watering hole — and is also a well-known stop for hikers, bikers and other Denverites enjoying day trips from the city.

Here are the best craft beer events, tappings and beer releases through March 24, 2018.

While Edgewater considers a proposal for common consumption, this bar presents a very uncommon consumption opportunity.

Peak to Peak Tap & Brew is growing its business in Aurora by adding a production facility and tap room in the former Mu Brewing space on East Colfax Avenue.

More than 150 women gathered at some half dozen breweries around Colorado Thursday to brew beer in honor of International Women’s Day and the fifth annual International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day.

Billy’s Inn is a simple neighborhood bar with great happy hour deals on filling food: a towering nacho platter, peel and eat shrimp and thirst-quenching margaritas are the main draws.

Nestled between in a strip mall in Aurora is the unassuming Sports Station Bar and Grill (850 Dayton Street), located in an odd no-man’s land somewhere between Lowry, East Colfax Avenue and Havana Street.

A pair of veteran local brewers recently moved on to new breweries. In Lafayette, longtime brewer and brewery consultant David Mentus has taken over at Uturn BBQ and Brewery, which opened in 2017 with two beers and a drive-thru window where patrons could get a plate of barbecue and a…

After an exploration of some of Denver’s coziest wine shops, the takeaway is: Go small. Tiny bottle shops offer a delightful shopping experience, quaint ambience and unparalleled customer service. Owners and staff are friendly and knowledgeable and forge long-term relationships with returning customers. They offer high quality wines in every…

With so many other options on Larimer Street and the surrounding blocks of the RiNo district, the Populist might get overlooked by trend seekers. But happy hour is perfect for wine drinkers and those searching for a peaceful retreat in the hip neighborhood.

March is filled with beer events all over Denver; here are our choices for the ten best craft beer events for the month.

Barry Zadikoff’s family has been in the bar business in the Mile High City since the 1950s. His parents and grandparents owned bars, and he followed in their footsteps. Zadikoff himself has owned quite a few watering holes over the years, but lately he’s been focused on the one that…

Here’s our list of the top craft beer events, deals and tappings in Denver and beyond through Saturday, March 10.

When we look back at 2017 a few years from now, it’s possible — even probable — that we’ll remember it as the year Denver really came into its own as a nationally acclaimed dining scene. Top Chef helped, of course, with putting the city in a new spotlight, but more…

In my journey through Denver’s bars, I sometimes debate whether an establishment falls into the category of “neighborhood bar” or not. But Esters Neighborhood Pub in Virginia Village makes my deliberation easy by including “neighborhood” in its name. And I discovered that the place is definitely a watering hole for…

USA Today’s 10Best readers’ choice survey is underway online, and once again, it includes a category for the best new brewery. That’s a hot contest considering the fact that hundreds of new breweries open each year across the country (there are now more than 6,000) and that the survey covers…

Colorado’s booze industry has been a growing scene for years now. From long-running favorites such as Woody Creek Distillers, Leopold Bros. Distillery and Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey; to new players like Longtucky Spirits and Denver Distillery, there are plenty of quality bottles to choose from. Now, there’s a service that ties…

Stone Brewing is suing MillerCoors over its rebranding of Keystone. Here are seven options that could pull big beer from the brink.

One of the unfortunate consequences of continued rising real estate prices in this town is that our beloved neighborhood dives are under threat: Unable to compete with the trendier cocktail lairs and breweries going in around them, many are simply drying up. Occasionally, though, these bars get new life, when…

The beer is the thing at Colorado’s four hundred or so breweries, but if you like presentation as well — and most of us do — then you’re going to appreciate the extra mile that some breweries go to make their suds look good. From custom-built metal taster trays in…

This is the final installment of our three-part Beermuda Triangle series, which explores the Beer Depot, Tennyson’s Tap and the Berkeley Inn, three bars at the corner of West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street that are as easy to get lost in as the mysterious waters of the Atlantic Ocean…