Dry Dock Brewing’s Cool Lime Lager isn’t the biggest joke-beer that ended up being popular enough to package: that honor belongs to the Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which started as an April Fool’s Day prank before becoming a full-fledged part of the brewery’s canned lineup. But the popularity of the…
The Ryeno Cocktail at DADA Art Bar When DADA Art Bar opened its doors last April, it fused art gallery with cocktail lounge. If you wanted wine and cheese while you ogled colorful oil paintings, DADA made it possible to do that from the comfort of a bar stool. But the…
On an unusually quiet evening on South Pearl, the patio at Session Kitchen announced itself from blocks away. While patrons of the district’s other establishments restricted themselves to muted chatting, this restaurant was booming with music and the laughs of happy customers. From its graphic design sensibility to its menu…
There are more than fifty breweries within Denver’s city limits, but as craft beer’s popularity has skyrocketed over the past few years, the number of people brewing their own beer at home has also taken off. But would-be brewers don’t always have enough space in their urban apartments, condos or…
The first thing that patrons will see when they walk into Dungeons & Drafts are the stained glass windows, says Manny Garza. A tableau of wizards and warriors will quest across the panels, designed by a local artist. From high up on the wall, a mounted dragon’s head will stare…
Beer should be featured more often under Colorado’s Capitol dome, but leaders of the House of Representatives got to hold up the next best thing last week when they were officially presented with the Hop the Vote trophy by the Colorado Brewers Guild. Last fall, a few members of the…
Wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, wedges, screws and inclined plans. These are the “simple machines” that engineers have used to create every complicated mechanical invention for thousands of years. In that same way, brewers have used a set of basic ingredients – water, yeast, malt and hops – to create…
More than three years after Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing became the first U.S. beer-maker to bottle and sell a nitrogenated beer, a second American craft brewer has finally figured out how to do the same. The company, Utah’s Wasatch Brewery, just happens to be located in an adjacent state and…
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at Mizuna When you least expect it, that’s when it sneaks up on you. Ideas often come at the worst times: you’re driving on the highway, in a meeting, or you can’t find a pen to write down your latest inspiration. That’s what happened to Austin Carson, bar…
Tomorrow marks the beginning of DSTILL, a week-long celebration of American spirits that showcases small-batch distillers and their products. DSTILL, now in its third year, focuses on artisan spirit producers, bartenders and beverage industry leaders who are influencing today’s resurgent craft-cocktail culture. While the week will peak with Thursday’s spirits…
Twenty years after Coors opened what would become Blue Moon Brewing inside Coors Field, the company says it plans to open a second brewery about a mile away in the burgeoning River North arts district. Located in a 27,00-square-foot warehouse at 1910 38th Street – near Globeville Landing Park –…
Coors Field may be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but it’s still not as old and grizzled as the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which will turn 27 this fall. And although the famous brewery helped create both the vibrant Lower Downtown neighborhood and Denver’s craft-brewing scene, its age is beginning…
Richard Sandoval is still making waves in Colorado after helping put our state on the national plate by opening Tamayo on Larimer Square in 2002. Sandoval’s restaurants can seem like they’re stuck in time, rarely shifting with times and trends. But Sandoval’s newest venture, La Biblioteca, offers a happy hour…
There aren’t a lot of craft breweries associated with professional sports teams, but Pikes Peak Brewing just announced that it has become the official craft-beer sponsor for the newly arrived Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, of the United Soccer League; Heineken is also a beer sponsor of the team. The deal kicked off…
Spangalang Brewery will jazz up the Five Points neighborhood on Thursday when it opens inside the high-profile former Denver Motor Vehicles office. Founded by former Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees and journeyman beer makers Austin Wiley and Darren Boyd, the brewery takes its name from a jazz term that…
The Art DeCo at Molecule Effect “We try to take ‘locally-sourced’ to the extreme,” says Mark Landman, who opened Molecule Effect with partner Megan Rodgers in late 2014. “When we think of ingredients for anything, we start right here and we start to go outward from there.” The community-focused lounge, located…
Avery Brewing Co. hosted the 13th annual Boulder Strong Ale Fest on Saturday at the beer maker’s new campus in north Boulder, featuring only brews with more than eight percent alcohol by volume. More than 45 breweries, both national and local, tapped 108 different beers for revelers who sampled small…
The Colorado Rockies are getting a breath of fresh air in center field this season – and that may have the rest of the outfield thinking about beer. Sometime later this spring, the grounds crew will add about a half-dozen hops plants to the bucolic flora that lies just below the…
Even though it’s been one of Frank Bonnano’s longest running restaurants, serving solid Italian food since 2003, Luca only just launched an afternoon happy hour in March, meaning it’s the new flavor on the block once again — a block already held down by happy hour heavyweights Vesper Lounge, Benny’s,…
Call To Arms Brewing, which plans to open late this year at 4526 Tennyson Street, has launched an unusual crowdfunding progam that allows friends and fans to become financial supporters by sponsoring pieces of the brewery’s furniture. Altogether, there are about eighty pieces of furniture, including table chairs ($150), bar…
Colorado continues to count six of its beer-makers among the fifty largest craft breweries in the country, but some of their positions on that list slid in 2014. thanks to a rule change from the Boulder-based Brewers Association: Breweries that use corn as a beer adjunct – but still produce fewer…
While Denver is approaching the big fifty when it comes to the number of breweries in the city, the outlying brewing scene continues to boom as well, whether it’s new spots in the southern suburbs or those setting up shop just past our western border in Lakewood or the eastern…
