Colorado House Passes Distillery Pub License Bill

It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t.  Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…

Waking the Dead With a Spicy Cocktail at Leña

La Recoleta Leña 24 Broadway 720-550-7267 Some of Argentina’s most distinguished bones lay buried in La Recoleta cemetery: A slew of the country’s past presidents, famous filmmakers, Nobel Prize winners and poets all rest in this plot of land located just outside Buenos Aires. Former Argentine first lady Eva Peron…

Factotum Brewhouse Opens Today as a Beacon for Homebrewers

The theory behind Factotum Brewhouse is a novel one: Rather than pay a brewer to make the beer, owners Laura and Chris Bruns are asking brewers to pay them to serve it. Will it work? The sister-and-brother team will find out beginning today, when they hold a grand opening for…

Beer Calendar: Party at Breckenridge and Odell New Brew Releases

The River North district has seen an explosion of new breweries over the past year, the most recent of which, Ratio Beerworks, opened earlier this month. But the big daddy on the block is going to be Great Divide’s $38 million, five-acre campus between Brighton Boulevard and the South Platte…

Stem Ciders Expands With New Bottling Line and Retail Accounts

Stem Ciders has released a line of bottled ciders, which makes available for the first time a range of products from the Denver-based cidery. The 750-ml bottles are on shelves now in liquor stores across the metro area, and can also be purchased in Stem’s tap room, at 2811 Walnut…

Goldspot Brewing Opens Saturday Near Regis With Six Beers

Matt Hughes and Alex Sward know it’s a risk to start another new brewery in Denver, a city that already has nearly fifty of them. But they’re comfortable taking that chance. An insurance agent , Hughes specializes in helping breweries manage risks of all kind. And they’re confident in their…

Happy Hour of the Week: EDGE Bar Is Not So Edgy

The Four Seasons — from Seattle to Bali — is a lodestar of luxury and comfort. You dine at the Four Seasons when an expense account has your back or when you want to spend an evening, however brief, in the cashmere-clad lap of luxury. That said, the happy hour…

Avery Brewing’s New Restaurant and Taproom Opens Monday

“One. Don’t be a dick. And two, make your co-workers’ jobs easier.” Those the two main rules that Adam Avery had for his employees at the overgrown, ramshackle old Avery Brewing location on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder – and they’re the core of the company culture he plans to bring…

Denver’s Declaration Brewing Will Go Big When It Opens This Weekend

Colorado’s skiers and snowboarders like to go big when they’re on the slopes. And that’s the same idea that the owners of Declaration Brewing had when the started building their brewery, which opens this weekend. Everything is big, from the building itself and the brewhouse to the behind-the-scenes technology and…