The onset of winter sent me scurrying for a dark beer — and I wasn’t alone. Boulder’s FATE Brewing Company was packed to the rafters with everyone from high-fiving bros to families with little kids. Lots and lots of little kids. What secret sauce is FATE squirting to get a…
Gardiner Hammond has always been a fan of Capitol Hill — the bars, the music halls, the mix of people and styles. So when he began searching for a location for his brewery, Alpine Dog Brewing, he focused on this eclectic neighborhood. “It’s the densest part of Denver,” he says…
Ski resorts haven’t always made craft beer a priority, but that has changed a lot over the past two years. The latest pairing between local brews and winter sports is at the Base 9 bar inside Breckenridge’s Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, which is introducing a new craft-beer program…
When Left Hand Brewing introduced its Nitro brand in 2011, the beer maker’s top brass wanted things to run smoothly — both in how the beers poured and with control of the brand itself. The former worked out perfectly. The latter, not so much. While the creamy beers, especially Milk…
Captain Chunk at the Squeaky Bean 1500 Wynkoop Street 303-625-2665 Captain Chunk ($10) is a boozy, rum-based cocktail on Squeaky Bean’s Autumn drink menu. It’s no coincidence that the drink shares a name with a character in the 1985 Steven Spielberg movie The Goonies. “We name our drinks after old…
November is shaping up to be a huge month for brewery openings in Denver, as at least three — and possibly up to six — new beer makers get ready to pour. Mockery Brewing, Alpine Dog and Fermaentra Brewing have all set opening dates, while Zephyr Brewing, Goldspot and Declaration…
Yes, there’s a new brewery getting ready to open its doors this weekend in the River North neighborhood, just across from the Source market. But no, that brewery isn’t Great Divide, which is building a huge complex there. Rather, it is Mockery Brewing, at 3501 Delgany Street, which will be…
Just around the corner from lavish CY Steak in the Diamond Cabaret — which to my relief and chagrin, does not offer a happy hour — is Cliff Young and his son Zachary’s other concept, Bar Red. Until recently known as BaRed, the restaurant revamped its menu and changed its…
In what may be one of the most perfect meetings between Denver’s past and its future, the new makers of Tivoli Beer will open their own brewery, taproom and restaurant inside the historic former home of the original Tivoli Brewing Company on the Auraria Campus. Tivoli Brewing co-owner Corey Marshall…
Dry Dock Brewing debuted two whiskey-barrel-aged beers in its Signature Series last week, both in bottles and at its new tasting room, located inside the brewery’s production facility in north Aurora. The beers are Double Brown Ale, an 8 percent ABV English-style brown “with a nutty, caramel backbone and pronounced,…
Apollo’s Creed at Beatrice & Woodsley 38 South Broadway 303-777-3505 When Dylan Holcomb moved to Colorado last October, he landed a job behind the bar at Beatrice & Woodsley, a stylish restaurant in the Baker neighborhood. Before Denver, he tended bar in a string of cities that included Washington, D.C.,…
While River North, LoDo and the Beermuda Triangle may boast the city’s thickest concentrations of small craft breweries, the Sunnyside neighborhood in north Denver is slowly building a beer scene of its own — one that could make it a new destination for craft-beer drinkers over the next year. Factotum…
Frank Keesling thought he was in trouble nine years ago when he got a call from the Wynkoop Brewing Company asking why there were so many gorillas sitting at the bar. Although the question sounded like the punchline to a joke, it actually came as more of a relief to…
Back before LoDo was stuffed with happy hours pushing all manner of liquids and solids, McCormick’s Fish House and Bar — an outpost of the McCormick’s and Schmick’s empire that opened in the Oxford Hotel in 1987 — was legendary for its cheap time, when everything was $1.99. And that…
The beer boom on “the longest, wickedest street in America” will continue next year when Cerebral Brewing opens at the corner of Colfax Avenue and Monroe Street. Owners Sean Buchan, Chris Washenberger and Dan McGuire signed a lease this week for a space in a former Galaxie auto body shop,…
The Oskar Blues CAN’d Aid Foundation, which was created a year ago to help Lyons — where Oskar Blues was founded — recover from the devastating floods that ravaged several towns in Colorado, said this week that is had raised one million dollars over the past twelve months and has…
To wrap up Patio of the Week, I tried to think of a patio I enjoy all year, with or without heaters or fire pits, and I came up with a surprising answer: the back patio at the Horseshoe Lounge. In fact, the Horseshoe’s nondescript patio didn’t flash through my…
Balancing a cocktail’s sweet and sour components is often like threading a needle: too much sugar turns your taste buds into a swamp of sweetness; too much lemon juice can dry them right out. Stoic & Genuine’s Ginger Crane ($12) hits that balance like a cat on a fence post,…
The canned craft-beer craze has overtaken the packaged beer market to the extent that it’s no longer shocking to see barleywines, imperial stouts and double — or even triple — IPAs in 12- and 16-ounce cans in liquor-store cold cases and even at upscale bars and restaurants. But wine drinkers…
Despite the name, La Biblioteca, the tequila bar next to Zengo and Riverfront Park, is not an ideal place for study. It’s a sexy library of agave-based — rather than paper-based — knowledge, with more than 300 tequilas, mezcals and other liquors. The sort of people who drop hundreds of…
Who knew that a cereal could capture the world’s attention? On Monday, the Fort Collins Coloradoan posted a story about how Black Bottle Brewery had bought up all of the Count Chocula cereal in two stores and used it for a Halloween beer. Over the next few days, that story…
Frankie Valli and the Fall Seasons at Old Major 3316 Tejon Street 720-420-0622 “This is actually something I came up with last fall,” says Kevin Deming, a bartender at Old Major, referring to a cocktail he calls Frankie Valli and the Fall Seasons. “It ended up not going on the…
