The brand new owners of the popular Craft Lager Festival — which has taken place in the Manitou Springs area for eleven years — announced this week that they have canceled the event this August because of poor planning and a lack of available breweries. “We only got eleven signups;…
On Thursday night, Green Russell, Frank Bonanno’s sultry, subterranean speakeasy in Larimer Square, is hosting a beer vs. spirits showdown, pitting brews from Avery Brewing against cocktails from Peach Street Distillers — and pairing them all with a five-course dinner. And unlike a lot of dinners, where you’re away from…
Mile High Spirits, a private label micro-distillery, cocktail lounge and tasting room that opened two years ago on Upper Larimer, shuttered on Saturday night following a late-night bash that went well into the morning hours. Partners Joe Vonfeldt, Chase Campbell and Wyn Ferrell originally opened the distillery, which makes –…
Gotham needed Batman. But even Batman would have been nothing without Bruce Wayne. Denver, it turns out, needs Batman as well. And our version of the Dark Knight? Well, he needs Brews Wayne – and preferably a couple of pints. Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con will introduce their latest…
Saint Patrick’s Brewing, a tiny nanobrewery in Englewood, is moving into a much larger space, where co-owner Chris Phelps will have the chance to make a lot more of his passion: lagered beers, many of them with unusual ingredients. The new taproom, at 2852 Bowles Avenue in Littleton, will be…
The Republican National Committee announced last week that two of the six cities — Las Vegas and Cincinnati — that were vying to host the Republican National Convention in 2016 have dropped out. That means the 24 members of the site-selection committee will now pay visits only to Dallas, Cleveland,…
There’s been a lot of talk in Colorado over the past six months about whether legal pot sales will impact beer sales, but so far — at least based on the continuing success of the state’s ever-expanding craft-brewing industry — that doesn’t seem to be happening. But pot will definitely…
The brand-new 4 Noses Brewing in Broomfield held its grand opening party last weekend with several beers on tap, including a few special firkins. There were also food trucks and live music — all the hallmarks of a new brewery party. Westword photographer Ken Hamblin was there, and brought back…
Americans are drinking more craft beer, but they’re also making more of their own at home. The Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association released the results of its fifth annual Homebrew Supply Shop Survey, which used data from 408 shops in 48 states, and found that gross revenue grew by an average…
If you were drinking a cocktail with the floral notes of a rainforest, the aroma of banana and lime flowers, the earthiness of sweet red peppers and the saltiness of oysters, you’d be drinking cachaca (pronounced ka-SHA-sa), a Brazilian spirit distilled from sugarcane juice. And while all of those rainforest-and-ocean…
“When you stand on the other side of the obstacle and you can hold your head high.” That’s what the word “vindication” means to Marty Lettow, and that’s why he and the other owners of Kettle & Stone Brewing chose it as the new name for their brewery. “All three…
A trio of heavy hitters in Denver’s beer world — Chris Rippe, Bill Eye and Ashleigh Carter — are teaming up to create a German-style brewery and unusual new production facility in River North next year that will also include a cidery and another like-minded business, all three of which…
With spring come changes — and those changes are popping up like little flowers on cocktail lists across town, especially as mixologists switch up menus to include seasonal ingredients. At Williams & Graham, bar manager Jason Patz took us on a tour of some of the new and exciting concoctions…
Great Divide owner Brian Dunn hasn’t wanted to discuss the details of his plans for a new brewing campus in River North — in part because they haven’t been finalized. In fact, the only evidence of the project has come from public records at the City of Denver, where Dunn…
After getting off to a busy but rough start — even closing briefly when it ran out of beer — Former Future Brewing is now rolling. The South Broadway brewery is open six days a week and has a series of special nights, including $1 tacos next door at Adelita’s…
Mountain Toad Brewing will celebrate its one-year anniversary in Golden this weekend, and one of its birthday presents is what the brewery’s owners hope is a tentative truce with residential neighbors who have been complaining for a few months about parking problems. One of three craft breweries to open in…
You know that spring has officially arrived when, instead of tulips, you see bottles of rosé popping up everywhere you look. And even though the weather here in the Mile High City hasn’t been exactly stellar, the season for drinking all things pink arrived earlier than ever, with the city’s…
Roger the elephant has been an elusive piece of Edgewater’s history for decades, and now the mural that depicted the nineteenth-century amusement-park pachyderm has disappeared as well. But the brewery that that took over the building where the mural was located plans to carry on Roger’s memory and create some…
Although they are classified as wineries, America’s has a burgeoning crew of small cider makers who often associate themselves more with craft-beer taproom culture. “I think there is a little bit of division in the industry, such as it is,” says Brad Page, founder of Colorado Cider Company and a…
Barleywines are part of an ancient style of beer, one that’s primarily denoted by a higher alcohol content than typical brews — an alcohol level closer to that of wine. But Bryan Selders and Sam Calagione don’t care, and why should they? The two brewers built their reputations at Dogfish…
In the fifteen-month runup to the opening of Wonderland Brewing, owner Robert Lucero and his team visited lots of other local breweries and taprooms to look for ideas. “One thing I learned is that there are too many of these coming, too many little breweries,” says Lucero, who has worked…
The ninth annual American Craft Beer Week, which runs through May 18, is in full swing right now as breweries, restaurants and craft-beer bars across Colorado and around the rest of the nation toast the craft-beer renaissance. “With more than 2,800 small and independent craft breweries and hundreds more popping…
