The Taste of Vail, a multi-day food and wine festival that uncorks each year in Vail Village and on Vail Mountain, is still — even after 23 years — one of the state’s most fantastic culinary spring flings. Herewith, a few observations and photos from the weekend revelry. See also:…
Hoping to capitalize on both baseball season and the popularity of Denver’s burgeoning taproom culture, MillerCoors and the Rockies have decided to give the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, which is inside of Coors Field, a facelift — and then open the brewery to the public even on…
Ah, spring. The beginning of a new baseball season is always so full of hope, so full of life, so full of chances to turn over a new leaf. Perhaps you should start with your beer? If that’s the case, here are five ways you can celebrate the season and…
Tom’s Urban 24, which I review this week, isn’t a chef-driven restaurant. The bar is where the real personalities reside, with seven mixologists bringing their own craft and spirits (pun intended) to upscale, round-the-clock libations. Last month two of them, Les Baker V and Chris Clewell, shared the spotlight by…
For the first time in more than a decade, the Blue Moon Brewing Company at the Sandlot, which has been open only to Colorado Rockies ticket-holders — and then only on game days — will be open to the public on non-game days beginning May 2. The news means that…
WINNER UPDATE: The correct answer to our contest question — How many one-ounce pours did Great Divide serve during the three-day Great American Beer Festival, held in Denver last year? — is 20,343 one-ounce pours. The person who came the closest to that number without going over is d.m.c, who…
Update: Denver Comic Con and Breckenridge Brewery have selected The Caped Brewsader, submitted by Nathan Bowker as the name for the new beer. And the world is safe again. There are evil villains on the loose, trying to twist a naming contest for the special beer that is being brewed…
The massive Craft Brewers Conference, an annual industry-only meeting, wrapped up in Washington, D.C. last week, but a beer-themed art exhibit and auction, Amber Waves, sponsored by the Dogfish Head and Victory breweries continues through Friday. And it features a cool sculpture piece by Denver bottlecap artist Amanda Willshire of…
After a long dispute with a similarly-named homebrew store in Massachusetts, Denver’s Strange Brewing Company has gone on the offensive, asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the store’s right to the name “Strange Brew.” Strange said in a motion filed with the agency that it was taking…
Two brewmasters with the Colorado-based Rock Bottom chain will strike out on their own this fall by opening a full-scale brewpub and pizzeria in a high-profile spot between Capitol Hill and the Golden Triangle neighborhoods. Unlike most of the tap rooms that have opened recently around Denver, Lowdown Brewery and…
It’s been quiet out there in the craft beer world this week — primarily because most of the movers and shakers from around the country are in Washington, D.C. for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, and industry-only event hosted by the Brewers Association. This year’s version — the thirtieth one…
Next Wednesday, April 3, Denver will be raining small-batch spirits: vodka, whiskey, gin, bourbon, brandy, grapa, absinthe and more at DStill’s American Craft Spirit & Cocktail Showcase, which runs from 6 to 10 p.m. and takes place at the McNichols Building at 144 West Colfax. There are 44 distilleries participating…
There are time-honored traditions that define a good whiskey, from the type of grain used in the mix to the type of barrel in which it’s aged. But Lenny Eckstein, owner and head distiller of Deerhammer Distilling Company in Buena Vista, is not afraid to mix tradition with new practices…
Craft beers are not Colorado’s only liquid assets. This state’s craft-spirit industry is booming, too. Two years ago, when the Colorado Bartenders Guild, the Colorado Distillers Guild, Westword and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver banded together on the Colorado Cocktail Project, the Distillers Guild had fewer than twenty members…
Colorado’s craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that arrive for just a few weeks or months each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come…
Colorado’s craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that are available just a few weeks or month each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come…
Fate Brewing opened in February without a brewhouse, but the Boulder joint, which includes a full-service restaurant and bar, remedied that situation a couple of weeks ago by installing its ten-barrel system. And yesterday, it tapped its first beer, American Stout. One of five core beers that Fate plans to…
The West End Tap House, at 3945 Tennyson Street, opened this afternoon and is hoping for a quiet weekend to sort out the kinks and the glitches before it gets rolling next week. The new pub features twenty craft beer on tap, mostly from Colorado, as well as twenty wines…
Black Shirt Brewing will tap its imperial rye IPA, Red Evelyn, tonight and tomorrow at 5 p.m. as part of Colorado Craft Beer Week, but it plans to reserve the rest of that beer for a new, limited growler program, which it will roll out on Easter Sunday. The brewery…
Denver Beer Co co-owner Charlie Berger loves baseball and he’s come up with the perfect beer — and beer name — to celebrate the Colorado Rockies. The brewery will tap Walt Weiss (pronounced with a “v,” German-style) at 10 a.m. on April 5, which is the team’s home opener against…
World of Beer, a Tampa, Florida-based chain of beer-centric tap houses, opened its 37th location this week in the new City Set development in Glendale, behind the Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Cherry Creek Drive. The bar has sixty rotating taps (consisting primarily of craft…
With the additions of everything from neighborhood taverns to high-end lounges, Denver’s bar scene got even better in 2012. Residents and tourists alike have many more options when they’re looking for fun after the sun goes down — or even before that. Here, in no particular order, are Cafe Society’s…
