Local breweries have been teaming up for years with Colorado restaurants on custom-made beers, but other kinds of businesses and organizations have been raising a pint to the collaborative spirit as well, from Denver Comic Con, which joined forces with Breckenridge Brewery, to Oskar Blues, which worked with Icelantic Skis,…
Here’s to American Craft Beer Week (which began Monday), the annual salute to small independent brewers that the Boulder-based Brewers Association (with help from Congress!) created seven years ago to increase awareness of craft beer. Of course, in Colorado, as some people say, every week is craft beer week, but…
Tonight, at 6 p.m., Fooducopia’s Corner Store and Cafe, a charming market that sells a huge array of local products — and serves many of those products in its adjoining little restaurant, will appear in front of a hearings officer at 6 p.m. in the Wellington Webb building to plead…
Denver’s craft-beer scene has exploded over the past three years as the number of breweries tripled inside city limits, but most of those brewery owners started off as home brewers, roasting grains in their ovens and tweaking recipes in their garages. Chris and Laura Bruns, a sister-and-brother team, want to…
Arvada will get a new brewery later this month when Odyssey Beerwerks opens up at 5535 West 56th Avenue, Suite 107, just north of the Denver border. The 1,700-square-foot taproom, which will include a fifteen-barrel brewing system and room for at least eighty people, was founded by friends Chris Hill,…
Denver is about to get Brainless. Sometime in late May or early June, Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, known for its series of Brainless fruit beers, will brew its first batch in Denver, in a soaring old warehouse building it is renovating in the River North neighborhood. By July, Epic…
The Colorado Plus Brew Pub (originally known as Colorado + Liquid Art Works) will open on Monday, May 13, at 6995 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, with 56 Colorado craft beers on tap. Located in the former Valente’s Italian Restaurant, which closed in 2008 after 44 years, Colorado Plus…
Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scene? Neither did I. But Brian Jansing and Paul Vismara, two longtime suds slingers at the Falling Rock Taphouse, did, and they’ve traveled all over Italy, researching the movement as it grew from fewer than twenty craft breweries in 1996 to…
If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you’ve probably seen CNN’s list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists produced by national magazines and websites, it certainly had its share of problems…
On Friday, Jenn Wohletz served up “Five cocktails only a dickhead would order.” Shaken, not stirred, Cafe Society contributor Sean Kenyon offers this response: Dear Jenn Wohletz: You don’t know us You are not one of us You do not speak for us I woke up Friday morning and, as…
It’s not for me to tell you want to drink — or eat, but suffice it to say that there’s some crazy-weird stuff out there in the minds of bloody Mary makers. Why, for example, would you crown your bloody with a burger? Steak skewers strung with tater tots? How…
Late last year, Odell Brewing named a beer, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, after a truck belonging to the organic farmer who hauls away the brewery’s spent grain to feed to his dairy cows. This time around, the Fort Collins company will focus on the life cycle of hops — and…
There is a thin line between self-indulgence and being a dickhead, a line that any bartender could draw for you. On especially busy nights at any watering hole, there is always at least one person who decides to order some outdated or ridiculous beverage that takes up valuable bartender time,…
The owners of the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Café are still planning to open their own brewery in August or September, but in the meantime, James and Tina Pachorek and their staff teamed up with Wynkoop Brewing last week to make a Belgian-inspired saison. “I have been friends with Marty…
Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, which announced in January that it will build a 20,000-square-foot brewery and taphouse in Denver, updated its followers on social media this week with a couple of pictures and some potential opening dates. The Facebook pictures (like the one above) show the brewery’s tanks and…
Alex Nelson founded Roundhouse Spirits in Boulder five years ago for one primary reason: he has a penchant for gin. “I decided to start making gin not only because it’s one of my favorites, but also because gins have tremendously complex flavors and still manage to be extremely versatile in…
Exactly one year after opening its first taproom in northeast Denver, Caution Brewing will reveal its plans for a second brewery and taproom somewhere in the metro area. Co-owner Danny Wang says he just signed a lease on a new location and will give it away on American Craft Beer…
Drinking your lunch got easier at Chipotle yesterday, when the homegrown Colorado chain introduced premium Patrón margaritas in all 900 of its U.S. restaurants (out of 1,450 Chipotle locations total). Although margaritas were on the menu before this, they were made with a standard mix, and Mark Crumpacker, chief marketing…
Upslope Brewing is going big this spring. The five-year-old Boulder company just opened its second brewery and taproom in a 17,000-square-foot space with a thirty-barrel brewhouse, to complement its original location at 1501 Lee Hill Drive in Boulder. And now, it’s getting ready to brew one of its biggest beers,…
Renegade Publik House, a new pub from the owners of Renegade Brewing, will open at 3 p.m. today at 2043 South University Boulevard, near the University of Denver. The spot will keep it simple, both with its menu of artisan flatbread pizzas and salads, and in its decor, which co-owner…
Avery Brewing will release its latest small-batch sour ale this Saturday only in its taproom. The beer is No. 14 in the Boulder brewery’s acclaimed Barrel-Aged Series. It has been eight months since No. 13, Odio Equum, was released. Volunt Plus Erat (which translates into “wish there was more”) was…
The drink menu at Ace, this year’s Best New Bar winner, features no shortage of cocktails — 64 combinations, to be exact. Intrigued by the large number of options, we recently stopped by to sip and sample from Ace’s new happy-hour menu, and bar manager Randy Layman was kind enough…
