Here are two beery deadlines to note: If you are entering a home-brewed stout into the Mountain Sun/Vine Street Pub Stout Month contest, the deadline is Saturday, December 16. The winner gets to brew the beer at Mountain Sun and have it served in February alongside all of the brewery’s…
It’s not easy to get a boot in the door of the craft-brewing industry. It’s even more difficult for women since breweries, with a few notable exceptions, are boys’ clubs. But despite the stereotypes, there are plenty of ladies who love suds just as much as guys do, and they’ve…
To celebrate the luckiest day of the year — 12/12/12 — Ron Abuelo rums asked a dozen mixologists across the country to a create a signature cocktail as a toast to the holiday season. Kevin Burke of Colt & Gray, who won our Best Bartender award in the Best of…
Avery Brewing hopes to seal the deal this month on the 5.6-acre parcel in north Boulder where it plans to build a 30,000-square-foot brewery, restaurant and gift shop. Once it opens, in mid-2014, the compound at 4910 and 4920 Nautilus Court will allow Avery to brew 100,000 barrels of beer…
Great Divide Brewing has been distributing its beers to Sweden for years via Great Brands — a craft-beer-focused Swedish distributor that carries a handful of American brews, including those from Avery, Left Hand, Oskar Blues and Ska. The Denver brewery has garnered many fans in Scandinavia since, one of whom…
Porchetta po-boys with bacon jam; bacon and cashew caramel corn; bacon macaroni and cheese; bacon fat potato chips; bacon chocolate chip cookies; bacon and pork belly Reuben; bacon and ramen; bacon and oyster chowder; bacon fat duck sliders; bacon-strangled flying pig belly; candied bacon; bacon, goat cheese and kale tarts;…
Del Norte Brewing, which quietly closed up shop sometime in November after five years, posted a goodbye note over the weekend on its reactivated Facebook page, thanking fans for drinking its beers. But the brewery, which made award-winning Mexican-style craft lagers, didn’t offer an explanation as to why it ceased…
Big things come in small packages, and that goes double for craft brewers, who package many of their potent products in twelve- sixteen- or twenty-ounce cans and bottles. But those big things can also come with a big price. While a six-pack of craft beer usually runs from $8.99 to…
On September 29, 2011, after the first night of the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Left Hand Brewing publicly revealed a bottled beer that its owners and brewers had spent two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. See also: – Strange Brewing faces a trademark…
It seems like everybody and their neighbor wants to be in the wine business. Last week, we spilled the juice on Denver-based Club W’s first year in the monthly wine club business. While we found their edgy-cool offerings well worth the hype, as we did our research we couldn’t help…
In November, shortly after Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, thus creatiing the possibility of limited retail sales of marijuana in the state, we provided a list of Five Colorado pot-themed beers to pair with Amendment 64. Well, you can make that a six-pack. As Oskar Blues has reminded us with…
Renegade Brewing, which opened in the Art District on Santa Fe just eighteen months ago, said today that it will open a pub serving pizza salads and lots and lots of craft beer near the University of Denver. The Renegade Publik House, in the former Spicy Pickle spot at 2043…
Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey will release the latest batch of its highly-prized, limited-edition Snowflake series at 9 a.m. on Saturday. This one was cask- conditioned for months in two hand-picked Malbec barrels from Denver’s Spero Winery. The distillery puts out one or two Snowflake series batches each year, an event that…
An appreciative crowd of convivial drinkers bellied up to the bar last night at Ghost Plate & Tap, the site of Industry Denver’s first Winter Talent Showcase, a cocktail-centric bash that pimped the mad mixology skills of several Denver bartenders, including Dante Reesman, Melissa Durant, Matty Durgin, Jason Patz, Anthony…
Renegade Brewing, which scored a hit with its Ryeteous Rye IPA in sixteen-ounce cans, plans to package two more beers in January: the 11 percent ABV Elevation Triple IPA and the 5:00 Afternoon Ale, a 5 percent ABV blond session-style beer. The Elevation will be sold in twelve-ounce cans, while…
Named for the flagship store at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium, in London, the Armoury, a new “old-world” pub located at 2048 Larimer Street, will be a magnet for soccer fans by day, and by night, the new bar, slated to open on New Year’s Eve, will morph into a live music…
The action on Broadway just keeps heating up. Punch Bowl Social – Food and Drink opened last week, El Diablo has unleashed its holiday light display, which is absolutely worth checking out, and just down the block, Historian’s Ale House, a joint from Denver Pub Venture 1, a company that…
Aging beers in whiskey or wine barrels has become one of the most popular ways for craft breweries to play with flavors and to entice the beer geeks who are always looking for new delicious treats. While a few breweries established barrel-aging programs years ago, many of the new breweries…
Spirit Hound Distillers, the first distillery in Lyons, will celebrate its grand opening Saturday. The distillery is focusing on small-batch spirits like gin, vodka and whiskey — made in homemade stills and using a variety of local ingredients. The opening party will feature Spirit Hound spirits as well a distillery…
The lineup for the Wynkoop’s annual Parade of Darks this Saturday reads like a Colorado beer geek’s wet dream — notwithstanding the stout made with bull testicles. In fact, the beer list is so electric that attendees may not know where to begin. Billed as a fest dedicated to “beers…
Bayou Bob’s Restaurant & Bar, 1635 Glenarm Place, is hosting a watching party for the Thursday night game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons, which will be televised on NFL Network at 6 p.m. tonight. The Big Easy-inspired joint will be offering drink specials all night in…
Delicious bottles of wine. Hand-selected for you by industry pros, based on your personal palate’s preferences. Shipped directly to your door, every month, for less than $40. Welcome to the club — that is, Club W. See also – Four ways to give the gift of wine (and buy local)…
