Bars & Breweries

There are still a handful of spots open for this evening’s Great Divide beer dinner at the Fort Collins outpost of Jax Fish House, for those interested in hitting the road…

Tiny little Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, could make a big difference in the presidential election this year. Just ask President Obama, who has visited multiple times in the past three months, and Mitt Romney, who dispatched vice presidential selection Paul Ryan to our high-altitude swing state just two…

Update: In addition to tentative plans to brew beer in Colorado (see below for the original story and an update from a Goose Island spokesman), the Chicago brewery also plans to distribute all of its beers in Colorado beginning September 1, including its rare and highly sought-after brews. “You will…

Upslope Brewing will release two more Limited Edition beers this year in cans, following up on its Foreign Style Stout, which debuted in a can in January, and Belgian Style Pale Ale, which came out in June. But both beers, Pumpkin Ale and Christmas Ale, will be in sixteen-ounce tallboys…

People were flipping out in the plaza outside Fado Irish Pub on Saturday. Between drunken refs, a brief rain delay, match announcers competing with blasting music from DJ Escal8 and general alcohol-induced chaos, the madness level among competitors and spectators alike at Flipcup’alooza approached shitshow levels. By the end of…

Stuck with nothing to do this weekend but twiddle your thumbs? Here’s something else you can do with your hands. This Saturday, Quincy Dancer will host the seventh annual Flipcup’alooza Tournament & Block Party at Fado Irish Pub. But this isn’t just your average flip cup party, if there is…

The Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery has acquired a small bottling line and plans to start packaging some of its award-winning beer on a limited scale in mid-November. Owners Erik and Dave Peterson have been thinking about bottling their beer for years, but have held off because they were…

Something interesting happened at the delicious end of three recent meals — at Root Down, Frasca Food and Wine and twelve restaurant — everyone at our table enjoyed a round of Fernet. We’ll admit it: Denver’s seemingly boundless fascination with fernet is kind of blowing our minds. Seems like sometime…

On the heels of the Boulder-based Brewers Association report that craft beer sales are up 14 percent so far this year, Longmont’s Oskar Blues has posted even more outstanding numbers. The brewer said revenue was up 53 percent in the first six months of 2012. Oskar Blues credited the growth…

A day after 49,000 tickets to the Great American Beer Festival were snapped up within minutes of going on sale — leaving a lot of angry beer fans out there — a Boulder homebrewer listed one of those tickets on eBay for $50,000. Does he really expect someone to buy…

Prost Brewing became one of the first — if not the first — Colorado brewer to package its beer in growlers for sale at local liquor stores. The German-style brewery, which won’t open its own doors until later this month, packaged 48 growlers with shrink wrap and delivered them to…

Early last week, when I met with Todd Leopold at Steuben’s, he was wearing oatmeal-colored overalls that sniffed of absinthe, which may or may not have been the reason why customers coming in and out of Steuben’s stopped to introduce themselves and shake his hand. But Todd, who, in 1999,…

Bull & Bush will temporarily close its kitchen for the first major remodel in its 41 years, although — and this is important — the bar will stay open. To get it done, the kitchen will stay closed for six to eight weeks, says co-owner Erik Peterson. “When my dad…

Happy Place: Goosetown Tavern, 3242 East Colfax Avenue, 303-399-9703. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $1 off draft beers; $2.50 bottles; $3 house wines; $7 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…

Great Divide Brewing has initiated a full-fledged sour ale program this year thanks to a new seven-barrel pilot brewing system that allows it to experiment on a small scale. The first beers from the program, Berliner Weisse and Leipzog Gose, debuted earlier this summer in the tasting room and were…

Dry Dock Brewing closed the deal on its new six-acre, 30,000-square-foot production brewery in north Aurora on Wednesday — celebrating with some ale, of course — and revealed the four beers it plans to begin canning at the new location this winter…

Every year on the third Thursday in November, the world celebrates Beaujolais Nouveau, field-fresh young red wines from France that are meant to celebrate the harvest and be enjoyed right away. This September, Colorado beer brewers will do something similar for hops by kicking off a Hops Nouveau party that…

Update: Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival sold out in a jaw-dropping 45 minutes today, smashing last year’s record of seven days, which, in turn, crushed the previous year’s rate of several weeks. Craft beer, it appears, is now as popular as a Justin Beiber concert. But the Boulder-based…

Wine — just like every sport, art form, hobby or leisure pursuit — has a language all its own. And while someone just learning to cook would likely realize that the intimidating task of understanding what terms like “sauté” or “chiffonade” mean is simply another step in that process, why…

Even presidents, CEOs and owners need hobbies, distractions and sidekicks – and that includes James Iacino, president of Seattle Fish Company, who, along with his buddy Scott Kinsey, will open Corner House, a java joint and bar, in late October at 2240 Clay Street in Jefferson Park…

Almost everyone who’s ever bar-hopped has, at one time or another, accidentally walked out of an establishment with their drink in hand. And on almost every one of those occasions, said drinker has been stopped by a bouncer, waiter, security guard or friend since, sadly, you can’t take your booze…

Ticketing for the Great American Beer Festival, run through Ticketmaster, got off to a rocky start yesterday during a pre-sale for Brewers Association and American Homebrewers Association members — many of whom were shut out from a Saturday afternoon session that is designed just for them. Sales to the general…