Bars & Breweries

If you thought Denver was tired of new breweries, you thought wrong…

Jourdan Adler, the owner of The 1Up, the hip arcade/bar in LoDo, now has a second outpost of his video game-centric bar in the former Pete’s Monkey Bar space at 717 East Colfax. the 2Up. Last night, the 2Up — complete with 35 games, eight pinball machines and three skee-ball…

Happy Place: Hapa Sushi, 2780 East Second Avenue, 303-322-9554 The Hours: Daily from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The Deals: $1-$3.50 sake specials; $2 Hapa beer; $2 nigri specials; half-priced appetizers Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…

Over the past few years, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know Dale DeGroff. The driving force behind New York’s famous Rainbow Room, Dale has been widely credited with reinventing the bartending profession, setting off a cocktail explosion that continues to this day. He’s the James Beard Award-winning author…

The historic Flagstaff House, 1138 Flagstaff Road in Boulder, recently brought on sommelier Melanie Kaman to revamp its drink program — specifically its cocktail menu, which previously featured what the restaurant describes as “old-school classics.” “Some of the new drinks are just cocktails we love that weren’t already on the…

Creating a great cocktail is a true art. And so the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver will be raising awareness of what makes a good drink — and raising the roof in general — at its rooftop bar all summer. But tonight kicks off a particularly important show: the Bartender…

It’s only Wednesday, people. But it’s already been one helluva week for the Colorado Urban WineFest…

Banjo Billy’s Bus Tours has joined a growing list of companies offering brewery tours in Denver with a three-hour journey that begins at the Wynkoop Brewing Company (with an optional tour) at 6 p.m. and then heads to Strange Brewing Company, Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Beer Co. The tours depart…

The Wynkoop Brewing Company was founded in 1988, just three years after Bess Dougherty was born. And although there have been plenty of women who have worked in Denver’s oldest brewpub, Dougherty will be the first to don the rubber boots of a full-time brewer. And you can bet those…

What do Governor John Hickenlooper and chef-restaurateur Frank Bonanno have in common?…

Avery Brewing hosted one of the most talked-about beer festivals of the year on Saturday — and one of the hardest tickets to get — delighting 400 beer geeks who love “sour” or “wild” ales, beers typically brewed with bacteria and yeast strains that give them deliciously off flavors…

The folks behind Bull & Bush Pub and Brewery shocked the world — but not themselves — in early May when head brewer Gabe Moline and owners Erik and Dave Petersen earned a whopping four medals at the World Beer Cup, which is sponsored by the Brewers Association every other…

Two years ago, Sean Kenyon bested a handful of international bartenders to take home $10,000 — and much respect for Colorado’s bartenders — for his work in the Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur competition in St. Maarten. Last year, Noah Heaney was the West Coast representative in the same contest,…

Happy Place: Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria, 410 East 7th Avenue, 303-861-9463. Happy Hours: Daily from 3 to 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close The Deals: $5 glasses of wine on all pours under $10; half price on any glass of wine over $10; $3 Peroni drafts; $3 well…

June starts tomorrow, ushering in the summer season for barbecuing, bobbing around in the pool on a raft and sipping boat drinks, preferably made with some sort of tropical fruit…

Crazy Mountain Brewing, the buzz-worthy Vail-area beer maker that more than doubled in size this year, will start selling five of its beers in 22-ounce bottles this week. All five — Old Soul Strong Belgian Ale, Hookiebobb IPA, Cara de Luna Black Ale, Scenic Route Kolsh, and Horseshoes & Hand…

TRVE Brewing owner Nick Nunns announced this week that he’ll be opening the doors to his Baker neighborhood brewery and hangout on June 27 at 4 p.m. But in the meantime, the black-metal loving Nunns will hold an open house on June 9 so that future fans can “pledge their…

It took everything we had not to start giggling uncontrollably…

When grape guru Ben Parsons made the decision to open the Infinite Monkey Theorem in 2009, he opted for a converted Quonset hut in a back alley in the Arts District on Santa Fe over a chateau in Napa Valley. It was a space, he told Cafe Society’s Tyler Nemkov,…

Odell Brewing kicked of the summer beer festival season on Saturday with its popular Small Batch Fest in Fort Collins. And although it’s only May, the heat and the turnout made it feel as if Colorado is already in prime mid-season beer-fest form…

Ska Brewing is known for being stout: its Steel Toe milk stout won gold at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival and again at the World Beer Cup in May. This fall, the Durango brewery will capitalize on that success by debuting the first in a series of four seasonal…

The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing’s Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format — one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before…