As you may have noticed, spring has been threatening to commence here in Denver for the past several weeks. In spite of the fact that our split-personality-disorder-of-a-weather-pattern may at any moment revert to what we should have been subjected to since February, our seasonal wine drinking habits don’t seem to…
On Tuesday, beer-makers from five Colorado breweries gathered at Funkwerks in Fort Collins to whip up a special beer to commemorate the late Danny Williams and to raise money so that his family can keep his one-of-a-kind gold mine beer cellar. “We pow-wowed on the recipe, and it came together…
Great Divide Brewing will release its second new beer of the year in July, Wolfgang, a big, malty dopplebock that will replace Smoked Baltic Porter in the brewery’s seasonal lineup. Wolfgang is the first beer that was designed and tested on Great Divide’s new seven-barrel pilot brewing system, which was…
You’re gonna need a scorecard to identify your almost-all-new Colorado Rockies this season, but the team isn’t the only entity shaking things up at Coors Field. During the Rockies’ April 9 home opener, Blue Moon Brewery @ the Sandlot will debut Farmhouse Red, a sour-style beer that may challenge the…
Dating back to the time of the Egyptians, beer has benefited man (beer was prescribed as a medicine, naturally.) Through the modern age, beer was an economic driver behind railroad development, commercial refrigeration, and yes, the automatic (and hypnotic) bottling process. Below is an infographic on other high points in…
In this interview, Freshcraft’s Adam Dunbar weighs in on the night of the Beast, his go-to beer and where he heads for a perfectly made Manhattan…
Happy Place: The Wine Loft, 1527 Wazee Street, 303-284-3493 The Hours: Monday through Friday, 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: All wines by the glass $10 & under are $5; $11-$15 are $10; $16-$20 are $15. $15 red sangria pitchers; $5 sangria by the glass; $8 signature cocktails; discounted small…
Saturday is Ian Clark’s day off. Instead of getting out of the kitchen, however, the Centro Latin Kitchen chef has been using some of his favorite ingredients to brew beer. He was doing it so much, in fact, that he decided to start his own commercial brewery. Clark is creating…
When I interviewed Josh Burbank of Jax Fish House last week, he had an excellent rule of thumb for bartending: “Never shake a Manhattan,” he said. “Next time I see someone shake a Manhattan, I’m going to leap over the bar. That’s my biggest pet peeve, for sure.” We wholeheartedly…
AC Golden Brewing is cranking up its volunteer hops growing program again this year, offering Colorado Native fans a chance to grow hops in the yards for inclusion in a batch of the beer. Sign up on Facebook and receive two Chinook rhizomes (along with planting, growing and harvesting information)…
The wine world’s practically been doing head spins over the past six months as notable hip-hop players Nelly, Drake, Kanye West, and even poor, misbegotten Lil Kim spit verses praising moscato, a fairly under-the-radar wine known by most as a sweet wine from Italy. It seems that a few vaunted…
Avery Brewing hosted the kind of festival on Friday and Saturday that has made it one of Colorado’s top beer makers of the past decade, while Avery’s founder spent the weekend touring Germany, preparing for the future, a future that includes a new, 5.6-acre brewing campus and restaurant in Boulder…
Ron Tarver has owned the Broadway building a block north of Alameda that houses Bardo Coffee House for some time, but when he was looking for a new tenant to replace a business that vacated after ten years, he ended up drawing up plans for his own venture instead: a…
Bobby Stuckey’s wine team at Frasca Food and Wine is one of the most formidable in the state, and the crew is frequently praised for its deep, well-built cellar and the knowledgeable, well-spoken sommeliers who create unforgettable pairing experiences for diners, whether their taste is California Cabernet or Austrian Gruner…
It’s an idea whose time has come. In June,Hugo’s Colorado Beer & Spirits will open in Capitol Hill, selling primarily craft brews and spirits cooked up in Colorado. “My goal is to get everything I can get my hands on, and that includes stuff from small breweries,” says Joe-Michael Wright,…
Happy Place: Coohills, 1400 Wewatta Street, 303-623-5700. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $3 beers; $4 cocktails and wines by the glass; $5 specialty cocktails; $3-$9 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Yesterday, Josh Burbank, barman at Jax Fish House, showed us how he makes homemade root beer. Now he’s weighing in on his mentors, behind-the-bar antics gone awry, and putting his blood, sweat and tears into every drink…
New Belgium Brewing’s social media specialist created a small controversy yesterday when he complained in his blog on the brewery’s website that the federal government was “leaking upcoming beer labels” and that bloggers were following suit. But the points he made ring hollow…
When Hogshead Brewery opens this spring near Sloan’s Lake, it will boast what might be the first stainless-steel craft brewing system manufactured in Colorado…
Drinking wine and writing about it for a living is hardly anything to complain about. In fact, we’re positively jazzed about how far the wine programs at many of our favorite Denver haunts have come. One particularly inspiring development in recent years has been the opening of several wine bars,…
New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins has finished the installation of its 16,000-square-foot canning line and plans to begin using it this week. The first beers off the line will be 16-ounce tallboys of Fat Tire and Ranger IPA, but the brewery’s newest beer, Shift Pale Lager, will be released…
Sherry, a fortified Spanish wine that ranges from light and dry to round and sweet, has fallen by the wayside as a fashionable beverage. In fact, we’re willing to bet that today more people associate sherry with old ladies or cooking wine than with something they’d pair with dinner. Brett…
