In the months since a massive fire consumed Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth, requiring a remodel that would strip the property to its studs, owner Bryan Dayton hasn’t exactly been idling. The former president of the Colorado Bartenders’ Guild has kept up with staff trainings, continued his involvement with the state’s…
Because of Colorado’s increasingly controversial liquor laws, only one outlet of any grocery chain — Safeway, King Soopers, Target, Whole Foods and the like — can sell full-strength beer, wine and alcohol. Target’s spot is in the superstore in Glendale, but until recently, its single aisle of liquid refreshment hasn’t…
It’s a well-known fact in the wine industry that the majority of consumers decide which bottle of fermented grape juice to spring for based solely on their attraction to the label. If you’d count yourself as a member of that particular buying demographic, we feel compelled to tell you’re generally…
Dry Dock Brewing kicked its weekly firkin in a record 49 minutes last Friday, and since the taproom opens at 3 p.m., that means there was none left for anyone who showed up after 3:50 p.m., which can be tough since most people don’t get off work til later. So…
Regulars did some moaning when the popular Perk Hill coffee shop abruptly closed last spring, after a celebrated tiff with the landlord over its funky outdoor seating. But in a few weeks, the place will reopen as a tapas bar. Permits are in and construction has begun on Park Hill…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, one of the most unusual and exciting brewing concepts to start up in Colorado, plans to release its first two bottled beers, Pure Guava Petite Sour and Wild Wild Brett Rouge, on Thursday in Fort Collins. Both “wild” or “sour” beers have been aged with…
Happy Place: Linger, 2030 West 30th Avenue, 303-993-3120 The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. (Food service begins at 4:30 p.m.) The Deals: $3.50-$7 small plates; $3 select draft beer; $4-$5 specialty cocktails; $5 glasses of house red and white wines. Were we happy? Flip the page…
The City of Boulder is considering ways to make it easier for breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed by the city’s zoning code to open a kitchen under certain conditions. For instance, they have to…
If you’re looking for one of the few Denver bars that has Strongbow on draft, you’ll have to look past the British Bulldog, 2052 Stout Street — at least for the next few weeks…
It’s officially the season for altering the koozie. Hot on the heels of the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie, comes the Scorzie, a koozie that keeps the score of any game up to twenty-one. The Scorzie is the brainchild of two Denver residents who repeatedly found themselves in a predicament…
Bristol Brewing of Colorado Springs has made an amazing 6,000 batches of beer since owner Mike Bristol founded the place back in 1994 (and that doesn’t include the home brew he cooked up in his dorm room at Colorado State University in the late 1980s). A momentous occasion? You bet,…
We sommeliers have a tendency to spend an inordinate amount of time sussing out all kinds of weird and interesting wines (partly because it’s our job, partly because we’re total wine geeks). And most of the time, those slightly off-kilter bottles are best appreciated by, well, let’s face it –…
Every day may be IPA day for craft beer aficionados in states like Colorado, California and Oregon, but for most beer drinkers, that is far from the truth. So the point of International #IPAday, which takes place Thursday, August 4, and has already stirred a little controversy, is to use…
“Gardening is very important to me and my family,” explains Rob Masters, the creator of Rob’s Mtn Gin. “I found out about Growing Gardens, which teaches teenagers about the benefits of growing produce and eating green. It sells produce at local farmers’ markets to fund the garden, and gives what…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
Uptown Brothers Brewing, a restaurant and craft beer bar that opened in May 2010, closed its doors for good right after midnight this morning, a victim of the difficult economy. “We came close to making it; we were at about 80 percent of our break-even number, but we have no…
There is no brewery in Colorado that has a longer history than Coors, no beer maker that has employed a higher number of locals, and no company that is more associated with our state. On the other hand, Coors has a checkered history here, from its labor policies to the…
Happy Place: Rooster and Moon Coffee Pub, 955 Bannock Street, 303-993-2622 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $1 sliders; $4.50-$5 small plates; $1 off all wines by the glass, specialty drinks, and well drinks; $.50 off cans of Olympia…
When Chinook Tavern shuttered its longtime home in Cherry Creek North back in the summer of 2008, many regulars were left crying in their one-liter steins, wondering where they would ever find another place to drink German beer and eat veal wiener schnitzel. Now they have their answer: The new…
Construction continues at Vine Street Pub, where a new brewery operated by the Mountain Sun group should be ready by mid-September — ready, but not operational. That’s because it will take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for the company to work out its permitting issues from…
We almost choked as we typed the words “tired of rosé” just now. While there’s simply no other wine we’d rather drink on a sultry summer evening, we’re willing to concede that not everyone is as equally enamored as we are. More optimistically, we prefer to consider alternative scenarios to…
After years of cutting dangerous and jagged holes in beer cans then awkwardly cranking our heads sideways in order to drink a beer in 4.2 seconds, our long national struggle is over: Fluid N Motion has invented the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie that keeps beer cold and allows people to…
