The Denver International Wine Festival celebrated year six with a VIP tour of Front Range wineries and Roundhouse Spirits — a tour that began Saturday with plenty of wine, ended with plenty of gin, and stuffed the middle with gourmet nibbles and a glut of info from a trip to…
Everyone, it seems, misses everything about Bump & Grind: the barely-dragged-themselves-out-of-bed queen servers of the weekend Petticoat Bruncheon, with their battery-operated, neighing horse-cock socks; the Mexican Benedict Arnold and Eric Eggs Estrada; the filthy coloring books. Though I’d been (and even brought my mother) to Bump & Grind on a…
Apparently those threatened police stings — the ones ingrained into every server’s head during training — are real. Boulder’s Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street, was a victim of the college town’s undercover attempt to crack down on underage drinking, and it looks like the restaurant didn’t pass…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, plans to make a special beer in January to coincide with John Hickenlooper’s inauguration as Colorado’s governor. Hickenlooper co-founded the Wynkoop in 1988 and ran it until he decided to run for Denver mayor in 2002. His connection with the company ended during…
There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there’s a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers — from all across the country — showed up in Boulder to talk beer…
Lakeview Lounge, a classic dive at 2375 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, is a great place to drink any time of the day or night, as Drew Bixby reported in this recent Drunk of the Week. But the best time of all might have been this past Saturday morning, the last…
Feeling nostalgic about 2010? The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will help you relive the good times by cracking open a keg of all 35 beers that the brewery made over the course of the year when the second annual Beers of the Year event takes place Saturday from…
Colt & Gray was teeming with people last night, packed into the bar and apologizing right and left as they tripped over one another trying to maneuver the room. Clearly, if you build an open bar, they will come. And that’s exactly what ROOT Liquor did this week, at Boulder’s…
The opening is coming right up for Green Russell, Frank Bonanno’s underground cocktail joint that will be hidden behind the swinging door of a pie counter, dubbed Wednesday’s Pie, in Larimer Square. Bonanno and Adam Hodak, beverage director at Bonanno’s restaurant group and partner in the new spot, have been…
Last week, Impulse Theater, which has leased basement space from the Wynkoop Brewing Company for the past seventeen years, announced plans to move to a building at 55 South Broadway, next to the under-construction Punch Bowl bowling alley and diner. Since then, says Wynkoop spokesman Marty Jones, he and the…
The Yard House, which started interviewing job candidates last week, is tentatively hoping to open for business on December 18, just a week before Christmas…
Sake and wine have more in common than you might think. Like, way, way more. For starters, both are ancient beverages, with histories stretching back thousands of years. Both are governed by strict production guidelines, upon which stringent quality ratings are assigned. And both can take a meal from everyday,…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 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…
Happy Place: 8 Rivers, 1550 Blake Street, 303-623-3342 The Hours: Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and all day Sunday The Deals: $3 Red Stripe lager; $3-4 house wines and sangria; $5 well drinks, Appleton rum, and mojitos; $20 mojito pitchers; $5 small plates. What did we think? Flip…
Winemaker Peter Franus holds a journalism degree from the University of California at Berkeley — and his collegiate proximity to Napa Valley ended up being pivotal to his career choice, which is winemaking. His first wine, a zinfandel, was produced in 1987, and Franus has been creating delicious wines ever…
Update: Two new events have been added (Avery’s Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub’s tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you…
My strange aversion to the smell of some Asian restaurants dates back to my glamour days as an advertising exec in Manhattan, when I was barely eking out a living and my lifestyle was a lot more like Dick Whitman’s than Don Draper’s. I lived with three roommates in a…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 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…
Read carefully, because opportunities like this don’t come around very often. Cuervo is celebrating the release of a tequila (or re-release, because the tequila is Tradicional Silver, the original recipe from 1975), and the liquor brand that a lot of us associate with nights of epic debauchery is throwing a…
Let’s be honest: Halloween is not a holiday that typically conjures up images of wine drinking. Visions of miniature Snickers bars, pumpkin-flavored beer and slutty costumes? Absolutely. Still, as any serious wine lover will assure you, not even the omnipresence of glowing jack-o’-lanterns needs to get in the way of…
Dads & Dudes Breweria, a new pizzeria and brewpub in Aurora, 6730 South Cornerstar Way, is planning to open on November 1, after having to push back its first day by a week. Once it opens, the father-and-son team of Tom and Mason Hembree will toss pizza made from the…
Proximo Spirits, a New York-based liquor distributor that made a name for itself by buying or investing in such niche brands as Hangar 1 vodka, Kraken Black Spiced Rum and 1800 Tequila, is in the process of buying Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. An executive with Proximo, who spoke on the condition…
