In May, the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Café opened a new location in Westminster that included an old world bar to focus on overseas beers and a new world bar focusing on Belgian-style craft beers, rare brews, Colorado beers and collaborations. The Cheeky Monk also added six craft beer taps…
We just finished celebrating EatDenver’s Harvest Week, where more than 40 independent restaurants fêted the harvest of the summer season’s very best produce, alongside some outstanding Colorado meats, fish, and cheeses. Each participating chef put his or her own unique spin on the event, producing a bevy of mouthwatering dishes…
Sean Kenyon is a third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar. He is a student of cocktail history and a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional; he’s a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program and has achieved his introductory sommelier certification through the…
The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its first anniversary on Halloween, wasn’t around during the Great American Beer Festival last year, so the taphouse is catching up. Starting this week, and leading up to the 2010 fest, September 16-18, the Rackhouse plans to have at least a dozen and possibly as…
August 19 was the deadline for breweries across the country to submit samples of their beers to the Boulder-based Brewers Association for judging at this year’s Great American Beer Festival, which will be held September 16-18 at the Colorado Convention Center. And the pressure is on — especially for Dry…
When I was a teenager looking for trouble in Denver, I had relatively few choices downtown. There was always Larimer Square, though, where I got into more than my fair share of shenanigans at Soapy Smith’s Double Eagle Bar, the Bratskellar and Josephina’s. Today Larimer Square is more popular than…
The Place: Brasserie Ten Ten, 1011 Walnut Street, Bouder, 303-998-1010 The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: Food specials, $2 to $6; cocktails, draft beer and wine, $3.25 to $6…
FreshCraft, which quietly opened its doors last week, held a grand opening last night, complete with a horse-drawn beer delivery from the Wynkoop Brewing Company — which has its Tut’s Royal Gold on tap at FreshCraft — giveaways and other events. The LoDo restaurant, at 1530 Blake Street, uses the…
Today is the 200th birthday of the can, and the Can Manufacturers Institute is inviting Americans to “by acknowledging its consistent relevance in our past, present and future.” The can was born – according to CMI — on August 25, 1810, “when Englishman Peter Durand was granted a patent for…
Over the past few years, Boulder has become rife with wine educators, serving as the home for a high percentage of the country’s few master sommeliers. And that is, in large part, due to Wayne Belding and Sally Mohr, owners of the Boulder Wine Merchant, 2690 Broadway, and among the…
EatDenver’s Harvest Week, taking place now through Friday, celebrates Colorado’s local bounty, and it doesn’t get any more local than Andy Brown’s back yard. Brown, the head brewer for the Wynkoop Brewing Company, has whipped up a couple of kegs of the pub’s Wixa Weiss aged with crushed apricots from…
For two years I’ve been wondering when Coors would decide to start canning its once-formidable-but-now-somewhat watered-down Blue Moon. The Belgian-style wit beer is perfect for summer, falling somewhere between standard canned beer fare like Coors, Bud and PBR and heavier canned micros like Dale’s Pale Ale, Fat Tire and Ska’s…
“It just depends on what they smell like, to be quite honest with you.” That’s Justin Lloyd, one of three new owners of Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street, the subject of this week’s Drunk of the Week. “They” are the less-than-desirables who used to frequent the original Star Bar (and…
A refrigerated Budweiser warehouse isn’t normally the kind of thing that would make a hop-headed craft beer geek salivate, but for the next couple of weeks, the facility at 62nd Avenue and Franklin Street in Denver is every beer geeks dream. It’s where the craft breweries from around the country…
“I just need something strong in my veins,” she says, tapping the underside of her forearm with two fingers. “What’s homemade? What can I get a taste of?” She’s dressed in jean shorts and a simple black blouse, with a black leather purse slung over her right shoulder; her brown…
Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby just profiled Star Bar, and all the changes that have taken place since the old owner left and the new owners took over. Here’s a nightlife tour by photographer Eric Gruneisen not just of Star Bar, but the other bars along that strip…
The Place: Bridgewater Grill, 800 Eleventh Street, Golden, 303-279-0100 The Hours: Daily from 4 to 6 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to close The Deals: Appetizers are $2 off; all draft beer, wine and well drinks are half-price…
Does craft beer deserve a place at the dinner table next to — or instead of — wine? That’s a question that guests at TAG sought to answer last night during a fantastic Beer Vs. Wine dinner hosted by Troy Guard’s restaurant at 1441 Larimer Street, as well as master…
When you stop in at Heaven Dragon, the popular Thornton eatery that served President George W. Bush on three separate occasions, you’ll likely notice two things missing. One is Dan Tang, the restaurant’s workaholic owner, since on Monday he went to prison to start an eighteen-month sentence for his part…
Avery Brewing began canning its first beer, Joe’s Premium American Pilsner, yesterday and plans to have four of its brews in cans and on liquor-store shelves by September 1. The Boulder company had planned to start canning on June 1, but was delayed by its supplier, Crown Cork & Seal,…
Ali vs. Frazer. Chocolate vs. Vanilla. Blue Ray vs. HD DVD. Jacob vs. Edward. They are the battles of our time. Now, add Beer vs. Wine. While wine has held the place of honor for hundreds of years next to fancy food and grub at well-set dinner tables around the…
Just because summer’s winding down to its inevitable end doesn’t mean that your rosé-filled days (and evenings) have to. Even if you aced this year’s rosé-drinking challenge with flying colors and have flown through cases of the five best rosés of summer 2010, no need to remove those rosé-colored glasses…
