Next Door Lounge Is Uptown’s Neighborhood Bar Next Door

Next Door Lounge (not to be confused with Next Door American Eatery, which has several locations around town) is a small but mighty bar that you might just miss if you aren’t paying attention while driving along East 17th Avenue in Uptown. Sandwiched between sister restaurant Bread-N-Butter and Jack’s Uptown Grille,…

Beer Calendar: Black Project, Fiction Beer and TRVE Bring the Heat

There have been big changes recently among the ranks of Denver’s brewers. Among them is the temporary departure of Little Machine Beer’s co-founder and head brewer Brett Williams, who is taking a leave to live in Mexico with his wife. Although Williams will work remotely on several aspects of Little…

Understanding Wine Flights and a New Home for Flights in Morrison

A flight of wine presents three or more glasses of wine that share common characteristics served together for comparison and enjoyment. What constitutes a great flight? That’s the question I posed to Logan Silbert, wine director at Boulder’s Black Cat Bistro (1964 13th Street). There are several ways to assemble…

New Colorado Beers for a New Colorado Year

Nothing gives us a warmer, fuzzier feeling than the thought of trying brand-new beers from some of Colorado’s 350-plus craft breweries — especially when the weather is cold and the nation’s mood is stormy. From coffee beers to hazy, New England-style IPAs to even a sake beer, there is a…

Sour-Beer Specialist Casey Brewing Has a New Brewhouse on Tap

Since founding Casey Brewing & Blending in 2014, owner Troy Casey has focused primarily on the “Blending” part of his company’s name. Casey makes his wort — unfermented beer — at other mountain breweries, including Bonfire, Roaring Fork and Capital Creek, and then trucks it back to Glenwood Springs, where…

G’Ducks Bar Is Your “Any-Collar Bar” in Southeast Aurora

In Aurora’s Mission Viejo neighborhood, if you look hard enough in the back corner of a nondescript shopping center off South Chambers Road and East Hampden Avenue (across the street from the Jumpoline Family Fun Center), you just might find the hidden gem that is G’Ducks Bar. The sign for…

Crazy Mountain Brewery Closes Unexpectedly in Edwards

Crazy Mountain Brewery, which opened its pioneering Vail Valley taproom in 2010, closed the Edwards taproom suddenly over the weekend, saying it has plans to open a new location nearby. “Crazy Mountain’s location in Edwards, Colorado is now permanently closed. We are relocating our brewing production and will be opening…

Beer Calendar: Cans, Coffee Beers and Funk Yo Couch

It’s hard to remember a time when Colorado didn’t have dozens of options when it comes to canned craft beers, but that time wasn’t really very long ago. And the rest of the country? Well, other states are still catching up. But things are changing quickly, according to economist Bart…

Five Cozy Wine Bars for Cold Winter Nights

Brrr, it’s cold out there — a cozy wine bar is just the place to take the edge off winter. Metro Denver has several wine bars with a warm, inviting ambiance and plenty of interesting vino. Here are five of our favorite cozy wine bars. BookBar 4280 Tennyson Street 303-284-0194…

The Ten Best Colorado Craft-Beer Events in January

Welcome to 2018. It’s time to fulfill some of those New Beers Resolutions, and it never hurts to get an early start. This month, you can get your fill of barrel-aged beery goodness at three different festivals focused on the style, or you can marvel at a brand new venue…

Home for the Holidays and Beyond at Sam’s Bar & Lounge

On the second-to-last day of 2017, I found myself at Sam’s Bar & Lounge (6801 Leetsdale Drive) with my roommate, celebrating my return to Denver after a holiday trip to the East Coast to visit my family. The day before New Year’s Eve is not known as a big bar-going day,…

Beer Calendar: A Black Project Lottery and the Big Beers Fest

If the Tweeter-In-Chief’s latest musings on North Korea have you thinking that the apocalypse could come sooner rather than later, then Lost Highway Brewing in Centennial has the beer for you. Although the message laid out on the back of the can of Mountain Coast IPA (and the map on…

Zephyr Brewing Reopens Friday in New Production Facility and Taproom

Zephyr Brewing, which closed its River North brewery and taproom last July, will rise from the ashes on Friday at 4 p.m. when it reopens with a small new taproom and production facility at 1609 East 58th Avenue, Unit G. The new location features Zephyr’s original Colorado-made seven-barrel brewhouse, a butcher-block…