Denver may be the Mile High City, but there’s nothing here that doesn’t go better with a cold one, and beginning today, nothing will. For the second year in a row, the city is pulling out all the stops — and popping all the tops — for the Denver Beer…
The Great American Beer Festival sloshes into town in just a few days, and the Wynkoop Brewing Company is celebrating by sending a group of local beer makers off to the competition in style, with a pep rally and beer tasting. The Great COntenders will feature 57 beers, many of…
On your marks. Get set. Drink Beer. At 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, September 9, beer bloggers around Colorado (and perhaps a few from around the rest of the country) will unite for the first-ever Virtual Colorado Beer Tasting. How does it work? Drinkers and bloggers – and there are many of…
While millions of bleary eyes will gaze longingly at Denver next week when the Great American Beer Festival, Denver Beer Fest and Oktoberfest transform the city into the world’s largest beer garden, July and August were also great months for the sudsy stuff — especially for those who like Colorado…
Can pot jokes and beer go together? Cheba Hut plans to find out. The one-year-old downtown Denver outlet of this marijuana-themed sandwich chain just added a whopping twenty taps — all of it craft beer, and all of it made by Colorado brewers like Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Avery, Odell…
Most dads are protective, especially with their daughters. After all, dads know what thoughts go through the male brain. But most dads are able to channel those protective instincts by NOT arming their juvenile daughters with loaded weapons and then taking their respective kids to two of the places where…
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…
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…
Yes, it’s only the pre-season. But anyone who’s ever gone to Invesco Field when the Broncos have played the Pittsburgh Steelers — most notably during the 2006 AFC Championship game — knows how frustrating it is to see as much black and gold as blue and orange. Steelers fans show…
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…
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…
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…
Republican gubernatorial “nominee” Dan Maes brought a lot of attention to Denver’s B-cycle bike-sharing program earlier this month when he theorized that the program was really some sort of hidden propaganda for a secretive United Nations plot. (“This is bigger than it looks on the surface!”)…
Want something a little healthier than a burrito or a brat at the Rockies game? How about a peach? Ryan Wallace has just set up a cart at the corner of 18th and Wazee streets that sells fresh Colorado produce. The cart, called Fresh in the City, has Palisade peaches…
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…
Students returning to East High School today can look forward to a lesson in community involvement over the next two years, courtesy of Denver’s parks department. By the end of September, the city plans to demolish the former Safeway/Church in the City building — on land connected to East High’s…
“It’s a ring on a string. That’s it,” says bartender Samantha Pirrallo. And yet, groups of people come from all over Denver to the Bannock Street Garage just to play it. Sometimes it’s the little things in life that matter…
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…
If you haven’t ridden a red B-cycle yet, this is the week to try one out – as long as you’re okay with being labeled as a communist sympathizer (for that story, click here). The city is offering free seven-day memberships in the bike-sharing program and giving away one hundred…
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,…
