Asylum.com has declared Fat Tire Amber Ale America’s Next Top Beer. The web page – a New York City-based AOL men’s interest site – had held a voter-driven contest to determine what beer should be in coolers from coast to coast. Fat Tire won in a landslide, beating out second…
The Bull & Bush Brewery will host an unusual vertical beer tasting on Wednesday to celebrate a gold medal it won in April at the World Beer Cup in Chicago. Guests will be able to sample five different versions of its winning beer, The Legend of the Liquid Brain Imperial…
Cafe Europa 76 South Pennsylvania Street 303-722-1024 www.cafeeuropadenver.com…
They know each other by their blogs: The Beer Wench, 2 Beer Guys, Fermentally Challenged, Beer Goggins, and many, many others. Maybe they’ve run into each other a beer conference or tasting on one side of the country or another. But for the most part, these beer bloggers have never…
Each week, we introduce you to the week’s biggest shmuck. Whose turn is it to shine? Read on. Cheryl Fugett didn’t show up in court on Thursday. No, the sixty-year-old former director of the Jefferson County Children’s Alliance missed the ending of her case, in which a jury convicted her,…
Denver will get its second new brewery later this summer when the Caution: Brewing Company opens in a warehouse near I-70 and Peoria Street. Caution owners Danny and Betty Wang will be using Odell Brewing’s original five-barrel brewing system (and the namesake of its 5 Barrel Pale Ale), which they…
Pub On Pearl 1101 South Pearl Street 303-777-6768 www.thepubonpearl.com…
2010 Summer Guide “For weirdness to flourish, it has to have the right compost made up of dramatic history, amazing environments, and truly unique, off the grid characters,” writes Charmaine Ortega Getz, author of Weird Colorado. “Colorado is blessed with all three.” She should know, because she’s been exploring the…
Boulderites have been going to the West End Tavern for years to sample its distinguished selection of craft brews, including some hard to find specialties. But beginning on June 20, the West End will be taking its customers to the beer…
Coffee culture in Denver has finally arrived. Hot Chick-a-Latte, one of a couple of “bikini coffee” concepts from the Pacific Northwest has opened a bright pink location (well, mostly pink; they seem to have run out of paint half way through) in the A-frame building at 4736 East Colfax Avenue…
The Cheeky Monk will open its third location Sunday in the Orchard Town Center, at 14694 Orchard Parkway, in Westminster, with two separate bars – one that focuses on old-world Belgian beers and one featuring U.S. craft brews. The Belgian beer café, which also has spots on Colfax Avenue and…
You’ve heard about B-cycle, the city’s ground-breaking bicycle-sharing program, which kicked off on April 22 with 42 rental racks around central Denver. But there’s a lot you probably don’t know about it — at least five things, anyhow…
El Noa Noa Restaurant 722 Santa Fe Drive 303-623-9968…
Remember the time you invited twenty people to a party and 150 showed up? As Kelly says in the Outlaw Josey Wales, “Yep, first the silver run out, then the people run out, then the whiskey run out, then the beer run out.” That’s sort of what happened to the…
Smoked beers are something you either love or hate. They taste – as one beerdrinker recently put it to me – “like drinking a barbecue pit.” I love them. I don’t know why, but there is something about the way that smoky, barbecue pit flavor meshes with the beer that…
Leave it to the guys at Oskar Blues Brewery to create a beer festival dedicated strictly to canned craft beer – and why not, since they were the ones who did it first. On June 26, the company will host Burning Can, a festival at Sandstone Park in Lyons (where…
Strange Brewing Company, Denver’s newest craft beer maker, opened for business Wednesday, pouring its Paint It Black Stout and Strange Pale Ale for friends, family and beer lovers who showed up to toast the place. Located in a business park at 13th Avenue and Zuni Street, Strange was founded by…
The Mercury Café isn’t known for its beer-drinking masses. Tango dancing, slam poetry, organic snacks? Definitely. Beer? Not so much. But the thirty-plus-year-old club/cafe/community gathering place nevertheless sells more beer made by Wynkoop Brewing than any other place in town – aside from the Wynkoop itself. It beats out the…
Scott Taylor wants Denver residents to wake up every morning in the coolest cycling city in the world – and he plans to help by serving them coffee from a bike-thru window. The owner of the Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop at 1611 Platte Street opened the bike-thru, called Happy Coffee, three…
It’s American Craft Beer Week – seven days that Congress designated for an official celebration of microbrews, and only microbrews – and in Colorado, which has more than 115 breweries, this week is almost a state holiday. Here are ten ways to toast the occasion:…
Two brothers from Iowa plan to bring a hybrid of European beer culture and American comfort food to LoDo this July when they open FreshCraft, a new restaurant in the former Thunderbird BBQ and Burgers spot at 1530 Blake Street. “We are trying to keep it simple: fresh food and…
I’ve cooked in chili cook-offs, competed in a hot wings eating contest and eaten my fair share — and then some — of jalapeno poppers, New Mexico and Colorado green chile. And I’ve sampled at least four kinds of chili beer. Hell, my boss even has one named for her…
