The Cheeky Monk has discovered the New World. The Belgian beer café, which has spots on East Colfax and in Winter Park, plans to open its third location over Memorial Day in Westminster, and the new place will feature more than a dozen hard-to-find American craft beers alongside its Belgian…

I’m going to give Flying Dog Brewery another try – tonight. Although I wasn’t a big fan of their beers when the brewery was based in Denver – and even less so after they scampered off to Maryland for bigger digs – Flying Dog is opening a new tasting room…

Great Divide Brewing Company loves the city of Denver, and Denver’s city council members love Great Divide back. On Monday night, the council approved a $175,000 loan from the Denver Office of Economic Development to Great Divide (a final reading will take place next Monday). The money will allow the…

It’s hard to find a Denver neighborhood without a neighborhood bar, and it’s almost as hard to find a neighborhood without a bar owned by the Little Pub Company. Through March, the company owned fifteen establishments, including stalwarts like Don’s Club Tavern, the Irish Hound, The Spot, Wyman’s No. 5…

Update: The deal between Steamworks and SEAR appears to be off; not sure yet what that means for Silverton Click here for info… Silverton Brewing Company, a small pub that had never shipped its beer beyond the Silverton city limits until this year, plans to start distributing statewide this summer…

King Soopers plans to join Safeway and Target in the Denver area by opening a large new store that will carry full-strength beer, wine and possibly spirits. The store, at 4600 Leetsdale Drive in Glendale, will be in a long-vacant Cub Foods, which King Soopers bought four years ago. Renovation…

I’ve used beer to cool the fires of green chile, Buffalo wings and jalapeno poppers. I’ve chugged it like water on scalding hot days and sipped it like wine to help turn down the heat of fiery discussions. I’ve drank it warm, but heaven is when it’s cold. So, what…

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The Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, was the big winner at the first annual Denver International Beer Competition last weekend, winning fifteen of the 33 awards. Several Colorado brewers took home prizes as well, including Oskar Blues, which won three awards, and Odell and Silverton Brewing companies, which…

I haven’t had the chance to visit Crabtree Brewing, which started four years ago as Greeley’s first microbrewery, so I was happy last week when I saw a six-pack of their Boxcar Brown at Argonaut (their beer isn’t widely available outside of northern Colorado). Any excuse to drink a new…

Last week, GQ magazine released a bucket list of fifty beers to drink before you die. It was a decent compilation, but a little short on Colorado offerings. So we decided to come up with our own list of fifty Colorado-made beers to drink before you die. We have tried…

When Breckenridge Brewery’s newest restaurant opens on March 1, 2011 in what is now Amato of Denver, at the corner of 16th and Central streets, it will feature forty Colorado craft beers on tap, along with small plates, seasonal menus, beer dinners, a private events room, a rooftop patio overlooking…

Denver’s Del Norte Brewing will release its fifth beer in bottles in May, appropriately labeled Cinco. And since the brewery only produces Mexican-style lagers, the name also brings to mind Cinco de Mayo, an American holiday when beer is de rigueur. “It’s a lighter, more carbonated version of Orale [one…

Coming up with new beer names, let alone great beer names, isn’t easy, especially in the state with 115 breweries, each cooking anywhere from five to 65 different beers a year. But brewers are nothing if not creative – and occasionally, um, irreverent. Listed below are ten fantastic beer names…

Last week, GQ magazine put out a bucket list of fifty beers to try before you die (see it below). That sounds like a reasonable goal – even if some of the selections were a little odd. I wouldn’t have put Anchor Steam on the list, for instance. It may…

The Goosetown Tavern — the old dog in Colfax Avenue’s revitalized Bluebird district — is learning some new trick, thanks to a change in chef and an updated its beer list. Eight-year employee Kim Dean has taken over the reins as manager, and she brought in chef Dan Cole, formerly…

Oh the places you CAN go. It’s a slogan that will be printed on the side of Boulder Beer’s new Hazed & Infused cans and part of the company’s new strategy for Colorado. “You can take cans places where you can’t take bottles: trails, pools, rivers, climbing,” says Boulder Beer…

The owners of the Vine Street Pub have big plans – big plans and a lot of space – and they talked about both Tuesday at the restaurant’s second anniversary party. First up is a plan for the former Harry’s Chop House next door to Vine Street, 1700 Vine Street,…

Read all about it: Two former Rocky Mountain News employees, John Fletcher and Tim Meyers, plan to open Denver’s newest beer house, Strange Brewing, in May. Both men were laid off by the Denver Newspaper Agency in February 2009 when the News – which was half of the DNA, along…

At 4:20 on 4/20, this is just the place to raise a glass. Guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive…