Everybody! Great news! It’s OK to open a taqueria now. Years after Pinche Tacos and its Mexican gourmet ilk caused a headache inducing frenzy for anything on a corn tortilla, the zeitgeist has turned its attention to other things. 1968 had the summer of love, 2011 boasted the summer of…
Like a lot of other people, Danny Wang took to social media after seeing Budweiser’s now-infamous Super Bowl commercial, “Brewed the Hard Way,” which bashed craft breweries with the line: “Let them drink their pumpkin peach ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.” He couldn’t believe that the megabrewer,…
Left Hand Brewing’s Milk Stout Nitro made an appearance on HBO’s Girls last week, and although it wasn’t the most notable scene of this season — that happened a few minutes into episode one — it certainly made the Longmont brewery stand at attention. And while Left Hand is the…
Tap rooms can be intimidating for someone searching for the perfect beer. You don’t want to get stuck with a pint of something that’s not to your liking, but new breweries are pumping out beers at a pace faster than you can keep up with. Ideally, it would be great…
Trademark battles between craft breweries are no longer new, but they can have lasting effects on the companies involved. At the moment, at least three Colorado breweries are currently involved in new trademark disputes. The most recent is Zephyr Brewing in Denver, which is facing a trademark challenge from Rising…
It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t. Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…
Denver’s 17th Avenue has been known for its eateries for more than two decades, but so far, restaurant row, as its called, has largely missed out on the small brewery explosion that has rocked Denver in recent years. That will change this spring when Deep Draft Brewing, at 1604 East…
La Recoleta Leña 24 Broadway 720-550-7267 Some of Argentina’s most distinguished bones lay buried in La Recoleta cemetery: A slew of the country’s past presidents, famous filmmakers, Nobel Prize winners and poets all rest in this plot of land located just outside Buenos Aires. Former Argentine first lady Eva Peron…
The theory behind Factotum Brewhouse is a novel one: Rather than pay a brewer to make the beer, owners Laura and Chris Bruns are asking brewers to pay them to serve it. Will it work? The sister-and-brother team will find out beginning today, when they hold a grand opening for…
Shelby’s Bar & Grill is a highway roadhouse, a suburban hangout, a mirage you might see over the horizon — implausibly plopped down in the middle of high-rise office spaces. In a building dating back nearly to the turn of the 19th century, Shelby’s is a wood-and-brass neighborhood pub, the…
Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, which has sold off several restaurant properties over the past year, is now dismantling its real estate empire as well. The holding company is selling the buildings that house Wynkoop Brewing, Ale House at Amato’s, the Cherry Cricket, Colorado Craft, Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs and the…
The River North district has seen an explosion of new breweries over the past year, the most recent of which, Ratio Beerworks, opened earlier this month. But the big daddy on the block is going to be Great Divide’s $38 million, five-acre campus between Brighton Boulevard and the South Platte…
Your Name Here Brazen 4450 W. 38th Ave. 720-638-1242 The scene is always the same. A guest at a bar gives a bartender poetic license to concoct a drink that he thinks the guest will like. It could be a shot, or something more refined, but it always ends like…
For sale: a couple of venerable brewery locations with deep roots in Colorado craft beer history. In Denver, Breckenridge Brewery is selling its landmark location at 471 Kalamath Street, an address that shares a name with one of the brewery’s beers. The large property includes 42,000-square-feet of space and comes…
Stem Ciders has released a line of bottled ciders, which makes available for the first time a range of products from the Denver-based cidery. The 750-ml bottles are on shelves now in liquor stores across the metro area, and can also be purchased in Stem’s tap room, at 2811 Walnut…
Matt Hughes and Alex Sward know it’s a risk to start another new brewery in Denver, a city that already has nearly fifty of them. But they’re comfortable taking that chance. An insurance agent , Hughes specializes in helping breweries manage risks of all kind. And they’re confident in their…
The Four Seasons — from Seattle to Bali — is a lodestar of luxury and comfort. You dine at the Four Seasons when an expense account has your back or when you want to spend an evening, however brief, in the cashmere-clad lap of luxury. That said, the happy hour…
The Post Brewing in Lafayette is seeking entries into its second annual Lil’ Brewer Buddy Homebrew Competition, which gives the winner a chance to brew his or her beer at the Post with head brewer Bryan Selders and have it served on tap there. The panel of judges will include Selders…
When they judge the annual Stout Month homebrewing competition at the Vine Street Pub, the brewers there have one primary guideline: the best beer on the table wins, regardless of its style or similarity to any other beer that Vine Street, or any of its Mountain Sun group siblings, serves…
“One. Don’t be a dick. And two, make your co-workers’ jobs easier.” Those the two main rules that Adam Avery had for his employees at the overgrown, ramshackle old Avery Brewing location on Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder – and they’re the core of the company culture he plans to bring…
Colorado’s skiers and snowboarders like to go big when they’re on the slopes. And that’s the same idea that the owners of Declaration Brewing had when the started building their brewery, which opens this weekend. Everything is big, from the building itself and the brewhouse to the behind-the-scenes technology and…
Both Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora and Upslope Brewing in Boulder announced over the past week that they experienced significant growth during 2014. Upslope surpassed the 15,000-barrel mark in sales for the first time during 2014, brewing and selling a total of 19,600 barrels, a 66 percent increase over the previous year…
