Next Wednesday, April 3, Denver will be raining small-batch spirits: vodka, whiskey, gin, bourbon, brandy, grapa, absinthe and more at DStill’s American Craft Spirit & Cocktail Showcase, which runs from 6 to 10 p.m. and takes place at the McNichols Building at 144 West Colfax. There are 44 distilleries participating…
There are time-honored traditions that define a good whiskey, from the type of grain used in the mix to the type of barrel in which it’s aged. But Lenny Eckstein, owner and head distiller of Deerhammer Distilling Company in Buena Vista, is not afraid to mix tradition with new practices…
Craft beers are not Colorado’s only liquid assets. This state’s craft-spirit industry is booming, too. Two years ago, when the Colorado Bartenders Guild, the Colorado Distillers Guild, Westword and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver banded together on the Colorado Cocktail Project, the Distillers Guild had fewer than twenty members…
Colorado’s craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that arrive for just a few weeks or months each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come…
Colorado’s craft brewers are constantly coming up with new beers, so many that it can be hard to keep up. Some are permanent additions to their lineups, while others are seasonal specialties that are available just a few weeks or month each year. Still more are small-batch releases that come…
Fate Brewing opened in February without a brewhouse, but the Boulder joint, which includes a full-service restaurant and bar, remedied that situation a couple of weeks ago by installing its ten-barrel system. And yesterday, it tapped its first beer, American Stout. One of five core beers that Fate plans to…
The West End Tap House, at 3945 Tennyson Street, opened this afternoon and is hoping for a quiet weekend to sort out the kinks and the glitches before it gets rolling next week. The new pub features twenty craft beer on tap, mostly from Colorado, as well as twenty wines…
Black Shirt Brewing will tap its imperial rye IPA, Red Evelyn, tonight and tomorrow at 5 p.m. as part of Colorado Craft Beer Week, but it plans to reserve the rest of that beer for a new, limited growler program, which it will roll out on Easter Sunday. The brewery…
Denver Beer Co co-owner Charlie Berger loves baseball and he’s come up with the perfect beer — and beer name — to celebrate the Colorado Rockies. The brewery will tap Walt Weiss (pronounced with a “v,” German-style) at 10 a.m. on April 5, which is the team’s home opener against…
World of Beer, a Tampa, Florida-based chain of beer-centric tap houses, opened its 37th location this week in the new City Set development in Glendale, behind the Hilton Garden Inn at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Cherry Creek Drive. The bar has sixty rotating taps (consisting primarily of craft…
With the additions of everything from neighborhood taverns to high-end lounges, Denver’s bar scene got even better in 2012. Residents and tourists alike have many more options when they’re looking for fun after the sun goes down — or even before that. Here, in no particular order, are Cafe Society’s…
Colorado Craft Beer Week, which runs through March 24, is in full swing (and you can find some highlights in our calendar on the next page), but there’s plenty of other beer news pouring out. On Monday, in advance of next weekend’s annual Craft Brewers Conference, the Boulder-based Brewers Association…
Reality TV fans know him as the quirky but loveable co-star of the Discovery Channel’s short-loved series Brew Masters. Beer geeks know him as the guy who helped create and produce odd, boundary-busting beers for Delaware’s famed Dogfish Head Brewing for nearly a decade. And now Colorado will get to…
Heineken and the Coors Distributing Company are hosting an event at Space Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight to introduce the new Heineken Star Bottle, which will be available at local retail liquor shops and bars by the end of the week. Heineken created the new Star Bottle, its…
Some people are going to hate Ska Brewing’s Vernal Minthe Stout, a new canned beer made with spearmint, peppermint, vanilla beans and coco nibs. And some people are going to absolutely love the minty brew, the third in Ska’s series of seasonal canned stouts, which will hit liquor-store shelves this…
The Crooked Stave Barrel Cellar, which opened six months ago in Denver after moving its operation from Fort Collins, has expanded its hours, while the brewery, the Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, plans to release its newest bottled beer, called Origins, on Friday, March 22, in the taproom as part…
Located inside Coors Field since 1995, the Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot has always made beers with a baseball theme, whether it was Right Field Red, Pinch Hit Pilsner or Belly Slide Belgian Wit (which became Blue Moon itself). But this year, the little brewery will make a…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company will kick off Colorado Craft Beer Week on Monday by tapping the first all-female collaboration brew in state history, a Belgian-style brown ale called “Ellegance.” The project, which was coordinated by the Wynkoop’s Bess Dougherty, involved eight woman who work for seven different breweries around Colorado…
Since it opened last June, TRVE Brewing has constantly struggled to make enough beer to quench the thirst of its Baker neighborhood regulars. This week, though, brewery owner Nick Nunns replaced his three four-barrel fermenters with three seven-barrel tanks, nearly doubling his capacity and ensuring customers that he will be…
Hops & Pie won’t open its own brewery until the end of the year, but in the meantime, pizzeria co-owner Drew Watson is having a little fun barrel aging beer. Last September, he bought five first-use Maker’s Mark bourbon barrels and distributed them to some of his favorite local breweries…
Former Future Brewing is one of at least ten breweries that hope to open in Denver this year, and although owner James Howat hasn’t settled on a location yet or even purchased a brewhouse, he’s already made his first batch of beer: a chocolate milk stout. To do that, Howat…
The Mountain Sun group of pubs in Boulder and Denver have always been quirky (they don’t take credit cards, for instance), but the clear, oversized mason jars they use instead of growlers have long frustrated fans who want to take their beer to go. Mountain Sun’s delicious beer goes flat…
