Happy Place: Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Café, 1033 East Seventeenth Avenue, 720-266-5300. The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $2 off specialty cocktails; $3.50 beer specials; $4 wines by the glass and martinis; $3-$4 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Utah’s Epic Brewing Company, known for its Brainless on Peaches beer, announced at the Great American Beer Festival today that is is hoping to open a second brewery in Denver in early 2013. If it does, Epic would be one of the first out-of-state breweries to open a second location…
For an additional fee on top of the price of a Great American Beer Festival ticket, attendees at last night’s opening beer bonanza earned access to the annual festival’s farm-to-table pavilion, where chefs, local and national, along with independent brewers offered samples from restaurants and breweries across the country. Ticket…
The taps at Falling Rock, 1919 Blake Street, are always up-to-date, especially during the Great American Beer Festival. In fact, Denver’s most famous craft-beer bar can be a welcome alternative to the massive fest. There will be daily tappings throughout the weekend there, and today’s begins at noon with the…
Canned craft beers are big in Colorado and now they’re getting even bigger. On Thursday night after the Great American Beer Festival ended, Oskar Blues revealed its latest aluminum package: a 19.2-ounce can of Dale’s Pale Ale. The Longmont beer makers is the first U.S. brewery — craft or otherwise…
Nancy Johnson has been running the Great American Beer Festival for longer than most of the attending brewers have been in business. She has seen styles and trends and ticket-sale issues come and go, but when it comes to planning, the buck — and the beer — starts and stops…
The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer — and a river of people — but there are some things that don’t always meet the eye: secret fishing holes, swirling eddies, rapids. Here are a couple of things to do that…
Denver began welcoming beer fans from near and far yesterday as the city girded its liver for the annual Great American Beer Festival, which starts tomorrow. More people poured into town today as the Brewers Association opened registration for all of the breweries, vendors and media. Here is a brief…
If you’re a woman and you love wine, then you must be a complete idiot. That’s the only logical conclusion we were able to draw after stumbling upon a slew of borderline misogynistic marketing ploys to influence our (since we are most assuredly a “she”) wine-purchasing decisions. With some research…
Cicerones are the beer world’s version of sommeliers, and those who passed their certification tests become experts on beer storage and service, tasting and flavors, brewing ingredients and processes and pairing beer with food. There are three certification levels — Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone and Master Cicerone — but…
Endless meats on a stick might be too much to hope for. But still, Fogo de Chão’s new happy-hour menu offers a viable option for those who want to enjoy the traditional churrasco without overdosing on seared flesh. With $8 dishes and $6 cocktails, this menu, which is only available…
The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a casual beer-and-food-pairing this evening at 7 p.m., celebrating five of the best Colorado craft breweries that have consistently been on tap at the restaurant: Oskar Blues, Dry Dock, Odell, Funkwerks and Upslope…
Great American Beer Festival week kicked off, as it has for the past fifteen years, at the Falling Rock Taphouse on Monday, when the clock hit 000 00 00 00.0 But things were a little different this year, says Chris Black, who owns and runs Denver’s most famous craft-beer bar…
Copper Kettle Brewing had only been open five months when it won a gold medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival for its Mexican Chocolate Stout. Owners Kristen Kozik and Jeremy Gobien were ecstatic, but they didn’t let the honor go to their heads. Instead, they’ve been turning out…
Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, presents Beers Made by Walking from 5 to 8 p.m. today. The mini-beer fest will feature ten beers that were made over the past summer by nine well-known breweries around Colorado; each includes some sort of edible or medicinal plant that was discovered along…
Update: Congratulations to 94cubuff and Teresa Burwell! You have each won two tickets. To everyone else, thanks for writing in: This was one of our toughest contests in a while. Original post: It was all such a blur. Within 45 minutes of their release on August 2, every ticket to…
This is the first in a series of Q&As with beer-minded folks who have jobs to do during the Great American Beer Festival. Volunteers at the Great American Beer Festival are sometimes maligned, usually busy and always — always — needed. After all, there are going to be 2,700 different…
Every November, I cook a turkey. Not on Thanksgiving, but a couple of weeks early. This way, I can get a taste of Turkey-Day excitement early and not have to stuff myself on the actual day, ending up in a tryptophan-induced coma. The same plan also helps you survive Great…
Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it’s the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the…
Go Fish, 1 Broadway, will unveil its new lounge and bar — complete with eight taps — with a grand opening party from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today. The sushi joint is offering buy-one-get deals on all drinks, all night. Here’s a look at the sleek new digs: See…
Happy Place: Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 Eighteenth Street, 303-297-2700. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m to midnight. The Deals: $3.50 select draft beers; $4 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Colorado represents a huge part of the festivities inside the Great American Beer Festival, both because of the depth and breath of our state’s brewing prowess and because we are the host state, so it is fitting – and easy – for our beer makers to represent. As a result,…
