Former Mountain Sun brewers Brian Hutchinson and Jason Stengl have left the company to open their own place in Golden later this year. Cannonball Creek Brewery will be the second craft brewer in a town that sits in the shadow of the Coors plant. Hutchinson, who was the head brewer…
Earlier this month, President Obama’s designated the 4,700-acres Chimney Rock Archaeological Area in southwestern Colorado — an area that is sometimes called “America’s Stonehenge” — as a national monument. The move means that the area between Durango and Pagosa Springs (which was home to thousands of ancient Native Americans) should…
What makes a red wine fall — or should we say, fall in love — worthy? Given the record-setting quantities of rosé we consumed over the past few months, you might assume that getting us to loosen our death grip on pink wines would equal a Herculean feat…
From the street, Harold’s and the Bayonet Room doesn’t look like the kind of place you’d expect to find Noah Heaney, the former beverage purchasing agent for Big Red F and the current adviser to the president of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. In fact, Harold’s is attached to the modest…
Mayor Michael Hancock: beer geek. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. Still, Hizzoner will make his second appearance at a Denver craft brewery in as many weeks when he kicks off Prost Brewing’s three-day Oktoberfest celebration this Friday and taps the first keg of the brewery’s new Märzen lager,…
Update, September 28: Crooked Stave is now serving draft beer again after having come to resolution with the Department of Revenue’s tobacco and liquor enforcement division. It turns out that Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson, who has researched Colorado’s odd liquor rules, had asked Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins, where…
West Flanders Brewery opened its doors over the weekend at 1125 Pearl Street in Boulder, in the former home of BJ’S Restaurant & Brewhouse (which has relocated to 1690 28th Street in Boulder). The brewpub is one of several new breweries tapping into that town, including J Wells, Wild Woods…
Can craft beer be an ingredient in a cocktail, or should it stand alone? That is the question that dozens of bartenders around town have tried to answer over the past few years as Colorado’s world-beating craft-beer industry intersected with the resurgent cocktail movement. It’s a question that still hasn’t…
The Update, September 28: Crooked Stave is now serving draft beer again after having come to resolution with the Department of Revenue’s tobacco and liquor enforcement division. It turns out that Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson, who has researched Colorado’s odd liquor rules, had asked Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins,…
West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl Street in Boulder, hosted a soft opening over the weekend in the former home of BJ’S Restaurant & Brewhouse (which has relocated to 1690 28th Street in Boulder). The new brewery tapped its keg just in time for the fall — a season definitely worth…
The Alpha King Challenge, a low-key hoppy-beer contest that takes place every year during the Great American Beer Festival, will move this October from the Falling Rock Taphouse, which has hosted it for thirteen years, to the Rock Bottom Restaurant. The move seems like a strange one for Hopunion, the…
Happy Place: Bar Louie, 8332 East 49th Avenue, 303-457-5900. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $4 wines by the glass; $5 martinis; half-priced select appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Beer cocktails have found a niche at bars across Colorado over the past two years, as mixologists look for new ways to blend flavors. On Sunday, September 23, eight of the city’s finest bartenders will gather at Ghost Plate & Tap and do battle with one another in the Beer…
The first beer that Mayor Michael Hancock tried today at Denver Beer Co was a Sunnyside Hefeweizen. But it won’t be his last. Hancock got a crash course on the brewing process and beer ingredients when he dropped by the brewery today to help create a pumpkin beer that will…
Seems like no matter what channel we tune into lately, we’ve spotted a character or two drinking wine. Which is something you’d think we’d applaud — if the wine-related antics on the particular handful of shows we stumbled upon hadn’t ranged from mildly annoying to downright depressing. But before we…
Jeff Griffith, who has been making award-winning beers for Golden City Brewery for the past eight years, will head up Highway 93 to take a new job as head brewer for Fate Brewing, which plans to open in Boulder in December. Fate Brewing owner Mike Lawinski says Griffith brings “an…
It’s Oktoberfest season, and you can find out about all of the parties on the next few pages. But in the meantime, more news: Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs announced yesterday that it plans to double its brewing capacity — just four months after opening. The brewery, which specializes…
Great Divide will celebrate the seven-barrel pilot brewing system it acquired last December by tapping eight different small-batch beers today. The Denver brewery bought the system as a way to allow its brewers to experiment with one-off beers, special releases and new recipes. The equipment complements Great Divide’s existing fifty-barrel…
Broadway has seen plenty of Mex-and-match action this year, from the closing of 3 Monkeys Cantina to the opening of a second Zocalo and the imminent transformation of Delite into Juanita’s. And now Illegal Pete’s is Broadway-bound, too. See also: -Photos: Zocalo is now open on South Broadway -3 Monkeys…
As evidenced by the name of the restaurant, Hops & Pie has considered beer as important as pizza since the spot opened two years ago, serving up the best or the rarest stuff beers it can find, from Colorado and around the country. And by this time next year, Hops…
Only history books will be able to properly assess the mayorships of John Hickenlooper and Michael Hancock, and whose administration did more for Denver. But there’s one area in which Hancock will always be a step behind: beer. Still, the mayor will get his feet wet on Wednesday, possibly for…
There are still seats available for the Crazy Mountain Brewery beer dinner at TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, which starts at 7 p.m. tonight…
