Two of Colorado’s biggest craft brewers registered some displeasure late last month over the efforts of one of their colleagues, Breckenridge Brewery, to get a bill passed that would have allowed it to significantly expand its business model in the state. The rift shows how competitive the craft beer market…
In the annual overflow of beer weeks, Colorado Beer Week kicks off today, just two days before American Craft Beer Week begins its run. The former is a series of beery events hosted around town by a private events company. The second is a national orgy of beer activities created…
It’s been just over a year since Danny Wang and his fiancee Betty Fey opened CAUTION: Brewing Company, a brewery that was initially a wholesale operation that would supply Lao Wang Lager to Lao Wang Noodle House, owned by Wang’s parents, as well as other Colorado restaurants…
Update: Breckenridge Brewery released this statement this afternoon as a result of confusion over their future plans: “There have been some questions today about Breckenridge Brewery’s plans after Colorado House Bill 1347 failed to progress. (See article in Denver Business Journal.) Breckenridge Brewery is proud of its Colorado heritage and…
In 2010, when Jeff Lindauer and Russ Wall first began scheming to turn Lindauer’s Buckhorn Canyon water into craft spirits, they consulted with a private-label distilling company to come up with the formula and recipes. And by random chance, they worked with Rob Masters, who soon left that group to…
In this interview, Pizza Republica’s Rona VanSlyck weighs in on the importance of being open-minded, her current back-bar obsession and the dive bar she frequents when she’s not at work…
Big Choice Brewing opens in Broomfield today, pouring a little beer culture into a craft beer gap along the Highway 36 corridor. The 2,500-square-foot brewery and tap room will have four beers to start with and eight within a few weeks…
Happy Place: El Camino, 3628 West 32nd Avenue, 720-889-7946. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1.50-$2.50 beer specials; $4.50 house margaritas; $1.50-$6 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
By this time next month, the Lowry Beer Garden — the first bona fide beer garden in Denver — will be pouring suds, most of them local, from the confines of a new kitchen and bar that’s part of a larger 8,000 square-foot project in the new Hangar 2 project…
Two of Denver’s best occasions for drinking — the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo — will collide on Saturday, May 5. The traditional drink of the Derby is the mint julep, of course, and margaritas are always flowing during Cinco de Mayo. But rather than have to declare your…
The entire craft-brewing world will be in San Diego this week for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which allows brewers from across the country to share ideas, knowledge and plenty of beer. Plus, they get to spend time in America’s Finest City. More than 2,600 people are expected to be…
Is it a can? Is it a bottle? Does it even matter? Today Oskar Blues unveiled its newest packaging experiment: a resealable, sixteen-ounce aluminum bottle made by Ball Corporation in Golden. The container will be used for Chaka, an extremely limited-release, Belgian-style pale ale that Oskar Blues created earlier this…
On May 5, you’ll be able to pick your reason to drink: Not only is it the date of this year’s Kentucky Derby, which is our favorite reason to suck down mint juleps while wearing a funny hat, but it’s also Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that always brings Denverites…
When Denver Beer Co opened last August, owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford had an unusual business plan: They wouldn’t brew the same beer twice. Since then, the two have mostly stuck to that — with a few notable exceptions — and on Tuesday, they brewed their hundredth batch of…
A little more than nine months ago, we ruffled a lot more than a few feathers by voicing our opinion on the local wine industry. Everyone from the Front Range Winery Association to hobbyist vintners juiced over where we got the balls to speak our minds on such an –…
Renegade Brewing will put the pedal to the metal in May as it rolls out plans to package one of its beers in sixteen-ounce aluminum cans and add two new stainless steel tanks. The ten-month-old brewery will accomplish both tasks with the help of two small Colorado companies that have…
The Colorado Brewers Guild provided proof today of what most Colorado residents have known for a while: beer is good for us, economically at least. On Tuesday, the Guild, which represents craft breweries in the state legislature, said Colorado’s 139 licensed craft breweries pump $446 million a year into the…
Pete and David. Father and son. Just two guys heading out on a week-long RV trip across the country. Of course, most father-and-son adventures don’t involve a personal driver, like this one does. But then, most fathers and sons aren’t Pete Coors and David Coors. And, frankly, having a designated…
In this interview, Anika Zappe, newly appointed beverage director for Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and the upcoming Punch Bowl, weighs in on transitioning from beer-and-shot bars to craft cocktails, the drink that’s brilliant unless the limes suck, and her most memorable night while managing a punk-rock bar…
Copper Kettle Brewing was a key piece of Denver’s neighborhood brewery revolution in 2011, opening in a business park off of Parker Road and quickly garnering a following of regulars. Over the course of just one year, the brewery has released more than two dozen beers, increased its tasting room,…
There are two kinds of wine drinkers: Some seek out new wines like so many blind dates, eager to make the acquaintance of a lover more intriguing than the last; others are more like serial monogamists — they form long-standing relationships with specific grapes, regions or winemakers to whom they…
Ever since Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing released its Milk Stout Nitro in a bottle before the Great American Beer Festival last year, pouring a pint has been a favorite party trick. Stand on someone’s expensive rug with a bottle and glass and upend that sucker: You’ll hear some gasps, but…
