Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, one of the most unusual and exciting brewing concepts to start up in Colorado, plans to release its first two bottled beers, Pure Guava Petite Sour and Wild Wild Brett Rouge, on Thursday in Fort Collins. Both “wild” or “sour” beers have been aged with…
Happy Place: Linger, 2030 West 30th Avenue, 303-993-3120 The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. (Food service begins at 4:30 p.m.) The Deals: $3.50-$7 small plates; $3 select draft beer; $4-$5 specialty cocktails; $5 glasses of house red and white wines. Were we happy? Flip the page…
The City of Boulder is considering ways to make it easier for breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed by the city’s zoning code to open a kitchen under certain conditions. For instance, they have to…
If you’re looking for one of the few Denver bars that has Strongbow on draft, you’ll have to look past the British Bulldog, 2052 Stout Street — at least for the next few weeks…
It’s officially the season for altering the koozie. Hot on the heels of the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie, comes the Scorzie, a koozie that keeps the score of any game up to twenty-one. The Scorzie is the brainchild of two Denver residents who repeatedly found themselves in a predicament…
Bristol Brewing of Colorado Springs has made an amazing 6,000 batches of beer since owner Mike Bristol founded the place back in 1994 (and that doesn’t include the home brew he cooked up in his dorm room at Colorado State University in the late 1980s). A momentous occasion? You bet,…
We sommeliers have a tendency to spend an inordinate amount of time sussing out all kinds of weird and interesting wines (partly because it’s our job, partly because we’re total wine geeks). And most of the time, those slightly off-kilter bottles are best appreciated by, well, let’s face it –…
Every day may be IPA day for craft beer aficionados in states like Colorado, California and Oregon, but for most beer drinkers, that is far from the truth. So the point of International #IPAday, which takes place Thursday, August 4, and has already stirred a little controversy, is to use…
“Gardening is very important to me and my family,” explains Rob Masters, the creator of Rob’s Mtn Gin. “I found out about Growing Gardens, which teaches teenagers about the benefits of growing produce and eating green. It sells produce at local farmers’ markets to fund the garden, and gives what…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can often…
Uptown Brothers Brewing, a restaurant and craft beer bar that opened in May 2010, closed its doors for good right after midnight this morning, a victim of the difficult economy. “We came close to making it; we were at about 80 percent of our break-even number, but we have no…
There is no brewery in Colorado that has a longer history than Coors, no beer maker that has employed a higher number of locals, and no company that is more associated with our state. On the other hand, Coors has a checkered history here, from its labor policies to the…
Happy Place: Rooster and Moon Coffee Pub, 955 Bannock Street, 303-993-2622 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $1 sliders; $4.50-$5 small plates; $1 off all wines by the glass, specialty drinks, and well drinks; $.50 off cans of Olympia…
When Chinook Tavern shuttered its longtime home in Cherry Creek North back in the summer of 2008, many regulars were left crying in their one-liter steins, wondering where they would ever find another place to drink German beer and eat veal wiener schnitzel. Now they have their answer: The new…
Construction continues at Vine Street Pub, where a new brewery operated by the Mountain Sun group should be ready by mid-September — ready, but not operational. That’s because it will take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for the company to work out its permitting issues from…
We almost choked as we typed the words “tired of rosé” just now. While there’s simply no other wine we’d rather drink on a sultry summer evening, we’re willing to concede that not everyone is as equally enamored as we are. More optimistically, we prefer to consider alternative scenarios to…
After years of cutting dangerous and jagged holes in beer cans then awkwardly cranking our heads sideways in order to drink a beer in 4.2 seconds, our long national struggle is over: Fluid N Motion has invented the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie that keeps beer cold and allows people to…
Robert Thompson, who owns Argyll, which just closed in Cherry Creek (but will reopen in 2012 in the Baker ‘hood) and the soon-to-be-open Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar, which has taken over the former Baur’s space downtown and Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, slated to open in…
Happy Place: La Loma, 2527 West 26th Avenue, 303-433-8300 The Deals: $6.50-$7.50 margaritas; $2.75 draft beers; $4 house wines; $4-8 appetizer specials The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
After spending two-and-a-half years and a boatload of money on research, Molson Coors learned that women don’t drink beer. At least, 79 percent of the women they studied don’t drink beer. And since that represents a sizable market untouched by the brewing industry, the company decided to craft a beer…
Gary Vaynerchuk, New York Times-bestselling author and host of the Daily Grape video podcast, has real power with wine purchasers. And when he said that the 2007 Guy Drew Vineyards Metate, from a vineyard in Cortez, was “surprisingly good,” the viewers that regularly leave 700-plus comments on his daily video…
So many delicious rosés, so few languid, warm-weather days to enjoy them. This is simultaneously our favorite and most dreaded part of the summer; the temps are sizzling (which we love), but the days are getting shorter (which we hate). The sad fact of the matter is that there are…
