You’re a wine lover. You love our planet. So how many bottles of organic wine did you drink on Earth Day? Oh, yeah, that’s right — zero. And if our guess is correct, it’s not because you didn’t want to; it’s because you had no idea how to drink organic…
Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing Company is bottling fire. The brewery, which is fond of adding unusual flavors to its whimsically named beers, will release Ghost Face Killah in twelve-ounce single bottles for Cinco de Mayo. It’s the first time this very hot (very hot!) cult beer has been sold in…
Copper Kettle Brewing, a new brewery on the border of Denver and Aurora, opens today at 3 p.m. with five beers on draft — a saison, a pale ale, a helles, a summer ale and an altbier — and a beautiful 52-seat living room-like tasting room. Owned by Jeremy Gobien…
Happy Place: Shells and Sauce, 2600 East Twelfth Avenue, 303-377-2091. The Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $2-4 beers; $4.50 wines by the glass and well drinks; $4.95 antipasti. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
It’s been a busy spring for Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan-Guard, who opened TAG | RAW BAR in a below-ground spot in Larimer Square just before they became operating partners at Madison Street, the Larimer Associates project over on 12th Avenue and Madison Street. And now, they’ve announced a couple…
Strange Brewing will celebrate a bittersweet anniversary Saturday, April 23, with a slightly sweet beer, a Belgian trippel that has been waiting for a year. The brewery actually opened on May 19, 2010, but owners Tim Meyers and John Fletcher brewed their first Strange beer a few weeks earlier, called…
What started as girlish gossip between Ashley Routson, a California-based beer blogger better known as the Beer Wench, and Jess Hunter, a Denver Off the Wagon booze blogger and beer aficionado, quickly became a discussion among female beer geeks nationwide focused on answering this burning question: Who is the most…
AC Golden Brewing, the tiny MillerCoors-owned beer maker located inside the Golden factory, will begin packaging its signature Colorado Native in cans for the summer; it will be sold in twelve-packs starting May 1. “Our retailers and drinkers have been requesting cans, especially for summer, so they can take Colorado…
Batch 19, a Coors-made lager that is brewed based on a recently rediscovered pre-Prohibition recipe, is finally coming home to Colorado. The recipe for the beer was discovered in an old log book at the Golden brewery in 2004, after a small flood in the basement. The book — and…
American Craft Beer Week starts in a little less than three weeks, but the nine (yes, nine!) breweries in Fort Collins have already banded together to brew a collaboration beer that celebrates the seven days that Congress dedicated to the quaffing of craft brew. C.B. & Potts, Coopersmith’s, Crooked Stave,…
Mexican-style craft-brewed lagers are set to make a splash in Denver this summer, with a couple of new ones joining the fiesta in the run-up to Cinco de Mayo. Because of its lighter, more mellow profile, Mexican lager isn’t a style that’s common among craft brewers, who typically push the…
There are a few key elements that seem to magically define what makes a perfect spring wine. Much like the lighter foods you’re likely craving come April or May every year, your ideal wine should be as clean, bright and flavorful as a salad of just-picked berries and as aromatic…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 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…
Happy Place: Reiver’s Bar and Grill, 1085 South Gaylord Street, 303-733-8856 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to close. The Deals: $2.50-$6 beer specials; $10 buckets of beer; $2.50 cocktails, half-price appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
More than 900 oysters arrived at the Cheeky Monk yesterday on an overnight flight from the Oregon coast — all of them destined to be consumed with Rogue beers. That comes out to a dozen each for the 75 people who bought tickets to the sold-out Colorado Beer Week event…
Many of the bigger craft breweries across the country overhaul their image every three or four years, adding beers to the lineup, changing their look or their labels. But time moves a little slower in Idaho Springs. “We are doing a whole image revamp,” says Steve Indrehus, the head brewer…
Barley, water, hops and yeast. They are the four basics of beer — unless, of course, you’re gluten-intolerant. Then barley is off the table. Which makes it hard to drink beer. In the past few years, however, a couple of companies across the country have begun making gluten-free beer, including…
While some Colorado brewers have been pulling their beers out of other states recently, breweries from other states continue to try their luck in Colorado, where craft beer seems to flow in the streets like water and in the veins of its residents like blood. Since the beginning of 2011,…
Last week, we gave you the lowdown on our picks for Denver’s top five burgers, piquing the ire of quite a few local burger-loving peeps. In the spirit of fueling potentially even more controversy, we felt it only proper for us to spark a whole new debate: What kinds of…
You’re a man, so by definition, everything you do must be manly, right? Wrong. There are hundreds of beers out there to choose from, lining the liquor store shelves and bar taps like kids waiting to get picked for a game of recess football. But only a very few of…
Many of the people who work in Colorado’s craft beer industry believe that brewer-in-chief Governor John Hickenlooper would never sign a bill allowing grocery and convenience stores to sell full-strength beer — even if the legislature passed it. Now they won’t have to worry about it — at least not…
Smashburger is hoping that its milkshakes bring all the boys, and girls, to the yard. While Smashburger has had beer on its menu since the Denver-based chain got its start, the store that opened last fall in the Tabor Center also serves alcohol-spiked shakes and floats ($5.99) that are the…
