The Rackhouse Pub is slated to open next week with a slightly pared-down beer menu, but a seriously cool look. Located inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery, at 200 South Kalamath Street, the Rackhouse will feature twenty tap handles (mostly Colorado microbrews), rather than the fifty that had been originally…
Caleb Whitmore worked at the Fogo de Chao Churrascaria in Chicago, then moved to Denver this summer to open the Fogo here, bringing his caipirinha-making skills with him. And what’s a caipirinha? “It’s Brazil’s most popular cocktail,” explains Whitmore, “made from cachaca, sugar and fresh limes, shaken and served over…
I have no idea if there are 99 bottles of beer on the wall at this bar, but there were certainly enough choices to keep the bartender busy popping off caps for a good six or seven hours this weekend. Any idea on whose shelves these bottles reside? Bonus love…
Although some people think that mint juleps should only be imbibed in the summer, I disagree. Wholeheartedly. So when I saw a mint julep on the menu at this establishment that’s trying to make a name for itself with an impressive whiskey selection, despite the chilly weather outside, I ordered…
Colorado Bartenders Guild (COBG) is looking for bartenders with noggins full of gin ideas for the Hendrick’s Gin Cocktail Competition. To enter, a bartender needs to concoct a cocktail that includes the base spirit of Hendrick’s Gin (at least 1.5 ounces), with a maximum of seven ingredients (one can be…
There are places to meet friends for drinks … and then there are bars, my friends. Places where the drink is the thing, and the goal is drunk. That in mind, there are some TV bars where you just wouldn’t want to be, like Rosie’s from M.A.S.H. (bad booze near…
I went out last night to try the new fall cocktails at a place I love, but don’t get to nearly as often as I’d like. After I’d tasted a number of delicious drinks (including a yummy red sangria with an orange twist, pictured above), the proprietor handed me a…
Despite 450 years in the grape-stomping business, Mexican wines aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, but the Mexican Cultural Center and Consulate General of Mexico, along with Strings, will attempt to silence your inner cynic tonight, when Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, hosts a Mexican wine dinner. The fiesta kicks off…
What’s your favorite dive bar in Denver? Drew Bixby, our Drunk of the Week columnist, features nearly a hundred great lounges, taverns and saloons in his book Denver’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Mile-High City, due out November 3. But while Bixby includes a list of the…
I’m an Equal Opportunity Imbiber, which means that any time friends want to get drunk and watch sports, I’m down, because sozzled sports fans are second to none when it comes to energy and enthusiasm — even if my enthusiasm is for alcohol and everyone else’s for the game. The…
Are you still in summer mode? Having trouble folding up your linen and packing it away in favor of fleece? Still pretending to be warm while shivering on some bar’s patio? Well, here’s a sudsy fact that might shock you into reality: local breweries have already begun rolling out their…
Ken Kodys won the Mix Master competition, but he’s also a champ behind the bar at Bacaro, 921 Pearl Street, where he’s worked almost five years. Here’s the second round of his Behind the Bar interview: How many times do you have to see someone to consider them a regular?…
It took a little longer than anticipated, but the Wynkoop Brewing Company finally got its signature beer, Railyard Ale, into a can in August. And while you can’t drink from the cans at the brewpub itself, you can buy six packs to go. Oh, you can drink the Railyard from…
Ken Kodys took top honors with a drink named Amnesia, appropriately enough, in the DeKuyper Mix Master Bartender Contest at last month’s Denver Food & Wine Festival. For anyone who could remember it after drinking one of his cocktails, it was an impressive showing for Kodys, who moved to Boulder…
During October, Village Tavern ,at 1 West Flatiron Crossing Drive in Broomfield, is marking the 25th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by serving up special Hope-tini cocktails to raise money for breast cancer research. “People are definitely interested,” says John Davis, Village Tavern bar manager. “It’s that time of…
Back in high school, I had a little episode involving vodka and pig — as in I drank too much vodka during a “liquid lunch” and subsequently puked on a fetal pig in biology class, right after I proclaimed my love for Mr. Svenson and his Harley. My punishment was…
Rocktober is in full swing and if you’re looking for a bar before or after — or during — the playoff games that isn’t full of 22-year-olds, this is the spot for you. If you’re lucky, you’ll meet cute, fun, drunk guys named Smiddy or Smitty. Or have public TV-watching…
I’d gotten to know Bryan Dayton over the past few months through the Colorado Bartenders Guild, and last week his infectious enthusiasm for cocktails finally lured me up to Frasca. That’s the five-year-old restaurant started by Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and Bobby Stuckey that’s earned rave reviews for Mackinnon-Patterson’s work in the…
Bryan Dayton has been behind the bar at Frasca, the legendary three-star restaurant, since the eatery was eight months old. But he’s been in Boulder a lot longer than that, and is an expert on fake IDs, trail running, the dangers of a “dirty” martini, and how important it is…
Right on the heels of your lingering Great American Beer Festival hangover comes tonight’s beer and food pairing dinner at Second Home Kitchen & Bar, the comfort food restaurant inside the JW Marriott at 150 Clayton Lane. The dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes four courses, all paired with…
Here’s another example why the folks at New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins are some of the coolest beer cats around. As 5280 first reported, for the last installment of its summer “bike-in movie” series last Wednesday, New Belgium, makers of celebrated Fat Tire Amber Ale, unveiled “I’m on a…
Café Brazil, which recently opened the Rum Room next door to the already pulsating restaurant at 4408 Lowell Boulevard, has just introduced a fantastic way to make a complete ass of yourself — and you don’t even have to open your mouth in the process. Except to drink, which you…
