Bars & Breweries

The happy-hour taco deals are enough to make anyone happy here. And on Mondays, the deals run all night…

Every week, Drink of the Week columnist Nancy Levine gets behind the bar with a local mixologist. Now serving: Mike Henderson, bar manager at TAG. How did you get into bartending? After college, I got a job as a doorman at a bar called Paul’s Club in Madison, Wisconsin. I…

With the Great American Beer Festival (September 24-26) and the first ever Denver Beer Fest (September 18-27) both around the corner, the craft beer industry’s major trade group has released some mid-year statistics on what’s been brewing nationwide. The Brewers Association reports that craft brewers sold 4.2 million barrels of…

Guess where I’m drinking this behemoth margarita? Not the best margarita I’ve ever had, but definitely one of the largest…

The Rio — home of those lethal, neon green margaritas concocted with a combination of secret liquids — is celebrating ten years of getting Denverites absolutely annihilated at its 1525 Blake Street location on Saturday, August 15. The celebration kicks off at 4 p.m. with live music on the patio,…

On Saturday, August 15, the Rio Grande will celebrate ten years of pouring on the fun — and pouring out the booze — in LoDo. This homegrown chain is a margarita powerhouse; with only six restaurants, the Rio Grande restaurant group claims to be the largest seller of Jose Cuervo…

I don’t believe in ghosts. When my wife tells me about presences she’s seen and felt in the middle of the night, I tell her she was dreaming. When she tells me we can’t buy an attractive house in Five Points because a woman who committed suicide there decades ago…

Along with several bottles of the ice-cold Singha calling your name (mine, too, actually) in the above pic, I shared pad Thai, chicken panang curry and a big bowl of steaming poh tak bobbing with shrimp, mussels, scallops and cuttlefish with three friends who would have drunk the joint dry…

Bet you can’t drink three of them……

I hated the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. For a year the PR hype machine had told me how great it was going to be, and then everyone I know who saw it told me how great it was and how much I’d love it. So by the time I…

Party! party! You don’t need a special occasion to enjoy a mojito here, but it doesn’t hurt.Guess where I’m drinking, and there will be a mojito with your name on it at the bar…

If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see our previous pairings here, here and here): Dispute: Bill Ritter vs. Labor Unions and his own party Beer: Steamworks Brewing Company’s Colorado Kolsch Ouch. It’s not easy fighting…

Many restaurants will be offering specials tonight to coincide with First Friday, and the Infinite Monkey Theorem winery, at the edge of the Santa Fe Arts District at Fifth and Santa Fe, is even hosting a wine-tasting at 5 p.m. with light bites from Masterpiece Delicatessen. For info, call 970-260-0710…

A gigantic painting of a can of Dale’s Pale Ale is nearing completion on a silo outside of the Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids, the brewery which makes Dale’s. This is what the can, which we wrote about here, looked like as of about 4 p.m. on Thursday, August…

Starting next week, you can enjoy some alcohol with your meal at An’s Lemongrass Grille — at least the downtown location at 1617 California Street. It was recently awarded a liquor license, and the plan is to start serving beer and wine, and maybe some sake as well. The local…

If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see our previous pairings here and here): Dispute: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups Beer: Wynkoop Brewing Company’s Light Rail Ale C’mon, folks. Union Station is…

During a recent happy hour, I became incredibly fascinated with what I’m going to call the “tip-o-matic” (okay, so I ripped off the term from a fellow happy-hour comrade), a wheel-and-chain dispenser of a certain alcoholic liquid that’s stored in what used to be an army water bottle. The apparatus…

If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here’s an example (see yesterday’s sudsy sit-down here): Dispute: Brandon Marshall vs. Josh McDaniels Beer: Great Divide Brewing Company’s Hercules Double IPA When it comes to dick-swinging contests, everything’s got to be…

When this place decided to introduce its first happy hour this summer, it dove right in. So now, seven days a week from 3 to 6 p.m., you can dive right into a bucket of six Coronas for just $15. Where am I drinking? (First correct answer gets a free…

No big deal: Just four guys having a beer and settling a brewhaha. That’s what Barry, Joe, Hank and Jim did last week (with Colorado’s Blue Moon in a starring role). It’s something that happens all over the world, millions of times a day. In fact, it worked well enough…

The first time someone asked if I’d like to try Shochu, I replied, “God bless you.” The correct answer should have been, “Ohhhhh, yes. I’ve heard that Shochu is delicious.” Because it is. If you’ve never tried Shochu, you’re missing out. Shochu is a distilled liquor made from barley, sweet…

Lunch: There’s a very good reason why Pho 95, the Vietnamese soup and noodle shack at 1002 South Federal Boulevard, is ridiculously busy morning, noon and night: The service is by far the best on the Boulevard and the pho, rich, steaming hot and fragrant with anise, is phenomenal, not…