Bars & Breweries

There are loopholes that allow those who are underage to drink in Colorado. Here are five of them. We wrote about five of them.

A piece of Boulder brewing history is back on the market. Two years after Fate Brewing acquired the leases to Avery Brewing’s famed former warehouses at 5763 Arapahoe Boulevard, along with all of the old equipment, the brewpub is trying to unload the facility, hopefully to another beer-maker. Fate owner Mike…

There’s been a little monkeying around with some monkey art that’s caused some friction between two Denver bars. Jimmy Nigg, owner of the Monkey Barrel at 4401 Tejon Street in Sunnyside, says the Monkey Bar, 1112 Santa Fe Drive, pilfered an image he commissioned and used it for their own…

SoBo 151, at 151 South Broadway (hence the name), is one of my longstanding favorites in Baker; it’s an unpretentious and welcoming bar with a varied crowd and not one but three excellent karaoke nights. Ttasty Czech and American bar food — with bratwurst, goulash and schnitzel sharing the menu alongside…

Liquid Mechanics Brewing cleaned up at the 2017 US Open Beer Championship, held last weekend in Oxford, Ohio. The Lafayette brewery won four medals: a gold for its highly regarded peanut-butter porter (for more on that, see our list of Eight Sticky Colorado Peanut Butter Beers), a silver for its Kolsch, and…

Stapleton Tap House, which opened in 2014 as an oasis in the craft-beer desert that was the Stapleton neighborhood, will close on Friday, July 21. Tucked into a strip of eateries and shops at 8286 Northfield Boulevard, alongside the Harkins Northfield 18 movie theater, the small tap house will continue…

Beer is big business in Colorado — a business that can be a gateway to greater involvement in the community who’s supporting you by purchasing your beer. John Hickenlooper was one of the first to see the potential in the small-scale brewpub model when he opened Wynkoop Brewing Company in…

Zephyr Brewing is leaving RiNo after two and a half years to move into a larger north Denver space that will give the owners space to add a packaging line and more brewing capacity.

The only reason I knew Doctor Proctor’s Lounge in Glendale existed was because my friend used to date a guy who lived in an apartment complex around the corner. The bar is hidden in plain sight, with only a small, overhead neon sign that simply reads “BAR.” You have to…

Zephyr Brewing, which has held down a garden-level space at the corner of 26th Street and Walnut since December 2014, will become the second brewery to move out of the ever-tightening River North Arts District. The brewery, founded by Brian Wood and Rich Wisniewski, will host a moving party on Saturday,…

If your New Year’s resolution, like mine, was to visit fifty new Colorado breweries in 2017, then you know that we’re at the halfway point of the year. Perhaps, like me, you are falling behind. There’s no need to panic if your numbers are lacking, though, because breweries around Colorado…

Andrew Kaczmarek and Nato Francescato don’t mind doing things differently. The two went into business together in July 2016 as owners of 14er Brewing, creating and canning beer long before they knew if or when they’d be able to open an actual taproom. In October 2016, 14er won a gold medal for…

A friend of mine just moved to Sunnyside, where Ernie’s Bar and Pizza at 2915 West 44th Avenue quickly became her neighborhood watering hole, so I had to come check it out with a small posse for happy hour. I arrived before my friends and had a seat at the bar…

The Boulder-based Brewers Association fired a new volley Tuesday in the escalating war between independent craft breweries and corporate mega-breweries by unveiling a new seal that breweries can add to the labels on their bottles and cans in order to distinguish themselves. The seal, which reads “Brewers Association Certified…

When we put out our Best of Denver list in March, the Overland at 1967 South Broadway won honors for best new bar. But less than a year after opening, the Overland is now closed. We picked the bar because it had all the makings of an instant classic, with…

Kendra Anderson has spent several years educating Denver imbibers about wine, both via her consulting business and as Westword’s Swirl Girl wine columnist. But the first thing she wants drinkers to know about Bar Helix, the establishment she’s opening at 3440 Larimer Street, is that it is not just a…

It’s summer! And summer means that it’s definitely canned-beer season, bringing lots of portable new beers from nearly every brewery, big and small, old and new. Some of these are brand-new offerings, some are old beers that are being packaged for the first time, and some just have a new…

The last time I was at Badger’s Pub, it was snowing outside and I was wearing a Snuggie. A friend had invited me to a Seven Deadly Sins-themed bar crawl, and instead of dressing like Lust or something skimpy that would prove inadequate for the weather, I went with the…

John and Stacy Turk only started pouring beer at Walter’s 303 Pizzeria & Publik House last August, but the couple has been pushing craft beer for a quarter of a century — and they started in an unlikely place. “We used to follow the Grateful Dead around,” says Stacy. “And…

This week promises a thirst-quenching batch of beery events to help beat the heat, from Black Project’s latest super-fruited brew to a five-year anniversary block party to a brand-new Lakewood brewery. Here are the best craft-beer events and tappings through June 28. Wednesday, June 21Westfax brewing releases its latest small-batch…

When Avery Brewing says it’s going to make a peanut butter beer as part of its acclaimed Barrel-Aged Series, you known the roof of your mouth is going to be sticky. After all, Avery makes the most of the its ingredients, oak barrels and fermentable sugars, often turning in high-ABV…

When Denver Beer Co. opened at 1695 Platte Street back in 2011, there were very few craft breweries within Denver city limits. But even then founders Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford realized that things were about to change. “We were the third brewery that summer,” Berger recalls, “and we were…