Denver’s Chain Reaction Brewing has been quietly growing by leaps and bounds over the past year. The brewery signed a distributor and is planning to expand distribution. To help do that, Chain Reaction got a some shiny new equipment last week, including two twenty-barrel fermentation tanks, one twenty-barrel brite tank…
The nation made its choice yesterday, but Colorado’s craft breweries have also been casting ballots of a different nature — voting last week in favor of reconciliation between two craft beer groups that had been at odds with one another since June. The outcome of the votes is that the Colorado…
With the closing of the Squeeze Inn, the sale of the Kentucky Inn, and Rocky Flats Lounge still in limbo, it seemed high time to update our list of metro Denver’s ten best dive bars, adding the White Horse to a roster that includes the Hangar, Bar Bar, Lakeview Lounge…
Tim “Barrel Man” McKernan, who died in 2009, was probably the most famous super fan that the Denver Broncos ever had; bearded and somewhat heavy-set, he attended every home game (missing only four) for thirty years. Banded Oak Brewing, which also has a love of barrels, had decided to honor…
As the Baker neighborhood has grown over the years, few things have stayed the same in the area. In fact, Dougherty’s owner Wes Ingram counts 22 new bars and restaurants that have opened in the immediate vicinity of his own establishment (technically on the West Washington Park side of the…
“Are you tired of this election? Have you had to block friends on Facebook? Are the polls, ‘rigged’?” asks Boulder’s Fate Brewing. Then it’s time to vote — with your beer. The brewery has concocted two choices and will use sales of the beers to predict the winner of the…
Naming a beer these days is the kind of thing that keeps brewers up at night. Should they just call their latest creation by its style — Odell IPA, for example — or should they try to give it a name that will stand out? If they do, will the…
“Park Hill is probably one of the most tightly knit neighborhoods in Denver,” says Chris Cunningham. But unlike the west side of town, where there are plenty of small business strips woven into the neighborhoods, Denver’s east-side is mostly just houses. So when Cunningham and his businesses partners found a…
Sarah McGill has been stopping in at neighborhood bars all over town for the past three months because, yes, she likes a good drink, but also to help Denverites new and old navigate their way to some fine establishments — many of which have served their neighbors good cheer for…
Denver’s dive bars are an endangered species. As developments continue to move into formerly forbidden territory, many lowbrow watering holes have dried up – or been cleaned up into welcoming neighborhood joints, and sometimes even renovated beyond recognition.
Colorado is so chock full of breweries that it seems like a beer drinker could head in any direction and find a few of them without even trying. Almost any direction, anyway. Head east out of Greeley or Aurora or the area around Colorado Springs, and you won’t find a…
My family is Polish; my grandmother was actually born there. But most of what I know about my ancestors from Poland involves eating pierogies. That’s one of my favorite things about Kinga’s Lounge at East Colfax Avenue and Marion Street: the delicious dumplings filled with cheese, cabbage, meat, and various…
Repairs are underway at Comrade Brewing, which was hit by a large pickup truck last week, smashing into the front of the building, destroying two garage doors, damaging the brewery’s beer tanks and rupturing the gas and water lines. On Tuesday, the broken doors were removed and the brewhouse was…
Colorado recycling bins, already stuffed with empty craft beers cans are going to be pushed to their limits over the next few months as a slew of breweries begin canning or add to their existing lineups. Some of the most anticipated offerings, though, will come from Lafayette’s Liquid Mechanics Brewing,…
Hall Brewing has closed its taproom at 10970 South Parker Road, posting a note on Facebook that it plans to reopen at a future date in downtown Parker. “Thank you for your support at our current location. Be sure to watch our Facebook page for our new brewery and Tap Room in…
If publicity was money, the owners of Dad & Dude’s Breweria in Aurora would be millionaires: the brewery has been the recipient of intense national media coverage since it received federal approval in September to make a beer infused with cannabidiol, an extract of hemp. Publications and web sites from…
Are we living in a beer-soaked brewery market — or is there still plenty of headroom for newcomers? Whether you think there are already too many beer makers in Denver or you’d like to see a craft brewhouse on every corner, brewmasters keep throwing open the doors and offering an…
Tiffany Fixter doesn’t know what to expect when she opens Brewability Lab tomorrow inside Caution Brewing’s old space in east Denver. She has a brand new brewer, an eager staff of developmentally disabled adults working the bar, and a location in a mostly industrial neighborhood off the freeway. The goal…
I’m not from Denver, but in the eleven years I’ve lived here, I feel like a local compared to the constant barrage of newcomers who have arrived within the past year or two or five. And I can’t help but remember the Denver I experienced when I first moved here:…
Crazy Mountain Brewing has opened a tasting room inside the trendy Latincity food hall in downtown Chicago. The Colorado brewery, which has operations in Denver and Edwards, “is partnering with internationally renowned chef Richard Sandoval to open a Crazy Mountain Cervezeria inside of Latinicity, a sprawling food hall featuring a…
Comrade Brewing took enemy fire yesterday afternoon when a large pickup truck smashed into the front of the building, destroying two garage doors, damaging the brewery’s beer tanks and rupturing the gas and water lines. The brewery was open at the time, but no one was hurt in the accident…
Like many people in our fair city, I have always referred to Don’s Club Tavern as “Don’s Mixed Drinks,” because that’s what it says on the neon sign outside the bar at 723 East Sixth Avenue. Despite the fact that I’d probably been there ten times or more, I only learned…
