I just can’t help it, y’all. Just when I thought I had enough of these slick, modern pizza bars after my visit to Gozo, I find myself at Bar Dough, which is floating on a wave of good buzz and steady business. BD lost out on our Best of Denver…
Diebolt Brewing is a tiny beer marker in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood. But the company recently faced a billion-dollar conundrum: fight a trademark battle over the name of one of its best beers, The Commodore, or acquiesce to the requests of another brewery that makes a beer with the same name…
Chipotle recently teamed up with master sommelier Richard Betts to come up with a streamlined beverage program that would complement the food menu while hewing close to the burrito chain’s “food with integrity” mission. The new beverage roster, which comprises cocktails, beer and non-alcoholic drinks — debuts this week at…
March is stats month for the Boulder-based Brewers Association, the not-for-profit trade group representing thousands of craft breweries nationwide. So far, the organization has released several interesting numbers (a more comprehensive look will arrive soon). For starters, the number of operating breweries in the United States grew 15 percent in…
“I don’t wish this on anyone. I don’t wish it on my worst enemy. It very nearly destroyed us, but we are coming back stronger than we ever were.” Those are the words of River North Brewery founder Matthew Hess, who was forced to close his doors last fall after…
When Corey Marshall opens his second brewery on the fifth floor of the new Westin Hotel at Denver International Airport – possibly before the end of this year – the spot will hold two unusual distinctions: it will be one of the only breweries in the country located on an…
Spring Sting at Coohills When Joshua Tallent thinks of Spring, he thinks of tequila. He also thinks of things like fresh herbs and pineapple, which is evident in one of his new cocktail recipes on his seasonal cocktail menu at Coohills. His menu launches today and features the Spring Sting…
The bigger a craft brewery gets, the more it usually tries to streamline its operations — brewing and packaging beers in a uniform manner that keeps things simple. But not Epic Brewing, which was founded in Salt Lake City and operates its major production facility in Denver. The company has…
New Highland cocktail bar and restaurant, the Way Back, at 4132 West 38th Avenue, is nearly ready to greet the public. While the kitchen won’t be fired up quite yet, the bar will open for business this coming Monday evening (March 28). The Way Back it the product of barman Chad Michael…
If you’re shopping for a unique bottle of wine or a locally produced spirit, there’s a new shop on Broadway with shelves stocked with just what you’re looking for. Baker Wine & Spirits opened earlier this month at 440 Broadway, bringing a hand-selected inventory of wine and spirits to the…
Picture a neighborhood hangout, the place ’round the corner and down the street where you feel more at home than home. Maybe it exists in your memory, a Cheers-esque den of comfort and familiar characters. Maybe it really is just down your block. Bonnano Concepts, a restaurant group gifted with…
One of Colorado’s most-loved, least-known beer festivals is in trouble this year after losing its longtime home and will probably need major financial support in order to continue. The Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival was founded by brother-and-sister team of Laura and Bill Lodge in Vail in 2001, and…
Paul Vismara has a lot of talents. He’s the co-author of Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, an expert beer slinger at Falling Rock Tap House and an artist: Vismara painted the beer logo murals that grace Falling Rock. And at 1 p.m., on Saturday, March 26, he’ll…
Guthrie’s Old Fashioned at Fort Greene Eleanor Cheetham worked behind the bar for three years at Crash 45, a neighborhood bar in Globeville. When the owner wanted out, she and a partner bought it, remodeled it with a Brooklyn aesthetic and renamed it Fort Greene. When her partner wanted out,…
There were at least 85 different beers served Saturday at Collaboration Fest — so sadly, there was no way I could get to them all. But I did try quite a few, and they were almost all good. Really good. In fact, one of the common themes I kept hearing from…
Golden Moon Distillery bottled and released its newest product last week: Colorado Single Malt Whiskey. The new spirit is modeled after single malt whisky made in Scotland but with a few modifications to give it a Colorado identity. Distiller Stephen Gould produced only one barrel of the new whiskey —…
While Kobe An Shabu Shabu in Lower Highland dazzles with tabletop cooking and fashionable fare, its forebear, Kobe An, has beem serving more typical Japanese cuisine in Denver for decades. Now below ground in a Cherry Creek spot, where it moved last year, the venerable eatery puts out a surprisingly up-to-date $5 happy…
Just about everyone who lives in Denver, or who visits friends and family here, makes a pilgrimage along West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood to Casa Bonita — whether it’s once a week, once a month, once a year or once a decade. But now there’s another reason to pull into the vast…
Colorado native Sarah Haughey, who worked at both Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project and Elevation Beer Company, plans to deepen the Arkansas Valley’s craft-beer scene this summer when she opens the Jailhouse on Buena Vista’s main drag, East Main Street. It will feature ten rotating craft-beer taps and a small selection…
Dan Appell says he “grew up” in the Italian deli that his father bought in 1982 in Parsippany, New Jersey, doing just about every job there was to do from the age of six through his graduation from college. And he would have been just fine if he’d never left…
Crown Town at Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery In Colorado, distilleries can only sell spirits on-site that they produce themselves. Therefore, at the cocktail lounge inside Stranahan’s Colorado Distillery, which opened in 2014, all the cocktails are whiskey cocktails. But the one-spirit challenge is met enthusiastically by Hayley Panas, who just refreshed…
Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it’s rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters…
