Oskar Blues makes beer. But the Longmont-based company also runs restaurants, manages a farm, build bicycles, produces root beer, buys and sells property, sponsors auto races — and now, it brews coffee as well. To celebrate its company, Hotbox Roasters (which produces three different roasts from Kenya, Bolivia and Indonesia),…
American craft breweries have been shaking up the European beer world over the past few years by exporting their big bold flavors overseas. Now an Italian brewer wants to bring Italian-style beers to the United States. Alex Liberati, a restaurateur and owner of the Revelation Cat gypsy brewery in Rome,…
The Groni at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico “I think this has been a little bit of a dark horse compared to our other cocktails,” says Raul Ramos, bartender at Dos Santos Taqueria de Mexico. Most of the cocktails he serves at the Uptown taco shop are tequila-heavy, but the…
Cerebral Brewing opened last weekend on East Colfax Avenue, and drinking beer there is like going back to science class but a lot more fun. Founded by Sean Buchan, Chris Washenberger and Dan McGuire, the brewery takes its name and its theme from the professional backgrounds of Washenberger, a molecular biologist,…
It’s become caught up in a life of brunch, curing meat, cannabis and yoga. This is Denver, after all. With the opening of his Boulder restaurant Blackbelly Market, Chef Hosea Rosenberg’s interests encompass those hobbies and far beyond. A ways away from the extravagance of West Boulder, Blackbelly still does…
Tickets for the third annual Collaboration Fest — an event that has quickly become one of Colorado’s signature beer parties — went on sale yesterday for $50 a pop ($75 for VIP) at collaborationfest.com. Collaboration Fest will take place on March 19, 2016, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,…
Green Girls of Paris at Black Eye CoffeeWhen bartenders love an ingredient — the way it tastes, the way it smells, the way it’s made, the story behind it — they find a way to create a cocktail centered on that ingredient. When the the first drops of the cocktail…
1515 Restaurant has been undergoing some changes to the ground-floor lounge and bar. Owner Gene Tang is already committed to modern, cutting-edge cuisine in the kitchen, and now that modern flair is being reflected in the bar’s decor and cocktail program. The dining room at 1515 is on the second floor,…
A number of things have changed at the Squeaky Bean, but Farrah Fawcett still watches over all the comings and goings. Her candlelit memorial is a touchstone every time I return to the Bean, through chef changes, ups and downs and meals both inspiring and confusing. Though I love sitting…
It’s brilliant marketing: Engender lots of goodwill from the buying public and plenty of national attention by eschewing profits for one day, Black Friday. Then watch that goodwill pay off later — in the form of big bucks. REI pulled off a nice PR coup earlier this month when it…
Colorado brewers are a proud bunch, proud of their beer, of their profession and of their state – which is why many of them have made small batches of beer that use only ingredients made or grown in Colorado. But finding those ingredients isn’t easy. There’s one one independent grain…
This weekend, the suds were in full effect as Left Hand Brewing hosted its second annual Nitro Fest in Longmont. This is the only beer festival in the U.S. with an all nitro lineup of beers — with more than 40 local and national breweries represented. Not only were the…
A beer expert and a chef met a few years ago while the two were working for the same catering company. The two built a friendship while talking about beer’s affinity for fine food. The beer expert was Mike Burns, who would go on to open Happy Leaf Kombucha, and…
Denver’s eastern neighborhoods, starved for the kind of hip eateries and bars that seem to open on a weekly basis on the west side, are salivating over the impending arrival of the Stanley Marketplace, which is scheduled to open March 31 in the former Stanley Aviation Building southeast of Stapleton,…
Fate Brewing in Boulder said today that it will take over some of the space that Avery Brewing had occupied during its 22 years at 5763 Araphoe Avenue. Avery moved out of the ramshackle collection of warehouses in February, upgrading to a huge new $30 million brewery and restaurant campus…
It’s hard to get a second chance in a business where, statistically speaking, close to half of your peers are doomed to failure. But everybody loves a good comeback story, especially one about a good restaurant. Ototo closed on South Pearl Street in 2012, but the Den Family held on…
Odell Brewing, which revealed in July that it would can some of its beers, will roll out the first two, flagships 90 Shilling and Odell IPA, this week. The Fort Collins brewery, which was founded in 1989, had been a staunch holdout when it comes to canning beer. “It wasn’t so…
Over the past five years, Denver has seen a brewery boom that took our collective breath away. In 2010, when Strange Brewing (not Strange Craft Beer) opened, there were only about eight beer-makers in town. By the end of 2015, there will be more than sixty. But the pace of…
Spice Pumpkin at The Nickel You know it’s autumn when pumpkin spice lattes appear. It’s a perennial event, like the changing colors of the leaves, that reflects the transition of seasons. As the delicate flavors of summer fade away, we turn to those nostalgic, warming hints of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon…
Green Russell has been lurking behind its pie-shop facade in a Larimer Square basement space for five years now, pouring exquisitely designed cocktails with an eye toward historical recipes and an ear for customer requests. Barman Adam Hodak has been at the head of the program the entire time as…
You can sometimes tell when a new restaurant is having its moment. For Bar Fausto, freshly popped open in early August on upper Larimer, that time is right about now. Fall looks good on its white brick and colorful wallpaper, and it looks even better when the space is bursting…
Black Shirt Brewing is mixing things up. The River North beer-makers said this week that it will begin tapping a keg of a new one-off beer every Wednesday at 5 p.m. “Often times, we incorporate ingredients into our beer that might be more familiar to a high end kitchen than…
