This is the first in a series of Q&As with beer-minded folks who have jobs to do during the Great American Beer Festival. Volunteers at the Great American Beer Festival are sometimes maligned, usually busy and always — always — needed. After all, there are going to be 2,700 different…
Every November, I cook a turkey. Not on Thanksgiving, but a couple of weeks early. This way, I can get a taste of Turkey-Day excitement early and not have to stuff myself on the actual day, ending up in a tryptophan-induced coma. The same plan also helps you survive Great…
Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it’s the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the…
Go Fish, 1 Broadway, will unveil its new lounge and bar — complete with eight taps — with a grand opening party from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today. The sushi joint is offering buy-one-get deals on all drinks, all night. Here’s a look at the sleek new digs: See…
Happy Place: Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 Eighteenth Street, 303-297-2700. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m to midnight. The Deals: $3.50 select draft beers; $4 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Colorado represents a huge part of the festivities inside the Great American Beer Festival, both because of the depth and breath of our state’s brewing prowess and because we are the host state, so it is fitting – and easy – for our beer makers to represent. As a result,…
Update: Congratulations to MattL5, whose fun, semi-explicit feelings about beer have earned him two tickets to Saturday night at GABF. If you didn’t win, keep reading: We’re announcing our final contest today! Original post: It was all such a blur. Within 45 minutes of their release on August 2, every…
There will be thousands of beers to sample inside the Colorado Convention Center during the Great American Beer Festival, which starts on October 11, but there will also be some very special beers served at bars, breweries and restaurants during the week before GABF. Some of these were brewed especially…
Denver is in a frenzy over both tonight’s debate and next week’s beer-soaked Great American Beer Festival . And sometimes the two obsessions even come together! To check out all the GABF-inspired events, go to our Great American Beer Festival 2012 Calendar of Awesome, which we’re updating regularly. (The regular…
Last week, we introduced you to four uniquely delicious red wines that seemed as though they were destined for autumnal consumption from the day they were bottled. And while it’s true that our seasonal wine cravings generally give the edge to reds over whites, there are a multitude of compelling…
Los Angeles-based Golden Road Brewing, an upstart craft brewer that’s managed to make waves in a town that sees them every single day, will release its latest canned beer, Burning Bush, in Denver during the Great American Beer Festival. But the beer — and the one-year-old brewery — won’t be…
Not only did USA Today just name Denver one the best beer capitals in the world — the whole fucking WORLD, y’all! — but the internationally distributed daily newspaper also gave a shout-out to Patty’s Chile Beer, named, of course, for Westword founder and editor Patty Calhoun, who likes things…
Bartender Ken Kodys left Colorado on September 3 for the 42Below Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand with one mission… to bring a third title back home. The bartending competition is our craft’s version of the Olympics, in which 21 of the world’s best bartenders representing six countries (and one…
Malt, water, hops, yeast…and bull testicles. That’s the recipe for the ballsiest beer that Denver’s Wynkoop Brewing Company has made in its 24-year history, and one that it will start serving on October 8 during Great American Beer Festival week. Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which started off as an April…
Harry Smith, who has been making beer for Breckenridge Brewery for eleven years, will open his own place early next year — just a block away from where he now works. “I can go to work, and then go to work,” jokes Smith, who will stay with Breckenridge until he…
President Obama has been making a point of drinking beer on the campaign trail this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Florida. It was a sore spot for him in 2008 when he was seen more as a wine-slurper than an an everyday beer-drinking kind of fellow, but it’s a…
Happy Place: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, 1745 Wazee Street, 303-295-2664. The Hours: Monday through Wednesday, and Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $6 house cocktails and martinis; $6 wines by the glass; $6 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
The Great American Beer Festival is coming, and you want to make sure you’re properly tubbed and scrubbed, but ordinary ablutions aren’t going to cut it — not for the biggest beer festival in the world. For that, you are going to have to put beer on your body as…
Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it’s the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the…
Oktoberfest kicked off last weekend on Larimer Street, and today another version of the annual festivity will debut at the Lowry Beer Garden, 7577 East Academy Boulevard. The space’s inaugural, three-day celebration naturally includes beer, brats and other German delicacies…
Oktoberfest might just be everyone’s favorite holiday. Not that anyone needs an excuse to pound beers and eat sausage all weekend. But if everyone’s doing it, no one can judge you, right? In the middle of your lager and bratwurst haze, though, you might wonder this: “Why are we celebrating…
Updated: Congratulations to Curt Von Feldt and fatj, who have each won two tickets to opening night of GABF! Check your email for information on how to claim your tickets. To the rest of you: Keep reading. We’ll be giving out more tickets in the coming weeks. (And continue through…
