The Great American Beer Festival doesn’t change much from year to year. It is always a massive draw, a tourism magnet and the place to be seen for breweries and beer lovers alike. But the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which hosts the festival, October 11-13, does like to keep it relevant,…
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another day dedicated to the celebration of…well, anything, oenophiles around the country will raise filled-to-the-brim glasses to toast National Cabernet Day on Thursday. While it’s easy to dismiss these booze-filled events as just another excuse to tie one on, in truth they’re…
Wynkoop Brewing Company is gearing up for the Great American Beer Festival and recently tapped a couple of its rarest but most outstanding beers. Orville is a blend of a couple of unusual beers: a pale ale fermented with brettanomyces in four wooden barrels for six weeks, and the same…
It shouldn’t be about what you wear, right? According to Sean Kenyon, the barman behind the Squeaky Bean and Williams & Graham, it absolutely should be about that, especially if you’re one of those tenders who takes to wearing a “hipster” tank top when you’re slinging drinks behind the stick…
Cigar City Brewing, a small Florida beer maker with a huge following nationwide, will pour some of its highly-sought-after beers at a handful of Colorado taphouses for the first time this year during the Great American Beer Festival. The Tampa Bay brewery doesn’t normally distribute outside Florida, but like Michigan-based…
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Right or wrong, French wines seem to conjure up images of wood-paneled studies where “serious” oenophiles sip Burgundy and debate Bordeaux futures. Italian wine perceptions run the gamut — you’ve got Barolo fanatics who kneel before the throne of King Nebbiolo along with fans of simpler stuff like pinot grigio…
After months of planning, the Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project finally has a spot where fans of its sour and wild ales can sit down, talk to the owner and share a beer with him. The unusual brewery, which moved its operation from Fort Collins to Denver in June, will…
Prost Brewing opens today in Lower Highland, serving up frothy mugfuls of German-style lagers and setting them down on the bar with a hearty thump. The brewery is one of nearly two dozen that will open this year in the Denver metro area, but is stands apart for several reasons…
Left Hand Brewing in Longmont is out early with its copper-colored Oktoberfest Märzen Lager. The 6.6 percent ABV German-style beer took two months two brew (so drink it slowly), something that was made easier by Left Hand’s recent addition of several 480-barrel fermenters. The space crunch meant that Oktoberfest was…
Award-winning brewers at the Great American Beer Festival will bring home something in addition to their medals this year: a bottle of a special beer made collaboratively just for the occasion by members of the Colorado Brewers Guild. The 22-ounce bottle of Porter’s Pride, an imperial porter brewed with 200…
Today is National Lemonade Day, and it’s not just for kids. For the past few days, local restaurants have been taking a stand on this holiday, raising funds to combat childhood cancer. In 2000, four-year-old cancer patient Alexandra Scott decided to set up a lemonade stand in front of her…
Is Bobby Stuckey, co-owner of Frasca Food and Wine, Wine Enthusiast’s Sommelier of the year? He just might be. But even if he isn’t, one thing is for certain: Bobby Stuckey is a rock star…
“The Pen-Is Mightier.” That was my suggestion for what Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs should have renamed the smoked dopplebock it’s making this fall for Pints for Prostates, a nonprofit organization that raises money with beer to help fight prostate cancer, after the federal government rejected the brewery’s first…
You can’t drink them all. Don’t even try. The Great American Beer Festival, which runs October 11-13, will feature more breweries this year than ever before, and not just by one or two. See also -Great American Beer Festival scalpers drive us to drink -A GABF ticket for $50,000? The…
As Denver’s restaurant scene contunues its evolution into one that can compete with more widely-known culinary meccas, the wine programs at some of the city’s top eateries have tightened up their game significantly, too. That’s great news, right? Trouble is, one foodie’s wine list nirvana can be perceived as another’s…
Frontier Airlines is once again running its Choose Your Brew contest on Facebook, in which fans vote on which Colorado canned beer will be offered aboard all flights out of Denver. Last time, AC Golden’s Colorado Native beat out beers from Oskar Blues, Crabtree and Upslope. This time, the contenders…
There are still a handful of spots open for this evening’s Great Divide beer dinner at the Fort Collins outpost of Jax Fish House, for those interested in hitting the road…
Tiny little Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, could make a big difference in the presidential election this year. Just ask President Obama, who has visited multiple times in the past three months, and Mitt Romney, who dispatched vice presidential selection Paul Ryan to our high-altitude swing state just two…
Update: In addition to tentative plans to brew beer in Colorado (see below for the original story and an update from a Goose Island spokesman), the Chicago brewery also plans to distribute all of its beers in Colorado beginning September 1, including its rare and highly sought-after brews. “You will…
Upslope Brewing will release two more Limited Edition beers this year in cans, following up on its Foreign Style Stout, which debuted in a can in January, and Belgian Style Pale Ale, which came out in June. But both beers, Pumpkin Ale and Christmas Ale, will be in sixteen-ounce tallboys…
People were flipping out in the plaza outside Fado Irish Pub on Saturday. Between drunken refs, a brief rain delay, match announcers competing with blasting music from DJ Escal8 and general alcohol-induced chaos, the madness level among competitors and spectators alike at Flipcup’alooza approached shitshow levels. By the end of…
