New Belgium Brewing releases its new winter seasonal, called Snow Day, today (and props to them for waiting until a part of the year when we can actually get snow to unveil a winter beer). Snow Day, a cross between a black IPA and a winter warmer, replaces 2 Below,…
Do you like Fat Tire? How about Ranger IPA? If so, you’ll be getting more of both in February when New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins releases both beers in sixteen-ounce cans. The two beers will be the brewery’s first tallboys and they’ll be among the first to be produced…
Avery Brewing Company, which has outgrown the Boulder business park where it was founded eighteen years ago, has settled on a 5.6-acre spot in north Boulder, where it hopes to build a brand new beer compound. The location, at 4910 and 4920 Nautilus Court, would include a 30,000 square-foot brewery,…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part three of this new series: I love booze. I try to…
Happy Place: Lime XS, 730 East Sixth Avenue, 303-722-5463. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 house wines, well drinks, margaritas, and draft beer; $3 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Six breweries have opened in the Denver area so far this year, and there are more on the horizon. And while craft beer lovers might say it’s impossible to have “too many breweries,” it is becoming exponentially more difficult to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of competition. But the…
After a four-month delay, Arvada Beer Company will open today at 11 a.m. in a 95-year-old brick building that has been gutted and restored to make room for the brewery and other shops. “It’s been a long journey, but we are really excited,” says co-owner Kelly Floyd. The delays were…
Great Divide Brewing is known for taking big, bold beer styles and turning them on their head, and they plan to mix it up again by releasing an unexpected beer — a light lager — at an unexpected time: winter. Nomad is a 5.4 percent ABV Bohemian pilsner that will…
Yes, it snowed. Get used to it. Better yet, take advantage of it. The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its two-year anniversary later in the week, is marking the time-honored tradition of calling in sick on powder days by offering a free pint to anyone who shows up with a lift…
Like it or not, for years people have habitually lumped wines from Colorado into its own special (read: inferior) category of domestic winemaking. Bottles from other, more mainstream wine-producing regions in the U.S., like California, Oregon, and Washington State, seem to score all the props, while the Centennial state gets…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. While this week’s…
You’ve drunk beer. Maybe you’ve made bread out of it, or even cooked up some beer-battered onion rings. Now the Ritz-Carlton is offering a higher-brow — and way more expensive — way to get your hops on: a full-body spa treatment. The Mile High Malt Scrub and Microbrew Massage, part…
Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste. Some people love them, others hate them. Most drinkers can only tolerate a few. But there is an amazing array of pumpkin beers on the market, from the subtle to the spicy to the completely over-the-top…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in part two of this new series: I am not a dieter. Or,…
Happy Place: Interstate Kitchen & Bar, 901 West Tenth Avenue, 720-379-8829. The Hours: Daily from 4 to 6 p.m. and midnight to 1:30 a.m. The Deals: $2-$3 can and draft beer specials; $3 whiskey shooters; $4 whiskey cocktails and wines by the glass; $1-$4 small plates. Were we happy? Flip…
Unlike most breweries, Denver Beer Co doesn’t have any year-round staples, and owners Charlie Berger and Patrick Crawford like it that way. In fact, when they opened on August 12, Berger said he wanted the brewery’s tap list to be compared with those at the city’s chef-driven restaurants, full of…
Apart from rosé, is there any wine more universally misunderstood and underappreciated than riesling? There simply aren’t enough column inches allotted us to spout off the multitude of reasons this varietal is one of only three whites worthy of being classified as a “noble” grape, but its year-round drinkability, epic…
Oregon’s Deschutes Brewing is blitzing Denver this week as part of an eleven-city tour that promotes such staples as Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Inversion IPA and Black Butte Porter, as well as seasonal specialties like Jubelale, Hop Trip and the Abyss. The Deschutes reps started last Saturday with the annual…
More than 175 years ago, Jean-Baptiste Combier, a French confectioner, and his wife were making liqueurs to inject into chocolates when they began getting requests from local residents to sell the liqueurs straight. So they began bottling an orange liqueur that was, really, the world’s first triple sec. “The distillery…
James and Tina Pachorek, who own the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Cafe, have quietly bitten their lips over the past two years as they watched new breweries, one after another, open in Denver. Now the couple plans to jump in themselves by taking over the space next door to their…
Over the last few months, I went from the worst shape of my life to the best while continuing to eat like a food critic. Don’t punch me in the face; instead, read how I did it in this new series. It’s my job to eat out four times a…
Happy Place: EDGE Restaurant and Bar, 1111 14th Street, 303-389-3343. The Hours: Daily from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $5 domestic bottles, wines by the glass, and well drinks; $5-8 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
