Happy Place: ChoLon, 1555 Blake Street, 303-353-5223 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close. The Deals: $7 specialty cocktails; $5 well cocktails; $3 beers; $5 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
There’s a moment on stage when Kyle Hollingsworth just lets go. It’s a crucial moment, especially for a jam-style musician who relies on his instinct and his skill when he’s performing to help lead the band in the right direction. The same is true for brewing beer, says Hollingsworth, a…
Restaurateurs all over the state will be raising a glass at 3 pm. today, when Governor John Hickenlooper officially signs Senate Bill 60 into law…at the Old Chicago at 145 Union Boulevard in Lakewood. But then, the setting makes sense, since this is the measure that will allow bars and…
Batch 19, the Coors lager that comes from a pre-Prohibition recipe reportedly unearthed in an old log book in 2004, will go tap this week at three hand-picked bars in Denver. Stoney’s Bar & Grill, the Wazee Supper Club and Star Bar were selected in part because they are all…
Driving to the mountains, I’d passed Kermitts Roadhouse, located on exit 244 off I-70, hundreds of times. But I’d never stopped off there — and then, after a fire broke out in the bar on New Year’s Eve and shut down the place, I thought I might have missed my…
Brewing beer is physical work. Every day, the guys in rubber waders who do it for a living hump (not that kind of “hump”; c’mon, people) dozens and dozens of fifty-pound sacks of malted barley, rip them open and pour them into a mill. They carry heavy bags, buckets and…
Last weekend’s back-to-back Cinco de Mayo and Kentucky Derby party shenanigans left us feeling more than a little ready to lay off the sauce for a minute. Yet by noon on Sunday, there we were, staring down the wine list at brunch, feeling that familiar urge. That’s when it hit…
Last week, we wrote that Wu-Tang Clan member and solo rapper Ghostface Killah made a sort-of surprising move by okaying the use of his name on a beer made by Boulder-based Twisted Pine Brewing. Ghost just asked that Twisted Pine sent him a few cases of the incredibly spicy beer,…
Bryan Dayton is gearing up to rewrite the vodka martini-heavy drink list at Madison Street, and we can’t wait to see what the bartender has in store. In the meantime, there’s at least one cocktail already on the roster that we hope he considers keeping (and if he is going…
American Craft Beer Week is a beer drinker’s paradise, a week that celebrates small (and a few not-so-small) independent brewers around the country. There are a huge number of events going on this year in the Denver/Boulder area — not to mention the rest of the state — so not…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Breckenridge Brewing is hitting the airwaves with a TV campaign spoofing the big boys of the industry and the gimmicks that they use to sell beer. The four Truth in Beervertising ads feature Breckenridge head brewer Bob Harrington delivering one-liners in a deadpan voice that skewers the cold-indicator systems used…
Upslope Brewing has a big summer on tap. The Boulder brewery has just tripled the size of its taproom — a grand reopening party takes place on Thursday, May 12 — and will add a fourth canned beer, Upslope Craft Lager, to its all-can lineup in the next two weeks…
Pizza Fusion, which opens today at 571 East Colfax, in conjunction with Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, is pursuing a beer and wine liquor license that will add a roundup of liquid libations to go with its organically inclined, oval-shaped pies. The hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. on May…
There is no shortage of hop bombs when it comes to Colorado beers. Whether it’s Oskar Blues G’Knight, Dry Dock Double IPA, Odell Myrcenary, Great Divide Hercules, Avery Maharaja, or Ska Modus Hoperendi, hop heads can get their fill of beers brewed with huge quantites of that magical, sweetly bitter…
Feeling a little woozy from celebrating Cinco de Mayo? Perhaps you’d like to continue your Mexican-themed festivities and cure your hangover in a traditional way: sucking down a michelada…
New Belgium releases two new Lips of Faith beers this week, Abbey Grand Cru and Super Cru, which celebrates the Fort Collins brewery’s twentieth anniversary. Super Cru is a double version of Fat Tire, meaning it has twice the malt and twice the hops; it has also been enhanced with…
Double the pleasure, double the fun: That will likely be the sentiment of downtown denizens residing in the Prospect neighborhood, just west of Coors Field, if liquor licenses are approved for Tavern Prospect and Metro Liquor, both of which have posted separate liquor-license application signs on the cavernous, two-tiered, vacant…
When news about the hottest beer in the world, Ghost Face Killah, went national, the staff at Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing was a little nervous. After all, they’d named the beer, which is made with ghost peppers, after rapper Ghostface Killah from the Wu-Tang Clan without asking for his permission…
We knew something was up when we noticed Denver-area wine shops stocking up and tasting customers on the 2010 rosés a good four weeks ago. And by “something,” we mean the notion that maybe — just maybe — dry rosés have finally kicked that monkey of pink wine-prejudice off its…
If Senate Bill 60 passes out of the House, “on-premises” liquor licensees — meaning restaurants and bars, and restaurants and bars only — would be free, free to pour any beer they want to, even the 3.2 beer they’re now prevented from serving by the state’s archaic liquor laws, which…
