Some hotels provide guests with a bottle of wine; some with a little champagne. But at Hotel Monaco, beer has entered the pantheon of beverages brought to your room. And it’s about time. The luxury boutique hotel, at 1717 Champa Street, rolled out its Denver Brew and You promotion this…
Tequila makes my clothes come off.” “Drink more whiskey, fix my swamp cooler.” “Los Angeles, we can smell you.” These and a hundred other six-word memoirs, all scribbled on neon-colored note cards by patrons of the White Owl, fill a small box resting on the southern edge of the bar…
The Place: The 9th Door, 1808 Blake Street, 303-292-2229 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $3-5 house cocktails and sangria; $12 sangria carafes; $2-4 tapas The Digs: Walking into The 9th Door is like walking into the movie Aladdin, and happy hour there is…
The forthcoming August 31 issue of Wine Spectator includes the publication’s annual roundup of the world’s best restaurants for wine. More than 3,700 eateries, chosen for their commitment to excellence in their wine programs and large lists, were deemed worthy of the coveted mention…
The only thing better than drinking your favorite beer: wearing it. At least that’s what the founder of the Beer Buckle is hoping as he searches in Denver and Boulder for a place to open a new store dedicated to branded beer fashion. Jay Kriner founded the Beer Clothing Company…
A toast is in order. Randy Lastar, you’re the winner of our little beer limerick contest and your prize is a pair of tickets to Summer Brew Fest, which goes down this Friday, July 23 at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue. Thanks to all who played!…
As part of Denver’s Taste of the Nation/Share Our Strength benefit last night at Mile High Station, eight generous drink slingers from some of the city’s hottest bars participated in a spirited cocktail competition to raise money for the non-profit organization, whose mission it is to make sure that no…
“Oh My God! Oh My God!” What’s more amazing than a double rainbow? How about a double rainbow beer. “What does it mean??!!” Trinity Brewing in Colorado Springs has decided to brew Double Rainbow Saison, a Belgian-style beer based on the double rainbow YouTube video that went viral last week…
Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, at the Colorado Convention Center September 16-18, are selling fast, but so are passes to two of most popular events that take place in conjunction with the fest. Tickets for the Boulder County Brews Cruise — which is sponsored by Draft magazine –…
Lola has been pouring “copious amounts of Mexican lagers” for years, says Bryce Clark, a spokeswoman for the Highland hot spot’s parent company, Big Red F. So have Lola’s Mexican-influenced sister restaurants, Zolo and Centro Latin Kitchen. “But we’ve never been truly happy with their taste,” Clark says of imported…
The Place: Colt & Gray, 1553 Platte Street, 303-477-1447 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $5 draft beer and specialty cocktails; $6 select wines by the glass; food specials range from $3 to $7. The Digs: The aura of Colt & Gray dances a…
I lived in New York City after college and longed for the day I could go to one of the many expensive restaurants I read about in New York magazine — but I was barely able to pay my rent, much less splurge on an expensive meal. That, of course,…
Every July 14, Frenchmen and francophiles alike revel in Bastille Day celebrations around the world. They’re all fêteing that historic day in 1789 when French liberal political groups staged an infamous uprising against Louis XVI and the French monarchy at the Bastille prison in Paris. To you, this may seem…
With a bar made from beetle-kill pine and a beer list that specializes in German styles, Elk Mountain Brewing became Colorado’s newest microbrewery on July 1 when it opened at 18921 Plaza Drive, Unit 104, in an industrial part of Parker. The brewery and tasting room – complete with a…
Want to win two tickets to Denver’s Summer Brew Fest on Friday, July 23? Of course you do! We have two such tickets to give away on Cafe Society this week. All you have to do to win is impress us with your best beer-centric limerick in the comments section…
Two of Boulder’s successful small breweries are adding to their tasting rooms and helping to pump up the city’s already strong beer culture. Twisted Pine Brewing Company — which was founded in 1995 and moved into its current location at 3201 Walnut Street in 2003 — will expand its production…
The Place: Panzano, 909 17th Street, 303-296-3525 The Hours: Everyday from 2:30 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $4 wines by the glass, $5 specialty cocktails; $3-4 happy hour small plates The Digs: Panzano is cool. Panzano is chic. And, most important, Panzano is comfortable. This corner restaurant…
There is nothing like the Great American Beer Festival anywhere on earth. Featuring 2,000 beers from more than 450 breweries, it is the largest craft beer fest in the world, and a trip to Denver is on the life lists of every beer lover in the United States. But it…
Breckenridge Brewery is almost old enough to drink. The company, which was founded in 1990 by Richard Squire, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary this week with a couple of parties and a nod to strong sales. Breckenridge is now the state’s third oldest microbrewery and the 46th largest nationwide…
The Great American Beer Festival has snagged Boulder chef and Top Chef Season 5 winner Hosea Rosenberg, who will give a presentation on street-food trends and beer. Rosenberg recently partnered with Laura Rice to open StrEAT Chefs, a tricked-out Airstream trailer that cruises Boulder, serving gourmet street food like tortas…
I can’t be the only person who got served multiple frostbitten glasses of sauvignon blanc during last month’s heat wave. Now that we’ve turned the corner into July where an onslaught of sweltering happy hours await us, we can only pray for salvation from glasses full of limp Rioja and…
It’s the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there’s nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It’s hard to go…
