Bars & Breweries

Fat Sully’s Pizza 3237 East Colfax Avenue 303-333-4440 www.fatsullyspizza.com Atomic Cowboy 3237 East Colfax Avenue 303-377-7900 www.atomiccowboy.net…

Summer in Colorado means beer and, even better, beer festivals — from the Chili Pepper & Brew Fest in Snowmass to the Rails & Ales Brewfest outside Alamosa to the Summer Brew Fest in Denver — bringing together the sloppy drunk and the snobbiest, cultured beer connoisseurs in disharmonious consumption…

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, some people might say that summer has officially started. Others might insist that It’s now officially, unrepentantly, rosé drinking season. A few weeks ago I threw down the 2010 Rosé Drinking Challenge and gave you four reasons to get over your rosé-phobia…

One of the highest-altitude wineries in Colorado is opening a tasting room this weekend and launching two new wines. Starting today, Fox Fire Farms’ new wine-tasting room will be open daily from 1 to 6 p.m. The farm is in Ignacio, about half an hour southeast of Durango, at about…

For the past year, under sexy lighting in TAG’s chic modern dining room, Troy Guard has put out his particular brand of East meets West fusion,while Mike Henderson and his staff of mixologists craft equally flashy spirits concoctions to pair. There’s a changing of the guard under way, though: Henderson…

The Cheeky Monk will open its third location Sunday in the Orchard Town Center, at 14694 Orchard Parkway, in Westminster, with two separate bars – one that focuses on old-world Belgian beers and one featuring U.S. craft brews. The Belgian beer café, which also has spots on Colfax Avenue and…

One hundred and sixty nine votes later, the Denver Roller Dolls have a name for their signature Wynkoop Brewing Company beer: Denver Roller Dolls Lead Jammer Lager. The beer, brewed especially for the Dolls, is reportedly a “pre-Prohibition-style lager” that’s “smooth and elegant.” The Dolls held a contest to name…

Cork House Restaurant 4900 East Colfax Avenue 303-355-4489 www.corkhousedenver.com…

El Noa Noa Restaurant 722 Santa Fe Drive 303-623-9968…

If you can’t get to South Africa to party with the natives above, where can you watch the World Cup and get a feel for the global flavor of the world’s game? That’s what reader Timothy wants to know: I was wondering if you guys knew of anything exciting going…

Remember the time you invited twenty people to a party and 150 showed up? As Kelly says in the Outlaw Josey Wales, “Yep, first the silver run out, then the people run out, then the whiskey run out, then the beer run out.” That’s sort of what happened to the…

The Place: Bistro One, 1294 South Broadway, 720-974-0602 The Hours: Daily from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: Draft beers are between $3 and $4; house wines are $4; specialty cocktails go for $6; appetizers range from $3 to $5…

Smoked beers are something you either love or hate. They taste – as one beerdrinker recently put it to me – “like drinking a barbecue pit.” I love them. I don’t know why, but there is something about the way that smoky, barbecue pit flavor meshes with the beer that…

Icehouse Tavern 1801 Wynkoop Street 303-292-3775 www.icehouselodo.com…

Cafe Coloré 1512 Larimer Street 303-534-6844 www.cafecoloredenver.com…

The Bitter Bar may not have needed much more momentum to rise to the top of the Colorado cocktail scene, but it was set to take another great leap forward when it locked in mixologist Bryan Dayton, the president of the Colorado chapter of the US Bartender’s Guild, to craft…

The wine world has been buzzing all month over the latest issue of Wine Spectator magazine, which has finally acknowledged that not only are screw tops (aka Stelvin closures) perfectly acceptable for wine, they actually fared better than traditional and synthetic cork in terms of keeping wine fresh and ultimately…

Two months ago, Colt & Gray bartender Noah Heaney barely edged out another Colt & Gray barman, Kevin Burke, in a sudden-death mix-off when the two tied for first at the Colorado chapter of the US Bartender’s Guild Don Q rum competition. The prize: a trip to New York to…

The Denver Roller Dolls have narrowed the number of possible names for their signature beer down to ten — and now they want the public’s help in choosing the winner. The beer, brewed especially for the Dolls by the Wynkoop Brewing Company, is reportedly a “pre-Prohibition-style lager” that’s “smooth and…

Bombay Clay Oven 165 Steele Street 303-377-4454 bombayclayoven.com…

In all the talk of Colorado cocktails, a few folks have mentioned the Colorado Bulldog, a variation on a White Russian. Here’s one sample recipe: 1 shot vodka 1 shot Kahlua milk 1 splash Coca-Cola In a shaker, mix vodka, Kahlua and milk. Pour into a rocks glass and add…

Leave it to the guys at Oskar Blues Brewery to create a beer festival dedicated strictly to canned craft beer – and why not, since they were the ones who did it first. On June 26, the company will host Burning Can, a festival at Sandstone Park in Lyons (where…