At 4:20 on 4/20, this is just the place to raise a glass. Guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive…
Believe it or not, we have the Greeks to thank for Italian wine. Actually, we’d need to thank them for French and Spanish wine too, but the history of winemaking as we know it is largely believed to have begun with Greek settlements in and around ancient Rome. Italy is…
What do beer and pot have in common? Not much. In fact, there are plenty of smokers who hate beer drinkers and plenty of imbibers who scorn pot heads. But on 4/20, maybe we can all just get a long. Craft breweries seem to think it can work, and a…
Hamburger Mary’s Bar & Grille 700 East 17th Avenue 303-832-1333 hamburgermarysdenver.com…
Got the munchies? If so, there’s really only one place to be today: Cheba Hut. “We are throwing a party system-wide,” says Matthew Trethewey, spokesman for the Fort Collins-based sub sandwich chain, which has a dozen stores in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Oregon and celebrates its anniversary every year…
Kip Snider knows Colorado beer. “Great Divide does a bang-up job. I’ve always been a fan of New Belgium, and they are really stepping out of the box recently with some of their new beers,” he says. “Odell, Left Hand. I like all beer. Some of Avery’s stuff is my…
Govnr’s Park Tavern 672 Logan Street 303-831-8605 govnrspark.com…
It’s mid-April, and that means that homebrewers around Colorado are probably lazily toying with the idea of growing their own backyard hops. What would be cooler, after all, than growing your own ingredients for the beer you make in your basement? The only thing cooler? An entire Beer Garden –…
About this time of year, I’m itching for sun and surf. The weather can be such a tease — it might be 70 degrees today and snowing tomorrow — that I find myself dreaming of sitting by a beach or pool, sipping a fruity cocktail. Unfortunately, since 2010 is another…
The Place: Limon, 1618 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-322-0898 The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.; all night on Wednesday The Deal: Draft beers are $3; margaritas and mojitos are $4; house red and white wines by the glass are $5; small plates are also $5…
Chocolate porters, JuJu Ginger, raspberry ales. They all pair well with desserts. But what do you do if you want to go beyond the pairing and actually infuse include beers as an ingredient in you dessert? Boston’s Samuel Adams is trying to make it easy on people with a recipe…
Bryan Dayton, the bar manager of Frasca Food & Wine in Boulder, is leaving his gig of more than five years to join the über-talented mixology crew of Bitter Bar, the Boulder watering hole whose chief mixologist, Mark Stoddard, recently trotted home with gold in the 42 Below Cocktail World…
AC Golden Brewing Company, a small-batch brand incubator owned by Coors, released Colorado Native lager last week, it’s third major beer. Like Herman Joseph’s Private Reserve and Winterfest, Colorado Native is only available in Colorado. Because they love me, AC Golden dropped off a sixer of Colorado Native at the…
Now, though Monday, May 31, if you donate a pint of blood, Rock Bottom Brewery will replenish your body with a pint of beer. And it’s all for a very good cause…
If you’ve ever been awarded the honor of receiving the wine list upon being seated at a restaurant, only to open it and feel as though you were trying to decipher a foreign language, take heart. There’s no reason you can’t choose a winning wine for yourself (and your guests)…
Welcome back baseball! The Colorado Rockies play their home opener today at 2:10 p.m. against the San Diego Padres, followed by games on Saturday and Sunday, and you’ll need some good beer to go with your baseball. Here are some of our favorite places to drink up:…
That was fast. A few days ago, we were talking about Men’s Journal citing downtown’s “deliberately vey” bars — and wondering just where those bars were. Today, Dive on Fifteenth will make its deliberately divey debut in the former home of Tryst, which closed just last weekend. Owner Paul Piciocchi…
After a six-year absence, Durango’s Ska Brewing Company plans to begin selling its much loved (and occasionally scolded) Mexican Logger back to Denver. The summer seasonal is, you guessed it, a Mexican-style lager that that the brewery serves with limes in its tasting room and sells in bottles throughout southern…
The Place: Lola, 1575 Boulder Street, 720-570-8686. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. The Deals: Specialty cocktails and select red and white wines by the glass are $5; Tecate cans are $2; sangria is $4; and generously…
Baseball players go fishing in the off season and umpires have their eyes checked. But what about brewers — particularly the guys who run the Sandlot at Coors Field, which is only open during baseball season and only on game days? Turns out they just keep making beer and, in…
Do you think you’re tough? No, seriously, do you think you’re tough? Because if you have even a lingering doubt about the fortitude of your stomach lining or the iron sides of your throat, you won’t want to try the ghost wing challenge at Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids…
In celebration of Westword’s annual tribute to all that rocks in Denver, here are a few shout-outs to my personal favorite wine-centric places around the city. Best Wine List in a Restaurant: Table 6 609 Corona Street; 303-831-8800; www.table6denver.com Foodies and wine lovers alike have fallen in love with the…
