AC Golden Brewing Company, a tiny, Coors-owned microbrewery located inside the company’s Golden headquarters, released a new beer today called Colorado Native lager. It is only available in Colorado, in bottles and on tap. Created and brewed by AC Golden’s four-person staff, the amber lager is made with 99 percent…
Avery Brewing Company will release the fourth in its series of experimental one-and-done barrel-aged beers today at 5 p.m. at its tasting room in Boulder. The new brew is called Depuceleuse which, according the brewery, is a French term for a woman who deflowers men. It’s an extremely unusual beer…
Update: 1:32 p.m. Yard House spokeswoman Aurea Victoria confirms the location, saying “we are 99 percent through the process and it is very likely that we will be going in there. We just can’t say 100 percent yet. We are very excited to be going to downtown Denver.” Once the…
The Place: Sushi Den, 1487 South Pearl Street; 303-777-0826 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The Deal: Specialty happy hour sushi menu includes hand rolls, nigiri, tempura rolls, hot plates, platters and Japanese fish priced between $2.50 and $14; Select hot sake is half price…
After almost six years, Tryst will close after a last round of parties this weekend. Owner Paul Piciocchi plans to move the concept to Playa del Carmen — yes, in Mexico — and then reopen a “new, improved watering hole” in Tryst’s space at 1512 Larimer Street, in Writers Square…
I was never a big fan of Flying Dog Brewery’s beers when they were in Colorado, and I became even less of a fan after they picked up and moved to Maryland in 2008. But my friend Dave recently forced me to imbibe a bottle of Raging Bitch Belgian-style IPA,…
As we reported yesterday, Mark Stoddard, the chief mixologist of Happy in Boulder and its lounge counterpart, Bitter Bar, along with team cohorts Todd Thrasher of Washington, D.C., and Sean Hoard of New York City, took home gold in last week’s 42 Below Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand…
With spring officially sprung, it’s time to switch up your clothing, eat bushels of asparagus, and yes, drink wines that conjure up images of everything we love about spring. Look at the next three months as the perfect season for drinking wines that are as cozy as they are refreshing,…
If you’re Fergie, and your 34th birthday lands on the 22nd show of the Black Eyed Peas E.N.D. world tour, which happens to be in Denver, how do you celebrate? With a Bacardi V.I.Pea, which was served at the VIP after-party at Beta…
Mark Stoddard, a mixologist at Happy and its late-night alter-ego, Bitter Bar, was in New Zealand last week, competing in the 42Below Cocktail World Cup with fellow TeamUSA members Todd Thrasher of Washington, DC, and Sean Hoard of New York City. This contest is not for the timid. Over five…
“Gimme your best seasonal on tap,” I request as I belly up to the handcrafted bar at Twisted Pine Ale House (3201 Walnut Street, Boulder). Bartender Jody Valenta slides a sample of her favorite seasonal, Hoppy Man, across the planks and I can see why she digs it. (Check back…
Denver is a lush when it comes to beer, but that doesn’t mean the city’s been cut off. The producers of the Denver International Wine Festival & Competition for the past six years plans to hold a Denver International Beer Competition this May, followed by a June dinner that will…
The drink: Absinthe has such a splendid, uninhibited history — inspiring Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh and Oscar Wilde — that it must be great, right? And more of it must be even greater, right? Wrong. For its Sazerac — known as a Shazzerac ($10) — Shazz pours on the absinthe,…
Drink minimums make me think of strip clubs. Strip clubs make me feel dirty. By the transitive power of logical inference, then, drink minimums should make me feel dirty. Which they do, sort of — just not in the I-hate-to-see-you-subjugating-yourself-like-this kind of way. More in a defiant, dumbfounded, I-just-got-taken-advantage-of kind…
The Place: Venue, 3609 West 32nd Avenue; 303-477-0477 The Hours: Monday through Friday, from 4 until 6:30 p.m. The Deal: Small plates are priced between $3-12; all beer, wine, and cocktails are half-price The Digs: Contrary to what one would assume, Venue does not have a bar. The space is…
The annual Snowmass Chili Pepper Brew Fest in June attracts some of the best chili cooks in the state to an International Chili Society-sanctioned cook-off. It also attracts beer geeks looking to sample some of the best brews made in Colorado. So you would think that Twisted Pine Brewing Company’s…
People sure are funny about buying wine. Some go with a friend’s recommendation. Lots of people buy whatever’s on sale, or falls within their own personal “less than $12 is too cheap, but more than $20 is too expensive” wine price-to-quality indicator scale. Certain folks only buy wines which have…
Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies’ night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: “This letter is…
5:00 p.m. Arrive home, shuck off Working Professional disguise and gear up with the official uniform of St. Pat’s: green t-shirt, jeans, and comfy shoes for jigging. 5:15 p.m. Hustle to the bar to meet crew, shoving a sandwich engineered for maximum booze-sponging capabilities into mouth. Curse green clad revelers…
The Place: Olivea, 719 East Seventeenth Avenue, 303-861-5050 The Hours: Sunday through Friday from 5 until 7 p.m. The Deals: $5 select wines by the glass and small plates…
Dazzle, at 930 Lincoln Street, is already a great jazz bar with an incredibly expansive happy hour, both in terms of items — big burgers and fries (with homemade ketchup) for $5, a pot roast slider that’s a meal in itself for just two bucks — and hours (4 to…
Perfection is fleeting: snowmen melt, flowers fade, breasts sag. But sometimes you catch something at its apex and enjoy it for all it’s worth — until it’s gone. That is the story of bottomless mimosas at Sputnik, the hipster hangout at 3 South Broadway, which used to offer a $5…
