The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
I’ve always thought of Hamburger Mary’s as a place for burgers rather than beers. This is partially because I’m a breeder (and a married one at that), and Mary’s is a gay bar with a packed calendar of drag-show and Cycle Sluts Bingo entertainment. Not that there’s anything wrong with…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
The question, says Jenson Cummings, the sous chef at TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, is whether wine or beer pairs better with exec chef Troy Guard’s food. You can be one of fifty people to make that decision tonight, when Guard hosts a $75 per person beer vs. wine dinner at…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
Nate Windham, cocktail and spirits specialist, created the bar program at Paragon Culinary School in Colorado Springs in 2003. He’s currently the head bartender at The Office@Blondies at 20 North Tejon Street in the Springs, and a proud member of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. Earlier this month, he left his…
Colorado makes some of the best beers in the world. Am I biased? Maybe, but I’m also right. Luckily for the rest of the nation, many of these brews are available on liquor store shelves in other parts of the country. But not all of them. Some only come from…
I made a mad dash for the hills this past weekend, partially to decompress and partly to do what I do best: Eat and drink. And while I did both equally well, I spent the majority of my time imbibing in the sitting area of a magnificent dining room rusticated…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check the Cafe Society blog through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society all week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing their…
The Great American Beer Festival begins in three days, and if you want to be ready for it, you should check with Café Society every afternoon for our survival tips. Because let’s face it: For the average, beer-drinking Joe, the Great American Beer Festival can be a sweaty, draining sausage-fest…
With Denver Beer Fest under way, the city is overflowing with beery events. Tonight at 6:30 p.m., Avery Brewery is sponsoring a Beers, Brats & Burlesque: Tastings & Tassels extravaganza at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street; while Avery experts guide you through a full selection of their beers, you…
Esquire magazine has unleashed its annual roster of the Best Bars in America, a compilation of the top 100 degenerate dives, sultry saloons, blue collar pubs and highbrow haunts across America, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, that are apparently worth their weight in fine (and not so fine)…
The Great American Beer Festival begins just six days from now. If you want to be ready (and believe me, we are soooo ready), you’ll need to check in here every afternoon for some lowdown, some insight and some tips on how to do it right. In the meantime, here’s…
What do you get when you cross a framed Farrah Fawcett photo with Jesus candles and bottles of Jack, Knob Creek and Colorado’s own Stranahan’s? If you’re anything like those of us sitting at the bar where the above pic was snapped, there’s only one answer to that question: Drunk…
“These are my peeps,” proclaimed Mayor John Hickenlooper, the geologist-turned-brewpub-owner-turned-politician. He gestured to the crowd of brewers and other beery folks who’d gathered at the Wynkoop Brewing Co., the brewpub that Hick and a hearty crew of entrepreneurs started in LoDo more than twenty years ago. The Mayor is no…
The Great American Beer Festival begins a week from today. If you want to be ready (and believe me, we are soooo ready), you’ll need to check in here every afternoon for some lowdown, some insight and some tips on how to do it right. Last year, I dissed on…
Denver is really reaping the benefits of Harvest Week. Chefs aren’t the only ones doing wonders with local produce; bartenders have gotten into the act, too. Last night I had the most glorious smoked Colorado bass with heirloom tomatoes, green chile goat cheese, pepitas and peach dressing at one of…
Vince Martinez of Maloney’s Tavern nabbed first place at the Hpnotiq bartender competition Tuesday night at Suite Two Hundred, beating out eight other local bartenders. Each had to create a drink that featured Hpnotiq, a liqueur made from a blend of vodka, cognac and tropical fruit juices. Martinez got top…
The Summit, a longtime steakhouse that knows how to sell the sizzle as well as the steak (it puts a pat of butter on the steak sizzling on a hot, hot platter) has redecorated and renamed the bar portion of its space at 2700 South Havana Street in Aurora. The…
The Colorado Mountain Winefest kicks off today and continues through Sunday, September 20, in Palisade. Head to the hills for workshops, competitions, grape stomps, tours, jazz concerts, artisan booths, a bicycle tour of the vineyards and much more. For more for information on the festival, and to see just how…
