After just two and half years on Colfax Avenue, in the heart of Aurora’s Cultural Arts District, Mu Brewery will close its doors for good later this month. It is one of just a very few Denver-area craft breweries to shutter in the past decade, but in all likelihood, it…
The Brown Palace’s Ship Tavern is one of Denver’s most iconic bars. But a “soft” renovation that installed diner-style furniture could torpedo that reputation.
Good River Beer Company, which began brewing and selling beer in Denver in September 2015, will finally be able to open a taproom of its own. The owners said Thursday that they have secured a location in a 7,300-square-foot former warehouse at 1790 South Bannock Street, where they will build…
It’s high time we celebrate Denver’s most iconic bars, before another one issues a surprise last call. Here are ten watering holes with such great bones, history and atmosphere that we hope they never dry up.
Let’s be honest; there aren’t that many dive bars in Denver any more, let alone in West Washington Park, one of Denver’s more expensive neighborhoods. Some would assert that the Candlelight Tavern is a dive bar, while some would debate the definition of a dive bar for hours without coming…
Every year, millions of beer lovers around the world take to the Internet — on sites like BeerAdvocate and RateBeer — to rate, read up on or learn about the beers they are drinking or want to drink. Earlier this week, RateBeer compiled a state-by-state list of the beer and…
Food fans come from all over Colorado to try the unusual combination of brewery and Nepalese restaurant at Arvada’s venerable Yak & Yeti. “As a result, we get a lot of requests for our beer,” says Jeff Tyler, who took over as head brewer there last summer. So on February…
Hemp can’t get you high, but its association with marijuana is exciting to plenty of people in the craft beer industry, which has been swept up in the nationwide interest in all things cannabis. In February, a Colorado Springs hemp supplier called Major Hemp, in partnership with Denver’s Sleeping Giant…
With its short days and frigid nights, February can be a little dreary in Colorado. But not at Denver’s craft breweries and taprooms, which know just how to warm things up. Although there are only 28 days, the month is absolutely packed with brewery anniversaries, celebrations, tappings and small festivals, all of which you can find in our weekly Beer Calendar, which is posted online every Wednesday. In advance of that, here are ten sure bets for the month ahead.
As Crazy Mountain Brewery continues to grow into its newish Denver location — Breckenridge Brewery’s former headquarters at 470 Kalamath Street — the brewery is making significant changes to the missions of both that space and to its original brewery and taproom in Edwards. In December, the Crazy Mountain moved…
Although it’s a little newer to the scene than some, the Federal Bar and Grill has garnered a local following in the Jefferson Park and adjacent Highland neighborhood over the past four years. After taking over the space that the Micky Manor bar occupied for 79 years, Christopher and Nikki…
Despite their higher alcohol content and the fact that they resemble regular porters or even stouts, in both look and flavor, Baltic porters are not a common style in Colorado. Perhaps it’s because they are lagers, which means they can take up to twice as long to ferment. In Poland,…
Pliny the Younger, one of the rarest, most sought-after beers in the world, makes its annual return to Colorado in February when California’s Russian River Brewing trucks a precious few kegs of the cult beer over the Continental Divide. Russian River has been sending the highly-rated triple IPA to Colorado…
Boulder’s new-brewery scene was quiet for the majority of 2016. While existing powerhouses like Avery Brewing, Twisted Pine, Boulder Beer and Upslope all made news, no new breweries opened their doors during the first eleven months of the year. The most recent had been Vision Quest Brewery, which kicked things…
The West Highland Neighborhood has changed immensely over the years, but Mead Street Station has been a fixture for locals since 1994. I have always appreciated the bar for remaining casual and friendly in the sometimes hoity-toity strip of West 32nd Avenue near Lowell Boulevard that seems to sprout new…
Some of Colorado’s oldest breweries — including New Belgium, Great Divide, Avery and Left Hand, have revamped their beer lineups in recent months, and now one of the younger ones will make a big change as well. Boulder’s Upslope Brewing will stop canning Upslope Pale Ale — the first beer…
The building at 2376 15th Street has held a saloon since 1873. For the last 47 years, it’s been My Brother’s Bar. And although ownership is changing, this Denver icon will remain a landmark. And a great bar.
Craft beer has always been about the little guy. That’s part of its appeal, part of what attracts people — not just to the breweries themselves, but to the culture around them. So, it makes sense that a tiny craft-beer distributor might be able to forge a path as well,…
For the first time in its 23-year history, Great Divide Brewing made less beer during a twelve-month period than it did the year before — and not just by a little bit. The brewery produced 35,300 barrels of beer in 2016, down 16 percent from 41,900 barrels in 2015. “We…
A historic church building that was at the center of a long and bitter zoning dispute in Highlands Square will finally welcome a new tenant this year — one that may be the answer to some neighbors’ prayers. The owners of Oasis Brewing, which has a long history of its…
Despite working in the surrounding neighborhood for years, I had never made it to Phil’s Place. My coworker and I recently decided to stop in for a drink on a Friday after an event over at our office, which is just blocks from the unassuming little bar that sits on the…
We lost a lot of movie stars in 2016, but we also lost a lot of beers — beers that we were used to seeing on tap handles and on liquor-store shelves around town. They included not just all of the packaged beers from Wynkoop Brewing and Twisted Pine, but…
