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2010 Stories by Jonathan Shikes

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  FEATURED STORY

  Double Rainbow and four other intense Colorado beers to try soon

  published Dec 10, 2010

  I love holiday beers. But that's not all that Colorado's breweries are putting out right now. Here are five beers that have just been released -- or are about to be -- that were brewed simply because... More >>

• Scott McInnis, 2010 Shmuck of the Year nominee

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Westword is asking readers to help us select a Shmuck of the Year by rolling out a new candidate each week throughout the month of December. The winner -- loser -- will be announced on January 3. O... More >>

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  Portland beats Denver as a beer city, hands down

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Portland is a better beer town than Denver. As a Denver native, it pains me to say that, but after having visited Beervana for the first, time, there is no getting around it. While Denver brewers con... More >>

• Mike Coffman, our Shmuck of the Week, says food stamps cause kids to get fat

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Colorado food banks have seen "a staggering increase in need," the Denver Post reported this week, and 12.2 percent of households "were categorized as food insecure in 2009." The answer, according to... More >>

• Josh McDaniels, 2010 Shmuck of the Year nominee

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Each and every week, Westword bequeaths the Shmuck of the Week award to the person -- or thing -- who forces normally Mile High Coloradans to hold their heads low. And at the end of every year, West... More >>

• The Wynkoop brews InaugurAle for John Hickenlooper's throning

  published Dec 01, 2010

  As if the Wynkoop Brewing Company didn't have enough going on today -- it announced that it will join with Breckenridge Brewing -- it has also named (tentatively) the beer it plans to brew in honor of... More >>

• The Dark Side of the Holidays

  published December 2, 2010

  The Christmas season is a time for lights – just look at your neighbor’s sun-like display – but for beer drinkers, it’s also a... More >>

• Cold Comfort Tavern seeks neighborhood support for craft beer bar and restaurant

  published Nov 30, 2010

  The owners of the proposed Cold Comfort Tavern will host the powerful Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods on Thursday to talk about plans for their Seventh Avenue craft beer bar and restaurant. Cold Co... More >>

• The warm taste of Maui Brewing is on its way to chilly Colorado

  published Nov 29, 2010

  On November 15, a shipment of Maui Brewing Company's canned beers left Hawaii by boat, bound for one of the ports in Southern California -- and eventually for Colorado. It hasn't arrived yet. But it... More >>

• BrewDog's Sink the Bismarck, the highest alcohol beer in the world, docks in Colorado

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Sink the Bismarck, the highest-alcohol beer in the world, has finally made it to Colorado. The "quadruple IPA," at 41 percent alcohol by volume, is made by Scotland's controversial and attention-seek... More >>

• B-cycle gets ready to hibernate for the winter

  published Nov 26, 2010

  This is your second to last weekend to take a ride on a B-cycle before the bikes are pulled from the streets for the winter on December 6. The now-iconic red bikes made their debut last April and will... More >>

• The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins serves with dishonor

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Last week, Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council in Colorado Springs, said that if the United States ends the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the military, it could bring back the dr... More >>

• Denver County Fair announces time and place

  published Nov 26, 2010

  Local events promoter Dana Cain has locked down the time and place for the brand-new Denver County Fair. The event, envisioned as a hip, urban version of the classic rural-style county fair, will be h... More >>

• NYT: All the alien news that's fit to print

  published Nov 26, 2010

  The UFO Watchtower in Hooper (part of Westword's weird and wonderful Summer Guide from 2009) is many things: fascinating and disappointing, endearing and strange. There isn't much there -- just a meta... More >>

• Black Friday starts with a bang on Twitter

  published Nov 26, 2010

  It was dark, it was twenty degrees outside, and some jerk took just bought the last half-price camera at Target. Welcome to #blackfriday. But maybe you're still home in bedr Well, here's a taste of w... More >>

• Bubba Chinos will open its newest burrito kitchen on East Colfax

  published Nov 24, 2010

  Leonard Cordova, the grandson of the late and legendary Chubby's founder Stella Cordova, plans to open his ninth Bubba Chino's restaurant this spring at the corner of East Colfax and Franklin Street i... More >>

• The pilgrims liked beer: Here's how you can honor them over the Thanksgiving holiday

  published Nov 24, 2010

  There are many rumors about the pilgrims and beer. Some say they landed on Plymouth Rock because they ran out of the sudsy stuff. Others claim they drank it on the voyage over because it was safer th... More >>

• Mercury Cafe drops Wynkoop beers in favor of all-organic Asher Brewing

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Like every business owner, Marilyn Megenity has to make tough decisions. But one of her most recent ones was tougher than most. Earlier this month, she decided to switch all twelve taps at the Mercur... More >>

• US OpenAir's movie pull-out treats Denver to a dinner for Shmucks of the Week

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Over the past two years, Denver has had a close encounter with Massachusetts-based US OpenAir, which wanted to charge a ridiculous amount of easy money to build a grandstand and show movies in two of ... More >>

• Free beer: Get on our Westword #WebAwards guest list for tonight

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Hey beer drinkers. Do you like free beerr Well, you can have one tonight at the quasi-private Web Awards party we're having at Casselman's, 2620 Walnut Street, to celebrate the best of the web in Den... More >>

• Ten of the most ridiculous Foursquare mayorships in Denver

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Drummer Crawford Philleo is the Foursquare mayor of the bathroom at Gabor's on Thirteenth Avenue because he was mad that another user, Colfax J, took over the mayorship of Gabor's itself. Funny. But n... More >>

• Beer-jolais Nouveau: Could fresh hops do for beer what Beaujolais Nouveau does for winer

  published Nov 18, 2010

  On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn't powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its m... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  King Soopers may be the best worst thing to happen to Denver boozers in a while

  published Nov 18, 2010

  King Soopers didn't merely open a liquor store inside its massive new grocery at Leetsdale Drive and South Cherry Street yesterday. It declared war. War on other liquor stores, big and small, in cen... More >>

• CBS Sunday Morning wakes up with the Wynkoop

  published Nov 17, 2010

  America will get a beery wake-up call on Sunday morning when CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood highlights the Wynkoop Brewing Company on its annual pre-Thanksgiving show, one that is typically de... More >>

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  Rock Bottom Brewing merges with Gordon Biersch, plans no major changes

  published Nov 16, 2010

  Rock Bottom Brewing, which was founded in Denver in 1991 and now has 35 locations nationwide, has merged with the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch brewpub chain to form one of the largest craft beer-foc... More >>