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Beer and Cheer: Isolation Ale

Isolation Ale Odell Brewing Company Fort Collins Isolation Ale is one of several local winter warmers - Avery's Old Jubilation, Boulder Beer's Never Summer and Breckenridge Brewery's Christmas Ale among them. But this traditional English-style strong ale is lighter and easier to drink than some of ... More >>

It's a battle of the boozes at Baur's

When I sit down for a fancy four-course meal, I don't ask for too much. Just the basics: maybe some friends, some warm bread....and three separate beverage teams trying to pair each course in a battle royale for my taste buds. Next Tuesday, Denver will bear witness to what is being called the "First ... More >>

Beer and Cheer

The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.

Ale Watch

The Winter Brew Fest will warm your cold-weather blues.

Aphrodisiac

Power and sex combine for a titillating production.

Hole in One

Putt down a few beers at the Country Club Classic.

The holidays are here for the Colorado Brewers Guild

​Having trouble finding your favorite seasonal brew? The Colorado Brewers Guild is working on that. And on Tuesday evening, the Guild -- a trade group representing the majority of the 110-plus craft beer-makers in the state -- hosted liquor store and restaurant reps at its second annual holid ... More >>

Tonight: Mephistopheles shows its age in Boulder

​For some fun with beer, head to the Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, at 5 p.m. tonight, when Avery will be breaking out its latest version of the Mephistopheles Stout. It will also be pouring the four previous versions, so you can taste the changes from year to year. Admission ... More >>

Tonight: Sip on Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout

​Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, releases its Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout (aged in Gosling Rum barrels) today; the limited, one-time release will be celebrated with Black Tot Day: Then and Now. Visit the tap room between 5 and 8 p.m. for a taster ($3 a piece) and to grab ... More >>

Tonight: The inaugural Craft Beer Bartender Challenge

​Slinging craft beers requires knowledge beyond the basic pour. Everybody knows what Bud Light tastes like, but how many people can answer on-the-fly questions about lager versus ale, hops versus malts and everything in between? From 6 to 9:30 p.m. tonight, Left Hand Brewing Company and the ... More >>

Today: Snap up some tickets to the inaugural Sour Fest! Now!

​The inaugural Boulder Sour Fest has been sold out for a while now, but give thanks to the gods of pucker-inducing beer: Additional tickets are going on sale today at 8 a.m. at www.ticketalternative.com/events/9351.aspx. (The address won't work until 8 a.m.) Tickets are extremely limited, so ... More >>

Flick Pick

​The inaugural Boulder Sour Fest has been sold out for a while now, but give thanks to the gods of pucker-inducing beer: Additional tickets are going on sale today at 8 a.m. at www.ticketalternative.com/events/9351.aspx. (The address won't work until 8 a.m.) Tickets are extremely limited, so ... More >>

The star of Off and Running leaps forward into the past

​The inaugural Boulder Sour Fest has been sold out for a while now, but give thanks to the gods of pucker-inducing beer: Additional tickets are going on sale today at 8 a.m. at www.ticketalternative.com/events/9351.aspx. (The address won't work until 8 a.m.) Tickets are extremely limited, so ... More >>

Avery Brewing will bust your cherry with Depuceleuse

​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 unusu ... More >>

Ale Force

​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 unusu ... More >>

The West End Tavern hits the road in a Boulder Brew Bus

The Boulder Brew Bus​Boulderites have been going to the West End Tavern for years to sample its distinguished selection of craft brews, including some hard to find specialties. But beginning on June 20, the West End will be taking its customers to the beer.

Colt & Gray's patio opens Sunday with a pig roast and punch

​ Nestled between the two walking bridges that connect the Lower Highland neighborhood to LoDo, Colt & Gray's patio makes for good people-watching, the perfect place to sip a bubbly aperitif while cyclists, rollerbladers and families meander by. That patio opens this Sunday with plenty of fan ... More >>

On the Ale Trail

​ Nestled between the two walking bridges that connect the Lower Highland neighborhood to LoDo, Colt & Gray's patio makes for good people-watching, the perfect place to sip a bubbly aperitif while cyclists, rollerbladers and families meander by. That patio opens this Sunday with plenty of fan ... More >>

Red, white and brew: beers that will show your colors on July 4

​It's the Fourth of July weekend (yes, it is here already) and you need some beer to drink to property get into the spirit of things. Well, there's nothing more American than Red, White and Blue, so try these beers for a truly festive fourth. Red: It's hard to go wrong with Odell Brewing's R ... More >>

Today: Celebrate Avery Brewing's anniversary

A Flickr photo​Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, for today's Avery Anniversary Party celebrating Avery brews; admission is $20 and includes all-you-can-eat barbecue, live music and more -- a rare beer tasting option is an additional $20. The celebration runs from no ... More >>

Avery Brewing gets the cans rolling this week

Avery Brewing CompanyCan you handle it?​Avery Brewing began canning its first beer, Joe's Premium American Pilsner, yesterday and plans to have four of its brews in cans and on liquor-store shelves by September 1. The Boulder company had planned to start canning on June 1, but was delayed by ... More >>

Flagstaff House cancels its beer dinner, but here's a six-pack of other beer-and-food pairings you shouldn't miss

​The beer extravaganza of the year is upon us. Starting this weekend, hundreds of breweries from around the country will descend upon the Mile High City for the Denver Beer Fest and the Great American Beer Festival. With so many rare brewed beverages suddenly available, it takes a lot of will ... More >>

Colorado beer was in fine form at the Great COntenders kick-off event

​Dozens and dozens of Colorado breweries will send hundreds of beers to the judges this week at the Great American Beer Festival, and to wish them good luck, the Wynkoop Brewing Company held a kick-off party last night. The Great COntenders, part of Denver Beer Fest, included 61 beers from 22 ... More >>

If Coors won big at the Great American Beer Festival, who lost out?

​Four of Colorado's biggest and best-known craft brewers, Avery, Breckenridge, Odell and Oskar Blues, were shut out of last month's Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony, while several other major brewers in the state barely made the cut. In fact, of the 41 medals awarded to Colorado b ... More >>

Tonight -- and all weekend long: Avery Brewing hosts Demonic Halloween Celebrations

​The Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, is promising "Scary Good Beer" at this year's Demonic Halloween Celebrations. Keep reading for the full lineup of weekend events.

Tonight: A Taste of Mexico at Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace

Head south of the border by heading north to Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl Street in Boulder, which will present a Taste of Mexico at 7:30 p.m. tonight. The menu is inspired by famous dishes of Jalisco, and they're paired with Avery brews. Dinner is $35; for more details, call ... More >>

Tonight: DuganA Release Party at Avery Tap Room

​Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue, Unit B1 in Boulder, will host the DuganA Release Party from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight to celebrate Avery's latest IPA. For details, call 303-440-4324 or go to www.averybrewing.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Foo ... More >>

The Strong Survive

​Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Avenue, Unit B1 in Boulder, will host the DuganA Release Party from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight to celebrate Avery's latest IPA. For details, call 303-440-4324 or go to www.averybrewing.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Foo ... More >>

More equals less: Colorado breweries are pulling out of some states as they grow in others

Great Divide Brewing​Great Divide made beer drinkers in six states cry last week when the Denver brewery acknowledged that it had pulled its beers from the shelves there. In addition to Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Mexico and Alaska, the brewer is leaving Washington, D.C ... More >>

Ten beers that will make you a man -- if they don't kill you first

Avery's ​Mephistopheles' Stout​You're a man, so by definition, everything you do must be manly, right? Wrong. There are hundreds of beers out there to choose from, lining the liquor store shelves and bar taps like kids waiting to get picked for a game of recess football. But only a very of ... More >>

A Toast to Women

Avery's ​Mephistopheles' Stout​You're a man, so by definition, everything you do must be manly, right? Wrong. There are hundreds of beers out there to choose from, lining the liquor store shelves and bar taps like kids waiting to get picked for a game of recess football. But only a very of ... More >>

Boulder Sourfest: Hundreds of beer lovers puckered up at Avery on Saturday

​Hundreds of beer geeks gathered at Avery Brewing Company on Saturday to enjoy one of the strangest, most inaccessible beer styles in the world -- and they loved every funky minute of it. The second annual Boulder Sourfest attracted 37 breweries, who poured nearly 75 beers - all of them brewe ... More >>

Colorado beer calender for the week: Captain Midnight saves the day at Bull & Bush

​Saturday, June 18, was supposed to be the day of the second annual Burning Can festival, an all-canned beer bonanza featuring craft beers from around Colorado and the rest of the country. Sadly, it was not to be. Oskar Blues, which created and hosts the event, canceled it, saying logistical i ... More >>

Lisa Norton, hit & swim driver, charged with 1st degree murder in Gabriel Nielsen crash (8)

Big pic below.​In a month filled with very strange crimes, Lisa Norton's alleged hit-and-swim accident, which killed Gabriel Nielsen and badly injured his sister and daughter, still managed to stand out. And as an indication of the incident's shocking nature, she's been accused of first-degree ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Beer Culture the Movie screens; Breckenridge Brewing turns 21

​Every time I think that there can't possibly be enough room in the market for another brewery in Denver, I step into a packed tap room and I change my mind. In fact, it's so difficult to get a seat sometimes at places like Great Divide and Dry Dock, that both places could probably double in s ... More >>

Score free food and drink at the Justice League of Street Food party on Saturday

​The Justice League of Street Food, the convoy of food trucks and carts that gave a whole new meaning to pavement cuisine when it became a superpower of street food last summer, is gearing up for its second party of the season -- and we're giving one Cafe Society reader (and a guest) free rein ... More >>

Ten Colorado bartenders will showcase beer cocktails at Star Bar this weekend

​It was late last year when we started spying beer cocktails in bars. There were just a few at first, and most of them were basic twists on micheladas or other fizzy drinks -- experimental and not always tasty. But lately, the beer cocktail has become a veritable trend, with ale making its way ... More >>

Happy Friday: Here's a good place to find a date

​In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle there over cappuccinos. And because we're big proponents of ditching online dating and blind set-ups every now and then in favor of meeti ... More >>

Avery Brewing will bottle Rumpkin Imperial Ale, its cult-favorite seasonal pumpkin beer

​Kids wait for candy around Halloween. Adults -- at least the big beer loving kind -- well, they wait for Rumpkin, Avery Brewing's tricky barrel-aged treat. And this year, they'll be able to fill their spooky buckets and pillowcases with bottles.

Reader: Does a tap room have to be in Denver to be one of Denver's best tap rooms?

The gang's all beer at Denver Beer Co.​Denver is awash in beer -- and in opinions about beer, about Jonathan Shike's suggestion of five ways to freshen up the Great American Beer Festival, and about Laura Shunk's list of the area's five best tap rooms. No Liquids and Solids? No Amato's Ale Ho ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Great American Beer Festival edition

Falling Rock's Chris Black greets Maui Brewing owner Garrett Marrero on Tuesday.​Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there's this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver -- which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. An ... More >>

When BMOCA put spray paint and martinis in one room, this is what happens

Craft time at BMOCA​An event means business when you walk in and are asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that you accept the risks of using toxic substances. About forty people accepted those risks last night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art's Graffiti and Martinis and congregated in ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Sausage at Denver Beer Co; Black Friday at Copper Kettle

​Avery Brewing has created an online petition at change.com, urging the brewery's fans to support an effort in Boulder to change the zoning code to allow breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allow ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Open beery holiday treats at local breweries

​Holiday beers are on tap all around town, and you'll find some good ones right at the source -- at the breweries that make them. Some of the wintery wonders you can try include Ugly Sweater at Wit's End Brewing, Winter Spice Ale (with star anise, vanilla soaked in rum, ginger and allspice) at ... More >>

The ten best Colorado beers of 2011

​Colorado breweries released dozens of amazing beers this year, further expanding their range and making once-exotic beers easy to find and enjoy. A few stood out above the rest, though. To make this list, the beers needed to have been new year-round offerings, seasonals that will return, old ... More >>

Colorado beers to look forward to in early 2012

​The past twelve months have seen the release of some truly amazing canned and bottled beers in Colorado, and 2012 is shaping up to be quite a big year as well.

Beer calendar: Firkins on First Friday and Peanut Butter Porter at Renegade

Renegade Brewing tasters.​Have you run the gauntlet at Star Bar? If not, you've got through February 6 to try and drink thirty Avery Brewing beers available at the hip Larimer Street beer bar. For starters, you'll need to drink all of these: IPA, White Rascal, Ellie's Brown, Joe's Pilsner, Out ... More >>

Two new wild ales from Avery Brewing bridge the gap between beer and wine

​Beer is made from fermented barley. Wine is made from fermented grapes. So what do you call a beverage that uses both? The answer is Récolte Sauvage.