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A handful of breweries? CNN's beer-city list misses the mark on Denver

If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you've probably seen CNN's list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists produced by national magazines and websites, it certainly had its share of problems. But for my purpo ... More >>

Beer calendar: Renegades, superheroes and American Craft Beer Week

Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scene? Neither did I. But Brian Jansing and Paul Vismara, two longtime suds slingers at the Falling Rock Taphouse, did, and they've traveled all over Italy, researching the movement as it grew from fewer than twenty craft breweries in 1996 to nearly ... More >>

Frisco's Backcountry Brewery expands, will send bottled brews to Denver

For the past sixteen years, Backcountry Brewery has sold a lot of beer during the winter months and done decent business in the summer. But like any other ski-town brewery, it has struggled during the rest of the year. "Recently, we started experiencing more demand, but because of the seasonality up ... More >>

Ten biggest Colorado craft beer stories in 2012

Colorado craft breweries and their many fans enjoyed a spectacular year in 2012, as the options for consuming locally made beer continued to grow and fill our tastebuds with joy. If the state's 160-plus breweries weren't expanding, then they were adding new beers or welcoming friendly competitors. A ... More >>

Huge holiday seasonals, ugly sweaters and a Yeti sighting in this week's beer calendar

Here are two beery deadlines to note: If you are entering a home-brewed stout into the Mountain Sun/Vine Street Pub Stout Month contest, the deadline is Saturday, December 16. The winner gets to brew the beer at Mountain Sun and have it served in February alongside all of the brewery's other beers. ... More >>

Anders Fridén of metal act In Flames becomes honorary brewer at Great Divide

Great Divide Brewing has been distributing its beers to Sweden for years via Great Brands -- a craft-beer-focused Swedish distributor that carries a handful of American brews, including those from Avery, Left Hand, Oskar Blues and Ska. The Denver brewery has garnered many fans in Scandinavia since, ... More >>

In Flames frontman visits Great Divide Brewing

Great Divide Brewing has been distributing its beers to Sweden for years via Great Brands -- a craft-beer-focused Swedish distributor that carries a handful of American brews, including those from Avery, Left Hand, Oskar Blues and Ska. The Denver brewery has garnered many fans in Scandinavia since, ... More >>

Cold Snaps

Do the Hoppa at Copper Kettle and the Friek at Odell

Last week, we told you about Boulder Beer Company's cameo in an episode of Parks and Recreation -- but this wasn't the only Colorado brewery to get a little air time. A can of Dale's Pale Ale made it into a reenactment scene in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, which premiered on November ... More >>

Joy Wine & Spirits will host a chili extravaganza this Sunday

Joy Wine & Spirits's second annual Chili Cook-off will take place this Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. in the parking lot behind the shop at 1302 East Sixth Avenue. The family-friendly block party and competition features an impressive lineup of local restaurants: Fruition, Barolo, Mizuna, Table 6, Potag ... More >>

Fresh hops, Freshcraft and fresh beer in this week's beer calendar

Wynkoop Brewing Company is gearing up for the Great American Beer Festival and recently tapped a couple of its rarest but most outstanding beers. Orville is a blend of a couple of unusual beers: a pale ale fermented with brettanomyces in four wooden barrels for six weeks, and the same beer fermented ... More >>

Contest: Win free food and booze to tomorrow's Justice League of Street Food soiree

UPDATE: The winner of our contest is tropicalchrome1, who guessed 257 shots. The actual number of shots sold is 270. ________________________________________________________________________ There are tons of deviations this weekend to tear you away from the comfort of your couch (and the Olympics) ... More >>

Avery Beer Dinner at TAG pours out the pairings tonight

TAG, 1441 Larimer Street, is hosting a five-course dinner featuring Strasburg Game Birds this evening at 7 p.m. Each course will be paired with not one but two beers from Avery Brewing. "We're daring," jokes TAG's marketing director Susi Kim. "But seriously, Avery has such a great portfolio and we ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Dry Dock brings back a seasonal favorite

The third annual Denver International Beer Competition takes place this weekend at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, a contest that last year received more than 190 entries from brewers in more than twenty states and six countries. The gold-medal winners will be showcased at the Taste of El ... More >>

Euclid Hall brings back its Tuesday Brew Bites program pairing beer and food

The beer and food experts at Euclid Hall had so much fun pairing small bites with rare and unusual beers in January during the restaurant's Beer Month, that they've decided to continue the Brew Bites program through at least March. Each Tuesday (except for the two during Restaurant Week on February ... More >>

Beer calendar: Upslope Foreign Stout at Euclid Hall; Leopold Bros rye-aged porter at Yak & Yeti

Breckenridge Brewing has joined fellow Colorado breweries Odell, Great Divide and Oskar Blues in offering four-packs of some of its limited-release beers. The brewery will start with 471 IPA and 72 Imperial, a double chocolate cream stout made with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; it ... More >>

A Light in the Darks

Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey won't allow craft brewers to use its name on their labels anymore

Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey has asked the Colorado brewers who buy its sought-after barrels for the purposes of aging certain beers to stop using its name on their labels, and the distillery, which was bought out by New Jersey's Proximo Spirits late last year, will no longer sell any of its barrels ... More >>

Old Chicago's latest Mini Tour is a canny beer move

​Canned craft beers have surged in popularity so much this summer that Old Chicago is running its latest Mini Tour based solely on aluminum. Each of the Colorado-based restaurant chain's 97 locations, spread throughout 22 states across the country, is featuring an interesting mix of eight cann ... More >>

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

Highland Farmers Market​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 ... More >>

Curtis Park Deli delivers with quail, while Avery Brewing's Eighteen falls flat

Stephen Cummings​I've always fantasized about living in a neighborhood that had everything within walking distance that I needed to be happy: a stroll away from a nice cup of coffee, a comfortable place to wet my whistle and, most important, a quality marketplace. It's part of my ongoing and t ... More >>

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

Avery Brewing Company​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 t ... More >>

Rocultura Mexican Cultural Fair, pancake breakfasts and more on this week's culinary calendar

​Like you and like us, many people are attempting to recover from all the loving-of-America we did this past weekend. But if you're still going strong (or already recovered), we have food-and-drink options for you this week. Take a peek at what's on the menu:

Lisa Norton, hit & swim driver in fatal Gabriel Nielsen crash: DUI beefs, pot in truck (VIDEO)

Big pic below.​The case of Lisa Norton, who's accused of trying to swim away from a fatal accident she allegedly caused, keeps getting more bizarre. Authorities now confirm that she was sentenced to probation for DUI last Thursday, just two days before the crash that killed Gabriel Nielsen -- ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Top five reasons to hit the road for Memorial Day weekend

Magic Trip is a featured film this weekend at Mountainfilm in Telluride​Road trip! The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival gets into full swing today at 9 a.m. with opening remarks from filmmaker Tom Shadyac and a Moving Mountains "Awareness into Action" symposium. The first sc ... More >>

The Inactivists explain the War on Jazz Hands

​Depending on what you think the proper role of a real musician might be or what a real musician is or looks like, the Inactivists (due at The Walnut Room tonight) might either be the ultimate novelty act or an inspired conspiracy of talented artists with a shared love of warped humor.

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Maharaja; the governor's mansion; Great Divide gets around

Jonathan ShikesBreckenridge Brewery's barrel-aging riches.​The Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries officially sealed the deal on their joint venture, and celebrated their future on Tuesday by tapping kegs of each other's beers at their respective breweries. And later this month -- possibly as e ... More >>

The Wazee Supper Club celebrates twelve new taps with a party and meet-the-brewer nights

​Old dog. New tricks. The Wazee Supper Club, which has been dishing up Denver-style pizza pies for almost forty years, is adding to, and revamping, its beer lineup to focus more on craft beer. "We used to have twenty taps. Now there are 32, and some of those original twenty taps have been rep ... More >>

For a firkin good time, head to Colorado Springs

​Yee-haw! Twenty-four Colorado breweries will round up some wild firkins this weekend and drive them down to Colorado Springs for the seventh annual Firkin Rendezvous. Hosted by Bristol Brewing Company, the rendezvous -- February 19 from 1 to 5 p.m. -- is a fundraiser for the Colorado Brewers ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Wine, pork and much more

​The wine will be flowing this week, at events ranging from Grand Junction's VinCO 2011 to the Pinot Posse Tag Team Winemaker Dinner. But there's more on Colorado's culinary plate this week: everything from workshops, to dry-sausage and hog-slaughtering events. Here's a taste:

Two big thumbs up for Duo's unbeatable happy hour

​Happy Place: Duo, 2413 West 32nd Avenue, 303-477-4141 The Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $2 beers; $3 well cocktails; $5 select wines by the glass; $5 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out.

The Dark Side of the Holidays

The week in Cafe Society bloggery: James Rugile joins Frank Bonanno, octopus lovers unite and Alex Seidel cuts the cheese (and comes out smelling like roses in Zagat's America's Top Restaurants guide)

​Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog:

Beer and weather: How to drink your way through seasonal confusion

​The seasons in Colorado run together like oil and antifreeze on the floor at Jiffy Lube. At the supermarket, Halloween candy debuts in August, while the temperatures are still in the high 90s. Watermelons mix with peaches, while raspberries, pumpkins and roasted chiles mingle awkwardly but re ... More >>

This week in Cafe Society food bloggery: beer, Bon Appetit, Brandon Biederman and ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro

​ Behold the highlights from this week's Cafe Society blog: 1. With the streets of Denver flooded in suds, it's likely that you're well and truly hammered while reading this, but if you can still see the screen without covering up one eye, and you haven't had your fill of hops and barley, the ... More >>

Denver Beer Fest: Falling Rock, Osteria Marco, Rackhouse and Strange get their suds on

Falling Rock Taphouse.​Things are swinging in the Mile High City as just about every plane that touches down at Denver International Airport today will carry a brewer, a beer blogger or a beer lover on their way to the Great American Beer Festival, which begins tomorrow. And Denver is ready f ... More >>

Sweet Action: I scream, you scream, is there beer in your ice cream?

​ Sweet Action Ice Cream, 52 Broadway, which is scooping up acclaim left and right, is hosting its second annual Colorado Beer Ice Cream Fest with six flavors of the creamy stuff made with local beers. Last year, Sweet Action used brews from Great Divide, Breckenridge, Fort Collins Brewing, S ... More >>

Root Root Root for the Home-Brewed Team

Cheba Hut downtown puts twenty Colorado craft beers on tap

Cheba Hut​Can pot jokes and beer go together? Cheba Hut plans to find out. The one-year-old downtown Denver outlet of this marijuana-themed sandwich chain just added a whopping twenty taps -- all of it craft beer, and all of it made by Colorado brewers like Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Avery, Ode ... More >>

PLAYING THE BREWS

Colt & Gray opened its patio with 150 of its closest friends

Nelson Perkins and chef Brad Rowell left the kitchen to join the crowd​By 9 p.m. last night, most of the diners and imbibers who'd come for Colt & Gray's patio party had bid their adieus, but the party was still going strong, with the stragglers joining the staff for a couple of rounds of poke ... More >>

Cheeky Monk to open new Westminster location, add American craft beers

​The Cheeky Monk has discovered the New World. The Belgian beer café, which has spots on East Colfax and in Winter Park, plans to open its third location over Memorial Day in Westminster, and the new place will feature more than a dozen hard-to-find American craft beers alongside its Belgian ... More >>

Chef and Tell with Nelson Perkins from Colt & Gray

Lori Midson ​ Nelson Perkins Colt & Gray 1553 Platte Street 303-477-1447 Hours: 5-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 4-9 p.m. Sunday; brunch 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Nelson Perkins frowns, rolls his eyes and lets out a groan when I ask him about the "G" word. "I fina ... More >>

Tonight: Fat Tuesday celebrations in the city -- and beyond

​It's Fat Tuesday -- which means the six weeks of abstinence heading into Easter start tomorrow. Make the deprivation worth your while by partying hearty tonight:

Culinary calendar for the week ahead

Eat 'cakes at Snooze to benefit a good cause.​ Our online Food & Drink listings contain dozens of culinary events around the state; we put together a list of what's coming up this week so you can get a taste. Tuesday, December 1: A community pancake party benefiting Parade of Lights will be ... More >>

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February a stout time at Mountain Sun and Vine Street Pub

Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, at 1535 Pearl Street in Boulder, and its newer Denver sibling, Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine Street, are celebrating Stout Month starting on February 1. "Ten of Mountain Sun's taps will fade to black with local, regional and national versions of the rich, thick and dark al ... More >>

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