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January 12, 2012
Huckleberry Roasters adds more coffee to the Ballpark side of Larimer
Koan Goedman, one of the top-notch baristas at Crema Coffee House, has always wanted to own his own coffee shop. But after a trip to Coffee Fest in Seattle last year, he began pondering the idea of a roastery, too. "I started talking to the Diedrich's roasters, who were there with a bunch of samples ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Elway's, Udi's and Cru proposals for DIA approved by council committee for vote
Denver International Airport has always been sadly lacking a real taste of Colorado cuisine (witness the cup of Nobel Sysco green chile I downed on Concourse A last Friday). And that makes the presentation before Denver City Council's Business, Workforce and Sustainability Committee yesterday ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
Three reasons to embrace drinking white wines -- even during winter
Something's been bugging the hell out of us lately. We can't understand why, come the first frost, people suddenly become allergic to drinking white wines. While you might think it horribly uncool to wear white after Labor Day, there is absolutely zero reason to stop drinking white wines once the da ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
The ten biggest Colorado beer stories of 2011
You could say that 2011 was the year that Denver's men and women matched its mountains when it came to beer culture. Seven new breweries opened in the metro area and stayed so busy that all seven have already expanded -- or are considering it. But good beer can also be found on the menus of fancy r ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
2914 Coffee will soon be pouring near 25th and Federal
2914 CoffeeFor five years, Anthony Davis has been a barista and manager at North Boulder's Amante, where he learned to pour shots and style out lattes with art. But this spring, the coffee enthusiast is striking out on his own closer to his Highland neighborhood home, opening 2914 Coffee at 2 ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Beer cocktail enthusiasts launch Beermixology.com
We've seen a lot of beer cocktails make best-beverage lists over the past year, and they range in complexity from a glorified michelada -- a classic Mexican blend of lime juice and lager -- to the Naughty Girl Scout, a drink on the list at Euclid Hall that uses a variety of spirits plus Left Hand mi ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
New Year's Eve bubbly: Five of the best bottles of you've never heard of
Over the past four weeks, we've ponied up a list of wines guaranteed to make your Thanksgiving a party, the perfect set of locally sourced, wine-themed gift ideas, and our picks for the twelve most holiday-worthy bottles of 2011. And you know what? We are officially exhausted. And because you're lik ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
The twelve wines of Christmas 2011: the rest of the best
With only a few days to go until Christmas, it's time to 'fess up: Have you been naughty or nice? For goodness' sake, here's hoping you've been on your very best behavior this year -- because then you're fully deserving of these six stupendous bottles. Read on for the continuation of last ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Charlie Papazian and Pete Meersman to be inducted into the Colorado Tourism Hall of Fame
Visit Denver just announced the people who will be inducted into the Tourism Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual celebration set for March 14, 2012, and the list includes two key people from the Colorado drinking/dining scene: Great American Beer Festival president Charlie Papazian and Pete ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
The twelve wines of Christmas 2012: part one
Much like the little elves busy helping Santa at the North Pole, we've spent the better part of the year hard at work. tasting of hundreds of wines -- all so that we can serve up this listing of bottles worthy of only one thing: drinking your way through the most stressful wonderful time of t ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Reader: Is Denver a better beer city than Boulder? Forget the numbers -- what about the beer?
The Wynkoop was the first brewpub in Denver...but far from the last.Denver has always been a center of the beer-making world -- but until recently, you could have argued that Boulder was a better craft beer town. But after counting up the number of craft brewers coming to Denver, Jonathan Shi ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
Has Denver finally surpassed Boulder as a beer city? Is Portland next?
FacebookDusting a firkin at Hops & Pie.Denver has always been a center of the beer-making world. From our rip-roaring past to the Great American Beer Festival to the beer-fueled redevelopment of LoDo. But until recently, you could have argued that Boulder was a better craft beer town. Not an ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Silver Vines Winery opens in Olde Town Arvada
Brothers Jeff and Danny Chayer are originally from Minnesota, but they've spent the past four years working in the Texas wine industry. "He was a winemaker," Danny says of Jeff. "I was a manager of one of the wineries." There, they learned the ropes of the craft, and, Danny says, developed ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Four ways to give the gift of wine (and buy local) this holiday season
With all the talk lately about Occupy This and The X Percenters, if you're like us, you're wondering how to align your gift giving instincts with your urge to support businesses hustling to make ends meet just like you are. And since we can't imagine a better way to spread a little joy this ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Five wines that are guaranteed to make Thanksgiving feel like a party
Sometimes, just sometimes, big holiday celebrations can feel like a bit of a grind. Whoops, did we say that out loud? It's not that we don't love our families -- we do. But we suspect that you'd agree that occasionally these annual gatherings can feel like more of an obligation and less of a celebra ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Dry Dock's award-winning brewer, Bill Eye, will make all German beers at Prost Brewing
FacebookProst's new system before disassembly in Germany.Bill Eye, the award-winning head brewer at Aurora's Dry Dock Brewing, has taken a job as brewmaster -- and one of the managing partners -- at Prost Brewing, an all German-style lager beer maker that plans to open in Denver next spring. ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Beaujolais and Beyond, CANniversary and more on this week's culinary calendar
Oskar Blues is celebrating its CANniversary, the coveted Beaujolais varietal gets released, and there's a lot more in food-and-beverages happening in this week's culinary calendar. Here's a taste of what's ahead:
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November 2, 2011
Four wines that taste like a million bucks but cost less than $15
How come no one ever seems to talk about how expensive it is to be a wine drinker? Think about it: Thanksgiving is a scant three weeks from now, and according to the near-endless refrain of shopping mall adverts, Christmas shows up in precisely 54 days. Heap on top of that myriad holiday coc ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Latvian sauerkraut and beer-braised pork are right at home with Fort Collins' bocks
Not surprisingly, the older I get, the more important family is to me. I'm well beyond my rebellious years, and the self-centered, booze-fueled, late-night haze of my twenties is fading fast. These days, my time is more meaningfully spent with loved ones, especially while cooking. Regrettably ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Boulder Wine Merchant's Burgundy Festival was a smashing success
Yesterday morning, sixty people huddled over rows of glasses in the new addition at The Mediterranean in Boulder, feverishly writing notes while sniffing and sipping. While they worked, a panel of master sommeliers highlighted comparisons and characteristics of wines from Burgundy, walking th ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Five soul-warming Colorado wines to savor during the snowstorm
Like it or not, for years people have habitually lumped wines from Colorado into its own special (read: inferior) category of domestic winemaking. Bottles from other, more mainstream wine-producing regions in the U.S., like California, Oregon, and Washington State, seem to score all the props ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
The latest Colorado company to jump into winemaking? Colorado State University.
Flickr photoWay to support drinking, Colorado State University! Look for wines made by CSU starting next spring. Blended at Stoney Mesa Winery because CSU is still in the process of applying for the necessary licenses, the bottles with the CSU mascot -- called Ram's Point -- will sell for $10 ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Attention, booze geeks: Combier Liqueur d'Orange launches in Colorado
More than 175 years ago, Jean-Baptiste Combier, a French confectioner, and his wife were making liqueurs to inject into chocolates when they began getting requests from local residents to sell the liqueurs straight. So they began bottling an orange liqueur that was, really, the world's first ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
Three Cool Things To Know Before You Try Infinite Monkey Theorem's Monkey Shine
Last Friday night, at a pop-up speakeasy on the rooftop of Ghost Plate & Tap, Denver wine lovers had their first opportunity to sample the latest cool kid offering from The Infinite Monkey Theorem: Monkey Shine, the winery's brand-spanking-new keg wine. IMT certainly isn't the first to join ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Four crave-worthy harvest season wines
It's finally October, and our crisp, cooler weather serves as a harbinger of harvest season. This time of year also has our mouths watering for fall's more luxurious, soul-satisfying menus. And you know what that means, right? Richer food calls for wines that can step up to the challenge. If this su ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
I pity the fool! Oskar Blues issues hilarious correction to a GABF announcement
The announcements highlighting Colorado's big wins at the Great American Beer Festival have been coming fast and furious from local breweries since the three-day event ended on Saturday. But nothing was as entertaining as the correction/clarification issued by Oskar Blues concerning its three-medal ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Oskar Blues finally sips sweet success with three awards at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival
Colorado breweries won fewer awards at this year's Great American Beer Festival (39) than they did last year (41), but the bling was spread out more evenly between corporately owned companies, big-name independents and small or new breweries. But the biggest winner was Longmont-based Oskar Blues, w ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
The Boulder Wine Merchant will host a Burgundy festival later this month
Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman, who took over at the Boulder Wine Merchant just over a year ago, was recently consulting on a customer's cellar when a conundrum led to a new activity. "The client said, 'I want to reload with a bunch of Burgundy, but I don't get a chance to taste those things,'" Zi ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Ask the bartender: What's up with Colorado winning so many contests?
I just returned from a week in Manhattan (New York, not Kansas), where I worked at the BAR 5-day program. The BAR 5-day is a masters'-level spirits and mixology course taught by six men -- F. Paul Pacult, Steve Olson, Andy Seymour, David Wondrich, Doug Frost and Dale Degroff -- who are icons in our ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
The Great American Techno Festival aims to give beer geeks a place to dance
I just returned from a week in Manhattan (New York, not Kansas), where I worked at the BAR 5-day program. The BAR 5-day is a masters'-level spirits and mixology course taught by six men -- F. Paul Pacult, Steve Olson, Andy Seymour, David Wondrich, Doug Frost and Dale Degroff -- who are icons in our ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Ignite Denver shook the rooftops last night and drained the kegs
There were dick jokes, poop jokes, discussions of anal sex, drinking games and fat guys. There was also fond (and not so fond) childhood memories, evangelical preaching and one thrown shoe hitting a guy in the head. A frat party? A Broadway street corner? No, it was Ignite Denver -- and one dedicate ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Great Beer Ahead
There were dick jokes, poop jokes, discussions of anal sex, drinking games and fat guys. There was also fond (and not so fond) childhood memories, evangelical preaching and one thrown shoe hitting a guy in the head. A frat party? A Broadway street corner? No, it was Ignite Denver -- and one dedicate ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: Great American Beer Festival edition
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. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets to the main ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Beer, beer, beer -- and wine, tequila, sake and more -- on this week's culinary calendar
Our cups runneth over with beer events this week -- including the sold-out Great American Beer Festival this weekend. But there are also events for wine, tequila and sake enthusiasts taking place, on top of more beer events than you can shake a salted pretzel at. (And feel free to remind us i ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Five Denver bartenders mix up vodka cocktails you can make at home
Kevin BurkeThe Gypsy Cocktail by Kevin Burke.Vodka has been the most popular spirit in America since the 1970s, and there's no sign of it slowing down. As outlined in "Clear Thinking," this week's cover story about Spring44, vodka's popularity keeps growing year after year, expanding into a m ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
The Great COntenders at the Wynkoop will give Colorado's GABF beers a frothy sendoff
The Great American Beer Festival, coming to town September 29 through October 1, is sold out -- completely. But that doesn't mean you can't find plenty of beer geekery all over town. One of the first big warm-ups will be the Great COntenders, taking place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Septemb ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Six Denver fast-casual restaurants with super-cool wine lists
Madison Street is a good-looking restaurant, made better by its wine list. Why is it that so many of Denver's more moderately priced (referred to in the industry as "fast casual") restaurants have wine lists that make the oenophiles among us want to just give up and order a beer? It's as if t ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: Get ready for the Great American Beer Festival
Are you ready to rumble? We are. The Great American Beer Festival kicks off on September 29, but there are plenty of GABF-related events where you can practice in advance -- or even instead -- of the big show. In fact, there are too many events to list, but I did my best. Check 'em out below.
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September 14, 2011
Colorado beer calendar: Oktoberfest; craft beer Oktoberfest and Vine Street's block party
FacebookIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Denver. And by Christmas, what I mean is: the Great American Beer Festival. Although that three-day holiday runs from September 29 through October 1, there will be plenty of beery festivities leading up to the occasion. Parties are planne ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Five rockin' rosés that transition from summer to fall..and beyond
Congratulations, wine lovers: In 2010, the good ol' U. S. of A. officially consumed more wine than France for the first time ever. And as we predicted earlier this year, America's love affair with pink wine just keeps getting hotter -- evidenced by the fact that exports of rosé (and red) wi ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Three September Colorado wine events you won't want to miss
With Labor Day behind us and summer's sun-soaked days and sizzling temperatures vanishing before our eyes, we aren't traditionally all that psyched to welcome the month of September with open arms. This year, though, we're seeing things differently, given the tantalizing array of wine event ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Drink Beer Like the Belgians
With Labor Day behind us and summer's sun-soaked days and sizzling temperatures vanishing before our eyes, we aren't traditionally all that psyched to welcome the month of September with open arms. This year, though, we're seeing things differently, given the tantalizing array of wine event ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Top five porch-pounding wines of summer 2011
A great many learned individuals spend a significant amount of their time advancing the notion that the enjoyment of wine is an incredibly serious, sophisticated pursuit. And some of these people, having spent countless hours in pursuit of the ever-nebulous nuances of what makes a particular ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Denver Beer Co opens today, and seasonal beers are on the menu
Denver Beer Co doesn't have a kitchen, but the city's zoning inspectors may be tempted to double check. The brewery, which opens today on Platte Street, serves Kaffir Lime Wheat as fresh and nuanced as any chef's signature appetizer, a rauschbier that smells and tastes like a plate of smoked ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Three great reasons to judge a wine by its label
It's a well-known fact in the wine industry that the majority of consumers decide which bottle of fermented grape juice to spring for based solely on their attraction to the label. If you'd count yourself as a member of that particular buying demographic, we feel compelled to tell you're gen ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Two Rivers Coffee in Arvada pours an excellent cup of Joe
Two Rivers CoffeeSo many coffee shops... so few actually doing coffee and espresso drinks right. And even fewer that are owned or operated by people who really know their beans. Eric Yochim knows his beans.
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August 3, 2011
Three reasons why somms adore grüner veltliner (and you should, too)
We sommeliers have a tendency to spend an inordinate amount of time sussing out all kinds of weird and interesting wines (partly because it's our job, partly because we're total wine geeks). And most of the time, those slightly off-kilter bottles are best appreciated by, well, let's face it ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
International #IPAday. Are you raising a pint or a protest?
Every day may be IPA day for craft beer aficionados in states like Colorado, California and Oregon, but for most beer drinkers, that is far from the truth. So the point of International #IPAday, which takes place Thursday, August 4, and has already stirred a little controversy, is to use soc ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Uptown Brothers Brewing shuts the doors, puts the business up for sale
Uptown Brothers Brewing, a restaurant and craft beer bar that opened in May 2010, closed its doors for good right after midnight this morning, a victim of the difficult economy. "We came close to making it; we were at about 80 percent of our break-even number, but we have no more resources t ... More >>
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