Food and Drink Festivals

WINNER UPDATE: Win four seats to Central Bistro & Bar's beer dinner with Great Divide

WINNER UPDATE: The correct answer to our contest question -- How many one-ounce pours did Great Divide serve during the three-day Great American Beer Festival, held in Denver last year? -- is 20,343 one-ounce pours. The person who came the closest to that number without going over is d.m.c, who gues ... More >>

Two Rock Bottom brewers will open Lowdown Brewery and Pizzeria on Lincoln Street

Two brewmasters with the Colorado-based Rock Bottom chain will strike out on their own this fall by opening a full-scale brewpub and pizzeria in a high-profile spot between Capitol Hill and the Golden Triangle neighborhoods. Unlike most of the tap rooms that have opened recently around Denver, Lowd ... More >>

Coors, Miller, Bud will keep sponsoring GABF, despite craft vs. crafty controversy

When the Brewers Association blasted the nation's two largest beer makers last week for not labeling some of their smaller brands with the names "MillerCoors" or "Anheuser-Busch," the Boulder organization risked losing a lot of money. After all, the two companies kick in at least $20,000 annually to ... More >>

Get into the holiday spirit with Upslope, Left Hand and Twisted Pine

A pair of new winter seasonals are set to hit liquor store shelves this week. Upslope Brewing's Christmas Ale, a Spiced Belgian-Style Dubbel, is based on a homebrew recipe that brewery owner Matt Cutter used to make and bring to parties. Christmas Ale, which is ruby red in color, is the fourth inst ... More >>

AC Golden prepares to unleash two barrel-aged stouts and a slew of sour ales

Hidden deep inside the concrete exterior of the massive MillerCoors plant in Golden, in a room that you enter from a stairway landing and through a door that says, "exit," a group of meticulous brewers for AC Golden Brewing have been experimenting with unusual beers that are going to surprise you. ... More >>

Utah's Epic Brewing looks to Denver, a city that understands craft beer, for a second brewery

Epic Brewing's Kevin Crompton surprised a room full of reporters and bloggers during the Great American Beer Festival last week when he announced that his Utah company planned to build a second brewery in Denver during the first part of 2013. He also surprised Epic's owners, David Cole and Peter Er ... More >>

Video: Artist Stan Herd on aliens, GABF, Shock Top and crop art

To celebrate the Great American Beer Festival, which is in town right now, and the release of its newest beer, End of the World Midnight Wheat, the Shock Top division of Anheuser Busch hired artist Stan Herd to create a massive piece of crop art in Lochbuie, near Denver International Airport. Herd a ... More >>

Two new Denver breweries, Black Shirt and Our Mutual Friend, will open just for GABF

Two new Denver breweries will open this weekend, just in time for the Great American Beer Festival frenzy in town -- and you won't have to go far to visit both, since they're just ten blocks apart. Black Shirt Brewing in RiNo and Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew in Five Points are the seventh and eight ... More >>

Thursday at the Great American Beer Fest: five sneaky-cool things to check out

The Great American Beer Festival, which starts tonight and runs through Saturday, is a river of beer -- and a river of people -- but there are some things that don't always meet the eye: secret fishing holes, swirling eddies, rapids. Here are a couple of things to do that may not be on your radar, b ... More >>

Photos: Oskar Blues goes big with its 19.2-ounce Royal Pints of Dale's Pale Ale

Canned craft beers are big in Colorado and now they're getting even bigger. On Thursday night after the Great American Beer Festival ended, Oskar Blues revealed its latest aluminum package: a 19.2-ounce can of Dale's Pale Ale. The Longmont beer makers is the first U.S. brewery -- craft or otherwise ... More >>

Beer lovers will turn this town inside out during GABF week

Denver began welcoming beer fans from near and far yesterday as the city girded its liver for the annual Great American Beer Festival, which starts tomorrow. More people poured into town today as the Brewers Association opened registration for all of the breweries, vendors and media. Here is a bri ... More >>

Copper Kettle co-owner Kristen Kozik on GABF judges, award-winning beers and kick-ass sours

Copper Kettle Brewing had only been open five months when it won a gold medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival for its Mexican Chocolate Stout. Owners Kristen Kozik and Jeremy Gobien were ecstatic, but they didn't let the honor go to their heads. Instead, they've been turning out new beers a ... More >>

GABF week kicks off with beers, balls and a message from the Falling Rock's Chris Black

Great American Beer Festival week kicked off, as it has for the past fifteen years, at the Falling Rock Taphouse on Monday, when the clock hit 000 00 00 00.0 But things were a little different this year, says Chris Black, who owns and runs Denver's most famous craft-beer bar. "Some people thought we ... More >>

Three ways to put beer on your body rather than in it

The Great American Beer Festival is coming, and you want to make sure you're properly tubbed and scrubbed, but ordinary ablutions aren't going to cut it -- not for the biggest beer festival in the world. For that, you are going to have to put beer on your body as well as inside it. Here's three sugg ... More >>

Oskar Blues and Sun King brew a second collaboration beer for #GABF

Oskar Blues and Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing are whipping up their second collaboration beer today in Longmont under a shroud of secrecy. "We're keeping some suspense about style of the beer," says brewery spokesman Chad Melis. But he promised that details about the collaboration, called The ... 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 >>

The Colorado Brewers Guild is whipping up special beer for #GABF award winners

Award-winning brewers at the Great American Beer Festival will bring home something in addition to their medals this year: a bottle of a special beer made collaboratively just for the occasion by members of the Colorado Brewers Guild. The 22-ounce bottle of Porter's Pride, an imperial porter brewed ... More >>

Festivals, seafood boils and more on this week's calendar

The culinary calendar is full of tasty events this week, including plenty of excuses to enjoy the summer weather. Here's the rundown:

Colorado will celebrate farm-fresh hops with a new Hops Nouveau festival

Every year on the third Thursday in November, the world celebrates Beaujolais Nouveau, field-fresh young red wines from France that are meant to celebrate the harvest and be enjoyed right away. This September, Colorado beer brewers will do something similar for hops by kicking off a Hops Nouveau par ... More >>

Colorado Urban WineFest continues to rock on this week

It's only Wednesday, people. But it's already been one helluva week for the Colorado Urban WineFest.

Beer festival season kicks off with big crowds and tough tickets

The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing's Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format -- one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before taking two years off ... More >>

Winter Brew Fest, tequila, wine and bowls on this week's culinary calendar

​Happy Chinese New Year! Food events are picking back up for 2012 -- including a promotion from P.F. Chang's that starts today and runs through Monday, February 6; stop in to pick up a mysterious red envelope, then come back to find out what goodies you won. Visit www.pfchangs.com. And there ... More >>

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 >>

Beerfest Headquarters is now at La Boheme, in case you were wondering

Well, more like the "head" quarters. But you can bet that won't matter to some of the beer drinkers who come streaming out of the Great American Beer Festival, which kicks off its three-day run today.

Colorado beer calendar: Oktoberfest; craft beer Oktoberfest and Vine Street's block party

Facebook​It'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 >>

Five Colorado wines (finally!) worth drinking by the case

​Have you ever gotten the impression that Colorado wines kinda suck? If you're really, really honest with yourself, you probably answered yes - and you're not the only person who feels that way. A glance at the wine list of many of Denver's top-rated dining destinations routinely reveals fewer ... More >>

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Cocktail Guy wins our GABF tickets

​Congratulations to Cocktail Guy, who won our third Great American Beer Festival ticket giveaway. His comment was "Just Laid Off, Beat That!" Nothing could, and he'll be heading to the Thursday session, turning economic disaster into sudsy salvation. Thanks to everyone who played.

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