Marty Jones

The Wynkoop's Belgorado Belgian IPA is Colorado loud and proud

The Wynkoop Brewing Company will debut its newest canned beer next week -- one with some unusual Colorado ingredients. No, it's not Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout -- although two-packs of that ballsy beer will also be released in cans soon. The beer is called Belgorado and it's made almost entirely wit ... More >>

Does the Wynkoop's Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout have enough balls to win at GABF?

Malt, water, hops, yeast...and bull testicles. That's the recipe for the ballsiest beer that Denver's Wynkoop Brewing Company has made in its 24-year history, and one that it will start serving on October 8 during Great American Beer Festival week. Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which started off as ... More >>

Wynkoop debuts two new versions of its flagship Rail Yard Ale

The beer-happy bunch at the Wynkoop Brewing Company has a New Year's Resolution for 2012: put a few sacred cows out to pasture. "The goal," says brewery spokesman Marty Jones, "is to rock the status quo and to shake up the beer list with new offerings." To that effect, the Wynkoop is messing around ... More >>

Wynkoop Brewing expands for the first time in thirteen years

The Wynkoop Brewing Company is in the midst of expanding its brewing capacity for the first time in thirteen years -- since the days when brewery co-founder Mayor-turned-Governor John Hickenlooper was still slinging suds at the LoDo landmark. In November, the brewery moved its four original twenty- ... More >>

A Light in the Darks

Ghost Plate & Tap, a Wynkoop/Breckenridge joint venture, will fill the void left by the Rocky Mountain Diner

​A new restaurant, Ghost Plate & Tap, featuring 23 beers on tap and specialties from both the Wynkoop and Breckenridge brewpubs will fill the space where the Rocky Mountain Diner closed in February. The Diner, at 800 18th Street, had been a downtown institution for two decades before a lease ... More >>

Drink In the City

Wynkoop Brewing adds beer-making space; the Impulse Theater stays put

The Wynkoop basement.​The Wynkoop Brewing Company is about to add new brewing space for the first time in, uh, as long as anyone there can remember, says spokesman Marty Jones. The new tank -- a forty-gallon beauty that will serve as décor in addition to increasing the brewpub's capacity -- ... More >>

Wynkoop-Breckenridge joint venture experiences a beery hiccup

​It's been five months since the Wynkoop and Breckenridge breweries revealed that they were merging their finances and operations, but it's going to be a while longer before the Wynkoop can start producing its beer at Breckenridge as it had planned. The federal Alcohol Tobacco Trade and Tax B ... More >>

Wynkoop Brewing's horse-drawn beer carriage rolls out tonight for frothy deliveries

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.​Cloppity clop. The Wynkoop Brewing Company is bringing back its horse-drawn beer wagon tonight, packing up kegs and cans around 6 p.m. and rolling them down the road to drop them off at the Wazee Supper Club, Mario's Double Daughters Salotto, the Lobb ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: The Copper Kettle opens and the Wynkoop medicates

Copper Kettle Brewing​American Craft Beer Week starts in a little less than three weeks, but the nine (yes, nine!) breweries in Fort Collins have already banded together to brew a collaboration beer that celebrates the seven days that Congress dedicated to the quaffing of craft brew. C.B. & P ... More >>

Colorado Beer Week could be the start of an annual spring toast to the state's brewers

​Seattle has a beer week. So do Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. San Francisco's and Philadelphia's are famous world wide. Hell, even Eugene, Oregon; Louisville, Kentucky; and the entire state of Alabama have beer weeks. Denver has the Great American Beer Festival and the surrounding Denver ... More >>

Wynkoop Holdings buys Rocky Mountain Diner, scrambles to fill it

Lori Midson​Just a few weeks after they joined forces, the Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries have taken on an unexpected challenge: slapping together a new concept to fill the former Rocky Mountain Diner space at 800 18th Street, which closed last month after a twenty-year run. The two comp ... More >>

The Dark Side of the Holidays

The Wynkoop brews InaugurAle for John Hickenlooper's throning

Nice head.​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 brewery co-founder and Governor-elect John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper's InaugurAl ... More >>

The Wynkoop gives people a chance to sample every beer it brewed this year

Wynkoop Brewing Company​Feeling nostalgic about 2010? The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will help you relive the good times by cracking open a keg of all 35 beers that the brewery made over the course of the year when the second annual Beers of the Year event takes place Saturda ... More >>

Wynkoop Brewing Company hopes to expand next year when the Impulse moves out

Wynkoop brewers are looking forward to more space.​Last week, Impulse Theater, which has leased basement space from the Wynkoop Brewing Company for the past seventeen years, announced plans to move to a building at 55 South Broadway, next to the under-construction Punch Bowl bowling alley and ... More >>

Invesco Field: The Wynkoop's Rail Yard Ale gets a mile high

​Beer holds no grudges, and neither, apparently does Invesco Field. Beginning with the Denver Broncos game on October 17, the stadium will begin serving Rail Yard Ale in cans in its six River's Edge beer stands. It joins just a handful of other Colorado microbrews in the stadium, which is a b ... 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 >>

The Wynkoop plans to start delivering beer by horse and carriage

Just add beer.​Beer hasn't always been delivered by truck. In the early 1900s, it took a horse and carriage to get Denver's suds from the brewery to the bar. Although the tradition died after prohibition, the Wynkoop Brewing Company plans to bring it back. "I've got a horseman, two horses and ... More >>

Hop to the Wynkoop tonight for some Auld Rabbit

​At 5 p.m. today, the Wynkoop Brewing Company will pull the hand pump on the 2010 Beerdrinker of the Year beer, one of the perks of winning this august crown. The beer is Auld Rabbit, a cask-conditioned, molasses-infused brown ale that's 6.4 percent ABV, brewed by Wynkoop head brewer Andy Br ... More >>

Holiday Cheer, Holiday Beer

Wynkoop Brewing opens its taps to other microbreweries

​According to Wynkoop Brewing Company's spokesman Marty Jones, he's been charged with "stretching out the already wonderful beer culture," at the Wynkoop by "working closely with some other breweries, flying the flag a little higher." What does all that actually mean? Just this: Starting toda ... More >>

’Koop Town

Former Oskar Blues idea man, Marty Jones, sets his mug down at the Wynkoop

Marty Jones (left) and Andy Brown toast the Wynkoop.​Beerman-about-town Marty Jones has landed a new gig. The former Oskar Blues marketing whiz, Jones has taken a similar job at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where he'll be guiding the brewery's fledgling canning project (the Wynkoop began cann ... More >>

Marty Jones & the Great Unknowns

Drink & Song
Self-released

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of October 5, 2009

​​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list ... More >>

Will it be Hoppy Days for Oktoberfest?

Three brew-related events are converging in Denver. Let the games begin!

Eat Your Beer With Old Chub Bread

Maybe you know Old Chub because you've had it on tap at Oskar Blues or bought a six-pack of this canned Scottish Ale at the liquor store. Or maybe you've heard the name because you took a momentary leave of your senses and purchased a tube of Old Chub chapstick, perhaps the only beer-flavored lip b ... More >>

Beer Up

Think you’ve got what it takes to be Beerdrinker of the Year?

Marty Jones returns to the stage with new songs

After a few years hiatus, Marty Jones is returning to the stage with a new batch of tunes. At 9 p.m. on Saturday, December 6, at the Skylark, Jones and a new group of players -- Zach Boddicker, Scott Johnson and Clay Bielman -- will unveil a 45-minute set of brand new material, on a bill supportin ... More >>

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