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Mile High Mountaineering selected as ISPO BrandNew Awards finalist

Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM's "Snake-Loader" Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor's Choice Award. And this week the lo ... More >>

USA Today names Denver one of the top 10 beer cities in the WORLD!

Not only did USA Today just name Denver one the best beer capitals in the world -- the whole fucking WORLD, y'all! -- but the internationally distributed daily newspaper also gave a shout-out to Patty's Chile Beer, named, of course, for Westword founder and editor Patty Calhoun, who likes things spi ... More >>

The question you're too drunk to ask: Why is Oktoberfest celebrated in September?

Oktoberfest might just be everyone's favorite holiday. Not that anyone needs an excuse to pound beers and eat sausage all weekend. But if everyone's doing it, no one can judge you, right? In the middle of your lager and bratwurst haze, though, you might wonder this: "Why are we celebrating Oktoberfe ... More >>

Prost With the Most

Mayor Hancock is back in the tap room -- this time for Prost Brewing's Oktoberfest

Mayor Michael Hancock: beer geek. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. Still, Hizzoner will make his second appearance at a Denver craft brewery in as many weeks when he kicks off Prost Brewing's three-day Oktoberfest celebration this Friday and taps the first keg of the brewery's new Märzen ... More >>

Avery Brewing's Ale to the Chief returns to presidential beer politics

Tiny little Colorado, with its nine electoral votes, could make a big difference in the presidential election this year. Just ask President Obama, who has visited multiple times in the past three months, and Mitt Romney, who dispatched vice presidential selection Paul Ryan to our high-altitude swing ... More >>

Leopold Bros. reveals plans for expansion, a tasting room and a new spirit

Early last week, when I met with Todd Leopold at Steuben's, he was wearing oatmeal-colored overalls that sniffed of absinthe, which may or may not have been the reason why customers coming in and out of Steuben's stopped to introduce themselves and shake his hand. But Todd, who, in 2007, along with ... More >>

The Boulder Strong Ale Fest shows why Avery Brewing is ready for the future

Avery Brewing hosted the kind of festival on Friday and Saturday that has made it one of Colorado's top beer makers of the past decade, while Avery's founder spent the weekend touring Germany, preparing for the future, a future that includes a new, 5.6-acre brewing campus and restaurant in Boulder. ... More >>

AC Golden Brewing serves a style-busting India pale lager only at Old Chicago

​AC Golden Brewing will unveil a new beer today at Colorado Old Chicago restaurants as part of the beer-centered restaurant chain's latest Mini Tour. The brew is an India Pale Lager, or IPL, made from four kinds of hops (Chinook, Centennial, Cascade and Simcoe) typically found in IPAs, but wit ... More >>

The Fray Scars & Stories: A track-by-track breakdown from Isaac Slade and Joe King

Westword caught up with the Fray's chief songwriters, Isaac Slade and Joe King, for a track-by-track breakdown of Scars & Stories, the new record. If you've bought the record and you're listening right now wondering what "Run for Your Life" or "Here We Are" is about, wonder no more. Or if you came h ... More >>

How Tweet It Is!

Bitter Bar bartender Burton Daniel advances to national Barenjager cocktail competition

​Colorado's bartenders keep upping our state's cocktail credibility, competing in national contests and besting some of the country's most formidable spirits professionals to bring big prizes home to the Rocky Mountains. The latest accolade? Burton Daniel, a bartender at Boulder's Bitter Bar ... More >>

Ask the bartender: Meet Todd Leopold of Leopold Bros., Colorado Cocktail distiller

​Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>

Grimm Brothers Brewhouse opens tomorrow in Loveland serving German-style beers

​When Grimm Brothers Brewhouse opens tomorrow in Loveland, it will be the town's only independently-owned brewery. But it will also be one of several craft beer makers around the state that focus on a specific style of suds. "There are breweries in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Boulder, Es ... More >>

The knife, the bathtub, the butcher and the corpse

If only it had been a tomato instead of a fresh body​We know how much chefs love their knives -- "It's hurt me, I've hurt it, and we're still together," joked Kyle Fitzgerald in last week's Chef and Tell interview -- but Heiko K, a slasher chef in Germany, took butchery to a whole new level wh ... More >>

Beer and Cheer: Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale

​Elysian Bifrost Winter Ale pours a golden color, with a head that is as thick, fluffy and bouncy as a cozy homemade blanket - or a foot-high bank of Christmas snow. The bubbles go deep and rise slowly, like a Guinness, and the frothy top is so thick, it can be molded into different shapes, l ... More >>

Q&A with Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse

Alex Solca​Cannibal Corpse didn't invent death metal, but it has become one of the genre's definitive bands. Forming in Buffalo, New York in 1988, Cannibal Corpse quickly came to prominence due to its decidedly brutal music and horrifically detailed lyrics to match. From the beginning, Cannibal's ... More >>

Why Germans care so much about Columbine

One of Dylan Klebold's pipe bombs. A film crew from Munich-based FOCUS TV Produktions was in our southwest suburbs during the past few days, interviewing people whose lives have been altered by the Columbine shootings ten years ago -- school and police officials, parents and survivors of the massac ... More >>

La Chaumiere bids au revoir after more than thirty years

After more than thirty years in business, La Chaumiere, the charming, classical country French restaurant in Lyons, has closed its doors. Kyle Wagner loved the place when she reviewed it for Westword in 1998, and in "French Toast" recounted the tale of how Elizabeth and Heinz met in Muni ... More >>

Oktoberfest

You're Darn Teuton: Cafe Berlin

Green Machine

Losing our cool over Colorado's Cool Biz.

Laughing Pains

Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come. We’re (water) bored. (Sorry.)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

The University of Colorado’s International Film Series

Beauty at Buchenwald

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz' nation of idiots lands a little close to home.

Editors

The Back Room (Fader)

Tragedy Re-Revisited

Spielberg's Munich rehashes a tale we've heard before.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

Sound Bites

Sole Man

A Colorado dark horse boosts America's marathon hopes.

You're Darn Teuton

Cafe Berlin is the schnitzel!

Consumed

Drinking High on the Hog

Ursa Major

The Black Bear Inn offers a taste of the past.

Beers to Ya

So what if it's September? The calendar says it's Oktoberfest.

Couch

Profane (Matador)

A Dark Day

One Day in September recalls the Munich Olympic massacre.

Get Your Gold Medals Here

Star of Stripes

French Toast

A Thousand Words

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

Letters

Rock's Roles

Hardrock Gunter: From rockabilly pioneer to insurance agent to rock-and-roll legend.

REVOLUTION SQUARED

TAKE BACK YOUR RING

MOUTHING OFF

THE NEXT GENERATION

SEX IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY RISKY BUSINESS FOR YOUNG GAYS.