Ska

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 >>

Ska Brewing's next two seasonal canned stouts will focus on mint, orange blossom honey

Some people are going to hate Ska Brewing's Vernal Minthe Stout, a new canned beer made with spearmint, peppermint, vanilla beans and coco nibs. And some people are going to absolutely love the minty brew, the third in Ska's series of seasonal canned stouts, which will hit liquor-store shelves this ... More >>

Ska Brewing battles Maryland's DuClaw over trademark for Euphoria

Ska Brewing has been making its Euphoria Pale Ale since 2005, but the latest trademark dispute involving a Colorado brewery isn't likely to make anyone euphoric. On Tuesday, the Durango brewery filed a petition at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, asking the agency's trial and appeal board to r ... More >>

Reel Big Fish

Thursday, January 10, Gothic Theatre, 303-788-0984; Friday, January 11, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Why are Mexicans better at organizing their paperwork?

Oskar Blues celebrates ten years of canning; Denver Bicycle Cafe turns one

Oskar Blues and Ska Brewing finally released some details about the collaboration beer they made to celebrate the Longmont brewery's tenth canning anniversary. The smoked IPA is called oSKAr the G'Rauch because: 1) you can't spell Oskar without Ska, and 2) it was made in the smoked rauschbier style. ... More >>

Oskar Blues collaborates with Ska Brewing on a tenth anniversary canned beer

Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they brewed together in Longmont last week. Although the beers doesn't have a name or a label, Ska co-fou ... More >>

Fort Collins and Funkwerks step up in a down year for Colorado GABF medals

Colorado took home 35 medals at the Great American Beer Festival this year, including six that went to Fort Collins brewers, highlighted by Funkwerks, which won two golds and was named Small Brewing Company of the Year. See also: - Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012 - "Stand your ... More >>

Bottoms Up

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Updated: The Great American Beer Festival 2012 calendar of awesome events

Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it's the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the centerpiece, ... More >>

Avery politics, the Vine Street block party and No-Li beer in this week's beer calendar

The Great American Beer Festival is also a great American motivator. In previous years, it has driven local breweries to finish construction projects, open their doors, brew new beers, and generally get their acts in shape. And this year is no exception -- see the Bull & Bush, which is rebuilding it ... More >>

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 >>

Ten ways to be a beer geek this week, even if you don't have GABF tickets

​The Great American Beer Festival is the biggest, most well-known beer festival in the world. But there are only about 55,000 tickets issued for the three-day event, which starts Thursday -- and they sold out in a record seven days this year. Still, sometimes the best parts of the GABF aren't ... More >>

Lightning In A Bottle

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 >>

Fill up on Big Shikes

Beer calendar: American Craft Beer Week edition

Jonathan ShikesSka Brewing's malted goodness.​American Craft Beer Week is a beer drinker's paradise, a week that celebrates small (and a few not-so-small) independent brewers around the country. There are a huge number of events going on this year in the Denver/Boulder area -- not to mention ... More >>

Dave Wakeling of The English Beat on having a social conscience and Elvis Costello

Jackie Butler​Inspired by the first wave of punk in the U.K., the Beat combined the social critique of punk with the broader emotional and sonic palette of reggae. Formed in 1978, the English Beat (so named when the band made its way across the Atlantic) released three classic albums before Da ... More >>

Tonight: the Slackers at the Bluebird

​Living through the third-wave ska movement of the mid-'90s and still keeping an admirably visible profile in 2011, the Slackers are a musical anomaly. Like labelmates Hepcat and Stubborn All Stars, the Slackers' success hinges on a penchant for the swing of blue beat while ditching the sillin ... More >>

The ten biggest Colorado beer stories of the year

Wynkoop BrewingThe Wynkoop got together with Breckenridge Brewing.​In April, the Wynkoop Brewing Company began delivering kegs and cans to some of its downtown clients via horse and buggy. The move was a cool addition to Denver's beer culture and a fun sight to see on Friday afternoons. But C ... More >>

Tonight: Beer dinners at Star Bar and FreshCraft

​There are several beer dinners this week -- and tonight both Star Bar, 2137 Larimer Street, and FreshCraft, 1530 Blake Street, are offering multi-course beer dinners featuring an array of brews. Keep reading for menus and more information:

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 >>

WTF? Saturday's Gastravaganza of Beautiful Beer & Splendid Street Food is canceled

Lori Midson​Well, shit. Among the hundreds of events taking place this week in honor of the Great American Beer Festival and Denver Beer Fest, the one I was looking forward to the most has been squashed. Sunk. Torpedoed. Axed.

Beer floats, beer-can history and Beerituality are some of our top picks for Denver Beer Fest and the Great American Beer Festival

​You've already heard about beer for breakfast, beer burlesque and beer improv. Here are ten more top options during the second annual Denver Beer Fest, which takes place September 10-19 in conjunction with the Great American Beer Festival. Cheers. 10) Beer Floats Yes, they're insanely deli ... More >>

The Rackhouse Pub gets loaded on last year's Great American Beer Fest winners

​The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its first anniversary on Halloween, wasn't around during the Great American Beer Festival last year, so the taphouse is catching up. Starting this week, and leading up to the 2010 fest, September 16-18, the Rackhouse plans to have at least a dozen and poss ... More >>

Oskar Blues rolls out Burning Can, an all-canned beer fest

​Leave it to the guys at Oskar Blues Brewery to create a beer festival dedicated strictly to canned craft beer - and why not, since they were the ones who did it first. On June 26, the company will host Burning Can, a festival at Sandstone Park in Lyons (where Oskar Blues was founded) featuri ... More >>

Big Scooter Nights

Best of Denver Winners from 1999

Best of Denver Winners from 1996

Subhumans (U.K.)

Monday, August 27, Marquis Theater, 303-292-0805.

Action Figure 8

3 Kings Tavern

The Aquabats

Saturday, December 2, Gothic Theatre, Englewood, 1-866-468-7621.

Scratching the Surface

Seb Fontaine

Westword Music Showcase 2005

Best Band at the Worst Time

Detective Jabsco

Westword Music Showcase 2004

Fifty bands. Ten stages. Five bucks. Be there.

Feelin' Skanky

Four new discs show that reggae is bigger than just one mon.

Best Ska Recording

Electric Boogaloo
Five Iron Frenzy
5 Minute Walk Records

They've Got Their Mojo Rising

The Latin-flavored Voodoo Glow Skulls speak the language of ska.

Sublime's Legacy

The Long Beach Dub All Stars carry on in the wake of Sublime vocalist Bradley Nowell's death.

Thrills for the week

Thrills for the week

Road Skalars

Here Comes the Judge

Judge Roughneck on the insult that turned it into a band.

Westword Music '96 Awards Showcase

1 night, 5 bucks, 7 venues, 39 bands Sunday, September 22 6 P.M.-1A.M. in LoDo

Irons in the Fire

They're punk. They're ska. They're Christian. They're Denver's Five Iron Frenzy.

'VENGING ON GREATNESS

GREAT SKA

AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF SKA WARS, THE SKATALITES ARE STILL FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT.

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