Wynkoop Brewing Company

Cory Treadway, exec chef of Wynkoop Brewery, on smartphones, fried squirrel and heaven

Cory Treadway Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th Street 303-297-2700 wynkoop.com This is part one of my interview with Cory Treadway, exec chef of the Wynkoop; part two of our conversation will run in this space tomorrow. "I was the first white kid -- the first gringo -- to ever roll egg rolls," ... More >>

It takes beer to make beer: an all-female collaboration brew is under way at the Wynkoop

It's always loud inside the brewhouse at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, but it got a little louder on Tuesday when eight beer geeks from seven different breweries around Colorado convened to drink beer together brew what is probably the first all-female craft beer collaboration in the state, a Belgian ... More >>

Lady brewers will gather for Colorado's first all-female collaboration beer

Brewers love to get together and collaborate on news beers, to talk about equipment and ingredients, to come up with new recipes and, of course, to drink a few. And although these collaborations can often result in new forms of deliciousness, they are also a way for the guys to get together and shoo ... More >>

Vegetarian palates get jazzed over Dazzle's happy hour

The happy hour at Dazzle has always been a thing of beauty: $3 craft beers, $4 glasses of wine and an array of foods ranging in price from $3.75 to $6.75, catering to both carnivorous and plant-based palates. There's often live music in the lounge, and all the shaken cocktails come with a dance serv ... More >>

Wynkoop Brewing will package its "ballsy" Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout in cans

It took balls for the Wynkoop Brewing Company to turn an April Fool's Day joke about a brew made with bull testicles into reality in October, during the Great American Beer Festival. But the brewery really had to sack up after that, as it negotiated with the feds about what it could and couldn't pu ... More >>

It's been A Wonderful Life for the Wynkoop Brewing Company

In the Christmastime classic, It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart, as George Bailey, gets a taste of what the world would be like if he had never been born. It's not a pretty picture, and it reminds Bailey, and the audience, of the joy he created. The Wynkoop Brewing Company, founded in 1988, has c ... 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 >>

Thirty years in, the 16th Street Mall is still going strong

Just for Kicks

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, April 20-22, 2012

This weekend is all about the green. Whether you're into partying with the sort-of legal kind at the countless 4/20 events on Friday or celebrating the less controversial plants at Earth Day parties on Sunday, we've got it all in one place for less than $10. And beyond the things that grow in the gr ... More >>

Colorado Rockies fans without underwear, round two!

As evidenced in our "7 best-dressed (and undressed) fans at Colorado Rockies home opener," the fans at Coors Field were far more entertaining than the shutout loss for the home team. And yesterday one local voyeur cameraman contacted us to say he could one-up our list's number-one spot with a pic of ... More >>

Denver may be the thirteenth-drunkest city, but we're tops in beer

Colorado beer calendar: Open beery holiday treats at local breweries

Holiday beers are on tap all around town, and you'll find some good ones right at the source -- at the breweries that make them. Some of the wintery wonders you can try include Ugly Sweater at Wit's End Brewing, Winter Spice Ale (with star anise, vanilla soaked in rum, ginger and allspice) at Copper ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Sausage at Denver Beer Co; Black Friday at Copper Kettle

Avery Brewing has created an online petition at change.com, urging the brewery's fans to support an effort in Boulder to change the zoning code to allow breweries, wineries and distilleries located in industrial parts of the city to open restaurants. Right now, those businesses are only allowed to o ... More >>

Drink "Tebow," a onetime only beer from Wynkoop Brewing that has righteous character

​The Wynkoop Brewing Company has had some fun over the past year naming some of the one-keg-only beers that it serves as part of its Firkin Friday program. Remember Weiner's Wood Oak-Aged IPA, which the brewery named for a certain former New York Congressman? Now you can try something with a ... More >>

LoDo goes ape as Gorilla Run raises money for Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund

Eric Gruneisen​Last weekend, zombies filled downtown. This weekend, it was gorillas -- 1,200 of them, all participating in the eighth annual 5K Gorilla Run, which benefits the Denver-based Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. That's more runners than there are mountain gorillas left in the wild ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Copper Kettle, Star Bar, Hops & Pie have cool times for the summer heat

FacebookCopper Kettle brews.​I'm hitting the highway soon for a little Colorado summer road trip. But before I pack the tent, the beef jerky, the CDs or even the cooler, I'm stashing my copy of The Beer Drinker's Guide to Colorado map (fifth edition!) above the sun visor. This awesome fold-ou ... 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 >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: Find firkins at Hops&Pie, City, O'City and Cheeky Monk

Wynkoop BrewingWynkoop brewers know hops.​You won't find many of Colorado's brewers around Colorado this week as most of them have taken off for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, taking place in San Francisco. But that doesn't mean you can't toast them -- and the industry as a whole -- whi ... More >>

Top ten places to drink like a pirate in landlocked Denver. Arrrrrgh!

​At 11 a.m., the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will release its new beer, Skull & Crossbones Black Ale, inspired by Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship, the new exhibit that sets sail today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The dark- ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Soup for the Soul, booze dinners and more

​Denver Restaurant Week kicks off on Saturday, which is also when the 2011 Beerdrinker of the Year will be crowned -- but in the meantime, there are plenty of culinary events to fill your belly. Here's what's on the menu:

Hickenlooper's Inaugurale will be delivered via horse and carriage

​Not only is the Wynkoop Brewing Company making a special beer to commemorate brewery co-founder John Hickenlooper's gubernatorial inauguration party on Tuesday, it will deliver that beer, Hickelooper's Inaugurale, via horse and carriage. The party, which is being held at the Fillmore auditor ... More >>

The Colorado Cider Company will turn apples to apple cider

​Brad Page, a real estate agent and co-founder of the Coopersmith's Pub & Brewing in Fort Collins, plans to start Denver's first hard ciderery this spring. Cider, which is more popular in England and Ireland than in the United States, is made from fermented apples. Page will buy his apples f ... 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 >>

The week in Cafe Society bloggery: Cupcakes, veggie dogs, tacos and a fuzzy hunk of meat that says, "I'm bacon!

Lori Midson​ Behold the highlights and low lights of what you may have missed this week on the Cafe Society blog.

Pale Ale of the Apes

Dishing up the latest winner of our Dish tickets -- and offering up one last chance

​Yesterday, we offered readers another chance to win a pair of tickets to Dish, Westword's annual celebration of dining in Denver, at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. Contestants had to tell us in five words or less why they deserved the tickets. And the wi ... More >>

Dishing up one last pair of Dish tickets...to Daveed

​This morning, we offered readers another chance to win a pair of tickets to Dish, Westword's annual celebration of dining in Denver, at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. Contestants had to tell us in five words or less why they deserved the tickets. And the ... More >>

Dishing up the next winner of our Dish tickets -- and yet another giveaway

​On Friday, we offered readers another chance to win a pair of tickets to Dish, Westword's annual celebration of dining in Denver, at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. Contestants had to tell us in five words or less why they deserved the tickets. And the ... More >>

Root Root Root for the Home-Brewed Team

Tonight: Get the lowdown on LoDo eating at LoDo Bites

​We remember when LoDo's restaurant scene was a vast wasteland beyond the Wazee Supper Club -- and the area wasn't even known as LoDo. But those days are long behind us, as evidenced by LoDo Bites, the second annual "sip, sample, stroll" event, which will send diners out into the streets of lo ... More >>

Take a Bite Out of LoDo

The Denver Roller Dolls want you to name ... that ... beeeeeeer!

From denverrollerdolls.orgThe Denver Roller Dolls' travel team, the Mile High Club​ The Denver Roller Dolls, one of Denver's two badass roller derby leagues, will soon have its own beer, courtesy of the Wynkoop Brewing Company. According to the Dolls, the beer will be a "pre-Prohibition-styl ... More >>

The King of Beers

Tonight: Deck the halls at the Wynkoop

​The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will host a holiday beer dinner tonight pairing seasonal brews from Wynkoop, AC Golden, Breckenridge Brewing, Dry Dock, Great Divide and Odell with a special menu by chef Bart Profitt. Brewers from the guest breweries and Wynkoop's own Andy Bro ... More >>

Beer and holiday cheer: Shopping at a brewpub!

Tonight's holiday beer dinner at the Wynkoop Brewing Company is sold out, but you can still enjoy some beer-infused holiday cheer with two special (non-alcoholic!) items that Wynkoop has crafted out of its ever-popular Rail Yard Ale.

Twits Unite! Tweetup tonight at Wynkoop Brewery

I mentioned this last week in my Twitter Tuesday post, but in case you missed it, there's a tweetup tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing Company. In other words, a bunch of people who kinda-sorta know each other from Twitter will be hanging out, drinking beer and getting to kinda-sorta k ... More >>

Room to Grow

A Garden Grapes & Hops party sprouts at the Botanic Gardens.

A spirited Mayoral proclamation

Before the Nuggets-Lakers series began, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa put an unusual spin the typical sporting bet between city head honchos over playoff games. If the Lakers lose, he promised to send Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper the Los Angeles Times to replace the Rocky Mountain News ... More >>

Who will be Beerdrinker of the Year?

Last year's winner toasts with the judges. Millions of people drink beer, and many more consider themselves to be beer experts – either in quantity or quality -- but only one can be Beerdrinker of the Year. The Wynkoop Brewing Company is now taking resumes for its thirteenth annual Beerdrinke ... More >>

Obamanator brings together beer and politics at the DNC

Going Ape for Wynkoop Beer

Blondie’s Firehouse

Don’t be an ash!

Best of Denver Winners from 1995

Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new. Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.

Best of Westword 1991 Winners

Weekend Update

The Bite

Feeling Sheepish

Mouthing Off

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