There are cocktails and beers we call winter warmers, the kinds of drinks we associate with warm nights by the fire with snow blowing outside. Steaming Irish coffees and hot toddies ward off hypothermia and sobriety at the same time, while beers like Great Divide’s Hibernation Ale and Samuel Smith’s…
Few people can claim to know Lance Armstrong in the same way as Jonathan Vaughters, a cyclist and native Coloradan who became Armstrong’s friend, teammate — and eventually, his enemy. Now, the CEO of Slipstream Sports is featured in a documentary called The Armstrong Lie, which is scheduled to open…
A recent trip to Puerto Rico, aka America’s funky Latin cousin, inspired me to take a crack at the drinks of the Caribbean. Especially the mojito, the drink of Cuba — aka America’s brother-in-law who never gets invited to the baby showers. At Cuba Cuba Cafe & Bar in the…
While whiskey and scotch receive endless applause, tequila gets rediscovered as a connoisseur’s sipper and distilleries race each other to make the most complex and odd gin, vodka is left behind. Sure, it’s still the world’s most popular mixer. Without it, you couldn’t have a true Screwdriver, Cape Cod or…
Over the past few months, I’ve enjoyed breakfast drinks, sophisticated French cocktails, erudite winter warmers and a desperate cry for help in liquid form. All this fancy mixology stuff is well and good. But to quote Liberace by way of De La Soul, for my next number I’d like to…
Halloween is associated with three things: monsters and ghosts wandering the streets, bags and bags of candy, and alcohol poisoning. That’s because once we grow past trick-or-treating age, Jaeger and Miller replace Hershey’s and Reese’s for many of us. But your oh-so-clever Jersey Shore costume doesn’t mean you have to…
Its very name strikes fear into the hearts of men and women: Long Island Iced Tea. Five syllables that are shorthand for blackouts, poor decisions and even poorer drinks. It’s the patron cocktail of lounge lizards, spring breakers and people who have had two already. As cocktails like the martini…
A game about a rectangular detective with a fedora-sporting cat as a partner may be the freshest idea yet to come out of Colorado’s anemic game-development scene. Hot Tin Roof is the latest project by Denver-based developer Glass Bottom Games, which made its first splash with the charming side-scroller Jones…
When did you first start drinking coffee? The sudden realization that this dark and mysterious beverage that brings your parents to life each morning is actually delicious is a mark of growing up, not unlike turning 21. The first tentative sips begin a new identity — cream? sugar? — and,…
Fun fact: before microbreweries took over Colorado, Golden was home to the state’s first — and so far, only — sake brewery. The Hakushika Sake U.S.A. brewery opened in 1992 and produced sake for America and the ravenous European market until the Japanese recession tanked the business six years later…
The British have invented many things that keep us cool: a Scotsman named William Cullen designed the first artificial refrigeration system; our friends across the pond continue to send us the bone-chilling English breeze; and a delightful, red-tinted drink called Pimm’s Cup has been a summer refresher since the 1800s…
Fresh Thymes Eatery is an anomaly in the dining scene: a community restaurant that had its community baked in before the doors even opened. “We expected to have 100 people in for our soft opening on Tuesday night, and 168 people came,” says Christine Ruch, owner and chef of the…
Despite the proliferation of eager whippersnappers rushing to open craft breweries and distilleries, people have been working diligently to get us drunk for centuries. St. Germain, for example, originated in France in 1885, and its exuberantly fruity taste, which benefits from that most European of herbs — the elderflower –…
What does it take to convert a giant empty building in Longmont into a bustling supermarket? “It takes a village,” says Lucky’s Market founder Bo Sharon, with an appreciative sigh. “It takes a lot of intelligent people working very, very hard — 26,000 square feet is a big challenge.” The…
So, this is adulthood. Grown men and women jostling for the last drops of spicy Bloody Mary mix. Zombie-eyed hangover victims marching grimly back and forth to fill their glasses. Is this what I have to look forward for the next fifty years, until I’m forced to take my booze…
Edward Vanegas says he’s drawing a line between traditional Thailand and the vital Thailand of today with his Longmont eatery, Urban Thai. “There’s an older senior population that is the traditional Thai people that you come in contact with. They are very connected to the traditions,” says Vanegas, who officially…
So I had just gotten into this craft beer thing. Not obsessively, but enough to tell the difference between a tart saison and a Berliner weisse. Enough to snort dismissively when someone at the table ordered a Michelob Ultra Fruit Lime Cactus. But then they started putting booze in beer…
Christopher Golub is not a Radiohead hater. Golub’s Brooklyn-based company Studio Orca curates the music played in Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has over 1,400 locations. In honor of the Colorado-based restaurant chain’s twentieth anniversary this weekend, we profiled Golub (“Black Beans, White Stripes”) in this week’s issue, and when the…
Hearing Tom Waits rumble through “Jockey Full of Bourbon” while you’re dripping Tabasco on a barbacoa bowl at Chipotle may give you pause. Or you might take comfort in the smooth rhythm of Peter Tosh’s “Coming In Hot” as you wait in the lunch-rush line. The music selections at the…
Even among the many summer programs for kids that dub themselves “not a typical summer camp,” the La Alma Jaguar Club is definitely not typical. “We try to get across the idea that this is not a summer camp, this is a leadership program,” says Renee Fajardo, the coordinator for…
Mother Prioress Dolores Hart may be the most famous nun in America. Born Dolores Hicks, her effortless good looks and girl-next-door charm won her a part — as Dolores Hart — alongside Elvis in 1957’s Loving You. And as the cool-headed leader of a gaggle of thrill-seeking co-eds in the…
Three hours south of Denver, a husband-and-wife team of ranchers are working hard to help reintroduce Colorado lamb to the meat-devouring public. As detailed in this week’s cover story, “Counting Sheep,” the Triple M Bar Ranch in Manzanola ships lamb to over a dozen restaurants and caterers, who use it…
