There were dick jokes, poop jokes, discussions of anal sex, drinking games and fat guys. There was also fond (and not so fond) childhood memories, evangelical preaching and one thrown shoe hitting a guy in the head. A frat party? A Broadway street corner? No, it was Ignite Denver –…
When Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing hired Boulder-based Moxie Sozo to redesign its labels a couple of years ago, the results opened a lot of eyes — and landed Left Hand beers on a lot of best-designed beer label lists. As an added bonus, Moxie, a Boulder design and advertising agency,…
The Great American Beer Festival, which begins today, sold out long ago, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of other brew-infused events going on all over town where you can taste rare, delicious or unusual beers and meet the guys who make them. There are more than a dozen…
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…
Colorado. You’re gonna need a bigger coozie. Oskar Blues, the Colorado company that kicked off the craft-beer-in-a-can revolution in 2002, will celebrate a decade of unconventional packaging next year by pouring its flagship brew, Dales’s Pale Ale, into sixteen-ounce tallboys for the first time…
Oskar Blues is the second Colorado brewery to tap into a viral YouTube video, releasing Honey Badger Smoked Porter at its restaurants in Longmont and Lyons yesterday. The beer was inspired by “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall),” a National Geographic video with a hilarious voicever that…
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…
Oskar Blues has been one of the rock stars of the craft brewing industry for nearly a decade — ever since it became the first microbrewery to can its big beers. And this week, Oskar Blues is offering its legions of fans a peek behind the curtain, not just of…
Over the past two decades, New Belgium Brewing has helped to make Fort Collins into one of the most well-known small beer cities in America. Now New Belgium could solidify the reputation of another small beer city by creating a second brewery there. The company confirmed to the Fort Collins…
So, a couple of guys walk into a Hooters in Colorado Springs, sit down and order some beers, and then start following one of the young, scantily-clad waitresses with their eyes. Sounds like a typical night at Hooters, right? Except the two guys were undercover cops who were, uh, “working.”…
“Robert Adams was teaching English at Colorado College in the early 1960s when he met Myron Wood, who taught him the basics of photography,” Westword art critic Michael Paglia writes in a preview of the upcoming Adams show at the Denver Art Museum. “But instead of taking the traditional approach…
The Great American Beer Festival, coming to town September 29 through October 1, is sold out — completely. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find plenty of beer geekery all over town. One of the first big warm-ups will be the Great COntenders, taking place from 1 to 4 p.m…
It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. “It’s a blast,” says Nunns. “After I got over being nervous, I loved it.” Ignite Denver…
Are you ready to rumble? We are. The Great American Beer Festival kicks off on September 29, but there are plenty of GABF-related events where you can practice in advance — or even instead — of the big show. In fact, there are too many events to list, but I…
It only took five minutes on stage for Nick Nunns to realize that he loved the idea of Ignite Denver. Actually, since his performance only lasted five minutes total, it took less than that. “It’s a blast,” says Nunns. “After I got over being nervous, I loved it.” Ignite Denver…
What’s that you say? How can you mess with perfection? Easily. The Great American Beer Festival, which takes place September 29 to October 1, is the biggest consumer beerstravaganza in the world. It’s on the life to-do list for beer lovers all over the globe, and it brings more cachet…
Is there any better time and place to open a new brewery than in Denver, two days before the Great American Beer Festival? Scott Witsoe doesn’t think so. And he’ll be living that dream on September 26 when he unlocks the doors to Wit’s End Brewing, the fifth small brewery…
Short’s Brewing, a tiny beermaker in the even tinier Michigan village of Bellaire, caused a stir at last year’s Great American Beer Festival when social media (including a tweet by beer guru Charlie Papazian) made it the buzz beer to find. And find it people did. When the dust cleared…
As if losing to the Oakland Raiders at home on the first Monday Night Football nightcap of the year wasn’t enough humiliation, the Denver Broncos are a laughingstock again today in the sports world because of a plan by a group of “fans” to buy two billboards in town insisting…
Sports Authority Field at Mile High is certainly a more appropriate name for Denver’s football stadium now that Invesco has become an obscure financial firm that nearly collapsed during the recession. Sports Authority, after all, is based in Colorado and was born from the stalwart Gart Brothers company. But Sports…
He mostly gave up art eight years ago to take over the family business, the Zephyr Lounge in Aurora, so the decision to feature Myron Melnick’s work at the Singer Gallery was an interesting choice, writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week’s review…
The debate never stops rolling when it comes to two-wheelers in the Mile High City, whether its bikes verses cars, bikes verses bikes, or bikes verses, well, pigeons. Which is why we suppose that Denver’s latest installation of the incredibly popular and costume-positive Tour de Fat, which took place September…
