Wild yeast strains can produce delightfully funky and oddly delicious beers. But they can also be a pain in the ass — which Odell Brewing discovered last week when customers reported that some bottles of Hiveranno New American Wild Ale, the latest one-off from the brewery’s’ Single Serve Series, were…
Every time I think that there can’t possibly be enough room in the market for another brewery in Denver, I step into a packed tap room and I change my mind. In fact, it’s so difficult to get a seat sometimes at places like Great Divide and Dry Dock, that…
Earlier this week, Matthew Weatherspoon was charged with stabbing a five-month-old bulldog puppy named Diamond after the dog nipped him. He is then accused of tossing the dog out of his apartment, where it was later discovered and taken to an animal hospital. Unconscionable? Yes. But sadly, Weatherspoon is not…
The canned craft beer revolution started in Lyons in 2002 with Oskar Blues, and although Colorado is still the leader, we don’t yet have metal to match our mountains. That will change in late July or early August when the Eddyline Brewery in Buena Vista becomes the first craft beer…
Maybe you found the perfect unicorn painting for your living room. Maybe you passed out from heat exhaustion on what always seems to be one of the hottest weekends of year. Perhaps you were inspired to begin your own art career or driven to scream at the people who park…
Great American Beer Festival tickets went on sale today (here), and although they are $5 more this year, $60 is still worth the price of admission. After all, there will be 450 breweries serving 2,200 different beers at the fest, which runs September 29 through October 1. What else is…
Breckenridge Brewing is supposed to get its new canning today or tomorrow. The automatic system should enable Breckenridge, which merged its finances and operations with Wynkoop Brewing earlier this year, to package both company’s beers at a rate of at least 36 cans per minute — a significant upgrade from…
Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival’s thirtieth edition go on sale to the general public tomorrow, and even at $60 a pop, the biggest beer fest in the world is still worth the price of admission. Although most things will be the same this year — both the good…
Denver’s homegrown airline, Frontier, was once a local darling. Its local ties, funny animals and scrappy attitude gave people the alternative they needed a decade ago to United Airlines, which dominated the gates at Denver International Airport for a long time and pissed off just about everyone at one time…
AC Golden, the tiny MillerCoors-owned brewery located deep inside the hidden corridors of the mega-brewer’s Golden plant, will put three unusual beers on tap tonight only at Star Bar, the tiny Larimer Street watering hole known for its craft beer selections. The beers are all ales, which marks a major…
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the fourteen-year-old creative writing school that has helped some of Denver’s best authors, is moving and consolidating its classrooms and office space into the historic Milheim House at 1515 Race Street. The house, built in 1893 for John and Mary Milheim, was originally located at 1355 Pennsylvania…
Wings and beer is one of the most perfect combinations in edible history. But what about wings and craft beer? Do big, bold flavors help or hurt Buffalo’s spicy gift to the world? The Wing Hut in Aurora is going to try to answer that question — along with another…
MillerCoors celebrated the first day of summer by kicking off a summer sweepstakes that will send one winner and four friends deep into the heart of the Blue Moon Brewing Co. @ the Sandlot where they can hang out with the brewmasters and spend the day making beer with them…
New Belgium Brewing celebrates its twentieth anniversary — and two decades of spreading the word about better beer — next Tuesday. Founded in Fort Collins in 1991, the brewery has gone from the basement of a house to become the third largest craft brewer in the nation, and it now…
If beer is art, then the next great gallery is about to open in the Santa Fe Arts District. Renegade Brewing, at 925 West Ninth Avenue, will roll up its garage door this Sunday at 2 p.m., welcoming people who appreciate the finer things in life — things like craft…
Anyone who has ever been blocked in while trying to drop off a passenger knows there are plenty of dicks at Denver International Airport. And anyone who has followed Westword knows that there are plenty of conspiracy theories about the place as well — many, many theories. But those aren’t…
Breaking into cars during festivals or concerts is nothing new: petty thieves know they have a nice window of time to smash-and-grab and a lot of vehicles to choose from. But during church services? And funerals? That’s pretty low. On Saturday, Greeley police arrested two people, Ernesto J. Castanuela, thirty,…
Caution. Objects may appear smaller in rear-view mirror. Anthony Weiner has left the building, resigning after the mounting pressure built up to the point that it exploded out of containment. But that doesn’t mean that American men can’t take away some lessons from this saga of a congressional member…
With the Colorado Rockies mired in a weeks-long slump, there are fewer and fewer reasons to go the ballpark in the heat of the summer. But just because the product on the field is suffering doesn’t mean the product at the gates is doing the same. We’re talking about promos…
Homing pigeons are amazing birds. From a young age, they have the ability to find their way home to where they were raised from hundreds of miles away. This ability — which has yet to be fully understood – made them perfect for delivering messages in ancient Egypt, where people…
First we had Odell’s Twitter Brew, a beer recipe that was workshopped and designed on Twitter. Then came Trinity’s Double Rainbow Collaborative Saison, a beer dedicated to a viral YouTube video. Now, there’s a beer named for the newly famous photo of an underpants-clad boner that New York Congressman Anthony…
There are some movies you’ll watch on TV no matter how many times you’ve seen them before. Yesterday, I called these “catnip movies” and unloaded my list of flicks that grab my attention and keep it, commercials and all. Among the movies on my list were Westerns with Clint Eastwood,…
