A new restaurant, Ghost Plate & Tap, featuring 23 beers on tap and specialties from both the Wynkoop and Breckenridge brewpubs will fill the space where the Rocky Mountain Diner closed in February. The Diner, at 800 18th Street, had been a downtown institution for two decades before a lease…
Saturday, June 18, was supposed to be the day of the second annual Burning Can festival, an all-canned beer bonanza featuring craft beers from around Colorado and the rest of the country. Sadly, it was not to be. Oskar Blues, which created and hosts the event, canceled it, saying logistical…
Firestone Walker, the vaunted California craft brewer that was planning to enter the Colorado market next week with celebratory events in Colorado Springs, Longmont and Fort Collins, has suffered another setback that will delay its plans — at least for a while. “The licensing paperwork is not in place and…
For my dad, it’s Some Like it Hot. For me, it’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. They’re catnip movies: the films you’ll watch when they come on TV no matter how many times you’ve seen them before. Commercials? Yes. Edited scenes? Yes. I don’t care. Hand me a…
A friend of mine used to sell T-shirts in college. He was putting himself through school, along with a few scholarships, and he needed every dollar he could get. So he’d come up with a creative design idea, get a small loan from his mom and have the T-shirts printed…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the Colorado boys who made the big time with South Park, are used to pushing the envelope and making people mad. But they managed to make one hthalljr so angry by winning nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon that he…
Hundreds of beer geeks gathered at Avery Brewing Company on Saturday to enjoy one of the strangest, most inaccessible beer styles in the world — and they loved every funky minute of it. The second annual Boulder Sourfest attracted 37 breweries, which poured nearly 75 beers — all of them…
June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, which is great, but can also be boring. For instance, Thursday and Friday are Fresh Veggies Day and Eat Your Vegetables Day, respectively. But first things first: today is Sewing Machine Day — 24 hours during which we honor the sewing machine,…
Let’s get this out of the way first: Yes, any person in this country should be able to express their opinion to a cop — even if that opinion is unsavory and even if the person uses foul language — without getting arrested for it. You can, but it doesn’t…
The Denver Public Library’s annual Used Book Sale continues today under the white tents on the north side of the main branch, and it’s chock full of titles you wouldn’t want to pay $24.99 for, but on which you might risk a buck (or two). Which isn’t to say there’s…
Officially, June is bike month. Unofficially, however, it’s bike-anguish month as Denver’s daring, and occasionally dastardly, cyclists mount up and move out — into traffic. But the relationship between cyclists and motorists can be amicable. No, really, it can — if both groups of travelers would just stop being dickheads…
If suds slingers at Great Divide Brewing could figure out a way to get beer flowing from Denver’s fire hydrants, they’d do it. Since that would just fuel the flames of beery bacchanalia, however, they’ve decided instead to simply close down the street in front of the brewery for a…
Mashtuns, fermenters, kettles and other types of brewing equipment have been pouring into Denver breweries over the past few months — from Strange Brewing to the Denver Beer Co, from Wynkoop Brewing to the Copper Kettle. And more equipment just got here. Last week, Vine Street Pub installed its new…
Balloon Boy hoaxers Richard and Mayumi Heene have been prohibited by a judge from making money off their story until 2013 (and make no mistake, they will start trying one tick into New Year’s Day). But that doesn’t mean they can’t still make some hay. Earlier this week, the Heenes,…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company is about to add new brewing space for the first time in, uh, as long as anyone there can remember, says spokesman Marty Jones. The new tank — a forty-barrel beauty that will serve as décor in addition to increasing the brewpub’s capacity — will sit…
Yes, it’s only June 1, but Denver is already making plans for the Great American Beer Festival, which takes place here September 29-October 1. Tickets go on sale at the end of this month, and brewers are thinking about what categories to enter (or brewing up some specialties and hiding…
It’s been five months since the Wynkoop and Breckenridge breweries revealed that they were merging their finances and operations, but it’s going to be a while longer before the Wynkoop can start producing its beer at Breckenridge as it had planned. The federal Alcohol Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau (TTB),…
Denver’s Del Norte Brewing Company, which specializes in Mexican-style craft lagers, is working on a new beer that could be in bottles by the end of June. The as-yet-unnamed beer is an amber lager, similar to Bohemia, but more hop-forward, says brewery co-owner Joe Fox. A test batch is on…
Cloppity clop. The Wynkoop Brewing Company is bringing back its horse-drawn beer wagon tonight, packing up kegs and cans around 6 p.m. and rolling them down the road to drop them off at the Wazee Supper Club, Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, the Lobby and the Marriott hotel at the Colorado…
The United States Postal Service announced last week that Denver will be the new hub for mail going to and from Alaska — meaning we get to see Sarah Palin’s mail before she does. News of this cost-saving measure prompted a stern letter from Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who doesn’t…
In the pantheon of tough guys, Clint Eastwood stands alone. No other actor comes close when it comes to consistently portraying characters — from Dirty Harry to Walt Kowalski to the Man With No Name — who combine surly violence, dry humor, near invincibility and a twisted sense of right…
Cantastrophe! Oskar Blues, the Longmont brewery that inspired the canned craft beer craze, has canceled its 2011 version of Burning Can, a festival it kicked off last summer. The fest, which debuted in Lyons in 2010, was going to be held in Longmont on June 18 and feature around 100…
