Just a few weeks after they joined forces, the Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries have taken on an unexpected challenge: slapping together a new concept to fill the former Rocky Mountain Diner space at 800 18th Street, which closed last month after a twenty-year run. The two companies, which are run…
It’s not often that you’ll find Republican representative Larry Liston and his liberal colleague, Democrat Crisanta Duran, on the same side of an issue. Nor is it common to see the United Food and Commercial Workers and the supermarket chains fighting together for a cause. But all of those strange…
The Southern Sun pub in Boulder will tap a firkin of its FYIPA today, the first of what brewer Brian Hutchinson hopes will lead to many more in the near future. In fact, the Southern Sun and Denver’s Vine Street Pub, which are both owned by the Mountain Sun Pub…
Green beer, St. Paddy’s Day, blah, blah, blah. Why not try something besides Guinness or Coors Light dyed green this year? FreshCraft will be pouring $4 Irish Divides (a name it made up), which are similar to black and tans and consist of Great Divide Hoss and O’Hara’s Irish Stout…
Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora will change the name of its acclaimed Seven Seas Double IPA sometime in the next few weeks after getting a “nasty” letter from a lawyer representing 7 Seas Brewing Company in Gig Harbor, Washington. “I was disappointed I didn’t get a phone call,” says Dry…
When Coloradans elected former beer man John Hickenlooper to the state’s top post last November, they had no idea they’d be letting the entire craft-brewing industry into the Governors’ Mansion as well. But that’s what happened last night when the residence played host to Pints & Bites, a gourmet food-and-beer…
Someone in the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver ordered that a mural of the Virgin Mary at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church be covered up two years ago. Or did they?…
Let’s be honest: Going out for beers on St. Patrick’s Day can be a grind. There are the overwhelming crowds, the surly bartenders, the fake Irish spirit. And then there are the amateurs. Yes, the inexperienced drinkers who get so blindly drunk that they puke in your lap, knock over…
The Breckenridge and Wynkoop breweries officially sealed the deal on their joint venture and celebrated their future on Tuesday by tapping kegs of each other’s beers at their respective breweries. And later this month — possibly as early as March 28 — Breck will open its newest location, Ale House…
Vine Street Pub is getting ready to raise the roof on its new brewery. But first it had to lower the floor. “We dropped the whole thing about three feet,” says Brian Hutchinson, head brewer for Vine Street. The goal is to make room for a twelve-barrel brewing system and…
Craft beer has been the star of a recent documentary, a television series and a couple of YouTube videos over the past year. Now another feature-length documentary is scheduled to be released this summer. Most of these efforts have been serious, noble — sometimes overly so. Leave it to the…
The Fort Collins and Wynkoop brewing companies are the the latest Colorado beer-makers to introduce new black ales, and while the Fort Collins bottle label made me raise a P.C. eyebrow, black ales are definitely becoming more popular. The Incredible Hop Imperial Black IPA is part of Fort Collins Brewery’s…
There’s a battle brewing at Govnr’s Park. On Saturday, from 5 to 8 p.m., the ageless watering hole will host its second annual Spring Meltdown Beerfest, pitting 35 breweries against each other. They’ll be fighting for the love of Gov’s patrons, and the winner gets a draft handle for an…
There are lots of really bad ways to deal with angry feelings toward someone who breaks your heart. You can spread rumors about STDs, flame them on Facebook, burn their pictures in effigy, sleep with their roommate and leave dog poo at their door. But those will just make you…
Can’t get enough locally-made craft beer? You’re in luck! Brian and Khara O’Connell plan to open Renegade Brewing this summer at 925 West Ninth Avenue, just off Santa Fe Drive. “We are really excited to be in the arts district and to be a part of First Fridays,” says Brian,…
Old dog. New tricks. The Wazee Supper Club, which has been dishing up Denver-style pizza pies for almost forty years, is adding to, and revamping, its beer lineup to focus more on craft beer. “We used to have twenty taps. Now there are 32, and some of those original twenty…
Some delicious new beers are floating around out there this week, including Myrcenary double IPA, Odell Brewing’s first new year-round beer since 2007, which you can find at Old Chicago and in liquor stores, and Le Terroir, an elegant but powerful dry-hopped sour ale from New Belgium’s Lips of Faith…
On a recent trip to Durango, I had what may have been one of the best, most unusual food creations every to grace the fine, square state of Colorado — and it came from Texas. Now Texas, as most old-school Coloradans know, is a place to be scorned. But frankly,…
Pliny the Younger, the ultra-rare triple IPA from California’s Russian River Brewing, has already been tapped at the Falling Rock Taphouse — which got seven of the twenty five-gallon kegs allocated for Colorado — and at FreshCraft, which opened one keg last night. But there are still a few more…
You can’t dip into the company coffers to pay a remodel to your house and you can’t stick your fingers into your parishioners’ purses to put your kids through college. It’s a lesson that the Reverend Donald Armstrong’s kids may have learned if they took Ethics 101 in college –…
The only thing that could possibly have made the discovery of a new Pilgrim sandwich any better is that fact that I’ll soon be able to wash it down with a cold Colorado beer. Backcountry Provisions, the oddly-but-rustic-and-poetically-named LoDo sandwich shop, plans to start serving two beers on tap alongside…
Sitting in the shadow of the Pepsi Center, Brauns Bar and Grill has been a prime hangout for Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets fans since it opened in 2002. But when the seasons are over, things can get a little quiet over there, which is why owner Troy Johnston and…
