We knew rap had gone mainstream when Will Smith’s The Fresh Prince of Bel Air began airing in 1990, and we know craft beer has done the same now that T.G.I. Friday’s is pairing its new menu items with selected beers from New Belgium Brewing. On December 21, the casual…
I love holiday beers. But that’s not all that Colorado’s breweries are putting out right now. Here are five beers that have just been released — or are about to be — that were brewed simply because, well, because Colorado is awesome. Double Rainbow Trinity Brewing, Colorado Springs Black Fox…
Westword is asking readers to help us select a Shmuck of the Year by rolling out a new candidate each week throughout the month of December. The winner — loser — will be announced on January 3. Our first candidate was the newly fired Josh McDaniels. This week, say hello…
Portland is a better beer town than Denver. As a Denver native, it pains me to say that, but after having visited Beervana for the first, time, there is no getting around it. While Denver brewers consistently make better beer than those in Portland, there are more than three times…
Colorado food banks have seen “a staggering increase in need,” the Denver Post reported this week, and 12.2 percent of households “were categorized as food insecure in 2009.” The answer, according to Republican U.S. Representative Mike Coffman: cut off food stamps…
Each and every week, Westword bequeaths the Shmuck of the Week award to the person — or thing — who forces normally Mile High Coloradans to hold their heads low. And at the end of every year, Westword honors this cow town’s worst of the worst — the characters whose…
The Christmas season is a time for lights – just look at your neighbor’s sun-like display – but for beer drinkers, it’s also a time for darks: dark beers. Today, the Wynkoop Brewing Company will give more than a dozen breweries from Colorado and elsewhere a chance to show off…
As if the Wynkoop Brewing Company didn’t have enough going on today — it announced that it will join with Breckenridge Brewing — it has also named (tentatively) the beer it plans to brew in honor of brewery co-founder and Governor-elect John Hickenlooper. Hickenlooper’s InaugurAle will be brewed on Saturday,…
The owners of the proposed Cold Comfort Tavern will host the powerful Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods on Thursday to talk about plans for their Seventh Avenue craft beer bar and restaurant. Cold Comfort would be located inside the mostly vacant Colorado Lace building at 200 East Seventh Avenue, at the…
On November 15, a shipment of Maui Brewing Company’s canned beers left Hawaii by boat, bound for one of the ports in Southern California — and eventually for Colorado. It hasn’t arrived yet. But it might soon, and when it does, says Dave Watson of the CR Goodman liquor distributorship…
Sink the Bismarck, the highest-alcohol beer in the world, has finally made it to Colorado. The “quadruple IPA,” at 41 percent alcohol by volume, is made by Scotland’s controversial and attention-seeking BrewDog brewery, the spot also responsible for Tactical Nuclear Penguin, a 32 percent ABV beer, which held the record…
This is your second to last weekend to take a ride on a B-cycle before the bikes are pulled from the streets for the winter on December 6. The now-iconic red bikes made their debut last April and will return for on March 1, 2011 after a brief hibernation. The…
Last week, Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council in Colorado Springs, said that if the United States ends the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military, it could bring back the draft. His reasoning: strapping young recruits won’t want to serve next to men and women…
Local events promoter Dana Cain has locked down the time and place for the brand-new Denver County Fair. The event, envisioned as a hip, urban version of the classic rural-style county fair, will be held July 28-31 at the National Western Stock Show complex. Cain and cohorts Chandler Romeo and…
The UFO Watchtower in Hooper (part of Westword’s weird and wonderful Summer Guide from 2009) is many things: fascinating and disappointing, endearing and strange. There isn’t much there — just a metal platform, a giftshop and the crazy garden that Kirk Johnson talks about in his New York Times article…
It was dark, it was twenty degrees outside, and some jerk took just bought the last half-price camera at Target. Welcome to #blackfriday. But maybe you’re still home in bed? Well, here’s a taste of what you missed earlier this morning from the Twitter world…
Leonard Cordova, the grandson of the late and legendary Chubby’s founder Stella Cordova, plans to open his ninth Bubba Chino’s restaurant this spring at the corner of East Colfax and Franklin Street in the former Fanny’s Corner flower shop. The Mexican burrito place will bring the quickly growing chain’s distinctive…
There are many rumors about the pilgrims and beer. Some say they landed on Plymouth Rock because they ran out of the sudsy stuff. Others claim they drank it on the voyage over because it was safer than water. Whatever the truth, beer and pilgrims will always be tied to…
Denver is about to get its second bikini-barista coffee shop, and like the first, it takes its inspiration and has its roots in the bikini-barista trend in the Pacific Northwest. Twin Perks is scheduled to open sometime in December at 1628 Federal Boulevard near Invesco Field at Mile High, according…
Like every business owner, Marilyn Megenity has to make tough decisions. But one of her most recent ones was tougher than most. Earlier this month, she decided to switch all twelve taps at the Mercury Cafe from beer made by her neighbor, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, to beer made in…
Over the past two years, Denver has had a close encounter with Massachusetts-based US OpenAir, which wanted to charge a ridiculous amount of easy money to build a grandstand and show movies in two of the city’s biggest parks. But what they got was a mad, mad, mad, mad world…
Hey beer drinkers. Do you like free beer? Well, you can have one tonight at the quasi-private Web Awards party we’re having at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, to celebrate the best of the web in Denver. Boulder’s Upslope Brewing and Denver’s Strange Brewing will be pouring until they run out…
