Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it’s rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters…
The White Whale Room opened last Thursday, offering coffee, food and cocktails in a bright, arty space less than 100 feet from the Alameda Station light rail platform at 415 South Cherokee Street. The restaurant and coffee shop is part of the redevelpment of the area behind the Kmart at…
Downtown Englewood gets a new bar tonight with the opening of the Englewood Grand at 3435 South Broadway Street. The simple, straightforward watering hole is the work of Phil and Erika Zierke, neighborhood residents who saw the need for a community gathering spot with an enticing but uncomplicated drinks list. The bar…
One of the best parts of happy hour is matching and mixing dishes into strange table spreads that would have a Cordon Bleu instructor in tears. At happy hour, no one’s going to tell you not to order a sandwich, arancini and a pizza all at the same time. This…
Name confusion is a fact of life in the craft brewing industry these days, which is why there have been so many trademarks battles — and trademark resolutions — in the past few years. The folks at Prost Brewing in Denver and The Post Brewing in Lafayette have a more…
In the 1500s in what is now Germany, there was a law that beer could only be made with three ingredients: water, barley and hops. But that was then and this is now. In the United States in the new Millennium, you can find beers made with just about any…
Mondegreen Lime at Pon Pon Bar If Paul Garcia isn’t making cocktails at Pon Pon, he’s on the other side of the bar, spinning records. Garcia opened the arty cocktail lounge two months ago at 2528 Walnut Street, where you can listen to him play selections from his vinyl collection…
Nothing tastes better than a beer at the end of a long, terrible day. But what if the beer itself has been through hell and high water? Find out this week when Upslope Brewing begins pouring Scottish Style Ale, a collaboration with Spirit Hound Distillers that was born in the…
It’s not easy to be all things to all people, but for the past five years, the Denver Bicycle Cafe has tried, operating a spot that’s a combination of cozy coffeehouse, bike sales-and-repair shop, and beer bar noted for its focus on small local breweries. This month, DBC will try to…
Mike Henderson, beverage director for Root Down, Linger and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, is out to prove that Denver’s cocktail scene is one of the best in the country. On Monday, he competed in the regional semifinal of the Bartender of the Year event hosted in New Orleans by Heaven Hill…
Denver Restaurant Week can change the heart of a kitchen: For ten days, eateries in the city steel themselves for big crowds and plate after plate of risotto, roasted chicken and flourless chocolate cake. You can tell a lot about a restaurant from how well it handles the event and…
New Belgium forged new ground two years ago when it released Snapshot, a sour wheat for the masses that was available in both twelve-ounce cans and bottles. Now Epic Brewing in Denver is taking things a step further with Tart ‘n Juicy Sour IPA, which it calls “a unique fusion…
Burgers and beer are big business in Denver, and plenty of the 54 million travelers who passed through Denver International Airport last year have probably tried plenty of both. Burgers and beer will be even bigger business at the airport next year, though, after a Denver City Council committee approved…
No need to set the building on fire, Milton. Nobody is taking your red Swingline away. Or at least, no one is taking Trinity Brewing’s Red Swingline away. This week, Trinity owner Jason Yester revealed that he has signed an agreement with ACCO Brands Corporation, the maker of Swingline staplers,…
No Sleep Till Denver at Amethyst Coffee Amethyst Coffee cranked up the coffee pots for the first time last February, serving cups of espresso and pastries at 1111 Broadway in the Metlo complex. And two months ago, owner Elle Taylor secured a liquor license, adding a hand-picked assortment of spirits…
When Chris Marchio peers into a glass of IPA, he doesn’t want to be able to see out the other side. Instead, Marchio, the head brewer for Fiction Beer Company, wants to see a haze, like a thick fog rolling off the Atlantic Ocean onto Cape Cod. He’s not alone…
Oskar Blues has little secret brewing in the back room. Well, make that a big secret: a big barrel-aged one. Over the past three months, the Longmont-based beer maker has been filling and stacking hundreds of bourbon barrels with a couple of its concoctions. Although Oskar Blues has had a…
IPAs are dead. Long live IPAs. Although it’s trendy to bash India Pale Ales these days as being the death of craft beer, reality shows that they’re what has helped to give the industry life: The Boulder-based Brewers Association reports that IPAs make up more than 27 percent of the…
2010, the year we all felt so fly “Like a G6,” incessantly tooted our vuvuzelas, and pretended to be outraged at many a natural and man-made disaster. Harnessing our nostalgia for the end of the aughts, Hollywood has already made the Wikileaks and Deepwater Horizon movies, but has yet to…
Greeley’s WeldWerks Brewing — which Westword called one of five breweries to watch this year — has also attracted some national attention: USA Today has included the company in a readers’ choice contest to select the Best New Brewery to emerge over the last few years. And the voting will…
Spanish Gin-Tonic at Linger The menu at Linger touches almost every continent on Earth, bringing regional dishes from all over the world to the mortuary-turned-restaurant in the LoHi neighborhood. And that globally inspired mission is not lost on Ky Belk, who manages the bar and oversees Linger’s diverse cocktail program…
When Coda Brewing opened in May 2014, co-owners Luke Smith and Scott Procop hoped to make beautiful music on the former Fitzsimons Army base in Aurora. And for a while, they did: Coda won medals at the Great American Beer Festival for two different beers in 2014 and 2015. But…
