If you’re a woman and you love wine, then you must be a complete idiot. That’s the only logical conclusion we were able to draw after stumbling upon a slew of borderline misogynistic marketing ploys to influence our (since we are most assuredly a “she”) wine-purchasing decisions. With some research…
Cicerones are the beer world’s version of sommeliers, and those who passed their certification tests become experts on beer storage and service, tasting and flavors, brewing ingredients and processes and pairing beer with food. There are three certification levels — Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone and Master Cicerone — but…
Endless meats on a stick might be too much to hope for. But still, Fogo de Chão’s new happy-hour menu offers a viable option for those who want to enjoy the traditional churrasco without overdosing on seared flesh. With $8 dishes and $6 cocktails, this menu, which is only available…
The Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street in Boulder, is hosting a casual beer-and-food-pairing this evening at 7 p.m., celebrating five of the best Colorado craft breweries that have consistently been on tap at the restaurant: Oskar Blues, Dry Dock, Odell, Funkwerks and Upslope…
Great American Beer Festival week kicked off, as it has for the past fifteen years, at the Falling Rock Taphouse on Monday, when the clock hit 000 00 00 00.0 But things were a little different this year, says Chris Black, who owns and runs Denver’s most famous craft-beer bar…
Copper Kettle Brewing had only been open five months when it won a gold medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival for its Mexican Chocolate Stout. Owners Kristen Kozik and Jeremy Gobien were ecstatic, but they didn’t let the honor go to their heads. Instead, they’ve been turning out…
Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, presents Beers Made by Walking from 5 to 8 p.m. today. The mini-beer fest will feature ten beers that were made over the past summer by nine well-known breweries around Colorado; each includes some sort of edible or medicinal plant that was discovered along…
Update: Congratulations to 94cubuff and Teresa Burwell! You have each won two tickets. To everyone else, thanks for writing in: This was one of our toughest contests in a while. Original post: It was all such a blur. Within 45 minutes of their release on August 2, every ticket to…
This is the first in a series of Q&As with beer-minded folks who have jobs to do during the Great American Beer Festival. Volunteers at the Great American Beer Festival are sometimes maligned, usually busy and always — always — needed. After all, there are going to be 2,700 different…
Every November, I cook a turkey. Not on Thanksgiving, but a couple of weeks early. This way, I can get a taste of Turkey-Day excitement early and not have to stuff myself on the actual day, ending up in a tryptophan-induced coma. The same plan also helps you survive Great…
Updated with new events: Tourists may go to Rome to see the Coliseum, but it’s the side streets, the adventures and the hidden cafes that typically fill their cameras and their post-trip stories. The same is true of the week surrounding the Great American Beer Festival. The event is the…
Go Fish, 1 Broadway, will unveil its new lounge and bar — complete with eight taps — with a grand opening party from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today. The sushi joint is offering buy-one-get deals on all drinks, all night. Here’s a look at the sleek new digs: See…
Happy Place: Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 Eighteenth Street, 303-297-2700. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m to midnight. The Deals: $3.50 select draft beers; $4 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Colorado represents a huge part of the festivities inside the Great American Beer Festival, both because of the depth and breath of our state’s brewing prowess and because we are the host state, so it is fitting – and easy – for our beer makers to represent. As a result,…
Update: Congratulations to MattL5, whose fun, semi-explicit feelings about beer have earned him two tickets to Saturday night at GABF. If you didn’t win, keep reading: We’re announcing our final contest today! Original post: It was all such a blur. Within 45 minutes of their release on August 2, every…
There will be thousands of beers to sample inside the Colorado Convention Center during the Great American Beer Festival, which starts on October 11, but there will also be some very special beers served at bars, breweries and restaurants during the week before GABF. Some of these were brewed especially…
Denver is in a frenzy over both tonight’s debate and next week’s beer-soaked Great American Beer Festival . And sometimes the two obsessions even come together! To check out all the GABF-inspired events, go to our Great American Beer Festival 2012 Calendar of Awesome, which we’re updating regularly. (The regular…
Last week, we introduced you to four uniquely delicious red wines that seemed as though they were destined for autumnal consumption from the day they were bottled. And while it’s true that our seasonal wine cravings generally give the edge to reds over whites, there are a multitude of compelling…
Los Angeles-based Golden Road Brewing, an upstart craft brewer that’s managed to make waves in a town that sees them every single day, will release its latest canned beer, Burning Bush, in Denver during the Great American Beer Festival. But the beer — and the one-year-old brewery — won’t be…
Not only did USA Today just name Denver one the best beer capitals in the world — the whole fucking WORLD, y’all! — but the internationally distributed daily newspaper also gave a shout-out to Patty’s Chile Beer, named, of course, for Westword founder and editor Patty Calhoun, who likes things…
Bartender Ken Kodys left Colorado on September 3 for the 42Below Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand with one mission… to bring a third title back home. The bartending competition is our craft’s version of the Olympics, in which 21 of the world’s best bartenders representing six countries (and one…
Malt, water, hops, yeast…and bull testicles. That’s the recipe for the ballsiest beer that Denver’s Wynkoop Brewing Company has made in its 24-year history, and one that it will start serving on October 8 during Great American Beer Festival week. Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, which started off as an April…
