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…
Harry Smith, who has been making beer for Breckenridge Brewery for eleven years, will open his own place early next year — just a block away from where he now works. “I can go to work, and then go to work,” jokes Smith, who will stay with Breckenridge until he…
President Obama has been making a point of drinking beer on the campaign trail this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Florida. It was a sore spot for him in 2008 when he was seen more as a wine-slurper than an an everyday beer-drinking kind of fellow, but it’s a…
Happy Place: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, 1745 Wazee Street, 303-295-2664. The Hours: Monday through Wednesday, and Friday, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $6 house cocktails and martinis; $6 wines by the glass; $6 appetizers. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
The Great American Beer Festival is coming, and you want to make sure you’re properly tubbed and scrubbed, but ordinary ablutions aren’t going to cut it — not for the biggest beer festival in the world. For that, you are going to have to put beer on your body as…
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…
Oktoberfest kicked off last weekend on Larimer Street, and today another version of the annual festivity will debut at the Lowry Beer Garden, 7577 East Academy Boulevard. The space’s inaugural, three-day celebration naturally includes beer, brats and other German delicacies…
Oktoberfest might just be everyone’s favorite holiday. Not that anyone needs an excuse to pound beers and eat sausage all weekend. But if everyone’s doing it, no one can judge you, right? In the middle of your lager and bratwurst haze, though, you might wonder this: “Why are we celebrating…
Updated: Congratulations to Curt Von Feldt and fatj, who have each won two tickets to opening night of GABF! Check your email for information on how to claim your tickets. To the rest of you: Keep reading. We’ll be giving out more tickets in the coming weeks. (And continue through…
Former Mountain Sun brewers Brian Hutchinson and Jason Stengl have left the company to open their own place in Golden later this year. Cannonball Creek Brewery will be the second craft brewer in a town that sits in the shadow of the Coors plant. Hutchinson, who was the head brewer…
Earlier this month, President Obama’s designated the 4,700-acres Chimney Rock Archaeological Area in southwestern Colorado — an area that is sometimes called “America’s Stonehenge” — as a national monument. The move means that the area between Durango and Pagosa Springs (which was home to thousands of ancient Native Americans) should…
What makes a red wine fall — or should we say, fall in love — worthy? Given the record-setting quantities of rosé we consumed over the past few months, you might assume that getting us to loosen our death grip on pink wines would equal a Herculean feat…
From the street, Harold’s and the Bayonet Room doesn’t look like the kind of place you’d expect to find Noah Heaney, the former beverage purchasing agent for Big Red F and the current adviser to the president of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. In fact, Harold’s is attached to the modest…
Mayor Michael Hancock: beer geek. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration. Still, Hizzoner will make his second appearance at a Denver craft brewery in as many weeks when he kicks off Prost Brewing’s three-day Oktoberfest celebration this Friday and taps the first keg of the brewery’s new Märzen lager,…
Update, September 28: Crooked Stave is now serving draft beer again after having come to resolution with the Department of Revenue’s tobacco and liquor enforcement division. It turns out that Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson, who has researched Colorado’s odd liquor rules, had asked Funkwerks Brewing in Fort Collins, where…
West Flanders Brewery opened its doors over the weekend at 1125 Pearl Street in Boulder, in the former home of BJ’S Restaurant & Brewhouse (which has relocated to 1690 28th Street in Boulder). The brewpub is one of several new breweries tapping into that town, including J Wells, Wild Woods…
Can craft beer be an ingredient in a cocktail, or should it stand alone? That is the question that dozens of bartenders around town have tried to answer over the past few years as Colorado’s world-beating craft-beer industry intersected with the resurgent cocktail movement. It’s a question that still hasn’t…
