Bars & Breweries

June starts tomorrow, ushering in the summer season for barbecuing, bobbing around in the pool on a raft and sipping boat drinks, preferably made with some sort of tropical fruit…

Crazy Mountain Brewing, the buzz-worthy Vail-area beer maker that more than doubled in size this year, will start selling five of its beers in 22-ounce bottles this week. All five — Old Soul Strong Belgian Ale, Hookiebobb IPA, Cara de Luna Black Ale, Scenic Route Kolsh, and Horseshoes & Hand…

TRVE Brewing owner Nick Nunns announced this week that he’ll be opening the doors to his Baker neighborhood brewery and hangout on June 27 at 4 p.m. But in the meantime, the black-metal loving Nunns will hold an open house on June 9 so that future fans can “pledge their…

It took everything we had not to start giggling uncontrollably…

When grape guru Ben Parsons made the decision to open the Infinite Monkey Theorem in 2009, he opted for a converted Quonset hut in a back alley in the Arts District on Santa Fe over a chateau in Napa Valley. It was a space, he told Cafe Society’s Tyler Nemkov,…

Odell Brewing kicked of the summer beer festival season on Saturday with its popular Small Batch Fest in Fort Collins. And although it’s only May, the heat and the turnout made it feel as if Colorado is already in prime mid-season beer-fest form…

Ska Brewing is known for being stout: its Steel Toe milk stout won gold at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival and again at the World Beer Cup in May. This fall, the Durango brewery will capitalize on that success by debuting the first in a series of four seasonal…

The summer beer festival season kicks off this weekend with Odell Brewing’s Small Batch Festival, which it revived last year in a new format — one that seems to be working. Born in 2007 as the Small Batch Revival, the fest lasted two years and welcomed about 1,000 people before…

Imbibe, an experience-oriented deal site that’s not related to the publication of the same name, was born of Casey Berry’s desire to help people get the most out of Denver. “You know that feeling you get when you find out about someplace new and you go there and it’s awesome?…

Happy Place: Highland Tap and Burger, 2219 West Thirty Second Avenue, 720-287-4493. The Hours: Monday through Saturday from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1 off draft beers; $3 house ale and cocktails; $4 wines by the glass and margaritas; $3-$7 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to…

Mark Dym, owner of Marco’s Coal Fired Pizzeria , is taking his pizza on the road with a brand-new mobile pizza oven — and his first stop is quirky nanobrewery Wit’s End Brewing Company. For his mobile version of Marco’s, Dym wanted an authentic Neapolitan pizza oven to continue his…

Just because you walk out the door of your favorite brewery doesn’t mean you can’t take the good times with you. The majority of Colorado’s craft brewers sell growlers — 64-ounce brown glass bottles, for the most part, topped with a screw-off cap. Most will sell you the vessel for…

Size does matter. We learned that as we sampled thirty different bottles of rose at the annual Pink Patio party at Elway’s Cherry Creek last night, and decided that we still loved last year’s winner, Chateau Peyrassol…which Aaron Foster was pouring from a very big bottle…

“I’ll have the chardonnay, thanks.” After overhearing this from a nearby diner during a recent restaurant meal, followed immediately by the withering response, “Seriously? A chardonnay?” from said diner’s snarky companion, we realized that chardonnay still has a bullshit reputation…

It’s beer festival season and the fiestas — from the high country to the plains — are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they’ll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy — and keep some Advil around…

A year and a half ago, award-winning bartender James Lee gave up his post as bar manager of the Bitter Bar and beverage director of the Big Red F restaurants to embark on a journey that took him first to Salida and then Denver, where he’s worked with Troy Guard,…

Warm weather is here, and for Colorado brewers, that means it’s can season. This weekend, Twisted Pine Brewing in Boulder will become the latest beer maker to roll out the aluminum when it begins filling sixteen-ounce cans of Hoppy Boy IPA. The cans of the brewery’s flagship beer will be…

Ghost Plate & Tap has one of the most unique bar programs in the city, thanks mostly to the Coupe Bar, a second bar inside the restaurant where any local bartender can work a guest shift. And their cocktails often end up on the Ghost Plate’s regular drink list, where…

Happy Place: Hops and Pie, 3920 Tennyson Street, 303-477-7000. The Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1 off draft beers and slices of pizza; $2 select drafts; $2 cans all night every Wednesday. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…

Amusement park lovers are going to find a few thrills this summer when it comes to the beer selection at Elitch Gardens — something that hasn’t always been true in the past. Beginning tomorrow, Elitch’s will be pouring two beers that Wynkoop Brewing made just for the park: Elitch Gardens…

Elevation Beer Company may be located in Poncha Springs, but the brewery’s four co-founders don’t think of their place as a local hangout. “We are more like a winery than a typical brewpub,” says Xandy Bustamante. “We could have done this from anywhere in country, so we figured, why not…

Strange Brewing, which opened during American Craft Beer Week two years ago this Saturday, will debut its new patio this weekend…