We are so ready for a vacation. With five full weeks to go before the official start of summer, the last few days of sunshine (especially after all that rain) have been damn near torturous. You could say that weather like this brings out the hedonist in us — and…
Longmont’s Oskar Blues Brewery has signed a letter of intent to open a new restaurant in Boulder’s historic train depot, it was reported this week, an interesting decision considering how many other brewpubs and brewery-centric restaurants are open or opening in town. The Boulder Beer Company and Twisted Pine already…
To commemorate American Craft Beer Week, Dry Dock Brewery, at 15120 East Hampden Avenue in Aurora, is tapping a new firkin everyday until Sunday. Today’s firkin will be Raspberry Porter. For the beer-novice: Firkins are used to condition and serve cask ales — beers that are unfiltered, naturally carbonated and…
The Vine Street Pub & Brewery will release its first-ever beer brewed on location in Denver today as part of American Craft Beer Week (get all your ACBW info here). Number One, a Belgian-style Trippel made with Golden Naked Oats and Belgian candy sugar, was brewed in early April. The…
Cafe Society has explored the benefits of beer-can chicken before, but we couldn’t pass up eating some at the kick-off party for Colorado Beer Week — which runs through May 19 — Saturday afternoon at Highland Tap & Burger in northwest Denver. Below are a few photos of the patriotic…
In this interview, Noah Heaney, Big Red F beverage purchasing agent and bartender at Boulder’s Bitter Bar, weighs in on the business card takeaway, the most unconventional thank you he’s ever received and the places he finds a great experience, no matter who’s behind the bar…
Dry Dock Brewing, the 2009 Small Brewer of the Year and a darling of the Colorado craft beer scene, will open a huge second brewery in north Aurora later this year. The company will also begin canning four of its most popular beers with a packaging system is has ordered…
Happy Place: Sushi Hai, 3600 West 32nd Avenue, 720-855-0888. The Hours: Daily from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beers; $3.50 well drinks; $5 saketinis; $2-5 house wines and sake; $2.25-$4.50 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
When the owners of the soon-to-open Prost Brewing bought a 72.25-barrel brewhouse in Germany late last year, craft beer-industry watchers wondered what they’d do with that much capacity. After all, most recent start-up breweries have opened with just a fraction of that kind of beer-making brawn, anywhere from one to…
Update: Make that eleven and counting. Read this post throughout to find other updates on each brewery. The gang’s all beer in Colorado these days, with at least ten — count ’em, ten — brewpubs slated to start pouring before the end of summer. Two opened north of town in…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Marczyk’s just received…
Each year Food & Wine releases a cocktail guide, which, in addition to being an anthology of recipes both classic and creative, is a window into the minds of some of the country’s best bartenders and a reflection of current drink trends. This year’s guide — Food & Wine Cocktails…
Imagine a magical tool that would bring together — in a single location — myriad information sources that fuel your passion for wine. An online (or mobile, for that matter) destination that collects on your behalf all manner of insightful information designed to keep you up to date — on…
Two of Colorado’s biggest craft brewers registered some displeasure late last month over the efforts of one of their colleagues, Breckenridge Brewery, to get a bill passed that would have allowed it to significantly expand its business model in the state. The rift shows how competitive the craft beer market…
In the annual overflow of beer weeks, Colorado Beer Week kicks off today, just two days before American Craft Beer Week begins its run. The former is a series of beery events hosted around town by a private events company. The second is a national orgy of beer activities created…
It’s been just over a year since Danny Wang and his fiancee Betty Fey opened CAUTION: Brewing Company, a brewery that was initially a wholesale operation that would supply Lao Wang Lager to Lao Wang Noodle House, owned by Wang’s parents, as well as other Colorado restaurants…
Update: Breckenridge Brewery released this statement this afternoon as a result of confusion over their future plans: “There have been some questions today about Breckenridge Brewery’s plans after Colorado House Bill 1347 failed to progress. (See article in Denver Business Journal.) Breckenridge Brewery is proud of its Colorado heritage and…
In 2010, when Jeff Lindauer and Russ Wall first began scheming to turn Lindauer’s Buckhorn Canyon water into craft spirits, they consulted with a private-label distilling company to come up with the formula and recipes. And by random chance, they worked with Rob Masters, who soon left that group to…
In this interview, Pizza Republica’s Rona VanSlyck weighs in on the importance of being open-minded, her current back-bar obsession and the dive bar she frequents when she’s not at work…
Big Choice Brewing opens in Broomfield today, pouring a little beer culture into a craft beer gap along the Highway 36 corridor. The 2,500-square-foot brewery and tap room will have four beers to start with and eight within a few weeks…
Happy Place: El Camino, 3628 West 32nd Avenue, 720-889-7946. The Hours: Daily from 3 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $1.50-$2.50 beer specials; $4.50 house margaritas; $1.50-$6 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
By this time next month, the Lowry Beer Garden — the first bona fide beer garden in Denver — will be pouring suds, most of them local, from the confines of a new kitchen and bar that’s part of a larger 8,000 square-foot project in the new Hangar 2 project…
