America will get a beery wake-up call on Sunday morning when CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood highlights the Wynkoop Brewing Company on its annual pre-Thanksgiving show, one that is typically dedicated to food and drinks. The crew from the show was in Denver at the Wynkoop all day Tuesday,…
You can try to deny it all you want, but Thanksgiving is a mere nine days away. That’s right: In exactly one week and two days, you’ll be up to your eyeballs in gravy, green bean casserole and drama. If your family is anything like mine, you’ll wise up and…
Rock Bottom Brewing, which was founded in Denver in 1991 and now has 35 locations nationwide, has merged with the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch brewpub chain to form one of the largest craft beer-focused companies in the country. The new firm, called Craftworks Restaurants & Breweries, also now owns Rock Bottom’s…
I often wonder how my political science major and Spanish minor have played into my career. But Alexandra Parks, a bartender who’s now splitting her time between Lala’s Wine Bar and Frank Bonanno’s Green Russell, has no such concerns about her biochemistry degree. Although Parks looks more like head cheerleader…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without a big glass of wine, and King Soopers will open its first and only grocery/liquor store just in time to take advantage of that. The store, at 4600 Leetsdale Drive in Glendale, will roll out the shopping carts and slide open the automatic doors on…
Take twelve breweries, a hundred-plus beer bloggers and a buzzer, and go! During the first-ever Beer Bloggers Conference in Boulder last week, organizers lined up an event that they called live blogging, but it felt more like speed dating. A dozen brewers each had five minutes to present a beer…
Oh, Coors! You make it impossible for me to keep dissing your giant aluminum face when your feisty little award-winning subsidiary, AC Golden Brewing, is so cool. Anyone who sends their name and address to AC Golden, which makes Colorado Native lager, by November 15 will get a hops rhizome…
Happy Place: Root Down, 1600 West 33rd Avenue, 303-993-4200 The Hours: Monday through Friday, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3-5 select cocktails; $5 house wines and select draft beer; $3-5 food specials Were we happy? Flip the page…
We about lost our shit this past weekend when, while meandering the aisles of a downtown specialty store, we felt our ears assaulted with — wait for it — Christmas carols. Despite the 75-degree temps Denver’s seen lately, ready or not, the 2010 holiday party season is upon us, which…
Cantina Laredo hosted a dinner and cooking class at the Centennial restaurant, 6851 South Gaylord Street, on November 8, to present new menu offerings and offer a preview of the first Jose Cuervo Tequila Dinner on Thursday, November 11. General manager Joann Harwell and executive chef Ed Ledford hosted the…
Yeah, it’s snowing. We can see it, too. Love it? Hate it? Either way, snow means your local neighborhood watering holes and eateries want to warm you up — and some are offering specials. Look below for a few tweets we’ve seen recently. .bbpBox2137744897740800 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1288981003/images/themes/theme10/bg.gif) #2d4f8b;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px…
The Denver International Wine Festival celebrated year six with a VIP tour of Front Range wineries and Roundhouse Spirits — a tour that began Saturday with plenty of wine, ended with plenty of gin, and stuffed the middle with gourmet nibbles and a glut of info from a trip to…
Everyone, it seems, misses everything about Bump & Grind: the barely-dragged-themselves-out-of-bed queen servers of the weekend Petticoat Bruncheon, with their battery-operated, neighing horse-cock socks; the Mexican Benedict Arnold and Eric Eggs Estrada; the filthy coloring books. Though I’d been (and even brought my mother) to Bump & Grind on a…
Apparently those threatened police stings — the ones ingrained into every server’s head during training — are real. Boulder’s Mateo, 1837 Pearl Street, was a victim of the college town’s undercover attempt to crack down on underage drinking, and it looks like the restaurant didn’t pass…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, plans to make a special beer in January to coincide with John Hickenlooper’s inauguration as Colorado’s governor. Hickenlooper co-founded the Wynkoop in 1988 and ran it until he decided to run for Denver mayor in 2002. His connection with the company ended during…
There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there’s a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers — from all across the country — showed up in Boulder to talk beer…
Lakeview Lounge, a classic dive at 2375 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, is a great place to drink any time of the day or night, as Drew Bixby reported in this recent Drunk of the Week. But the best time of all might have been this past Saturday morning, the last…
Feeling nostalgic about 2010? The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will help you relive the good times by cracking open a keg of all 35 beers that the brewery made over the course of the year when the second annual Beers of the Year event takes place Saturday from…
Colt & Gray was teeming with people last night, packed into the bar and apologizing right and left as they tripped over one another trying to maneuver the room. Clearly, if you build an open bar, they will come. And that’s exactly what ROOT Liquor did this week, at Boulder’s…
The opening is coming right up for Green Russell, Frank Bonanno’s underground cocktail joint that will be hidden behind the swinging door of a pie counter, dubbed Wednesday’s Pie, in Larimer Square. Bonanno and Adam Hodak, beverage director at Bonanno’s restaurant group and partner in the new spot, have been…
Last week, Impulse Theater, which has leased basement space from the Wynkoop Brewing Company for the past seventeen years, announced plans to move to a building at 55 South Broadway, next to the under-construction Punch Bowl bowling alley and diner. Since then, says Wynkoop spokesman Marty Jones, he and the…
