Bars & Breweries

The Yard House, which started interviewing job candidates last week, is tentatively hoping to open for business on December 18, just a week before Christmas…

Sake and wine have more in common than you might think. Like, way, way more. For starters, both are ancient beverages, with histories stretching back thousands of years. Both are governed by strict production guidelines, upon which stringent quality ratings are assigned. And both can take a meal from everyday,…

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…

Happy Place: 8 Rivers, 1550 Blake Street, 303-623-3342 The Hours: Monday through Friday, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and all day Sunday The Deals: $3 Red Stripe lager; $3-4 house wines and sangria; $5 well drinks, Appleton rum, and mojitos; $20 mojito pitchers; $5 small plates. What did we think? Flip…

Winemaker Peter Franus holds a journalism degree from the University of California at Berkeley — and his collegiate proximity to Napa Valley ended up being pivotal to his career choice, which is winemaking. His first wine, a zinfandel, was produced in 1987, and Franus has been creating delicious wines ever…

Update: Two new events have been added (Avery’s Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub’s tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you…

My strange aversion to the smell of some Asian restaurants dates back to my glamour days as an advertising exec in Manhattan, when I was barely eking out a living and my lifestyle was a lot more like Dick Whitman’s than Don Draper’s. I lived with three roommates in a…

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…

Read carefully, because opportunities like this don’t come around very often. Cuervo is celebrating the release of a tequila (or re-release, because the tequila is Tradicional Silver, the original recipe from 1975), and the liquor brand that a lot of us associate with nights of epic debauchery is throwing a…

Let’s be honest: Halloween is not a holiday that typically conjures up images of wine drinking. Visions of miniature Snickers bars, pumpkin-flavored beer and slutty costumes? Absolutely. Still, as any serious wine lover will assure you, not even the omnipresence of glowing jack-o’-lanterns needs to get in the way of…

Dads & Dudes Breweria, a new pizzeria and brewpub in Aurora, 6730 South Cornerstar Way, is planning to open on November 1, after having to push back its first day by a week. Once it opens, the father-and-son team of Tom and Mason Hembree will toss pizza made from the…

Proximo Spirits, a New York-based liquor distributor that made a name for itself by buying or investing in such niche brands as Hangar 1 vodka, Kraken Black Spiced Rum and 1800 Tequila, is in the process of buying Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. An executive with Proximo, who spoke on the condition…

Happy Place: Rack & Rye Gastropub, 1320 15th Street, 720-620-4920 The Hours: Monday through Saturday, from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $4 house wine and cocktails; $2-11 draft beers and pitchers; $5 Washington caramel apple shooters; $2-4 small plates What did we think? Flip the page. The Digs: “We…

Fifteen years ago, Old Chicago was the place to go in Denver if you wanted to try unusual beers. Known for its World Beer Tour, the restaurant — a part of what is now the Colorado-based Rock Bottom empire — offered unusual and international brews. And while the craft-beer scene…

Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of male flight attendants on Halloween. Costumes making fun of Steve Slater, the JetBlue steward who cussed out passengers before grabbing a couple of beers and sliding down the emergency exit chute, could be very popular this year. Hell, there’s even a…

A few months ago, award-winning bartender Mike Henderson left his gig at TAG to spend a couple of nights a week behind the bar of Colt & Gray, 1553 Platte Street, while he irons out the details of his own project. Those plans are still moving forward, but now, in…

New Zealand produces some damn fine wines, and it’s high time you started drinking them. Surely by now you’ve consumed more than your fair share of Australian red wines, right? Plenty of big, fleshy shiraz, cabernet sauvignon and merlot, each of which bears the telltale signs of an Aussie sipper:…

Four business partners have applied for a liquor license for a former carpet warehouse located behind Colorado Lace at 200 East Seventh Avenue. Aside from the cleaners, the large building is currently gutted inside. The location is just a block from East Seventh Avenue’s restaurant row — a stretch that…

Yes, we know that drinking Corona can be hazardous to your health. There’s the alcohol factor, of course. Then there’s the fact that ordering a Corona in Colorado, which is microbrew country, is a danger all its own, since other drinkers will mock your choice of the not-exactly-macho Mexican beer,…

Is Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey for sale? If you believe the bar talk, it’s already a done deal. Jess Graber, managing partner and co-founder of Stranahan’s, says he’s been getting a lot of questions from people who have heard the rumors. But he won’t confirm or deny any of them. Still,…

Next to the two-dollar tubes of cherry-flavored Chapstick, above the eight-dollar packs of Parliament Lights and Marlboro Reds, and beneath the one-dollar bags of Sun Chips sit three, maybe four rows of 5-Hour Energy bottles. Berry-flavored. Two ounces for three bucks. Before tonight, I’d never tried the trendy energy shot…

Frank Bonanno and Adam Hodak are still ironing out the details of Green Russell, the subterranean bar they’re opening behind a pie-shop front called Wednesday’s Pie in Larimer Square — and that includes staff. But while the partners are keeping mum about who they’ve hired to oversee the bar on…