Coming up with new beer names, let alone great beer names, isn’t easy, especially in the state with 115 breweries, each cooking anywhere from five to 65 different beers a year. But brewers are nothing if not creative – and occasionally, um, irreverent. Listed below are ten fantastic beer names…
The Fainting Goat 846 Broadway 303-945-2323 thefaintinggoatpub.com…
Bones Restaurant 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 bonesdenver.com…
Last week, GQ magazine put out a bucket list of fifty beers to try before you die (see it below). That sounds like a reasonable goal – even if some of the selections were a little odd. I wouldn’t have put Anchor Steam on the list, for instance. It may…
The Goosetown Tavern — the old dog in Colfax Avenue’s revitalized Bluebird district — is learning some new trick, thanks to a change in chef and an updated its beer list. Eight-year employee Kim Dean has taken over the reins as manager, and she brought in chef Dan Cole, formerly…
Wash Perk 853 East Ohio Avenue 720-542-9202 www.washperk.com…
Carthusian monks have been making Chartreuse since 1605 — and at a Colorado Bartending Guild mixer at Colt & Gray on Wednesday, it quickly became clear that the French liquor has lost none of its power over four centuries. Todd Richman, national brand ambassador for Chartreuse, was on hand to…
Oh the places you CAN go. It’s a slogan that will be printed on the side of Boulder Beer’s new Hazed & Infused cans and part of the company’s new strategy for Colorado. “You can take cans places where you can’t take bottles: trails, pools, rivers, climbing,” says Boulder Beer…
The Place: The Coral Room, 3489 West 32nd Avenue, 303-433-2535. The Hours: Nightly from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: Draft beers are $3; Svedka cocktails are $4; Svedka martinis and all glasses of wine are $6; all appetizers are buy one, get one free…
The owners of the Vine Street Pub have big plans – big plans and a lot of space – and they talked about both Tuesday at the restaurant’s second anniversary party. First up is a plan for the former Harry’s Chop House next door to Vine Street, 1700 Vine Street,…
Irish Snug Restaurant And Bar 1201 East Colfax Avenue 303-839-1394 www.irishsnug.com…
It hasn’t been a good day for aim. For the past four hours — outside of three different bars in three different neighborhoods — we’ve been trying to peg street signs with snowballs at distances of less than ten yards. The results, well, they’ve been sad. Emasculating. Indicative not just…
Read all about it: Two former Rocky Mountain News employees, John Fletcher and Tim Meyers, plan to open Denver’s newest beer house, Strange Brewing, in May. Both men were laid off by the Denver Newspaper Agency in February 2009 when the News – which was half of the DNA, along…
Benny’s Restaurante y Tequila Bar 301 East 7th Avenue 303-894-0788 bennysrestaurant.com…
At 4:20 on 4/20, this is just the place to raise a glass. Guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who’ll receive…
Believe it or not, we have the Greeks to thank for Italian wine. Actually, we’d need to thank them for French and Spanish wine too, but the history of winemaking as we know it is largely believed to have begun with Greek settlements in and around ancient Rome. Italy is…
What do beer and pot have in common? Not much. In fact, there are plenty of smokers who hate beer drinkers and plenty of imbibers who scorn pot heads. But on 4/20, maybe we can all just get a long. Craft breweries seem to think it can work, and a…
Hamburger Mary’s Bar & Grille 700 East 17th Avenue 303-832-1333 hamburgermarysdenver.com…
Got the munchies? If so, there’s really only one place to be today: Cheba Hut. “We are throwing a party system-wide,” says Matthew Trethewey, spokesman for the Fort Collins-based sub sandwich chain, which has a dozen stores in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Oregon and celebrates its anniversary every year…
Kip Snider knows Colorado beer. “Great Divide does a bang-up job. I’ve always been a fan of New Belgium, and they are really stepping out of the box recently with some of their new beers,” he says. “Odell, Left Hand. I like all beer. Some of Avery’s stuff is my…
Govnr’s Park Tavern 672 Logan Street 303-831-8605 govnrspark.com…
It’s mid-April, and that means that homebrewers around Colorado are probably lazily toying with the idea of growing their own backyard hops. What would be cooler, after all, than growing your own ingredients for the beer you make in your basement? The only thing cooler? An entire Beer Garden –…
