Bars & Breweries

Celebrate New Year’s Day at these Denver craft breweries and parties.

This downtown French eatery is for more than special occasions, especially during happy hour.

Oak aging adds prestige to these Colorado imperial stouts — even when they’re sold in cans.

These beers in a wide range of styles proved Colorado’s creativity and prowess as a great brewing state.

Enjoy craft beer on Christmas Day at these Denver breweries.

From new styles and trends to hard seltzer and hard times, there was plenty of fascinating news from the world of beer and craft beer in 2019. But it was Colorado brewery closures and brewery downsizing, along with big moves and big lawsuits, that got the most attention from readers…

Whether you’re in the mountains or in the city, Colorado has welcoming bars for long winter nights.

You could spend decades on Colfax Avenue and never explore even a tiny portion of its nooks and crannies — not that you’d necessarily want to know about some of them. Still, the layers of history, grime, entertainment, life, commerce, death and rebirth that have taken place along the street…

Don’t miss these beer festivals, tappings and tastings through Christmas.

This year’s top new bars include instant neighborhood watering holes, craft cocktail destinations and even a K-pub.

Upslope brewed a vegan, lactose-free milk stout just for Lucky Pie.

After two years of aging, The Block Distilling’s first whiskey is ready.

Take a peek inside one of Olde Town Arvada’s oldest bars.

Hard Chaw is the latest Irish cream to hit the market and so far, the extra-boozy drink is only sold in Colorado.

“We are happy with where we are as a company and as a brewery.”

Cañon City is home to a modern winery that began its life as a monastery and school.

Don’t miss this week’s craft beer tappings, tastings and festivals.

Good eat and good value can be found at this classic West Highland pub.

This RiNo cidery is moving its production to a farm in Penrose, Colorado.

It looks like the number may balance out at just over eighty.

Get to know Jesse Torres, the head bartender at American Elm and new chapter president of the Colorado Bartenders Guild.

His father, Pete Coors, is retiring from day-to-day duties.