Austin James Carson, bar manager at Mizuna, won the regional Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience cocktail competition Wednesday night. Carson beat out six other Denver-area bartenders with his unique version of the classic Manhattan cocktail and will take that recipe to New York City in April to compete for the national…
If you’re in Glendale and you’re stocking up for booze for the week, take note: the SuperTarget at 4301 East Virginia Avenue has temporarily suspended beer, wine and spirits sales this week in preparation for the launch of something bigger and better. Rather than just a single aisle of bottles and…
Six months after Crazy Mountain Brewing took over Breckenridge Brewery’s longtime headquarters at 471 Kalamath Street, the Edwards-based beer maker is ready to bring barbecue and brews back to the public. Crazy Mountain will officially open its taproom and Texas-style barbecue joint on Friday, February 19. The restaurant, called Crazy…
If it weren’t for the noise and the uncomfortable closeness to other human beings, a meal at Cart-Driver could be perfect stoner food. Not that that you have to be dabbed, twisted, or otherwise turnt to enjoy bites and sips at this pizza mini-parlor, but Cart-Driver is an Alice in…
Oskar Blues Brewery announced this week that it has begun distributing beer in North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma, which means there is only one state remaining before the Longmont-based brewer has a lock on all fifty states. That unlucky state: Montana. But never fear, Oskar Blues plans to launch…
Sonic Reducer at the Occidental Cranberries always remind barman Jason Patz of his great-aunt Muriel. When Patz wrote the drink menu for the Occidental, the more casual sibling of Williams & Graham next door, a cranberry liqueur from Denver’s own Leopold Bros. Distillery reminded him of his childhood Thanksgivings; apparently…
Denver’s Prost Brewing will become one of just a few Colorado beer makers with a satellite tap room in another city when it opens a location in Fort Collins this spring. The brewery, which specializes in traditional German-style lagers, has been searching for a good spot in the college town…
With more than 300 breweries making some of the most well-regarded, well-known beers in the United States, Colorado is frequently referred to as the Napa Valley of Craft Beer. But Colorado is home to some of the country’s best sour and wild beer brewers as well. So, are we also the…
If you’ve noticed a pattern in my happy hour wanderings, you’re not alone. I’ve covered more late-afternoon discounts on 17th Avenue than any other street — deliberately so. To stroll down the Avenue is to witness Denver in full form: merriment, drinking, fine food — and the leaching of gentrification…
Peyton Manning may have looked a little wobbly in the Super Bowl, but we was right on target when it came to shilling for Budweiser during his post-game interviews. You’ve probably heard the clip — along with the outcry from people who thought it was blatant ad placement, inappropriate given…
Fawkes and the Hound at Rebel Restaurant “I will usually tweak older recipes,” says bartender Jason Randall. “I look at recipes that existed a hundred years ago, or the turn of the century, and basically put my own spin on it.” But Randall is moving away from that formula in…
Pliny the Younger, which has become one of the most sought-after beers in the world, makes its annual return to Colorado this month when California’s Russian River Brewing trucks a precious few kegs of the cult beer over the Continental Divide. Russian River has been sending the extremely-limited, draft-only triple…
Tivoli Brewing turned Denver’s beer history on its head last summer when the reincarnation of one of the Mile High City’s first breweries opened inside the original Tivoli brewery building on the Auraria campus. Since then, Tivoli has been making re-imagined versions of some of Denver’s original German-style lagers from the…
Restaurants on Market between 14th and 15th Streets have always had the challenge of creating an identity to stand out above the evening chaos on the loudest, busiest block in the city — sexy, infuriating, dangerous. Some, like Dorchester Social Eatery, combined dining and dancing in one space and offered…
The 23rd annual Stout Month kicked off this week at the Vine Street Pub & Brewery in Denver and at the rest of the Mountain Sun Pubs group’s breweries and restaurants in Boulder and Longmont. The yearly tradition has continued to grow over the years and there are now a…
Arandano Frizzante at Bittersweet When Nicholas Wermaling was putting together his new winter drink menu at Bittersweet, he found that it was lacking one thing: tequila. “There seems to be a lack of tequila-based winter drinks,” he says, “so I wanted to get that in there. I like to have…
“All I remember was hearing ‘Firestone Walker,’ and then everyone around us suddenly start screaming in our faces.” That’s what Brandon Proff, co-owner of Our Mutual Friend Brewing, wrote in a blog about the moment when his brewery won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival last September…
Is Denver’s brewery boom slowing down? It’s hard to tell: While there certainly aren’t as many small independent breweries on the horizon as there were at this time last year, there is still plenty of action on the new-brewery front. The list of anticipated openings in 2016 include three breweries…
Denver Broncos pride runs deep in the Mile High City’s craft-brewing scene, where the sunsets are always orange and blue and beer is free-flowing and delicious. To make sure that the world knows how they feel, two local breweries have made recent wagers on the team. In early January, the…
A Hurricane cocktail carries a lot of cultural baggage. There’s that unfortunate name, of course, when associated with the recent history of its birthplace, New Orleans. There’s the popular conception of the Hurricane as a Bourbon Street party drink, festooned with crazy straws and neon garnishes in a flimsy plastic…
Dry Dock Brewing is taking an unusual tack with its new twelve-pack release, called Hopricot: The award-winning Aurora brewery is including six cans of its Apricot Blonde Ale and six cans of its Hop Abomination IPA, and encouraging people to blend them together to make their own beer cocktail. Dry Dock has…
The local restaurant holding company that sold Breckenridge Brewery to Anheuser Busch InBev in December will continue to use the Breckenridge name on two of its restaurants. Breckenridge-Wynkoop Holdlings has licensed the names Breckenridge Brewery Colorado Craft, located in LoDo, and Breckenridge Ale House, located in Grand Junction, says BW Holding’s…
