The first thing that patrons will see when they walk into Dungeons & Drafts are the stained glass windows, says Manny Garza. A tableau of wizards and warriors will quest across the panels, designed by a local artist. From high up on the wall, a mounted dragon’s head will stare…
Beer should be featured more often under Colorado’s Capitol dome, but leaders of the House of Representatives got to hold up the next best thing last week when they were officially presented with the Hop the Vote trophy by the Colorado Brewers Guild. Last fall, a few members of the…
Wheels and axles, levers, pulleys, wedges, screws and inclined plans. These are the “simple machines” that engineers have used to create every complicated mechanical invention for thousands of years. In that same way, brewers have used a set of basic ingredients – water, yeast, malt and hops – to create…
More than three years after Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing became the first U.S. beer-maker to bottle and sell a nitrogenated beer, a second American craft brewer has finally figured out how to do the same. The company, Utah’s Wasatch Brewery, just happens to be located in an adjacent state and…
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at Mizuna When you least expect it, that’s when it sneaks up on you. Ideas often come at the worst times: you’re driving on the highway, in a meeting, or you can’t find a pen to write down your latest inspiration. That’s what happened to Austin Carson, bar…
Tomorrow marks the beginning of DSTILL, a week-long celebration of American spirits that showcases small-batch distillers and their products. DSTILL, now in its third year, focuses on artisan spirit producers, bartenders and beverage industry leaders who are influencing today’s resurgent craft-cocktail culture. While the week will peak with Thursday’s spirits…
Twenty years after Coors opened what would become Blue Moon Brewing inside Coors Field, the company says it plans to open a second brewery about a mile away in the burgeoning River North arts district. Located in a 27,00-square-foot warehouse at 1910 38th Street – near Globeville Landing Park –…
Coors Field may be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but it’s still not as old and grizzled as the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which will turn 27 this fall. And although the famous brewery helped create both the vibrant Lower Downtown neighborhood and Denver’s craft-brewing scene, its age is beginning…
Richard Sandoval is still making waves in Colorado after helping put our state on the national plate by opening Tamayo on Larimer Square in 2002. Sandoval’s restaurants can seem like they’re stuck in time, rarely shifting with times and trends. But Sandoval’s newest venture, La Biblioteca, offers a happy hour…
There aren’t a lot of craft breweries associated with professional sports teams, but Pikes Peak Brewing just announced that it has become the official craft-beer sponsor for the newly arrived Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, of the United Soccer League; Heineken is also a beer sponsor of the team. The deal kicked off…
Spangalang Brewery will jazz up the Five Points neighborhood on Thursday when it opens inside the high-profile former Denver Motor Vehicles office. Founded by former Great Divide head brewer Taylor Rees and journeyman beer makers Austin Wiley and Darren Boyd, the brewery takes its name from a jazz term that…
The Art DeCo at Molecule Effect “We try to take ‘locally-sourced’ to the extreme,” says Mark Landman, who opened Molecule Effect with partner Megan Rodgers in late 2014. “When we think of ingredients for anything, we start right here and we start to go outward from there.” The community-focused lounge, located…
Avery Brewing Co. hosted the 13th annual Boulder Strong Ale Fest on Saturday at the beer maker’s new campus in north Boulder, featuring only brews with more than eight percent alcohol by volume. More than 45 breweries, both national and local, tapped 108 different beers for revelers who sampled small…
The Colorado Rockies are getting a breath of fresh air in center field this season – and that may have the rest of the outfield thinking about beer. Sometime later this spring, the grounds crew will add about a half-dozen hops plants to the bucolic flora that lies just below the…
Even though it’s been one of Frank Bonnano’s longest running restaurants, serving solid Italian food since 2003, Luca only just launched an afternoon happy hour in March, meaning it’s the new flavor on the block once again — a block already held down by happy hour heavyweights Vesper Lounge, Benny’s,…
Call To Arms Brewing, which plans to open late this year at 4526 Tennyson Street, has launched an unusual crowdfunding progam that allows friends and fans to become financial supporters by sponsoring pieces of the brewery’s furniture. Altogether, there are about eighty pieces of furniture, including table chairs ($150), bar…
Colorado continues to count six of its beer-makers among the fifty largest craft breweries in the country, but some of their positions on that list slid in 2014. thanks to a rule change from the Boulder-based Brewers Association: Breweries that use corn as a beer adjunct – but still produce fewer…
While Denver is approaching the big fifty when it comes to the number of breweries in the city, the outlying brewing scene continues to boom as well, whether it’s new spots in the southern suburbs or those setting up shop just past our western border in Lakewood or the eastern…
Butter Beer at Green Russell “People come here for the showmanship, and for all the touches we put on drinks,” says Alex Lerman, bar manager at Green Russell, Denver’s first speakeasy-style cocktail bar. Those touches made for some sophisticated sipping, but they took time, too. Guests loved the intricate potions poured…
When the clock strikes four, restaurants all over the city start slashing prices and bringing out drinks and snacks to those looking for some mid-afternoon or late-night comfort. The happy hours arms race in Denver means that whether you’re headed to a dive bar or a chef’s flagship restaurant, you’ll…
Oskar Blues, which is one of the fast growing independent breweries in the country, said today that it has purchased Perrin Brewing, a medium-sized Michigan brewery that had been in business less than three years. Management of the two companies got to know each other late last year through their…
You can throw off the checkered tablecloths and add a fresh coat of varnish, but you can’t erase the spirit of a good old Italian restaurant. Gaetano’s Restaurant has been ladling red and pouring white in North Denver since 1947, but a change of ownership in 2005 (when the venerable…
