The never-ending feud over whether or not the Cherry Cricket has the best burger in town won’t be slowing down anytime soon; the Cricket is one of the five finalists for Best Hamburger in our Best of Denver 2015 Readers’ Poll. And you can test it for yourself the next time…
“Here’s why Collaboration Fest is a great event: if you’re there, you are only drinking one-of-a-kind, one-off beers,” says Wayne Waananen, the head brewer at Denver’s Station 26. “That’s the joy of it.” A couple thousand people will get to experience that joy on Saturday, March 21 at the second…
It’s considered a crazy idea to go to a nightclub for a decent meal. Certainly, whatever’s coming out of that kitchen in Boogie Nights doesn’t look so good. Dorchester Social Eatery, in the heart of Market Street’s nightilfe scene, is pairing a clubby atmosphere with a menu that name-checks all…
Black Bottle Brewery in Fort Collins will release bottles of its latest Cerealiously beer today (the brew has already been tapped on draft as well): Cerealiously Lucky Charms. The brewery has garnered quite a bit of attention over the past six months or so with its cereal beers, especially after General…
Orange Is The New Grey at Humboldt While making cocktails at Humboldt in Uptown, bartender Alex Curry reaches into the cooler behind his bar probably a hundred times a night. Humboldt is a high-volume bar, and Curry prides himself on how fast he can make cocktails. In most of those hurried…
Like a lot of Eastern European immigrants, Ron and Jason Abbott’s great-grandparents brought their love of beer and brewing to the United States when they came here in the late 1800s. Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, the brothers often heard stories about the family’s brewing prowess. Now the Abbotts…
Everybody! Great news! It’s OK to open a taqueria now. Years after Pinche Tacos and its Mexican gourmet ilk caused a headache inducing frenzy for anything on a corn tortilla, the zeitgeist has turned its attention to other things. 1968 had the summer of love, 2011 boasted the summer of…
Like a lot of other people, Danny Wang took to social media after seeing Budweiser’s now-infamous Super Bowl commercial, “Brewed the Hard Way,” which bashed craft breweries with the line: “Let them drink their pumpkin peach ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.” He couldn’t believe that the megabrewer,…
Left Hand Brewing’s Milk Stout Nitro made an appearance on HBO’s Girls last week, and although it wasn’t the most notable scene of this season — that happened a few minutes into episode one — it certainly made the Longmont brewery stand at attention. And while Left Hand is the…
Tap rooms can be intimidating for someone searching for the perfect beer. You don’t want to get stuck with a pint of something that’s not to your liking, but new breweries are pumping out beers at a pace faster than you can keep up with. Ideally, it would be great…
Trademark battles between craft breweries are no longer new, but they can have lasting effects on the companies involved. At the moment, at least three Colorado breweries are currently involved in new trademark disputes. The most recent is Zephyr Brewing in Denver, which is facing a trademark challenge from Rising…
It doesn’t seem quite fair that while breweries and wineries are legally allowed to serve food and alcoholic beverages from other producers at their production facilities, distilleries aren’t. Since distilleries play an increasingly large role in Colorado’s surge in artisan products, Representative Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat, decided to level…
Denver’s 17th Avenue has been known for its eateries for more than two decades, but so far, restaurant row, as its called, has largely missed out on the small brewery explosion that has rocked Denver in recent years. That will change this spring when Deep Draft Brewing, at 1604 East…
La Recoleta Leña 24 Broadway 720-550-7267 Some of Argentina’s most distinguished bones lay buried in La Recoleta cemetery: A slew of the country’s past presidents, famous filmmakers, Nobel Prize winners and poets all rest in this plot of land located just outside Buenos Aires. Former Argentine first lady Eva Peron…
The theory behind Factotum Brewhouse is a novel one: Rather than pay a brewer to make the beer, owners Laura and Chris Bruns are asking brewers to pay them to serve it. Will it work? The sister-and-brother team will find out beginning today, when they hold a grand opening for…
Shelby’s Bar & Grill is a highway roadhouse, a suburban hangout, a mirage you might see over the horizon — implausibly plopped down in the middle of high-rise office spaces. In a building dating back nearly to the turn of the 19th century, Shelby’s is a wood-and-brass neighborhood pub, the…
Breckenridge-Wynkoop LLC, which has sold off several restaurant properties over the past year, is now dismantling its real estate empire as well. The holding company is selling the buildings that house Wynkoop Brewing, Ale House at Amato’s, the Cherry Cricket, Colorado Craft, Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs and the…
The River North district has seen an explosion of new breweries over the past year, the most recent of which, Ratio Beerworks, opened earlier this month. But the big daddy on the block is going to be Great Divide’s $38 million, five-acre campus between Brighton Boulevard and the South Platte…
Your Name Here Brazen 4450 W. 38th Ave. 720-638-1242 The scene is always the same. A guest at a bar gives a bartender poetic license to concoct a drink that he thinks the guest will like. It could be a shot, or something more refined, but it always ends like…
For sale: a couple of venerable brewery locations with deep roots in Colorado craft beer history. In Denver, Breckenridge Brewery is selling its landmark location at 471 Kalamath Street, an address that shares a name with one of the brewery’s beers. The large property includes 42,000-square-feet of space and comes…
Stem Ciders has released a line of bottled ciders, which makes available for the first time a range of products from the Denver-based cidery. The 750-ml bottles are on shelves now in liquor stores across the metro area, and can also be purchased in Stem’s tap room, at 2811 Walnut…
Matt Hughes and Alex Sward know it’s a risk to start another new brewery in Denver, a city that already has nearly fifty of them. But they’re comfortable taking that chance. An insurance agent , Hughes specializes in helping breweries manage risks of all kind. And they’re confident in their…
