Great Divide Brewing, which has grown so much over the past five years that it is bursting at the seams, is targeting a new spot in the River North neighborhood where it can continue to brew the boundary-pushing beers it has been making since 1994. The brewery has asked the…
Update: Crooked Stave owner Chad Yakobson says the What the Funk festival isn’t intended to compete directly with GABF, but is merely a way for some of the breweries who were on the festival waitlist — or who don’t make enough beer to serve in the hall — to be…
As Westword’s Ask the Bartender columnist, I’ve talked with many bartenders for Cafe Society’s “Behind the Bar” series, posing numerous questions to Denver’s top bartenders…and often receiving the same answers: “I love chartreuse,” or “I’m really into smoked cocktails/barrel aging/bottled cocktails.” See also: A bartender by any other name…is still…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Fermentation Festival & Market contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of Napa cabbage did Dae Gee Korean BBQ turn into kimchi during the month of July? Congrats to D.M.C, who guessed 365; the actual…
Diebolt Brewing opened last weekend as Denver’s newest small craft brewery, serving up beers and camaraderie in the Sunnyside neighborhood. The brewery plans to hold a grand opening event during the Great American Beer Festival, which returns to town October 10-12, but it will have some company by then when…
Peaches aren’t the only Western Slope product heading east over the mountains these days. Kannah Creek Brewing in Grand Junction has just begun distributing two of its bottled beers, Lands End Amber and Standing Wave Pale Ale, to Denver for the first time. Eventually Republic National Distributing will help Kannah…
Since opening the Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in 2010, Chad Yakobson has done things his own way, pushing Colorado’s craft-beer scene forward with his brewing technique, his chosen style of beers, his collaborations and his brewery-less taproom. But his latest innovative leap will actually be a step into the…
Welkome to the Party. That’s the slogan for Comrade Brewing, which plans to open in southeast Denver next year with “back-to-basics” beers and a tongue-in-cheek nod to Communism. “People talk a lot about the camaraderie in the craft-beer industry. It’s a very friendly community, so that is actually the theme,”…
By choosing to start up a new brewery in River North, Zach and Rachel Rabun are either crazy or brilliant. “We’re not sure about that ourselves,” Zach says. The couple recently announced plans to open Mockery Brewing at 3501 Delgany Street in a neighborhood that already has five operating (or…
Diebolt Brewing in the Sunnyside neighborhood opened quietly this past weekend with limited hours and just two beers on tap. But owner Jack Diebolt and his parents, who moved to Denver to help, plan to ramp things up significantly over the next couple of weeks. Located on residential Mariposa Street…
Despite the proliferation of eager whippersnappers rushing to open craft breweries and distilleries, people have been working diligently to get us drunk for centuries. St. Germain, for example, originated in France in 1885, and its exuberantly fruity taste, which benefits from that most European of herbs — the elderflower –…
Headed to the Western Slope? That’s the only place you’ll be able to score a bottle of Olathe, a German-style lager that AC Golden Brewing made to honor the harvest season and the growers who work with the company. “The corn, barley and hops were all grown within one mile…
The Squire Lounge, the legendary Colfax dive bar will be closing its doors for about a month. The owners have extensive renovations planned, and the bar will likely never be the same. For some patrons, these renovations mean cleaner, more private bathrooms, classier cocktail options and a friendlier ambience. For die-hard Loungers, however, this remodel represents the end of an era. Westword caught up with Squire bartender Cam Omlid, on the final tuesday night open mic before the revamp to get a sense of how people feel about the Squire Lounge getting all respectable.
This week USA Today announced the results of its hunt for the “best” craft brewery in America. Experts whittled the list of this country’s 2,538-plus breweries (the latest number from the Brewer’s Association) down to 72 nominations, and those went to a vote of the readers. More than 11,500 people…
You can teach old dogs new tricks, as evidenced by the success of Spirit Hound, a distillery in Lyons. One of Spirit Hound’s partners, Craig Engelhorn, honed his craft as the original brewer for Oskar Blues, creating some of its first beers and helping the brewpub evolve into what it…
Old Major, which has been packing in fans since it opened almost six months ago, will introduce an extension of its hours today — the better to accommodate a new summer happy hour. “Our new happy hour menu is much more food-driven,” says Justin Brunson, executive chef, in announcing the…
You can trust a biologist to understand beer, and this fall, former biology teacher Rick Kane will open his own brewery and restaurant in Centennial. Blue Spruce Brewery, at 4151 East County Line Road, will feature at least ten of Kane’s beers as well as a few guest beers, alongside…
Patrick Rue of the Bruery, a highly respected Belgian-style beermaker in Orange County, once famously promised never to brew an IPA — that is, until he tasted Night Ryder, a black IPA put together by Colorado homebrewers Brian Pramov and Bryan Keas. Not that the Bruery is calling the beer…
Earlier this spring, at the inaugural DSTILL event, wherein hundreds upon hundreds of booze hounds gathered at the McNichols Building to sample craft spirits and cocktails, there were plenty of people comparing the jubilee to the Great American Beer Festival, which as we all know by know, sold out just…
Quick! Wanna win two tickets to the tonight’s sixth annual World Cup of Wine and Beer charity event at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park? Then tell us why soccer (or wine, or beer) is awesome in 140 words or less in the comments section below — and leave your e-mail address…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Russell’s Smokehouse/Death’s Door dinner contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many pounds of organic grain were used in the production of Death’s Door spirits — gin, whiskey and vodka — sold in Colorado over the past…
Colorado attracts beer lovers the way a keg attracts red Solo cups, and last month, one of the nation’s most well-known beer lovers announced that he was moving here. Todd Alström, who founded Beer Advocate magazine with his brother, Jason, in 1996, told readers that’s he’s moving from Boston to…
