Starting in late July, one of our favorite watering holes — Star Bar — will host its first Battle of the Nontenders, a guest bartending cocktail challenge designed for those of us who have no experience whatsoever slinging drinks behind the stick. “It can be challenging to get behind an…
When it opens in December, Joyride Brewing hopes to use a little bit of Edgewater’s history to help propel the little town on the edge of Sloan’s Lake into the future. Created by friends Dave Bergen, Brent Smith and Grant Babb, Joyride will be located at the corner of 25th…
Tivoli Brewing, a new company that brought back one of the oldest names in Denver beer last year, will begin selling 22-ounce bomber bottles of Tivoli Beer this week. The beer, a German-style lager, is based on the name and recipe for the original Tivoli Beer, which was brewed in…
The country in the midst of a veritable cocktail renaissance — and Hey Bartender, a documentary that tells the story of the bartender in the era of the craft cocktail, offers a revealing look into the rebirth of the bartender and the comeback of the cocktail. Hey Bartender had its…
Ali Benetka, who has been an assistant brewer at Renegade Brewing only since January, was promoted to the top job this week, making her just the second female head brewer in Colorado and part of a growing number of women who wear the rubber boots. A Denver native, Benetka had…
Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman hosted the first-ever Drink Ribera Denver Workshop at Zengo yesterday afternoon; it included an in-depth seminar and walk-around tasting of more than sixty wines from the Ribera del Duero region. Winemaking there dates back 2,000 years to the Roman era; the Tempranillo grape, known locally as…
It’s hard to follow a beer made with bull testicles, but Wynkoop Brewing Co. is going to try by releasing Colorojo Imperial Red Ale in cans next week. Like Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, this hoppy, 8.2 percent ABV double red IPA is part of the brewery’s new Even Smaller Batch…
The craft beer business is booming, but so is the homebrewing sector as the interest in making and drinking good beer grows. The American Homebrewers Association, which is based in Boulder, released the results of a survey of homebrewing shops this week showing that 80 percent of them saw increased…
The owners of Sanitas Brewing aren’t planning to gently test the waters of Boulder’s increasingly-crowded craft-beer scene when they open their 15,000-square-foot, fifteen-barrel brewery and taproom this summer. They plan to jump in head-first. Sanitas co-founders Chris Coyne, Michael Memsic and Zach Nichols will offer two year-round canned beers, a…
Ghost chiles, Thai chiles, smoked jalapenos, wasabi powder, habanero peppers, cayenne peppers and shishito peppers made a hot day even hotter during yesterday’s heatwave that resulted in scorching sunburns for anyone outside, including the throngs that gathered on the rooftop at Linger for the Viva Sangrita, Viva Tequila Ocho battle…
Update: We have a winner of our Colorado Urban Winefest contest giveaway.This morning, we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: What’s the furthest distance, in exact miles, that a participating winery traveled to Denver to be a part of Colorado Wine Week? Congrats to Skinney85, who guessed 325…
There’s something perfect about the contrast between a cold Colorado beer in your hand and the warm sun on your face — something that makes the tensions of the day melt away. And although there are plenty of places around Colorado to drink good beer, a few of them stand…
After sixteen years of brewing beer near the banks of the Cherry Creek, the Bull & Bush will finally bottle up some of its own liquid gold to sell elsewhere in Denver. The first beer off the line was the brewery’s flagship, Man Beer, an award-winning malty IPA that looks…
Lone Tree Brewing has brewed a pair of special beers that are being served only at the four Parry’s Pizza locations — in Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock and Parker. The first beer, which will be available year-round as a house beer, is Landon’s Wanna Walk Wheat, an unfiltered…
Get ready to mix it up: Star Bar just announced its Nontender Contender Challenge, a competition that will put cubicle monkeys behind the bar for a chance at glory — and cash for their favorite charity. “Every bartender has friends who ask if they can come bartend with you,” says…
For several years now, Westvleteran 12, which is brewed by monks at the Saint Sixtus Abbey in Belgium, has commonly been referred to as one of the best — if not the the best — beer in the world. And because it is almost impossible to get it outside of…
The classic-cocktail boom, especially whiskey-based drinks, has taken hold in bars all over Denver, and on Wednesday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m., Central Bistro & Bar will raise a toast to the global brown spirit that’s become a habitual pastime for barflies. Deemed “The Evolution of Bourbon,” the class, led…
Update: We have a winner of our Summer of Riesling tasting at Bones contest giveaway. Earlier this week, we asked Cafe Society readers to guess how many glasses of Riesling were served at Bones, Luca d’Italia and Mizuna during the month of April. Congrats to CBart, who guessed 420 glasses;…
New Belgium Brewing just announced that construction of its new brewery in Asheville, North Carolina, will be delayed by eight months, meaning the facility may not start making beer until 2016. “The adjusted construction timeline is the result of increased capacity coming online in Fort Collins this year,” New Belgium…
Northglenn will get its first craft brewery on June 1 when Vance Sabbe — a former homebrew shop owner — and Rich Aggen open Beer By Design. The 5,000-square-foot brewery and taproom features a twenty-barrel brewing system and four forty-barrel fermenters, along with about 100 seats. See also: – Photos:…
Copper Kettle Brewing will answer a few prayers made to the gods of chocolate this summer by bottling its award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout. The brewery won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2011, just five months after opening and has been planning to bottle the beer…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has struck up a partnership with a specialty importer in New York City that will allow the Denver brewery to sell its beers there while Crooked Stave will distribute some rare and unique beers in the Denver area. The distributor, Brooklyn’s 12 Percent Imports, is…
