Cucumber beers appear to be in style this spring, as at least five breweries around Colorado have mentioned the shiny green vegetable when talking about new beers. The only bottled one so far, however, is from Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing, which released Cucumber Cream Ale last week. The second offering…
Mountain Toad Brewing will hold a grand opening in Golden on Saturday, adding a third craft brewery to a town that has been synonymous with Coors for decades. Located downtown, at 900 Washington Avenue, the brewery and taproom features a large outdoor biergarten with seven picnic tables and room for…
Rory Donovan has known fellow Peach Street Distillers co-founders Bill Graham and Dave Thibodeau since they were making beer in Graham’s kitchen and starting up Ska Brewing. Donovan and Graham talked whiskey-making for years, looking at all manner of still plans — like one they found on the Internet created…
New Belgium Brewing is running its first TV ad campaign in eight years, buying airtime in twelve markets across the country in order to help beer drinkers associate the name Fat Tire with the brewery itself, which wants to push the rest of its lineup. But the commercial, a thirty-second…
After just two years in business on Denver’s northeast side, Caution Brewing announced Saturday that it will open a second brewery in Lakewood, at 1057 South Wadsworth Boulevard; Cautions’ existing brewery will stay open as well. The new location will have a smaller brewhouse — three barrels as opposed to…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project will celebrate Roy G. Biv on Sunday with a bottle sale, a party and a couple of rare beer tappings at the Barrel Cellar. Roy G. Biv isn’t a person, though (if it was, he’d be very sour). Rather, it’s an acronym for the seven…
I’m a big fan of cocktails and have been drinking them longer than some of my coworkers have been alive. But for many people who have never had a real cocktail, ordering one for the first time can be intimidating. Big menus, unusual names, unfamiliar spirits…you get the point. If…
The crew behind Strange Brewing are in their war room today, preparing to launch an all-out offensive on Denver tomorrow — but their weapons of choice are bombers rather than bombs, even if the beer they’ve made is named Dr. Strangelove, like the movie. Strange will release 1,000 bottles of…
Local breweries have been teaming up for years with Colorado restaurants on custom-made beers, but other kinds of businesses and organizations have been raising a pint to the collaborative spirit as well, from Denver Comic Con, which joined forces with Breckenridge Brewery, to Oskar Blues, which worked with Icelantic Skis,…
Here’s to American Craft Beer Week (which began Monday), the annual salute to small independent brewers that the Boulder-based Brewers Association (with help from Congress!) created seven years ago to increase awareness of craft beer. Of course, in Colorado, as some people say, every week is craft beer week, but…
Tonight, at 6 p.m., Fooducopia’s Corner Store and Cafe, a charming market that sells a huge array of local products — and serves many of those products in its adjoining little restaurant, will appear in front of a hearings officer at 6 p.m. in the Wellington Webb building to plead…
Denver’s craft-beer scene has exploded over the past three years as the number of breweries tripled inside city limits, but most of those brewery owners started off as home brewers, roasting grains in their ovens and tweaking recipes in their garages. Chris and Laura Bruns, a sister-and-brother team, want to…
Arvada will get a new brewery later this month when Odyssey Beerwerks opens up at 5535 West 56th Avenue, Suite 107, just north of the Denver border. The 1,700-square-foot taproom, which will include a fifteen-barrel brewing system and room for at least eighty people, was founded by friends Chris Hill,…
Denver is about to get Brainless. Sometime in late May or early June, Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, known for its series of Brainless fruit beers, will brew its first batch in Denver, in a soaring old warehouse building it is renovating in the River North neighborhood. By July, Epic…
The Colorado Plus Brew Pub (originally known as Colorado + Liquid Art Works) will open on Monday, May 13, at 6995 West 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, with 56 Colorado craft beers on tap. Located in the former Valente’s Italian Restaurant, which closed in 2008 after 44 years, Colorado Plus…
Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scene? Neither did I. But Brian Jansing and Paul Vismara, two longtime suds slingers at the Falling Rock Taphouse, did, and they’ve traveled all over Italy, researching the movement as it grew from fewer than twenty craft breweries in 1996 to…
If you like beer and have an Internet connection, you’ve probably seen CNN’s list of the 8 Best Beer Towns in the USA that went up Monday. While the list was better than most recent beer-city lists produced by national magazines and websites, it certainly had its share of problems…
On Friday, Jenn Wohletz served up “Five cocktails only a dickhead would order.” Shaken, not stirred, Cafe Society contributor Sean Kenyon offers this response: Dear Jenn Wohletz: You don’t know us You are not one of us You do not speak for us I woke up Friday morning and, as…
It’s not for me to tell you want to drink — or eat, but suffice it to say that there’s some crazy-weird stuff out there in the minds of bloody Mary makers. Why, for example, would you crown your bloody with a burger? Steak skewers strung with tater tots? How…
Late last year, Odell Brewing named a beer, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, after a truck belonging to the organic farmer who hauls away the brewery’s spent grain to feed to his dairy cows. This time around, the Fort Collins company will focus on the life cycle of hops — and…
There is a thin line between self-indulgence and being a dickhead, a line that any bartender could draw for you. On especially busy nights at any watering hole, there is always at least one person who decides to order some outdated or ridiculous beverage that takes up valuable bartender time,…
The owners of the Cheeky Monk Belgian Beer Café are still planning to open their own brewery in August or September, but in the meantime, James and Tina Pachorek and their staff teamed up with Wynkoop Brewing last week to make a Belgian-inspired saison. “I have been friends with Marty…
