Update: Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival sold out in a jaw-dropping 45 minutes today, smashing last year’s record of seven days, which, in turn, crushed the previous year’s rate of several weeks. Craft beer, it appears, is now as popular as a Justin Beiber concert. But the Boulder-based…
Wine — just like every sport, art form, hobby or leisure pursuit — has a language all its own. And while someone just learning to cook would likely realize that the intimidating task of understanding what terms like “sauté” or “chiffonade” mean is simply another step in that process, why…
Even presidents, CEOs and owners need hobbies, distractions and sidekicks – and that includes James Iacino, president of Seattle Fish Company, who, along with his buddy Scott Kinsey, will open Corner House, a java joint and bar, in late October at 2240 Clay Street in Jefferson Park…
Almost everyone who’s ever bar-hopped has, at one time or another, accidentally walked out of an establishment with their drink in hand. And on almost every one of those occasions, said drinker has been stopped by a bouncer, waiter, security guard or friend since, sadly, you can’t take your booze…
Ticketing for the Great American Beer Festival, run through Ticketmaster, got off to a rocky start yesterday during a pre-sale for Brewers Association and American Homebrewers Association members — many of whom were shut out from a Saturday afternoon session that is designed just for them. Sales to the general…
Ace Eat Serve, the Asian restaurant and ping-pong palace that will open Wednesday next to Steuben’s, is the latest restaurant to tap into a nearby brewery for its own house beer…
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project, the one-man brewery that primarily makes wild and sour ales, has officially moved its barrel-aging and fermenting to north Denver and plans to announce a plan for where it will brew beers sometime in August…
Flagstaff House has won the Wine Spectator’s Grand Award; it’s one of only 75 restaurants to win the award this year. But more remarkably, Flagstaff House has earned the coveted Grand Award every year since 1983. “The Wine Spectator is the first and most prestigious wine magazine,” says restaurant co-owner…
Arvada’s Voss Farms is looking for volunteers to harvest its hops — and whoever shows up will be able to brag about how they helped supply some serious flavor for Black Shirt Brewing (opening in September), Wynkoop Brewing, Strange Brewing and Arvada Beer, all of which will use the hops…
The Kickstarter campaign, Facebook page and website for Twin Hops Brewing Co. — a new brewery concept from brothers Brad, Scott and Rick Burton (Brad and Scott are identical twins) — have all inexplicably disappeared from the Web. The brothers launched their Kickstarter fundraiser earlier this month at Denver Bicycle…
There will be 87 Colorado breweries pouring their stuff at the Great American Beer Festival this year, according to a full list of attending breweries released today by the Boulder-based Brewers Association. Amazingly, that roster includes a dozen brand-new breweries that either didn’t exist at this time last year or…
Happy Place: Bones, 701 Grant Street, 303-860-2929. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deals: $5 specialty cocktails, wine, and beer; $3-$4 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Balance, a former hair salon at 2412 East Colfax Avenue, has fallen by the wayside, but the space, the interior of which is bright purple and psychedelic green (at least for now), has been snapped by Maxwell Hopewell-Arizmendi and Yukihiko Koyama, who plan to open Cafe Max…
There are almost too many reasons to love (and drink) pink during summer. When the living is easy, wine should be, too; nothing fussy or elaborate needs to be uncorked (or more often these days, unscrewed) when it’s too damned hot to do anything but lounge. And the very best…
Crabtree Brewing in Greeley has announced that it is moving and expanding in order to make more Eclipse, Oatmeal Stout, Ginger Bee and — hopefully — its GABF award-winning Berliner Weisse. The brewery will hold a grand opening at the new location, 2961 29th Street, on Wednesday, August 8 at…
Denver Beer Fest, the nine-day celebration of suds that surrounds the annual Great American Beer Festival, will return this fall from October 5 to 13. The fourth annual fest, loosely coordinated by Visit Denver, consists of a series of beer-pairing dinners, tap takeovers, brewery tours, special promotions, rare beer tastings,…
Prost Brewing has announced an opening date of August 23. The LoHi-area craft brewery will focus on German-style lagers and began brewing them in early July; lagers typically take six to eight weeks to prepare…
Unwined — a two-day alternative wine-tasting geared towards a younger scene — begins tomorrow at the EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th Street. In addition to unlimited samples of wine, there will be a variety of food trucks and DJs spinning tunes. The party starts at 7 p.m. and tickets cost…
Already the biggest hotel downtown, the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel is now one of the greenest as well. This past spring, the Sheraton received the Watts to Water award for “Greatest Improvement in Efficiency,” as well as an Xcel Energy “Management Systems Achievement” award, thanks to the efforts of its…
Plunge into Ocean Prime between 4 and 7 p.m. today, and you’ll find oysters Rockefeller and French rosé that may actually be in your price range. The Larimer Square restaurant has just introduced “Half Off the Half Shell Oyster Thursday,” when $9 nets you four fried Goosepoint oysters from Washington…
Fire on the Mountain came into Denver determined to make a difference. Owners Andrea West and Craig Oberlink followed the lead of the restaurant’s three counterparts in Portland, Oregon, and decided to create their wing joint/bar with sustainability in mind. “We had this amazing opportunity to start as a blank…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company is Colorado’s oldest brewpub. But it almost wasn’t. In the spring of 1988, John Hickenlooper and his business partners took out an ad in a homebrewer publication promising the public that “Colorado’s first brewpub,” as they were calling it, would open for business on August 4…
