Colorado Firefighter Appreciation Week begins September 8 and will culminate with the first annual Fight Fire With Beer Festival on Saturday, September 15 at the Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th Street in Boulder. The week will honor firefighters currently risking their lives battling the High Park, Waldo Canyon and…
Getting the State of Colorado to sign off on the Squeaky Bean’s liquor license has been an exercise in extreme patience for owner Johnny Ballen, manager Steve Gallic, chef Max MacKissock and the rest of the Bean bunch, who, as we reported Monday, were still waiting on a liquor license…
Hogshead Brewery, which has experienced several delays to its planned opening, has begun serving beer. No one from the brewery responded to a request for comment, but the company posted a notice on its Facebook page saying it had soft opened…
Seems like there’s no escaping the blazing temperatures we’ve been dealt for the past two weeks. Or is there? Instead of whining incessantly about the heat, we’re planning to soothe our blistered palates with carafes of the most delectably downable white wines we’ve sampled lately — all of which happen…
TRVE Brewing opens today at 4 p.m., and if an early-June open house is any indication, the place is going to be packed. The neighborhood spot, located in the former Rule Gallery space, will likely have three beers on the tap and what might be the most hard-core community table…
Ian Clark, the head chef at Boulder’s Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, opened a nanobrewery, Bru, in his garage just two months ago. But Clark is already expanding, replacing his half-barrel system with a three-barrel brewhouse that will allow him to more easily supply beer to his restaurant and…
Tiffany Rose Goodyear came up with the idea for Yours Truly, Cupcake after winning a cupcake challenge in 2009. Inspired by Denver’s burgeoning experimental food scene, she decided to make her cupcakes unique by adding alcohol to the mix. “Before we introduce a new cupcake, our confectionery bartenders deconstruct a…
Steuben’s bar manager Ryan Layman is ushering in the heat wave with a new “boozy shake” menu featuring classic milkshakes creatively infused with alcohol. “It fits the vibe at Steuben’s,” says Layman. “They’re fun, lighthearted and unique. We rolled the shakes out last week, and people love them.”…
Happy Place: Cru Wine Bar, 1442 Larimer Street, 303-893-9463 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Deals: $3 off wines by the glass; $3-$6 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Crooked Stave, the one-man sour-beer-making brewery operation that’s been in Fort Collins for nearly two years, plans to move to Denver shortly. Owner Chad Yakobson said in his monthly newsletter that he will sign a lease this week on a Denver “Barrel Cellar” and bottling warehouse — although he hasn’t…
The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year, is the gastronomic and vinous equivalent of every foodie and wine lover’s mecca; it’s our golden fleece, our Holy Grail, our industry’s version of the Olympics…
Jensen Cummings, the exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, admits that he wasn’t always a wine nerd — especially when it comes to local juice — but a little education, he points out, goes a long way. “Not so long ago, I was uneducated and unaware of…
Like Antique Row on South Broadway or Gallery Row along Santa Fe Drive, there is a new brewery row forming in the River North and Five Points neighborhoods…
New Belgium Brewing and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. will team up this winter by opening a brewery-themed slopeside après-ski restaurant in Snowmass and a separate bar inside the newly renovated Westin Snowmass Resort…
Denver was in the mood to party on Saturday. And while things were getting wet, wild and just plain weird elsewhere in town, Great Divide Brewing was cooling things down with a suds-soaked party celebrating its eighteenth anniversary…
This experience probably would’ve been a lot more informative after an inappropriate amount of drinking the night before. The team behind a product called the Hangover Recovery Shot stopped in Denver yesterday to schmooze with potential investors at a business conference, and invited Westword to swing by and try their…
The thirteenth annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival will fill the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse next month. In addition to the usual tea-related workshops and seminars, a special tea dinner and tea parties for the kids, this year adults will be able to enjoy a different kind of tea party: a “Tea…
Happy Place: Café|Bar, 295 South Pennsylvania Street, 303-362-0227. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beer and well cocktails; $5 wines by the glass; $5-$8 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Super heroes aren’t real. Sorry. But you can drown that sad truth this weekend with a superhero beer — a collaboration between Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con, which kicked off yesterday at the Colorado Convention Center. The Fantastic Pour, a riff on the Fantastic Four, was settled on after…
As a service-industry lifer/professional, I loved Lori Midson’s list of the “Ten rudest things things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to their restaurants.” Over the course of my 27-year career in service, I’ve seen examples of all of her top ten…and more. But what really gets…
Update: Clown Question, Bro will be tapped at 4 p.m. on Monday; clown costumes encouraged. The beer also has a logo — at right. Nineteen-year-old Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper didn’t take kindly to a question from a Toronto sports reporter about what kind of beer he planned to drink…
There’s something about the crack of a can of beer being opened that says summer: The sound is loud, proud and promises refreshment. In the past, that crack was reserved for cans of mass-market beers, but now there are dozens of choices available from Colorado’s favorite craft breweries. Here are…
