It’s April 20, but Mason Hembree isn’t celebrating. Instead, the owner of Dad & Dudes Breweria will be fighting the federal government over a beer brewed with non-psychoactive CBD. Last September, Dad & Dudes was the talk of the town when it became the first brewery in the country to…
Last weekend, I went from doing perhaps the most hipster thing to the least hipster thing a person could do metro Denver in one night. The most hipster thing was attending opening night of Divisions, the collaboration between Denver hip-hop act the Flobots and local ballet company Wonderbound. Wonderbound is…
Forty ounces to freedom. Yes, the famous 40-ounce bottle of rosé wine that the country is suddenly thirsting for can be purchased in Denver.
Elite Brands of Colorado, which has specialized is distributing craft beer in Colorado for nearly fifteen years, won the Craft Beer Wholesaler of the Year award from the Brewers Association at the annual Craft Brewers Conference trade show, which took place last week in Washington, D.C. “The national award recognizes…
We’ve all been faced with the “Where should we go?” question. Sometimes the answer is obvious, but other times we need help. Whether it’s finding the perfect place to celebrate the right occasion, determining what kitchen can accommodate an unusual dietary restriction, or maybe just discovering a new place to…
Chad and Branden Miller’s father always told his sons to do one thing and do it better than anyone else. It was advice that stuck with them, so when they opened Black Shirt Brewing in 2011, that one thing was to make amazing ales, all of them in shades of…
Brewing beer can be fun for the people who love it. But it can also be dangerous. Last week, Charlie Gottenkieny, head brewer and part owner of Bruz Beers in north Denver, was severely burned when a batch of beer he was making boiled over the top of the mashtun and…
Colorado’s robust distilling industry means there’s no shortage of interesting spirits out there with which to stock your bar, but recently, a couple of rather novel flavors have made their way into the market, and they’re worth working into your lineup, if only to see what they add to your…
On another venture into the suburbs of metro Denver, I checked out Sideways Sports Lounge in Arvada with a friend who lives pretty close to the bar, which is at 9134 West 88th Avenue in a nondescript strip mall next to a liquor store and “Dog Spa” (so next time my dog needs…
Things are little quiet on the beer scene this week. That’s because hundreds of Colorado brewery owners and representatives are in Washington, D.C. for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, which takes place in a different city each year. Because of its location this time around, the trade show and conference,…
The makers of Budweiser and Coors have been coming after independent craft breweries for years, turning out beers that compete in the “craft” category without saying who brews them. Head to just about any Major League ballpark, for instance, and you’ll find Shock Top Belgian White or Blue Moon lurking…
Williams & Graham has long hosted some of this country’s cocktail kingpins for bar takeovers, letting them change the menus, music and door policy for a night to give Denver a taste of what’s happening on the beverage front in other cities. But this year, Sean Kenyon, who also owns…
With a thundering noise that will strike fear into the hearts of small beer makers in the River North neighborhood, Fort Collins-based Odell Brewing, the state’s third largest independent craft brewery, will take a King Kong-sized step into Denver next year, opening a huge, two-story taproom and pilot brewery at…
Oskar Blues, which was founded in Lyons and is now headquartered in Longmont, has been looking for a spot in Boulder for at least five years. The state’s second largest craft brewery thought it had found one in 2012 in a historic Union Pacific train depot there, but the deal…
Before LoDo-sized crowds came to RiNo, Sudhir Kudva stumbled upon an interesting opportunity to open a bar in the now-booming neighborhood. At the time, the 2600 block of Larimer Street and most of the surrounding area was home only to warehouses, liquor stores and a few outposts of nightlife at…
As competition heats up in the craft-beer world, medium-sized and large breweries continue to look for ways to stay relevant and to ring up sales. Sometimes that means producing beers that you might not expect. Such is the case with two new beers that were revealed in the past few…
Rohit Mukherjee owns a couple of local liquor stores, and late last year, he began thinking about a boozy gap in the market; namely, there was no brand of alcoholic ice cream available on liquor store shelves. “I’d seen the idea done in a shopfront…but we wanted people to be…
While the rest of the Señor Bear restaurant team went to Peru to study food, barman Shawn Williams (formally of Sarto’s and El Diablo) hit up Nicaragua and Cuba to garner some cocktail inspiration for the soon-to-open Highland restaurant. His takeaway? Rum — lots of rum — as well as…
It’s mud season — that awkward time of year between skiing and camping when the skies don’t know whether to snow or shine, and locals keep a pair of flip-flops next to their boots by the front door. But don’t be fooled: April is a great month to drink craft beer in the Denver. Here are your ten best bets.
The Capitol Hill Tavern is definitely a neighborhood bar in the sense that it is almost hidden in a residential part of Capitol Hill, on a quiet block of Logan Street between 12th and 13th Avenues. Despite being in the heart of one of Denver’s most popular, classic neighborhoods, it’s…
Andres Gil Zaldana is a beer enthusiast, but hasn’t worked in the beer world. He’s been commuting back and forth to Colorado over the past year but hasn’t lived here. He knows how to work with people, but doesn’t know most of the players in the state’s craft beer industry…
Last month, we shared the news that the former Kitty’s South adult theater had been purchased with the goal of turning the 100-year-old building at 119 South Broadway into Archetype Distilling. The redevelopment of the building is now underway, and artist renderings have given us a glimpse into what the…
