I suppose it’s understood that, when you claim Denver’s a great beer city, you really mean to include the whole metro-area; while some of America’s finest ales and lagers are produced within the Mile High City’s limits, one would be remiss to omit Dry Dock Brewing Co., Lone Tree Brewing Company, Big Choice Brewing, and [...]
Friday, January 25, 2013
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday What up, Denver? Welcome to summer summer summer time. With that said, check out the Art of Winter down on Larimer Square. But wear a t-shirt. Because weather. Anyway. There are some cool events this weekend, like cheap booze! City Wine has an 18th Anniversary super sale, [...]
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Rackhouse Pub celebrating their third birthday this weekend. In their normal way, they’re throwing a ridiculous party. Did you see their New Year’s Party last year? Ya, they don’t mess around when it comes to celebration. From the source: As is the Rackhouse Pub tradition, we don’t half-ass our anniversary party. We’ve been scheming this [...]
Thursday, August 23, 2012
What’s the highpoint of a brewer’s career? Winning a medal at Great American Beer Festival? Maybe. But what about winning a medal at Great American Beer festival and receiving a free congratulatory beer? Thanks to Breckenridge Brewery, the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG), and CBG member breweries, the best of the best at this year’s GABF [...]
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Boulder SourFest. It’s a magical place wedged between October’s Great American Beer Festival and January’s Big Beers Festival. It’s a place where the Russian River table–pouring blessed beers–stands sans a line. It’s a mecca for beer aficionados to congregate and proclaim the beer gospel. And after selling out in a mere 3 minutes this year, entry tickets were even [...]
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
We hope you had as great of a time as we did throughout Colorado Beer Week/American Craft Beer Week! Here’s a slideshow of some of the fun we had, including the Grand Opening Ceremonies at Highland Tap & Burger, a firkin tapping at Dry Dock, beer the beer and food pairing dinner at FreshCraft, the [...]
Friday, May 18, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday You’re going to have to put on your big boy (or girl) pants this weekend and make some difficult choices. There’s something awesome happening just about every minute, and it’s not going to be an easy decision. For example, look at the tap lists at Star [...]
Sunday, May 13, 2012
American Craft Beer Week and Colorado Beer Week are here! Declare your craft beer independence, patronize the hell out of your local, and drink some good stuff. Let’s do this. We’ll keep this list updated as the week progresses. Know something we missed? Super stoked about a particular event? Were we slydexic in our [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday What’s the booze equivalent of 4/20? Hmm.. There are specific holidays that rise above the “let’s drink because of that Saint in Ireland” or “this day has a Spanish name for the fifth of May, let’s drink!”. For example, the day prohibition was repealed (December 5th, FYI). Or, [...]
Friday, March 30, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday I think Denver is confused by this nice weather thing. DON’T BE FOOLED. It will snow again. But not this weekend. This weekend screams picnic blankets, corn hole sets, and delicious beer. Don’t ignore the voices. They speak the truth. Get outside and drink something. See [...]
Friday, March 2, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Holy crap it’s March. You know what that means, right? Me neither. Many festivals this weekend, many drinks to be had. Enjoy! Track 1 – The “Leave Denver” Track: Friday: Head up to Leadville for some Ski Joring. Yes. Ski Joring. It’s excellent. Saturday: [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Track 1: Friday: One night in Bordeaux - learn to cook while drinking wine. Saturday: Wake up with the Coffee Beer Fest at Denver Beer Co, head over to FreshCraft for some Noble Rot, and finish the day at 3 Kings for My Bloody Violent-Tine Horror Film Festival. Sunday: [...]
Friday, February 10, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Fun things to do seem to come in waves. One weekend, twiddling your thumbs is the most exciting event on the calendar (Note: a beverage with a straw is required for thumb-twiddling). The next, you can’t make a choice of where to go, and end up [...]
Friday, February 3, 2012
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Not all that much going on this weekend, unless of course you like firkins, festivals, football, or.. other f words. Track 1: Friday: Firkin Friday at Great Divide. Raspberry Yeti? Ya. That. Saturday: Evergreen Winterfest looks ridiculous. Oh, and they have booze. Sunday: I [...]
Friday, January 27, 2012
You, the readers, have spoken. You told us your favorite beers and if we learned anything, it is that our readers have a very broad (and good) taste in craft beer. A total of 72 different beers from 24 breweries were nominated throughout the voting process. Luckily, there were enough of you that thought alike that [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Hopefully you’ve got some time off from work coming up here pretty soon. Either way, we fully expect you’ll be dancing in the streets this weekend. Now, will you be dancing in a Tebow jersey or a Santa outfit? Or both… Track 1: Friday: Beers [...]
Friday, December 9, 2011
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Heat wave this weekend! It will be almost 50˚! You know what that means, right? Slush fights in the alleys. Drinking on the rooftops. Exclamatory remarks! Track 1: Friday: Liquid Arts Festival at Dancing Pines. Yes, yes, and a lot more yes. Saturday: Christmas Beer Tasting at [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
On Saturday, Dry Dock Brewing Co. held their 3rd annual Ho Ho Ho Slapdown, an in-house brewing contest. Each brewer entered a special brew and popular vote decided the winner. Here were the entries: Ashleigh – Lady Penrhyn (Imperial Brown aged in Stranahans Barrels) 8.2%, 32 IBU Bill – Stricke Alt (Imperial Alt) 8.3%, 55 IBU Brett [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a special edition of Weekend off the Wagon. Hopefully you’re not working all week. A few ideas on what to bring to Thanksgiving Dinner. Track 1: Thursday: Thanksgiving with friends, family, enemies, whatever. Friday: Sausage Fest at Denver Beer Co. Saturday: All the breweries! [...]
Friday, October 21, 2011
Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Drinking always gets a little funky around this time. Zombies, vampires, and werewolves start coming out. You can’t tell if it was the crazy barleywine/shot of whiskey or if that’s actually a zombie sitting right next to you. Oh, the week before All Hallow’s Eve. Here’s [...]
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