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Holiday Cocktails to grease up your turkey stuffing piehole with

One of the greatest things you can bring to the table for this week’s Thanksgiving festivities is not your mom’s recipe for green bean casserole. Leave that one up to mom. Instead, bring some booze. Before you get all gooey with the day’s special bird, drink down something delicious to make the experience even more [...]

Cultivate Festival to showcase local beer this Saturday

This Saturday, October 6th, the Chipotle Cultivate Festival, an event specially-made for socially-conscious foodies, will be held in City Park from 10am to 6pm.  The festival is a celebration of food, farmers, artists, freethinkers, and musicians in an effort to bring “awareness about food’s impact on society,” and best of all, entrance is absolutely free! [...]

Euclid Hall and Upslope Collaborate for GABF

March 3. Go to a bar in Denver. Ask for a beer list. You’ll find something awesome, and probably something new. November 18. Go to a bar in Denver. Ask for a beer list. You’ll find something awesome, and probably something new. Maintaining the status quo for beer in this town equates to never standing still, [...]

Upslope Brewing Company Expands Production Into a Second Location

[Press Release] (Boulder, CO)– Upslope Brewing Company, located in Boulder, Colorado, announces its plan to build a new brewery in Flatiron Park, located near 55th Street in Boulder. The new brewery will be operational in Q1 2013 allowing Upslope Brewing to initially expand by 70% with plenty of room for future expansion. It will also open [...]

Weekend off the Wagon – April 13-15

Weekend off the Wagon in your inbox, every Friday Friday the 13th. That’s the date. There are a ton of theories why this day is supposedly unlucky, but according to the most credible source in the world, it’s most likely a made up thing from the 19th century. Screw credibility. Better question:     What [...]

Beer Porn of the Week – Upslope Foreign Style Stout

Upslope Brewing Co. – Foreign Style Stout   [We'll share some beer porn every Monday to get your week started off right. Have some of your own? Leave a link in the comments!]

Upslope Foreign Style Stout Release at Euclid Hall Wednesday, 1/18

Join Euclid Hall and Upslope Brewing Co for a special beer release and tapping Wednesday, January 18th at 5pm. They will be celebrating the limited release of Upslope Foreign Style Stout and brewery representatives will be on hand to discuss this specialty small batch beer. Upslope describes their Foreign Style Stout as a roasty but [...]

Crafting a Nation, the Follow-Up to Beer Culture

Several months ago, Free Mind Productions released Beer Culture the Movie (click here for my review).  This 55 minute documentary focused on Colorado breweries and their role in the craft beer revolution sweeping the nation.  Despite its local roots, the film was a success, filling up screenings at Upslope, Left Hand, and Wynkoop their first [...]

FreshCraft Autumn Food & Beer Pairing Dinner

Last Thursday, my wife and I were privileged enough to attend one of FreshCraft’s quarterly beer and food pairing dinners.  I’ve eaten and drank at FreshCraft many, many times but this was the first time that my meal and drink choices were predetermined.  Similar to watching Tebow lead the Broncos onto the field on their big screen [...]

Freshcraft Autumn Food & Beer Pairing Dinner

The seasonal series of beer paired dinners at Freshcraft are always a hit. Next Thursday, Freshcraft’s Autumn Food and Beer Pairing Dinner will be a pairing not to miss. Join us on Thursday November 17th for our annual seasonal Food & Beer Pairing Dinner celebrating Autumn. The kitchen will be playing with the tastes of [...]

Upslope Brewing Company: Still Kickin’ it After Three Years

We live in a culture of constant flux.  Permanence is gone.  New technologies become obsolete within days.  Our professional athletes change teams like they change jock straps.  Celebrities marry and divorce quicker than four frat boys killing a pitcher of beer.  This weekend, my girlfriend and I tried to visit Los Oasis Latin Grill & [...]

Beer Porn of the Week – Upslope Pumpkin Ale

Upslope Brewing Company – Pumpkin Ale This 2011 GABF Gold Medal winning Pumpkin Ale was served up at Upslope’s 3rd Anniversary Party on Saturday, November 5th along with 13 other awesome brews.  Stay tuned for a recap of the party later this week. [We'll share some beer porn every Monday to get your week started [...]

Upslope Brewing Company to Celebrate 3rd Anniversary

Upslope Brewing Company, Boulder’s all-canned craft beer brewery, will be celebrating their 3rd anniversary on Saturday, November 5th from 2pm to 9pm.  The event promises live music, food, and over 12 taps of Upslope’s rarest beers. Since Upslope only cans and distributes four beers, this event is great for any beer geek who wants to sample [...]

Beer Porn of the Week

Loads of new small breweries. What will hang on and what won’t?

Here at Denver Off The Wagon, we have covered the opening of a bunch of new breweries. Odds are that some of these places are destined to win and unfortunately, some are probably going to lose. I am not going to break balls here and act like I know anything. There are so many new small [...]

TheLiterateLush: An Account of Battle – Beer vs. Wine at SALT

I’m not always the biggest fan of the People’s Republic of Boulder. There is something about a transient population of thousands of college students (not one of which can be trusted to safely cross a street) with an unnerving sense of entitlement and throngs of new-wave pseudo-hippies worried about sulfites in their wine, garlic in [...]

Beer Culture the Movie – The Review

On Saturday I attended the 2nd of two free screenings for Beer Culture the Movie held at Left Hand Brewing Company.  The World Premier was the night before at Upslope Brewing Company.  These breweries were chosen because of their prominent roles in the film and were easily filled wall to wall for the premiers.  Tom [...]

Weekend off the Wagon: 7/8 – 7/10

Your Weekend Forecast* Friday, July 8th Afternoon Thunderstorms High: 86˚ – Low: 64˚ Precip: 40% Saturday, July 9th Afternoon Thunderstorms High: 86˚ – Low: 65˚ Precip: 40% Sunday, July 10th Isolated Thunderstorms High: 86˚ – Low: 65˚ Precip: 30% * This is Denver. Bring a swimsuit and ski jacket at all times. And now on [...]

Beer Culture the Movie

The best movie of the summer isn’t out yet, but it will be soon.  Sure, Super 8 looks pretty good, but wouldn’t a film about Colorado beer culture be better?  Enter Beer Culture the Movie.  The guys over at Free Mind Productions (Denver, CO) have been working hard on this documentary, which features many of [...]

5280 Week: Picking a Restaurant by the Beer List

It’s almost half over already. 5280 Restaurant Week (or half-month) is here again. A few hundred of Denver’s best restaurants open their doors, menus, and kitchens, so that we might sample their goods and expand our palates. At $52.80 for two, or $26.40 for one, you have to go! Pick out a restaurant or two [...]