With a new Colorado brewery opening about once a week, it's hard to keep up with what's hot in the beer scene. Much like the Denver Heatmap, included in this inaugural Beer Heatmap are venues old and new, in a variety of neighborhoods. These hot spots aren't just breweries, but also beer bars where the savviest of the city's beer geeks go to drink.
South Broadway dominates this list with two breweries and Historian's Ale House, The Bark Bar in the Highlands is thriving, and Boulder's brewpubs get the spotlight.
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It's no surprise that Denver's craft beer drinkers, dog lovers, and caffeine hounds would flock The Bar Bar. These new digs in the Highlands are so popular that they also made Eater's Denver Restaurant Heatmap this month.
Denver loves Black Shirt Brewing. The company has made a splash since its opening inception in 2009, most recently for its new canned line of red-themed beers, like red porter and the red saison.
Epic, the Salt Lake City brewery that set up shop in Denver, is wowing Denver with a larger-than-life facility, with a taproom designed to make you feel as if you're on the inside of a barrel of beer, and 25 Epic beers on tap.
This is one of Denver's classic tap houses, but it never gets old. The 80+ draft list always rotates with an international lineup of beers, and the crowd is always buzzing.
After more than a year of legal red tape, Strange Brewing Company— called That Brewery on Zuni in hiatus, during which it won the Chef & Brew Festival in fall of 2013— is getting its name back, with a twist. Stay tuned for its latest rendition.
Another newer Denver brewery that has lived its hype out is TRVE on South Broadway. Always a sure thing, the brewery rocks heavy medal and serves exceptional barrel-aged and experimental beers.
Another South Broadway location that's buzzing is Historian's Ale House, where more than 40 beers are available on tap, 30 of which are brewed in Colorado. Historian's features a brewery of the month, and a solid pub grub menu.
The thriving South Broadway district has a new brewery that is finally open for business after making smashing appearances at many of Denver's beer festivals over the past few months. Check out Eater's photo gallery of the new brewery.
Maybe it's the memorable street sign-centric marketing, or the wild beer names, or the zany owners, who were just named one of 5280's Dynamic Duos— whatever the lure, Caution: Brewery has developed a cult following that now travels across town to the company's second location in Lakewood.
This beer geek's haven prides itself on only having extremely small-batch beers from Colorado's breweries on tap. That means one-of-a-kind, seasonal, and specialty beers left and right. Worth the trip east.
West Flanders is in the news not only for its fresh Belgian-style beers, but also for its recent Super Bowl bet with Elysian Brewing Company from Seattle.
Lucky for Boulder, this garage nanobrewery-turned-brewpub is serving up some of the funkiest beer and ice cream styles in town, not to mention an array of beer dinners for every occasion.
It's no surprise that Denver's craft beer drinkers, dog lovers, and caffeine hounds would flock The Bar Bar. These new digs in the Highlands are so popular that they also made Eater's Denver Restaurant Heatmap this month.
Denver loves Black Shirt Brewing. The company has made a splash since its opening inception in 2009, most recently for its new canned line of red-themed beers, like red porter and the red saison.
Epic, the Salt Lake City brewery that set up shop in Denver, is wowing Denver with a larger-than-life facility, with a taproom designed to make you feel as if you're on the inside of a barrel of beer, and 25 Epic beers on tap.
This is one of Denver's classic tap houses, but it never gets old. The 80+ draft list always rotates with an international lineup of beers, and the crowd is always buzzing.
After more than a year of legal red tape, Strange Brewing Company— called That Brewery on Zuni in hiatus, during which it won the Chef & Brew Festival in fall of 2013— is getting its name back, with a twist. Stay tuned for its latest rendition.
Another newer Denver brewery that has lived its hype out is TRVE on South Broadway. Always a sure thing, the brewery rocks heavy medal and serves exceptional barrel-aged and experimental beers.
Another South Broadway location that's buzzing is Historian's Ale House, where more than 40 beers are available on tap, 30 of which are brewed in Colorado. Historian's features a brewery of the month, and a solid pub grub menu.
The thriving South Broadway district has a new brewery that is finally open for business after making smashing appearances at many of Denver's beer festivals over the past few months. Check out Eater's photo gallery of the new brewery.
Maybe it's the memorable street sign-centric marketing, or the wild beer names, or the zany owners, who were just named one of 5280's Dynamic Duos— whatever the lure, Caution: Brewery has developed a cult following that now travels across town to the company's second location in Lakewood.
This beer geek's haven prides itself on only having extremely small-batch beers from Colorado's breweries on tap. That means one-of-a-kind, seasonal, and specialty beers left and right. Worth the trip east.
West Flanders is in the news not only for its fresh Belgian-style beers, but also for its recent Super Bowl bet with Elysian Brewing Company from Seattle.
Lucky for Boulder, this garage nanobrewery-turned-brewpub is serving up some of the funkiest beer and ice cream styles in town, not to mention an array of beer dinners for every occasion.
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