The Cocktail Hour: Denver Pub Crawl, Operate 2

Last week, nosotros started the crawl amongst 3 pubs on or close the 16th Street Mall.  Today, we'll complete it amongst a pair of joints inwards LoDo in addition to thence motion onto our final halt on Colfax Avenue, simply eastward of downtown.

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Going upscale for our commencement stop, it's the Denver Chophouse in addition to Brewery which is following to Coors Field inwards the quondam Union Pacific building.

This is no ratty dive bar. It's a real prissy restaurant, amongst smashing food, that happens to also brew beer...as you lot produce inwards Denver. The nutrient is awesome.  We convey a lobster fellowship sandwich, Cesar salad, novel york steak, fries, sweetness Irish Gaelic patato fries, in addition to a bacon-cheeseburger for Tim.

The beers are all in-house brews.  We convey a Dortmunder lager, a crisp refreshing High German fashion beer, in addition to their wheat ale, which is filtered different most of your wheat beers in addition to has a clear, cause clean look.  Both were real good, the bitterness of the Dortmunder simply right...even Letty liked it...and a real crisp sense of savor to the wheat ale.

Next, it was a quick hop over to Blake Street for ane of our favorite stops on the tour, the Falling Rock Tap House.  Not a brewery but what a selection! Their slogan is "No Crap on Tap" in addition to it's fitting.  You'll non notice the likes of Bud, Bud Lite, Miller, or fifty-fifty the state's biggest beer, Coors.  Like sitting inwards someone's converted garage, nosotros relaxed on worn leather chairs piece the fresh air wafted inwards from the large doors.

 Tim in addition to I had New Belgium's Mothership Wit, a wheat beer real similar to Hoegaarden, in addition to Letty had the La Folie, also from Boulder's New Belgium, a tart, sour ale which turned out to last her favorite of the trip.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 chip likewise sour for me in addition to agency to sour from Tim (be certain to come across his reaction inwards the video above, it's priceless).  Letty, e'er a fan of the sours, genuinely seemed to similar it.

Our final halt was supposed to last our commencement halt final week.  We had problem finding it but institute I had transposed a pair of numbers on the address.  The Cheeky Monk on Colfax, well-nigh four blocks eastward of the capitol, is a Belgian Cafe amongst a large publish of smashing Belgian brews on tap.

We were lucky to teach at that topographic point betwixt xi in addition to 2 when almost everything is one-half cost in addition to there's a smashing pick of delicious luncheon plates for alone $5.99.

To eat, Letty in addition to I had a penne amongst a gorgonzola cream sauce in addition to bacon, piece Tim had sliders amongst a side of fries cooked inwards truffle oil.

Our commencement circular of beers was 2 dubbels...Maredsous for Tim in addition to La Trappe for me.  Both had a musty, yeasty, in addition to smoothen sense of savor that were almost identical.  Letty had a Bacchus sour ale, which she liked, but it simply had an initial scandalise of sour, which chop-chop dissapated.

Next, I had a St. Bernardus Quadrupel, which had a banana sense of savor in addition to weighed inwards at a hefty 12% ABV.  Tim had an Ommegang Rare Vos, which ane time to a greater extent than was quite smoothen in addition to delicious, piece Letty had a Kasteel Rouge, approximately other Flemish region sour ale but this ane was genuinely agency to a greater extent than sweetness than sour, tasting similar a fermented MD Pepper.

 And that's the halt of the crawl, last certain to banking concern check out the video embedded inwards a higher house to follow our exploits across the pubs in addition to breweries of downtown Denver.

-Darryl