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Beer Brewing
Every October some 20,000 beer lovers congregate in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. Yet the city is a great place for beer connoisseurs at any time of year thanks to its many excellent breweries.
Coors Brewery, located in Golden, is the largest single brewery in the world. Guided 90-minute tours are available, following the entire brewing process, from roasting barley to bottling. There are free beer samples for those over the age of 21 years old.
At the opposite extreme, there are microbreweries and brewpubs. These serve and brew in-house distinctive beer that will not be found elsewhere. The city's best brewpubs are all within walking distance in LoDo. Each brewpub offers tours and tiny samples of their ales, porters, stouts and lagers. The best include Wynkoop Brewing Company, Rock Bottom Brewery and Breckenridge Brewery.
Coors Brewery
13th and Ford Street, Golden
Tel: (303) 277 2337/BEER.
Website: www.coors.com
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 1000-1600.
Free admission.
Wynkoop Brewing Company
18th and Wynkoop Streets
Tel: (303) 297 2700.
Website: www.wynkoop.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Rock Bottom Brewery
1001 16th Street
Tel: (303) 534 7616.
Website: www.rockbottom.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Breckenridge Brewery
2220 Blake Street
Tel: (303) 297 3644.
Website: www.breckenridgebrewery.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Denver Botanic Gardens
Regarded as one of the top five botanic gardens in the country, Denver Botanic Gardens is a 9-hectare (23-acre) oasis with more than 32,000 plants in the heart of the city. Among 30 different gardens are the Rock Alpine Garden, which recreates high altitude gardens from the Himalayas to the Rockies, the tranquil Japanese Garden with a teahouse, Water Gardens and a Monet Garden, reminiscent of the artist's inspirational garden in Giverny, France. The conservatory houses one of the country's largest palm collections.
1005 York Street
Tel: (720) 865 3500.
Website: www.botanicgardens.org
Opening hours: Sat-Tues 0900-2000, Wed-Fri 0900-1700 (May-Sep); daily 0900-1700 (Sep-Apr).
Admission charge.
Buckhorn Exchange
Colorado's most historic eating place is a cross between a 19th-century museum, crammed with exhibits, and a Wild West saloon. Founded by Henry Zeis, one of Buffalo Bill's scouts, in 1893, Buckhorn Exchange provided a comfortable watering hole for the businessmen, gamblers, Indian chiefs, railroad builders and miners who had flocked to boom-town Denver. The famous bean soup, popular with the first customers, is still on the menu, along with buffalo steak and fried alligator tail.
Zeis, dubbed 'Shorty' by the legendary Chief Sitting Bull, amassed an amazing collection of animals, weapons and memorabilia from the days of the Wild West, including the sword used by General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Moose, buffalo and mountain sheep heads hang side by side a huge collection of guns on the walls of the Buckhorn Exchange. There may be Winchesters, Derringers, repeaters, the fabled Colt 45 and even a rare palm pistol on the walls but customers wanting a beer at the huge, carved white-oak bar, brought from Essen in Germany in 1857, are still required to check their guns at the door.
1000 Osage Street
Tel: (303) 534 9505.
Website: www.buckhorn.com
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 1100-1400, 1600-2100, Fri 1100-1400, 1600-2200, Sat 1700-2200, Sun 1700-2100.
Free admission.
Every October some 20,000 beer lovers congregate in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. Yet the city is a great place for beer connoisseurs at any time of year thanks to its many excellent breweries.
Coors Brewery, located in Golden, is the largest single brewery in the world. Guided 90-minute tours are available, following the entire brewing process, from roasting barley to bottling. There are free beer samples for those over the age of 21 years old.
At the opposite extreme, there are microbreweries and brewpubs. These serve and brew in-house distinctive beer that will not be found elsewhere. The city's best brewpubs are all within walking distance in LoDo. Each brewpub offers tours and tiny samples of their ales, porters, stouts and lagers. The best include Wynkoop Brewing Company, Rock Bottom Brewery and Breckenridge Brewery.
Coors Brewery
13th and Ford Street, Golden
Tel: (303) 277 2337/BEER.
Website: www.coors.com
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 1000-1600.
Free admission.
Wynkoop Brewing Company
18th and Wynkoop Streets
Tel: (303) 297 2700.
Website: www.wynkoop.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Rock Bottom Brewery
1001 16th Street
Tel: (303) 534 7616.
Website: www.rockbottom.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Breckenridge Brewery
2220 Blake Street
Tel: (303) 297 3644.
Website: www.breckenridgebrewery.com
Opening hours: 1100-0200.
Free admission.
Denver Botanic Gardens
Regarded as one of the top five botanic gardens in the country, Denver Botanic Gardens is a 9-hectare (23-acre) oasis with more than 32,000 plants in the heart of the city. Among 30 different gardens are the Rock Alpine Garden, which recreates high altitude gardens from the Himalayas to the Rockies, the tranquil Japanese Garden with a teahouse, Water Gardens and a Monet Garden, reminiscent of the artist's inspirational garden in Giverny, France. The conservatory houses one of the country's largest palm collections.
1005 York Street
Tel: (720) 865 3500.
Website: www.botanicgardens.org
Opening hours: Sat-Tues 0900-2000, Wed-Fri 0900-1700 (May-Sep); daily 0900-1700 (Sep-Apr).
Admission charge.
Buckhorn Exchange
Colorado's most historic eating place is a cross between a 19th-century museum, crammed with exhibits, and a Wild West saloon. Founded by Henry Zeis, one of Buffalo Bill's scouts, in 1893, Buckhorn Exchange provided a comfortable watering hole for the businessmen, gamblers, Indian chiefs, railroad builders and miners who had flocked to boom-town Denver. The famous bean soup, popular with the first customers, is still on the menu, along with buffalo steak and fried alligator tail.
Zeis, dubbed 'Shorty' by the legendary Chief Sitting Bull, amassed an amazing collection of animals, weapons and memorabilia from the days of the Wild West, including the sword used by General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Moose, buffalo and mountain sheep heads hang side by side a huge collection of guns on the walls of the Buckhorn Exchange. There may be Winchesters, Derringers, repeaters, the fabled Colt 45 and even a rare palm pistol on the walls but customers wanting a beer at the huge, carved white-oak bar, brought from Essen in Germany in 1857, are still required to check their guns at the door.
1000 Osage Street
Tel: (303) 534 9505.
Website: www.buckhorn.com
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 1100-1400, 1600-2100, Fri 1100-1400, 1600-2200, Sat 1700-2200, Sun 1700-2100.
Free admission.
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