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The classic cocktails Denver bartenders wish you'd order (opens the original)
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Photo courtesy of Halcyon, a hotel in Cherry Creek The paper plane cocktail managed to take off as a modern classic, but it feels like this drink’s flights are canceled these days. Like a novelty prop plane, it shows up on menus for special occasions but doesn’t fly on standard menus. It’s something that Kinga Mackowiak, the director of food and beverage at Apple Blossom, laments. “It was a little disappointing because it is such a balanced and approachable drink, but guests simply did not conne
The best-selling liquor you've never heard of is finding its way to Denver bars (opens the original)
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Order a soju bomb at Good Luck Club, and the bartender will hand you a shot of pineapple or lychee-flavored soju and a beer. The uninitiated often pause there. “People are confused,” says Ben Hamilton, general manager of the Platt Park bar that opened in May. “They’re going to take the shot and then drink the beer separately, and we’re, like, no, no, no.” The shot glass goes into the beer glass. Then the whole thing goes down. Soju is one of the best selling liquors in the world. Still, for many
What your drink order says about you, according to Denver bartenders (opens the original)
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Denver is one of the top bar cities in the country, and the city’s cocktail establishments increasingly have the backing to prove it: a top 10 ranking in a drinks industry publication, three Denver spots nominated for Best New Bar in the country by Tales of the Cocktail, national recognition from North America’s 50 Best Bars and the James Beard Awards. With that comes drinkers who generally know their way around a cocktail menu. Having an abundance of places for great drinks doesn’t mean every o
Colorado drinkers have special access to this elusive bourbon (opens the original)
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At Stellar Jay, the rooftop bar on top of the Populus hotel, a Paper Plane cocktail made with Old Weller Antique 107 pours from a tap line. The bourbon, which drinkers in most of the country can barely get their hands on, flows as freely as beer already mixed in a cocktail. “It really blows people’s minds that we have the ability to have cocktails on tap, not to mention cocktails with a premium spirit like Weller 107,” says EJ Psilas, bar lead at Stellar Jay and Pasque, who has spent 18 years be
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