The pop up is open every day in October from 4-midnight on weekdays and 2pm – 2am on weekends, and you can order a whole menu of creepy-themed cocktails. Previously an underground pop up bar in Larimer Square, Spirits has gotten a new location in LoHi and a new and improved menu. 2920 Larimer St., 30, the team that brought us Slashers, Spirits Halloween is rising from the dead for its second year in a row. This place makes its own hooch, serving 4 p.m.-midnight Tuesday-Wednesday, 4 p.m.-2 a.m. MILE HIGH SPIRITS DISTILLERY AND TASTING ROOM. $4 for a single-sized cocktail featuring a boutique infused liquor is a deal when compared to other cocktailing prices downtown. And just because it opts not to offer such belly-up bargains as $2 PBRs, the prices at Mile High Spirits are far from over the top. With Larimer Lounge, Meadowlark and the Matchbox all within walking distance, Mile High Spirits Distillery and Tasting Room is a great stop for the bar-crawl crowd. We landed a couple blocks away, on the enclosed, DJ-christened patio of a more familiar joint.Įlana Ashanti Jefferson: 30, or /elanaashanti He stomped out of the place with a harrumph, the Brits and I close behind. Then, in a flash, Our Pal the Liquor Snob became cranky when a bartender at Mile High Spirits failed to thoroughly answer one of his questions. This struck me as a way for them to command the crowd whilst surveying it for approachable women. I watched from afar as the locals caught wind of our sadly exotic drinking buddies, who, in booming British accents, gushed over our majestic Colorado mountains. Their massive decorative framing is but one of the room’s quietly luxe design elements. But possibly my favorite touch in this converted industrial building is the series of three, 5- to 6-foot-tall, black-and-white liquor-bottle lithographs on a wall near the bar.

A breeze floated in through the rolled-up garage door facing Larimer Street, and through another door to the west, beyond which spirited corn hole games were in progress in the bar’s outdoor courtyard. I sunk into a brown leather couch at the center of the room. This was a comfortable place to hang out, amongst a crowd of street-wise neighborhood folk and weekenders.

When ordering a mule at Mile High Spirits, be prepared to leave a credit card or cash deposit for the mug, a policy instituted after they began disappearing.

It arrived chilled in the cocktail’s signature copper mug and went down easy. There had been some survivalist training involved, now they were headed to Quantico … Blau, blau, blau.įun concept, with two downsides: It flirts with being gimmicky, and any drinker devoted to a certain pour, be it name-brand liquor or $2 domestic drafts, should look elsewhere. “Hello, love, just back from some mountain biking in Crested Butte …”

(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) And the third? He was Popeye.Īll three of these Brits sported Saturday-night grins and the devil’s twinkle in their eyes. The second, a dark-haired guy, had squeezed his overdeveloped pecs into an old prep school polo shirt. The first, their ring leader, was a Prince Harry-type dressed like he just stepped off a sailboat. I was itching for some action when Our Pal the Liquor Snob barreled through the door alongside three members of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines. But, her invitation arrived late in the week, and as will happen on a warm Colorado weekend, at least a few friends were backpacking or camping or whatever other mountain diversions steal away summer drinking mates. We took the British marines to Mile High Spirits.įirst, the set up: Fresh from an ugly breakup, a girlfriend decided to initiate her new single-gal digs near RiNo with a housewarming party. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu

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