From persistent commentor PsiFighter37:
Only a week out!
Figured I would reach out again and see if there was still interest. I know that with Delta, perhaps there is less appetite to consider a meetup, but I am comfortable so long as everyone is vaccinated (which, knowing the Juicers, I would assume this to be the case).
I should be free to meet anytime after 6PM, and based on Google Maps, I am told I am at the intersection of the Central Business District and North Capitol Hill section of Denver.
My only request – a spot with a good beer selection! A couple spots that look like that could work are the Thirsty Lion or Freshcraft – but I am happy to defer to the preferences of the locals.
Hopefully there’s enough interest – but I understand if folks are a bit more cautious nowadays.
Leave a comment if you’re game, or email me at the ‘Contact Us’ link and I’ll forward your message.
Ksmiami
Next Door by Union Station is a great meet up place
Gbbalto
Can’t be there but Wynkoop’s is great.
Eta- brewpub not far from Union Stn
Nate Combs
We just tried Joyride last week – great beer, large outdoor patio
dr. bloor
Seems like there should be some sort of treatment for this condition.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
I’m in! Any of the above sound good. Don’t have experience of any but Wynkoop, willing to try new.
WaterGirl
You guys had better choose an outdoor place, or you are in big trouble.
signed, Mom
A Ghost to Most
Enjoy.
thruppence
Gotta work that night, but I’ll be with you all in spirit
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: Yes, listen to Mom. I like a couple of the places mentioned but the outdoor spaces are none or small.
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: Too many breakthrough cases for me to be willing to be inside a bar or a restaurant. sigh
There is a reason that most of us are angry, and getting more so.
BSR
I work in Congress Park next to Capitol Hill, so either of those places (or anywhere else centrally located works for me!) I normally lurk, but this post hit while I was briefly de-lurked, so I had to respond and may actually show up!
Bokonon
Count me in!
jnfr
We’re still not going out in crowds, even vaxxed, since we both have breathing problems so we’re cautious, and the air around here has been giving us trouble anyway.
But downtown Denver is lots of fun. I’ll wave to you all from Westminster.
quakerinabasement
How about The Spot on South Pennsylvania? There’s a little cluster of restaurants and bars in the neighborhood that worked together in getting the city to let them block off the street for outdoor seating.
Website here: https://www.spotbarandgrill.com/
Can’t speak to their beer selection, but their outdoorsness is very out.
Sure Lurkalot
@jnfr: That’s the bummer, isn’t it? I might feel ok drinking or dining on a large patio but after about a half hour, the bad air headache starts. Every day I hope it will shift and every afternoon I get a ding on my phone signaling an air quality alert for the next 24 hours.
PsiFighter37
@Sure Lurkalot: I am game for anywhere – I am not the local, so I was just suggesting places that seemed to have decent menus and fit the ‘gastropub’ description in the neighborhood.
Anyways, hope we can get something teed up the next few days!
A Ghost to Most
@PsiFighter37: We’ve lived here since 2009, and I still haven’t been to downtown, except to eat at a now gone french restaurant. The mountains ALWAYS win. Fat Tire is good beer.
Scamp Dog
Theoretically speaking, my plane gets in at 6:50, so I might be able to get there on the way home. Time will tell!
Yutsano
I obviously can’t be there (waves from the Northwest) but oh ye gods people try to make this one! Psi is a wonderful person.
@PsiFighter37: I name dropped you one thread down. I forgot what year you came out to Seattle but I think I’m right maybe?
Sure Lurkalot
@PsiFighter37: In normal times, I’d hop on the light rail and happy hour downtown but it’s a bit too far for beers and driving. I live near the Lowry Beer Garden, a good place for outdoor beer drinking but it’s not central. I think you have the right idea to party downtown at one of the several good beer joints and I will raise a beer stein at 6 to you and everyone who joins you. Safe travels!
PsiFighter37
@Yutsano: It was July 2013. Feels like a lifetime ago.
jnfr
@Sure Lurkalot:
Yep. Mr J has asthma and he’s using his nebulizer a bit more. We keep the air filters running and otherwise take it easy.
the pollyanna from hell
Central and outdoors is better for me.
Starfish
@A Ghost to Most: What was the French Restaurant?
Miss Bianca
Have fun, all y’all – I’d be tempted to drive up in a normal year, but not this year. Sometime soon! I have fond memories of the Wynkoop meet-up from 2018 (I think).
A Ghost to Most
@Starfish: Le Central.