0 Denver Bicycle Cafe, Denver, Colorado
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Denver Bicycle Cafe
Exceptional based on 5 ratings
Type: Bar

1308 E 17th Ave
Denver, Colorado United States 80218 [ print map ]
720 446 8029

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Hours: Sun.-Wed. 6am-8pm and Thurs.-Sat. 6am-9pm


Mayor: 3fourths (4) | Taps: 6 | Bottles: 30


Denver Bicycle Cafe

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Beer Available At Denver Bicycle Cafe (arranged by most recent)
CAUTION: Card Your Mom Saison , Denver Beer American IPA , Strange Wit 42, Elk Mountain Mine Shaft Kolsch 34, Arvada Poolhall Porter ,

Previously Available
River North Unified Theory 50, Dry Dock Honey Badger Blonde , Yak and Yeti Saison , Bull & Bush Red Eye Espresso Stout , Wynkoop St. Charles ESB 38, Renegade Bedwetter Barley Wine 74, Copper Kettle Cologne Kölsch , Dry Dock 2nd Base Brown , Lone Tree Mountain Mama Helles 50, Odell St. Lupulin Extra Pale Ale 94, Lone Tree Nate’s Saison , River North Hoppenberg Uncertainty Principle 68
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5 reviews for Denver Bicycle Cafe
 Ambiance  92%
 Service  84%
 Selection  65%
 Food  50%
 Value  70%
 Overall  77%
 Rating  81%


70
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 9/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 7/10   OVERALL 14/20
GT2  (375) Jurupa Valley, California | June 7, 2013
Fun open air coffee shop cum beer bar cum bicycle repair shop. Hipster vibe to the max. Small, but unique tap list featuring obscure local brewers. Snooty bartender I was warned about was actually quite nice and accommodating. Quick service. Nice patio to sit outside. Quite atmosphere where students come to study so be weary of getting too loud and obnoxious or people will be eyeballing you. Looks like they were selling some good looking sandwiches, but I didn’t try any. My only qualm is that the hyper local, nano brewery focus of the small tap list left the selection without a really "good" beer. It was mostly okay to not good stuff. There is a bottle list that looked like it was only canned craft beer for some reason. Iced coffee was good. Looked like they also had some pastries.
80
  AMBIANCE 5/5   SERVICE 9/10   SELECTION 10/15   FOOD 5/10   VALUE 6/10   OVERALL 16/20
Steve_0  (87) Denver, Colorado | July 1, 2012
Very cool bicycle cafe, with coffee, beer, and a bicycle mechanic that can perform any type of service you need for your bike. 99% of the beer selection is from Colorado, but it includes a ton of offerings from smaller breweries that aren’t widely available elsewhere, pretty cool. I think they have one or two out-of-town selections, and a few different food items, but as discussed below, you can bring your own food, as well. Probably the best part is the cup of joe. Bottomless cups of coffee for $2, and the baristas are great. The vibe here is pretty laid-back and very hipster at times, but everyone is friendly and it’s always a good time. Definitely a must-see in the Denver metro area.
78
  AMBIANCE 4/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 11/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE 8/10   OVERALL 16/20
onceblind  (66) Denver, Colorado | March 19, 2012
Super delightful spot, a little rustic in a dilapidated sense, but also reminds me of a very old Victorian bed-and-breakfast kitchen. Lots of picnic tables indoors, a long long bar, and large open windows. The bike repair area doesn’t get in the way while adding to the whole bike-shop feel, making a pint feel even more special, like it’s in a friends garage. They have some exceptional coffee that’s always from CO, but the house coffee is swell too, and you can choose how it’s brewed. The beer is a fine selection for so few choices, picking mostly the underdog startups from around town that you can rarely find outside the home brewer. Only 6 taps but they’re more interesting than some of the 20+ tap places.
80
  AMBIANCE 5/5   SERVICE 9/10   SELECTION 10/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE N/A   OVERALL 16/20
3fourths  (1122) Boulder, Colorado | March 16, 2012| Updated July 16, 2012
Finally a bar in Denver where they offer something other than the same 10 beers you can find at a hundred other places in town. All draft beers are local from small breweries, and though there’s a hipster vibe, the staff limit the attitude and are actually open and engaging and willing to share and learn themselves. Probably my new go-to bar in Denver. They only have 6 taps but they are more interesting to me than the 50 at a place like Freshcraft or Amato’s or Falling Rock.
74
  AMBIANCE 5/5   SERVICE 8/10   SELECTION 9/15   FOOD N/A   VALUE N/A   OVERALL 15/20
notalush  (283) Denver, Colorado | December 20, 2011| Updated March 22, 2012
This place opened about a month ago, not far from Vine Street Pub - it’s a combination coffee house, bar and bike repair shop (a combination that will hopefully assure their success) - spacious interior, with a lot of bar space and communal picnic tables, if you are feeling social, or counters along the windows and small tables along the parameter, if you are feeling antisocial - they serve Pablo’s coffee here, which is a local micro roaster that roasts a pretty mean bean - these folks also make a great cup of coffee with those beans (they make a much better cup than Pablo’s themselves) - pricey (a large to-go coffee will set you back 3 bucks) but heavy, rich and smooth (it will probably take you an hour to finish it) - however, if you stay a while and drink-in, you can get bottomless coffee for two bucks, so it pays to stay - cans and bottles of some local brews - only six taps, but they focus mostly on showcasing product from start-up breweries in town (Copper Kettle, Denver Beer, Renegade, Strange), plus a few local staples (Dry Dock, Great Divide) - there are shockingly few bars in town showcasing beer from these new breweries - in that respect, they are a great spot for sampling what some of the new breweries in town have to offer without traveling all around town (these guys are also currently the only place outside of the brewery where you can buy Copper Kettle beers) - in some cases, the beers are cheaper here than at the breweries themselves - a lot of empty space behind the bar makes me hope that they may expand their tap list once they get off the ground - very small food menu (bagels and burritos), but they let you bring in your own food (plenty of great restaurants on 17th) - I love this place - it isn’t a spot where you can geek out and get some ticks in, but if you like coffee and want to sample some beers from the smaller breweries in town, this is a good spot.

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