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brewpub, bar and music venue · $$ · since 2017

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew

Two floors of Oskar Blues taps with a basement blues club underneath.

Oskar Blues took over the joined Croc's and Brendan's Pub spaces at 16th and Market in December 2017 and made a 10,000-square-foot brewpub out of them: 48 rotating taps heavy on Dale's Pale Ale and Ten FIDY, burgers, wings and a smoker in the kitchen. Downstairs is The Black Buzzard, a 280-capacity music room named for a bacon-bourbon-and-stout drink and booked most nights by BandWagon Presents. It is loud, big and easy for a crowd on a Rockies or Avs night, and the shows are cheap.

Why go. It is the one LoDo bar where a pre-game beer can turn into a $15 blues or rock show downstairs.

Check the Black Buzzard calendar before you go; on show nights the downstairs bar has its own line and cover.

A short walk from Oskar Blues Grill & Brew