Finally, some justice.
A Denverite was named national Beerdrinker of the Year at Saturday’s runoff at Wynkoop Brewing Company.
In a packed house that included Wynkoop founder Mayor John Hickenlooper and his son Teddy, the judges, in black robes and powdered wigs, presented the beery title to Cody Christman after a two-hour Q&A contest.
The judges, among whom was Denver Post beer columnist Dick Kreck, took 45 minutes to choose Christman over the other two beer-guzzling also-rans.
Christman is a software engineer and “beer educator” in his basement, which impressively features a 15-foot bar with seven taps. I mean, I get house drunk, but seven home taps mean business.
“This is unbelievable,” said Christman after winning. “I’m going to enjoy this the rest of my life!”
Indeed he will. Along with bragging rights and some T-shirts, the winner gets FREE BEER for the rest of his life at the Wynkoop. All 12 previous winners lived on the East or West coast. This guy is going to use it — every Friday night. Maybe every night.
“Everything I do, and every decision I make, revolves around beer,” Christman proclaimed in his Beer Resume. He’s living the dream.
Lego get married.
Troy Cobb and Lacey Williams of Fort Collins, both 28, got engaged Monday at Legoland in California.
No, they’re not losers, just Lego lovers. She’s a student at Colorado State University; he’s a greenhouse supervisor at Fort Collins Nursery. They both gave each other Lego sets for Christmas — and that’s when Troy came up with the Legoland surprise.
Lacey had no idea when they visited Legoland that a Lego sign spelling out “Lacey, will you marry me?” sat next to miniature Lego figures of the bride and groom — placed at the base of the Lego Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel in Lego Miniland in Las Vegas. He even had a ring box made of Legos. She said yes. That’s a relief.
Going once.
Some think it’s pretty ironic.
Michael Karolchyk’s controversial Anti-Gym goes on the auction block at 11 a.m. March 5. To settle an IRS debt, they’re selling all the equipment and some serious sports memorabilia. At noon the same day, Karolchyk will appear on “People’s Court” on KTVD-Channel 20. Karolchyk loses that case to disgruntled client Nancy Fitzgerald — in what sounds like one of the show’s wildest episodes.
“I lost because I didn’t even have a chance,” Karolchyk told me last month. “It was a female ambush. I said that justice was not blind and I bet the judge was a chubby under those robes.”
City spirit.
Ah, to be young and foolish and working in a restaurant. Dixons waiter AJ Oscarson lost a Super Bowl bet — so he had to run in his underpants (COLD!) between Dixons, Wazee Supper Club and McCormick’s Fish House. You can see it by going to and writing in “aj’s super bowl run” . . . The Video Professor, a.k.a. John W. Scherer, gets a shout-out in the current Mad magazine in a cartoon about earning a degree online . . . Sez who: “I’ve had great success being a total idiot.” Jerry Lewis
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