Best Happy Hours in Denver

Denver has one agreed price and then a very long tail. Wells and drafts at $5 accounts for a fifth of the listings on this page; after that the repetition stops almost completely, and what is left is a hundred bars each doing something of their own. Herb's Hideout on Larimer Street lists $5 old fashioneds. Vin Rouge on Yates Street lists 30% off all wine across a six-hour evening. Honey Elixir Bar on Walnut lists a dollar off potions, which is what it calls its drinks.

Three streets hold the density and they could not be less alike. Larimer Street runs from LoDo out into RiNo, East Colfax Avenue is the long dive corridor where The Squire Lounge lists a $7 shot and beer until 8 PM daily, and South Broadway keeps the neighborhood end, where Skylark Lounge lists half off wells and drafts from 4 to 6.

Eight in ten windows open at 3 PM, an early habit Denver shares with the Texas markets and almost nothing else in the Mountain West. A useful number of places also reopen late: Denver Beer Co on South Downing lists $5 pints from 8 PM to close, and 4Play on Blake Street lists $1 wings through the evening.

Roughly one listing in nine covers a weekend day.