4 Best Nightlife in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado

Home to Aspen Brewing Company, Aspen Tap serves a small menu of pub food, liquor, wine, and, of course, microbrews from the city's only brewery. The centrally located bar includes a patio that's great for people-watching and sipping an Ajax Pilsner.

This intimate, live-concert venue has hosted musical acts ranging from country-western legends to '80s rock bands to Jack White for crowds of just over 400.

You can't say you've seen Aspen until you've set foot in the historic Hotel Jerome's lively J-Bar, with its textured leather walls and decorative tin ceilings. The centerpiece is the wooden, original (circa 1889) bar, where the Aspen Crud, a bourbon milkshake, was invented during Prohibition.

Named for a 19th-century Aspen justice of the peace, Justice Snow's is known for its creative, handcrafted cocktails. Pull up a chair at the sophisticated, Victorian-era bar to sample an absinthe fountain, share a frothy punchbowl, or sip house-infused spirits in vintage glassware.