The Ginn Mill

The place to be in Denver for a friendly staff, day drinking and good people watching. Epic patio action during summer AND winter and everything in between!

Too many fights here. Cops are always around! ! ! Good drink prices so maybe that’s why? Packed most weekends. Good place if you’re into the bro thing.

This used to be my favorite place to go for a good night, but just recently, I was asked to leave FOR NO REASON. the white girl pointed me out and was asked to leave for the color of my skin and I will not be back. I easily spend 75 – 150 a night at this place and was asked to leave because I was darker than the regular crowd. Extremely upset by the staff and atmosphere.

I had fun here! There’s an outside bar and inside bar which you can enter from either end and when you go on two different nights from two different ends (drunk) you might be completely turned around and think you’re in a completely different bar. Big crowd and pretty good music. Solid place for a night out.

Great place! Cool atmosphere, delicious drinks, and friendly staff (Victoria is especially cool). One of the best happy hours in Denver. What more do you need from a bar?

Horrible customer service. Dirty bathrooms. Rude doormen. Drunk bartenders. I don’t know why anyone would go here when there are so many better options on Larimer St/​in the area. i.e. (viewhouse, burger bar, retro room, 1up.) YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This is my favorite place to go Fridays and Saturdays. It gets busy, sometimes with wall-​to-​wall bodies, which is great, because everyone is friendly!
It isn’t really a dancy place, when the music gets bumpin’, people just half dance, and say ‘hi’ to each other… It’s more like a giant frat party, with college-​aged guys, and their older counterparts mostly standing around, hitting on each other.
There are about twice as many guys as girls, ‘though there seem to be plenty of each to go around anyway. The men’s bathroom always has a line, and I’ve seen men pee in the sink, or in the trash can, sometimes cutting in front of the line to do so.
People seem very comfortable here, guys dancing on their guy friends, or random girls, and people tag-​teaming each other in mini «konga lines», women sometimes cutting in between two dancing guys to get theirs.
A great time, and very relaxed. Would definitely recommend if you don’t mind crowds, and great drink specials!
Even when people start out somewhere else, they usually wind up here, the crowd getting to it’s thickest toward midnight.
Oh, a good-​looking, sexy crowd if that matters…

If you go here with the intention of getting effed up, you’ll most likely love their happy hour. I believe their prices at the time (2014) were $ 2 – 3 for «call your own shot» drinks. Bartenders are very accommodating and hook you up with an extra elbow tilt of the hard stuff. Don’t go here expecting a fancy sit down lounge. think dive bar, but a bit cleaner than peanut shells all over the floor (they have free popcorn from their self-​serve machine). Go here expecting to mingle and party, especially during Rockies games.

The floors are sticky, the patrons are trashy and the drinks are shitty. The end. Go somewhere else.

I probably come here more often than any other bar downtown. The main reason is because of their mid-​day happier hour (okay, if that doesn’t make me sound like an alcoholic, not sure what does haha)
Anyway, they have $ 2/​$ 3 you call it’s until 7 pm during the week, which is great especially before Rockies games! The inside is nice and their beer selection/​drinks are pretty good. Not the most outstanding bar, but based on its prices, location and vibe, it’s a good central gathering point for sure!

Happy hour (3pm — 7pm on weekdays) here is my favorite, especially before Rockies games considering its location. ²⁄₃ dollar you-​call-​its: most beers are $ 3 and most mixed drinks are $ 2. They also have free popcorn if you’re in a snacking mood.
The night-​life here is good as well. They have an outside area in the back with beer pong and an additional bar. Overall, a good spot in the evenings and even better during the day, maybe that’s why this is my go-​to for happy hour downtown!

We came here on a Saturday night during a friend’s bachelorette weekend. The layout of this place is nice– it has a lot of potential to be a great place to dance and hang out. If I lived in the area, I’d give this place another try during the week or during happy hour.
Unfortunately, on Saturday night, the place was packed with drunk and belligerent people. A fight almost broke out next to me, two guys wouldn’t leave one of our friends alone, I got knocked into pretty hard a few times by people who could no longer walk, and the bathroom line was huge, mostly because the bathroom was a drunk sh*tshow. The popcorn was stale and disgusting, and while we were walking in, a drunk guy threw popcorn at us. The music wasn’t bad, but the crowd was awkwardly half dancing, and it was too loud to talk… so it ended up being a weird dynamic. There was also a row of men leaning on the walls leering at all the women dancing, which creeps me out.
Maybe if I was younger and drunker, I would have enjoyed this place.

Whatever you do don’t politely smile, say hello to the bar staff, or wait patiently with cash in your hand for a drink! They will ignore you and serve 15 other pushy, abrasive, and belligerently drunk patrons before even acknowledging your smiling face and cold hard cash. If you want a drink, go in a be a huge piece of garbage and they’ll serve you right away!!!

Let me preface this by saying I used to like the Ginn Mill a lot until a few months back when I was minding my own business, walking a girl out, and a scuffle ensued between the bouncer and some random guy.
The bouncer decided to pull out a can of f****ing pepper spray and gave the girl I was with a full on facial of mace. I got sprayed as well but what an irresponsible POS that bouncer was. The cops outside were completely worthless. I’m a grown man but the girl I was with was in agony, and nobody bothered to help her. Not the staff and not the swine. Never going back to this place.

Soooooo…
I had a Brazilian client in Denver a very respectful incredible wonderful client in town for a meeting. Our dinner/​meeting ended about 10pm. We walked from the chase building to gin mill. Got there and how kind they were they bought me a drink!
EMILY the bartender served us drinks and my client paid with a 100 $ bill so she was about to give us 85 $ back… She suddenly throws that money in her tip Gar And my client asks for his change. Obviously thinking he was drinking and she could get away with taking a 85 $ tip?
We walk to a table and remind you this is the Sweetest more whole hearted guy in the world and very sober!
The bar tender EMILY at the outside bar ask bouncers to kick him out. No explanation. He said nothing and was so polite because he thought he did something wrong. Needing him to calm down for his first drink of the night I ask for a manager.
I wait 1 hour for JIMMY to show up. Waiting for an hour and I have drank nothing all night I explain the situation and he takes my drink and kicks me out!!!
So we paid for 30 $ of drinks there taken away my client has been kicked out and I was kick out asking why he was kicked out???
First off Emily was stealing… I have managed any clubs in Seattle England and Australia. She took 100 $ then was going to give 85 $ back. Then when he asked for his change back she went back to the till changed the money in and she took an amount out and changed change out for 10 $ less stealing from the till!
Jimmy… This guy did not listen at all and decided to kick a 100% sober person out of his bar for no reason.
I’m am so disappoint at the level of dishonestly and disrespecrfulness in a night!
Management/​owners of this property/​establishment please reach out to me. You guys aren’t represented in the correct manor at all. Id like to discuss our transaction and we would like a solution. If not I’ll stop by.
Andrew
303.210.7776

Ginn Mill usually has a pretty decent music selection but is often over crowded and full of young college graduates. This is the place you go and find a ton of people looking for a one night stand, beware. The drinks here are good and decently priced, they also have popcorn to sober all the drunk people up. The downfall here is that the lines for everything are long. The bathroom lines are insane, the line to get a drink at the bar are also absurd.

Great bar. I’ve found that that the drink deals are better than most places. I’m used to ridiculously low pricing in Fort Collins so it’s nice to find a place in denver that won’t completely break the bank.

One time, they didn’t let me in because I was «too intoxicated.» Don’t you peasants know who I am??? Ok, to be fair, I was «intoxicated» enough to lose my jacket at the bar I was at before.
Other than that, good music and cheap drinks. Popcorn is nice little treat too. It gets pretty packed, but most places do in Lodo. The bar crawl events that start here are always pretty fun.
The crowd has less D-​bags then, say, Brothers or the-​place-​that-​shall-​not-​be-​named (hint first name VIEW last name HOUSE)

A+
Not only do they have fantastic happy hour, but their bartenders are incredible friendly and helpful.
For a measly $ 2, you can quench any thirst from 3pm to 7pm (excluding premium. Oh stop it – Titos is just as good as your grey goose)
The food truck can satisfy your hunger, but don’t expect to order any entrees from your attractive bartender.
Overall, solid…

Can’t believe it took me so long to review this place. Just as the 3 stars indicates, it is A-​Ok. Nothing more, nothing less. I think the factor that saved this place from 2 stars is the fact they sell 24oz cans of Molson Canadian!
It could be a 5 star for you if you enjoy the crowded, rowdy, college bar scene. Basically to sum it up, Ginn Mill is a pretty standard LoDo bar. The popcorn is free and can be hit or miss, depending on if someone is paying attention to it.