The Ram Lounge

Wow!!! What can I say… The bars on colfax just keep getting better and better. The drinks here are poured freely and the bartenders are just as nice. Dive bars take a picture — I love this place

It’s like the bar in Star Wars, but Han Solo would be homeless and Chewbacca stunk up the men’s room.

So I didn’t expect a lot. And I got it. This place has the narrowest door into a men’s room I have ever squeezed through, and the men’s room is a converted janitor’s closet. No, wait; it is the janitor’s closed. Not that I give a damn where I piss when I drink stale Budweiser.
But there is charm here. I heard a line I’ve never heard before: «I’m 2 days older than God’s dog.» Story later if you want it.
Amazingly they had a PGA event on 1 of the TVs and I was watching Tiger Woods and his perfect swing while some guy in the corner was apologizing to someone else I could not see.
My girlfriend found this place while hunting for a bartending job. I’ve decided to just pull the trigger and support her so she won’t have to work. She’s a genius.

Ahhhh The Ram Lounge, it’s one of a kind…
This Place is so cool the VIP lounge with Bottle service is hard to get into but it”s worth the wait. If you go on a Friday or Saturday night expect to wait in a cliché block wrapping line where the bouncers only let in people who have the «right look». I’ve Seen Kim Kardashian here at least 3 times in the past year alone.
True story… Go check it out for yourself.

I definitely like that there are still super-​scuzzy bars left in Denver, and I’ve had fun here in the past. However, one should take note: if you are female, white, under 200 pounds, or south of 40 years old, sooner or later you will be assaulted… so there’s that. Fortunately, the psycho slurring curses in your face is usually a feeble older gentleman but, still, I’d prefer to avoid having to choose between either hurting an elderly drunk or getting stabbed by one.

As other reviews here point out. this is a dingy dive. As of 5÷10÷12 its still a dive. But, one with cheap drinks. and I mean really cheap. 2 for 1 during an extended happy hour and 1 is usually $ 3. They have 2 pool tables that kind of work and a regular crowd that I have a feeling comes here a lot.
If you nearly out of money and need a drink… this place is perfect. If you looking for a crowd, ambiance, or a scene you’ll need to move on.

Ah yes, the Ram. What an awful awful bar. There are few like this left so if you want to hit a dive bar, come here. The beer is cheap and tastes like it was filtered through a gym sock.
When I went here the smell, which in all fairness could have been the patrons, was so staggering I gagged. It was like B.O. mixed with puke. It was full of old men at the time and one sad woman at a high top by herself. One of the customers stole the bartender’s cigarette butts and ran out of the bar, prompting her to run after him and yell for him to quit doing that. She literally left the bar for ~2 minutes and no one else was there working. Classic.
I could have sworn the man next to me was made of cigarettes. We played a little pool and shuffle danced out of the bar, managing to out-​weird the people inside of it for one brief moment.

You wouldn’t think there was anything special about this place at all if you have never been to it. You may even be a little apprehensive about going inside. But I will tell you I have some of the best memories thanks to this place.
There really isn’t anything «special» about this place. It isn’t really cool or hip, doesn’t offer anything extraordinary, and isn’t what I would necessarily call popular. But its lack of all of this things is what makes it so special. I’ll tell you what is here. Booze. And lots of it, offered to you no matter what. It is also comfortable and unpretentious.
Above all things this is where a dear friend of mine learned a «crab dance» from a friendly stranger, we got yelled by a lone man playing «golden tee» for getting to close to him while playing pool, and we stayed until after hours awing over pictures of the bartender’s son. This place is definitely special.

Be in the mood for a dive bar, and have an itch to meet some really interesting devotees of the Ram Lounge as you walk in. Some of the most interesting conversations of my life have occurred here. Interesting, not erudite. You’d be surprised at how much fun that can be!
Kerry (sp?) is one of the friendliest, kindest, and most petite bartenders I’ve ever run accross. Her heart is bigger than the whole bar. She’s there every night I’ve ever been. Don’t expect high mixology, but do expect cheap beers and elbow room. It’s never crowded, and if the mood hits you, you can pull a (slightly crooked) stick off the wall and play some pool.
I’m comfortable in jeans there, and I’ve shown up in cocktail dress after a party. No one cares what you’re wearing. It is the quintessential hole-​in-​the-​wall dive bar.

I have passed by the Ram about a hundred times without any inkling of interest. It was a surprise, of course, when I finally popped my head in only to find out that it was a great little pub!
The prices are very good, the bartender about as friendly as they come, and the crowd very laid back. A bonus star for being a great place to shoot some stick in a smoke free environment…