For Douglas Wagner, opening Carw Gwyn was an exercise in Murphy’s Law.

“It just seemed like everything I could run into, I did,” the first-time restaurant owner said.

He hoped the medieval Europe-themed mead bar, pronounced “ca-roo gwinn,” at 1509 N. Marion St. in Denver’s City Park West would open in July. But after monthslong permitting delays, his mead bar had its first day of service Nov. 12.

“It ended up being very convoluted and opaque,” Wagner said. “We’re glad to be at the starting line for a business, and now we’re going to have all the challenges that a business in Denver normally faces.”

The star of the show at Carw Gwyn is its rotating selection of 20 meads served on tap, in bottles or glasses and in flights. All are made along the Front Range, Wagner said, and he’s in talk

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