Colorado's craft brewers are making plans to celebrate Brew Year's Eve on April 7.

"Brew Year's Eve celebrates a time when beer was the lone legal libation," said Julia Herz, spokeswoman for the Brewers Association, a nonprofit trade association based in Boulder.

On April 7, 1933, Congress modified the alcohol-banning Volstead Act by allowing the legal imbibing of beer with a specific alcohol content. For eight months, patrons chanted, "Beer here," until the Dec. 5 repeal of Prohibition for other liquors.

"What's special about this Brew Year's Eve is we're tagging it on to the fact there's a movie airing on A&E," Herz said. "It's a Ken Burns-produced documentary on the history of American brewing and the impact on the culture and history Prohibition had on our country."

The American Brew: The Rich and Surprising History of Beer in America includes a "DVD Extra" interview with Charlie Papazian, the godfather of home brewing and founding president of the Brewers Association.

Denver's Flying Dog Brewery, 24th and Blake streets, will conduct tours at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. April 6 and at midnight on April 7. (Reservations: devon@flyingdogales.com). The Blake Street Tavern next door will offer Flying Dog's Litter of Ales for $2.

In Durango, four craft breweries (Ska, Carvers, Steamworks and Durango) will join forces and foam to brew a "medicinal" Prohibition-era beer called Spring Tonic. Proceeds from the fifth Bootlegger's Society Brew Year's Eve event April 7 will go the the Animal City Museum. Info: 970-247-5792 or skabrewing.com.

GRIER IN GEAR: East High grad, Franktown gal and Hollywood actress Pam Grier will conduct a Q&A session and meet-and- greet during a fundraiser from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Rise nightclub, 1909 Blake St.

Grier, star of (among other things) Showtime's The L Word and Quentin Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown, is donating her time for The Urban Farm, "an organization that teaches agricultural and environmental education to urban children and their families." Tickets: $15 at the door.

SERVERS SERVED: Cherry Creek North steakhouse Prime 121 will host a Denver Restaurant Week for the workers starting Sunday and running through March 24.

During that time restaurant employees will be offered the same $52.80 menu for two ($26.40 for a single). Just bring proof of employment to get the meal deal.

Prime 121 also is trying to capture more of the Cherry Creek lunch bunch by offering free valet for lunch-ables across the street at the J.W. Marriott Hotel. Free valet parking at the restaurant, 121 Clayton Lane, is available nightly from 5 p.m. till closing.

BRUNCH BUNCH: Solera, the best restaurant in the worst location (East Colfax Avenue and Grape Street), launches a Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1 (no April Fool's joke). Chef-owner Goose Sorensen will whip up brunchy bites with optional seating on the gorgeous patio (which makes East Colfax disappear). Reservations: 303-388-8429.

EAVESDROPPING on a man at Elway's: "I speak several languages. I'm bisexual."

Penny Parker's column appears Tuesday through Saturday. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail parkerp@RockyMountainNews.com.