It’s all about beer at the end of this month, what with the Great American Beer Festival Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 and the Denver Beer Fest from Friday to Oct. 1. But no one seems as beer crazy as the Ritz-Carlton of Denver.

On Saturday, the hotel will celebrate Denver Beer Fest with a Gabby Gourmet Show broadcast that’s all beer, followed by a brewers reception 3 to 6 p.m. with lotsa beer, brats and music from the Kentucky Parlor Pickers.

But the Ritzies want you to come to the spa any day for the Mile High Malt Scrub and Micro Brew Scalp Massage. According to spa director Amelia Winfrey, this is the ultimate treatment for the beer lover.

The spa uses two beers from nearby Great Divide Brewing Co. — Samurai Ale and Yeti Imperial Stout. Once you’re naked, you go to the Vichy Experience Room, where you are hosed down and told the benefits of beer on the body, not just in it. You help mix the Samurai beer into malt, and while mixing, you drink the rest of the bottle of beer. Then you get a full-body malt exfoliation scrub with the beer-malt mixture. Then your therapist opens a bottle of the Yeti, which is painted over your malty soft skin.

Then again with the Yeti, you get a shampoo and scalp massage, as you are wrapped in warm towels enjoying a cold beer. Then you get a hair rinse, then a full body rubdown using the foam of the Yeti beer mixed with moisturizers. Once that’s done, you can go relax in the lounge and sip on some beer.

“You will be glowing from head to toe from this beer experience,” says Winfrey.

The two treatments cost $200 and take 75 minutes. I’m thirsty.

“Off” and running.

NBC’s a cappella “The Sing-Off” started 7 p.m. Monday on Channel 9. If you were watching, you saw a former Boulder kid warbling his heart out in a group called Kinfolk 9.

He’s Daniel Weidlein, who did some singing and sax playing at Fairview High School. He’s now at the University of Southern California, where he sings with the group The Trojan Men, and croons bass for Kinfolk 9. He’s also the group’s musical director.

“A cappella singing has just blown up over the last five years,” Weidlein said on the phone from Los Angeles. He says his group consists of studio musicians from all over L.A. — and that they have a shot. “I think we sound really good.”

Dinner at home.

New York star restaurateur Danny Meyer is a fan of Jazz Aspen Snowmass. At the recent music fest, he donated dinner for 30 at an Aspen home catered by one of his New York City eateries (Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, 11 Madison Park), with a jazz concert included. A local supporter won it with a $17,000 bid.

City spirit.

Happy 84th birthday to KUVO deejay MamaKat. . . . Tennis anyone? Andre Agassi is here Oct. 13 for the Aurora A-List 2011 dinner. And Martina Navratilova is here Nov. 3 for the Women’s Foundation Luncheon. . . . Sez who: “Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time.” Catherine Zandonella

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