Introducing The Peach Crease Club, the first joint project from esteemed bar veterans and husband-and-wife duo Alex Jump and Stuart Jensen. Adjacent to the famed Mission Ballroom in Denver’s RiNo Arts District, The Peach Crease Club reflects the couple’s shared love of hospitality, music, and damn good drinks.
At The Peach Crease Club, Jump and Jensen approach cocktails through a culinary lens; they look to global ingredients and food memories as catalysts for their creative process, translating these shared moments into cocktails with a defined perspective and strong identity. The result is a culinary-forward bar program rooted in unbridled creativity, where each drink is crafted after its namesake ingredient or dish, such as Borscht, Papaya Salad, or Jeweled Rice.
“We’re excited to share a menu that reflects who we are and the experiences that brought us here,” says Jump. “Each drink captures a moment in time, from flavors we savored in Copenhagen on our wedding anniversary to a brandy distilled the day we were engaged. This is our way of sharing these experiences with our guests, as we would with friends at a dinner party.”
The Peach Crease Club takes its name from Jump and Jensen’s original home bar, born during the pandemic and reimagined here with the help of Davis Partnership Architects. The space draws from the warmth and ease of 1970s design with earth tones, sunbaked oranges, saddle-brown leather, and Southwestern accents, including pieces from the duo’s personal art collection. The 12-seat bar serves as a grandiose centerpiece, with lighting that spotlights a substantial, rich wood back bar. The room seats seventy-five across a mix of bar stools, two and four-top tables, and generous booths for groups up to eight. Designed with flexibility in mind, the space works just as well for a pre-concert pit stop as it does for an unhurried evening centered around great drinks, thoughtful music, and good company.
The menu is driven by fresh, seasonal ingredients, which are used to achieve complex, balanced flavor profiles without the need for modifiers. It offers uncompromised low-ABV and non-alcoholic cocktails, all crafted with the same level of care and intention, and a rotating peach cocktail in the spirit of its namesake. Jump and Jensen’s personal favorites from the opening menu include:
- Peaches & Cream (peach brandy, bourbon, rum, vanilla, snickerdoodle cookie cream, 28% ABV) debuts with a peach brandy created by local distiller, The Family Jones, on the day of the couple’s engagement.
- Olive & Elderflower (manzanilla sherry, elderflower, gin, olive brine, cava, tonic, 10.63% ABV) nods to a flavor combination they discovered on a trip to Copenhagen for their wedding anniversary.
- Calabaza en Tacha (mezcal or N/A mezcal, pumpkin, marigold, citrus, grenadine, soda, 7.38% or 0.0% ABV) draws from Day of the Dead altars they admired on a family trip to Mexico.
- Fattoush (gin, dry vermouth, cucumber, tomato, red onion, za’atar, olive oil, labneh, 26.8% ABV) takes its cue from the couple’s love of cooking Middle Eastern food at home, reimagining the flavors of a classic Fattoush salad as a vegetal, savory martini.
- Peanuts & Cola (The Pathfinder, Three Spirit Nitecap, Peanuts, Cola, 0.2% ABV) riffs on the Southern tradition of putting peanuts in Coca-Cola, a flavor Jump grew up with in Tennessee, now reinterpreted in a non-alcoholic, nitrogen-infused format that balances bitter and sweet.
Guests can also imbibe from a selection of minimal-intervention wines from small independent producers (including orange and fortified styles), uncommon sakes like Sauvage (made from single-estate rice), plus espresso and tea. Light bites, guided by Jensen’s culinary background, range from tinned fish and meat and cheese boards to smørrebrøds—open-faced rye toasts with toppings like cheddar spread, smoked fish, vegetable hummus, and whipped ricotta.
Music is integral to The Peach Crease Club, perfectly in keeping with its location adjacent to the Mission Ballroom and a reflection of Jump and Jensen’s long-standing tradition of seeing live concerts together. Jensen, a lifelong audiophile, designed the bar’s listening experience to create warm, balanced sound throughout the space. When you walk in, you’re greeted by a retro speaker doubling as the host stand, vintage records on display, and a DJ booth for live entertainment. Much like the Mission Ballroom’s eclectic lineup, The Peach Crease Club shifts its atmosphere night to night, welcoming everything from vinyl listening sessions to live DJs.
“We want people to feel like they’re walking into our home for a dinner party when they come to The Peach Crease Club,” shares Jensen. “We don’t want to be known as a cocktail bar or listening bar. Every detail and every touchpoint come together to create something bigger than any one part.”
The Peach Crease Club reflects the couple’s shared commitment to creating a hospitality model that prioritizes the well-being of its team. Jump, widely known as the co-founder of Focus on Health, has long advocated for responsible employment and better standards in hospitality. Jensen has spent most of his career investing in Denver’s bar community, mentoring and supporting the city’s next wave of bartenders. The Peach Crease Club offers its team comprehensive training, opportunities for career advancement, access to health insurance, and 401(k) benefits.
Opening soon is The Peach Pit, a walk-up window serving a standalone menu of draft drinks outdoors before select Mission Ballroom shows.
The Peach Crease Club is located at 4180 Wynkoop St., Suite 130. It is open six days a week: 4 p.m.-midnight on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and 4 p.m.-1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
