beer Descriptions list is updated on the first of the month.
beers described below may be available on our taps, at the taproom To-Go, at local bars, and in retail shops.
Tier One (<6% Alcohol By Volume)
You Can Take It With You
Style: Red Ale made with Belgian yeast
ABV: 5.2%
Attributes: Caramel-malt forward brown-red beer. Soft brown sugar-biscuit, with spicy, grassy & fruit undertones. Finishes dry and refreshing.
Can you can-can? This is a release made to-go. Nice and light, easy-drinking and refreshing, for those folks doing their work from home during the Coronavirus Shutdown of 2020.
Tier Two (6 - 8% Alcohol By Volume)
Colorado Strong
Style: Pale Ale
ABV: 6.6%; IBU: 22
Attributes: A Colorado Brewer's Guild collaboration. Twenty per cent of sales directly benefits the CO brewing community (Colorado's Brewer's Guild and BottleShare). Very mild and refreshing, crystal clear and very pale. Light toasty malt aroma and flavor. Colorado Chinook and Cascade hops lend a light piney and flowery profile, with a slight background flavor of citrus and spice.
Lauded Dubbel
Style: Belgian-Style Dubbel
ABV: 7.2%
Attributes: Amber-ruby color, brewed with Westmalle-style yeast and Belgian malts to achieve a classic flavor with caramel-malt overtones and soft fruit undertones, finishing dry.
GLORY BE! To laud is to glorify. We were invited twice by one of our favorite vendors to create a beer for a very special event. So, we feel twice-glorified!
Mr. Bloom
Style: Foreign/Export Stout
ABV: 7.9%; IBU 50
Attributes: Pronounced roasted character, malty sweetness with smooth flavors of coffee, caramel and chocolate, light burnt bitterness on the nose and in the finish. Extremely quaffable, dry finish..
Exports. James Joyce is often referred to as Ireland’s OTHER Export. Ulysses is Laura’s favorite novel: “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish Wall and I thought well…”
Tier Three (8 – 10% Alcohol By Volume)
All Together Beer
Style: Double IPA - West Coast
ABV: 8.2%; IBU: 65
Attributes: Originated by Other Half Brewing, this is a world wide collaboration. We made it a little bit stronger, to fit our motif. A clean, crisp West Coast IPA, filled with dimensional aroma and flavor from the Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe and Cascade hops.
Helping the Industry: $2 from every full pour or can goes directly to BottleShare, an one-of-a-kind non-profit specifically benefitting breweries in need.
Genie^Logical V4 Plum & Mint
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 8.2%
Attributes: Mixed Culture Brettanomyces, Saccharomyces and LactoBacillus. Started from a culture for Wedding Beer L+N. V3 has additions of Colorado-grown Wild Plums and Colorado-grown Mint.
Genie^Logical V3 Asian Pear & Rosemary
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 8.4%
Attributes: Mixed Culture Brettanomyces, Saccharomyces and LactoBacillus. Started from a culture for Wedding Beer L+N. V3 has additions of Colorado-grown Asian Pears and Colorado-grown Rosemary.
Show Don’t Tell
Style: Belgian-Style Tripel
ABV: 9.9%
Attributes: A bright, golden-yellow color, with a bright white, long-lasting head. Aromas of pear, candied apple, light honey, grainy malt, spicy phenols. Fruity taste profile, apple and citrus, hints of vanilla, soft but firm hop and belgian Chimay-type yeast spiciness. Refreshing and dry finish.
SHHHHHH! Benedictine Monks take a vow of silence. This probably makes drinking the beer much more expressive!
Tier Four (10 - 14% Alcohol By Volume)
Copper Wolf In The Woods
Style: Hazy/Juicy IIIPA
ABV: 10.6%; IBU 70 - PERCEIVED IBU 30
Attributes: Hazy Triple IPA made in collaboration with Weldwerks Brewing Co. Silky soft with mango, passion fruit, fruit punch, citrus, red cherry, anise and floral notes from an abundance of Styrian Wolf, Michigan Copper and Mosaic hops.
WOLF SIGHTING: It was only February 2020 when a wild wolf pack was sighted and recorded as reestablished in the wild in Colorado.
Gale Gruit
Style: Gruit
ABV: 10.7%; IBU 0
Attributes: Gruit is an ale entirely without hops. A beautiful rich golden beer, we used Myrica Gale, Yarrow, Cinnamon, Star Anise, Grains of Paradise and a few other herbs, along with the flavor punch of Hornindal Kveik ale yeast.
I AM GROOT: Pronounced the same way, or [ɡɹˈuːɪt], [ɡɹˈuːɪt], [ɡ_ɹ_ˈuː_ɪ_t] — its an herb-y beer! Falling out of style after the advent of Reinheitsgebot (1516 German “Purity” Law,) Gruit is classically a brewhouse secret blend of herbs and spices.
Belgian Quad
Style: Belgian-Style Quadrupel
ABV: 10.9%; IBU 29
Attributes: Clear reddish amber with a lasting creamy ivory head. Aromas of caramel, dried fruit, toffee and light yeast. Medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of caramel, toffee, dried fruit and light yeast with a smooth dry lingering dried fruit finish.
Kissing Cousins? Traditionally Belgians welcome good friends with three kisses on alternating cheeks. But knowing when that's appropriate confuses even the locals. At a first meeting a regular handshake will do.
Thoughts Of Winter
Style: Imperial White Stout
ABV: 11.0%
Attributes: Imperial White Stout made in collaboration with Novo Coffee, Denver, CO. Hartmann Honey roast semi-washed Catuai/Caturra berries from single farm FINCA HARTMANN, Panama, Central America, plus cacao beans, oats and wheat bring stout-like aromas, richness and depth to a rich imperial blonde ale base.
Winter is Short. Enjoy this all year.
Finger Of Fate
Style: Rye Whiskey BA Wet-Hop Barleywine
ABV: 12.9%, 60ibu
Attributes: A collaboration with Strange Craft Brewing Company (Denver), an English-style barleywine deriving soft earthy flavors from wet hops, a bit of spicy pepper on the palate, and complex caramel malt on the palate.
WET hops???: Fresh hops from the farm are considered “wet” until they are processed into pellets (“dry”).
Maybe Mindbender
Style: Triple IPA
ABV: 13.1%; IBU 70
Attributes: A Collaboration with Cannonball Creek Brewing Company (Golden, CO. ) West Coast style IIIPA. Pale gold, hopped at a rate of ten pounds per barrel with Citra, Mosaic and Idaho 7. Apricot, red grapefruit and papaya, floral grassy and pine all play together nicely in this beer.
Canyons, again This one is in the Robbers Roost area.
Tier Five (14 – 17% alcohol by volume)
There’s A Beer Over There
Style: BA Imperial Seltzer
ABV: 14.36%
Attributes: A collaboration with The Grateful Gnome (Denver), designed for Collaboration Fest 2020 (which was cancelled due to COVID-19.) With a flavor and texture similar to vanilla cream soda, the Locke & Co Rye barrel imbues this strong but easy-drinking seltzer with ghostly whiskey flavors.
Aren’t seltzers all low-abv? Well, this one isn’t.
Frolic Architecture
Style: Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
ABV: 14.4%
Attributes: Aged 4 months in a Heaven Hill Bourbon barrel. Rich chocolate, vanilla, earthy oak.
In Season: From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Snow Storm”:
Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow.
Tier Six (17 - 19% alcohol by volume)
None on tap currently.
Tier Seven (19 - 21% alcohol by volume)
Heavenly LawHammer Solar Eclipse
Style: Triple BA Russian Imperial Stout
ABV: 20.2%; IBU: 80
Attributes: 22 months in the making: 2 months to ferment, 5mo aging in Stainless Steel, 5mo in Laws Four Grain Bourbon, 5mo in DeerHammer Single Malt Whiskey, 5 mo in Heaven Hill Elijah Craig Bourbon. Smoothly warming, chocolate roast, deeply complex.
The mark of superior skill and craftsmanship: Created by "High Octane Wayne" Burns, Solar Eclipse is a continuation of a brand name: first brewed 2003 - 2006 at Bo's Brewery & Bistro in Pontiac, Mich., 2007 - 2010 at Kuhnhenn's Brewing in Warren, Mich.
Burns Family Artisan Ales makes three versions of this delightfully complex, smoothly well-hidden high-alcohol-by-volume cellarable confection yearly: our base Solar Eclipse is Single Barrel Aged, then we continue with Double Barrel Aged and Triple Barrel Aged versions.
Other Beverage Options
Gluten Free
We carry GFCO 100% Gluten Free beer from Holidaily Brewing Company (Golden, Colorado.) Brewed with malted millet, malted rice and buckwheat, served from 16oz cans. Style varies.
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*No Barrels Included - Strong Russian Imperial Stout / Release: Nov 21
Ship Of Theseus (2020) - Old Ale / Release: Nov 25
I Hate Shopping - Black IPA / Release Nov 27
Miracle On Second Ave - Fig and Orange Honey Brown Ale / Release: Dec 5
Buche de Noel (2020) - BA (Breckenridge Bourbon) Imperial Stout / Release: December
Auld Lang Syne (2020) - BA (Brandy) English Barleywine / Release: December 31
23 Karat (2021) - BA (High West Whiskey) Imperial Stout / Release: January 24
Carouse (2021) - BA (Tequila) Barleywine / Release: February 16
Stolen Kiss (2021) - BA (Rum) Imperial Brown / Release: Feb 14
Ship Of Theseus Blended BA (Laws 4 Grain Bourbon, Laws Secale Rye) Old Ale / Release: Q1 2021
Gloeien Monk - Blended BA (Laws, Deerhammer, Brandy) Belgian-Style Quadrupel (Collab with Thirsty Monk Denver) / Release: Q1 2021
The Prince’s Cellar - BA (Chardonnay) Imperial Oeno Bier de Garde / Release: Q1 2021
Wit Now? - Imperial Wit / Release: TBD
Still Life - Oud Bruin / Anticipated Release: TBD