Westbound & Down Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 6 Venues

Established in 2015

Contact
1617 Miner St, Idaho Springs, CO, 80452, United States
Subsidiaries
Westbound & Down Brewing Company owns 2 breweries:
Description
A brewery with deep Colorado roots that aims to infuse the spirit of the West into everything we create. Always consistent, expertly balanced, with a strong commitment to quality. Elevating adventure since 2015.

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7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Aromos are mild MJ with grassy, malt and a bit of citrus. Flavors are similar to nose and more bitter than sweet and okay carbonation. Pretty good.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 29 Nov 2025 at 23:33

gave a cheers!

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Aromas are stone fruit with a little citrus and tropical fruit. Flavors are similar to nose, slightly sweet with enough bitter and mildly soft carbonation. Decent but not great.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 21 Nov 2025 at 04:35

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can.

A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, no head.

A- Cinnamon, vanilla, brown sugar, chocolate fudge, mild booze.

T- Chocolate, mild roast, bourbon, faint baking spice, molasses.

F- Full body, slightly thin texture, average carbonation, balanced finish.

O- Nice. Smells like a stout, tastes like a barleywine. Love the 8 oz cans for beers like this. More subdued than I would expected for the abv. Good stuff.

Tried from Can on 14 Nov 2025 at 02:13


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7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5

Can from Tavour. Pours clear bright gold with a large white head that turned foamy. Aroma of pale malt - seemingly not bready - with a good amount of Noble hop aroma. Arguably med body. It's quite dry and quite bitter. Mostly Noble grass/spice for hop. Excellent pils.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 10 Nov 2025 at 00:29

gave a cheers!

7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

16 oz. can. Pours dark brown, with a big, foamy, tan head. The aroma is light cocoa, black bread, mild resin, and caraway. Sweet and malty and yeasty, with a light, spicy bitterness. Light to medium body, fluffy, and sticky. Pretty solid.

Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2025 at 16:11


8

Juicy peachy love.

Tried on 04 Oct 2025 at 19:51


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

pint can. pours a nice looking copper-amber color with a medium sized off-white head that soon dissipates. The aroma is mild with caramel malts and some grains. The taste is rather bready with rye, caramel, noble hops and some fruits (perhaps apples). The palate is clean and crisp. Finishes long and a bit astringent. Overall: Fair marzen, might buy again.

Tried from Can on 29 Sep 2025 at 21:26


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8.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can from Tavour. Pours dark brn/blk with a transient slight dark tan head. Aroma of chocolate and bourbon. Full bodied. Not at all dry, but not really sugary. Lots of bitter. Flavor is chocolate, bourbon, dark fruit and a maple-like note. Good stuff.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 11 Sep 2025 at 01:53


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pint can. Herbal hop aroma with notes of pine resiny hops, grapefruit, grassy hops, tangerine and orange. Pours clear golden colored with a large white head that has excellent retention and good lacing. Starts with tangerine, orange and grassy hop flavors. Finishes dry with grapefruit, pine resin and herbal hop flavors. Classic west coast ipa.

Tried from Can from Coaltrain Wine and Liquor on 07 Sep 2025 at 07:37


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8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Canned 6/11/25, drunk 8/29/25.
Dark, clear. Small, tan head, quickly to ring.
Fudge but also some more roast than usual for these contemporary Imperial Stouts. Don't get much of the barleywine here, maybe just a bit of toffee-maple. Actually, there's some vanilla and more candy-like cara malts on the finish. Definitely plentiful bourbon, though not hot.
Soft, sweet, rich, warming and clean without any hot booze. Certainly a lasting spiciness and warmth from the alcohol and barrel, though. Nice mix of caramel, toffee, vanilla, fudge and dark chocolate, with more roast than usual for the style, leaving a bitter licorice note lingering. Body is chewy, slick, slightly syrupy but not cloying in texture or sugar level. All sorts of fun barrel complexity here.

Tried from Can from Tavour on 29 Aug 2025 at 19:38


Brewery Stats
Score 7.04
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