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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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8.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Sample at Denver Rare Beer Tasting XVI (Last Call) on 10/09/2025. Dark chestnut-brown pour with a medium beige head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Small patches of lace. Aroma of bourbon, malt and chocolate. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, chocolate malt and ripe fruit. The finish is oaky with a bourbon and malt aftertaste. Good beer overall.
Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2025 at 19:25

8.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Sample at Denver Rare Beer Tasting XVI (Last Call) on 10/09/2025. Black pour with some brown around the edges, and a medium khaki head that recedes quickly to an outer ring. Bourbon, malt, vanilla and coffee in the nose. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky bourbon, chocolate, vanilla and roasty coffee. The finish is oaky with a bourbon-infused chocolate mocha aftertaste. Enjoyable beer all around.
Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2025 at 19:20

7/10 — 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

8/10
Juicy peachy love.
Tried on 04 Oct 2025 at 19:51

7/10 — 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

8.3/10 — 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

6.9/10 — 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

8.1/10 — 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

7.5/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can at home shared with Clark from Stefan. I like the nose a lot tons of wheat and only slight banana. Tatses of wheat and cloves and banana, lemon. Lighter bodied.
Tried on 28 Aug 2025 at 23:36

8.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Canned 6/17/25, drunk 8/28/25, shared by Jow, thanks!
Mildly cloudy, blonde, bronze. Small, white head, slowly to frothy cover.
Lots of wheat and base malt! Lemon, mild pepper and low clove and other crude esters/phenols. Very authentic.
Soft, chewy, bread, Wheaty. Great malt, wheat and attenuation. Good balance with soft sweetness. Clean and malty and authentic.
Tried from Can on 28 Aug 2025 at 23:29