Barrel Dog Brewing

After moving to Colorado in 2013, I was looking for a career change. Since I was a beer lover and Denver had such an impressive craft beer scene, I enrolled in a certificate program at a nearby university and began my journey! After a year of schooling, an internship, and a stint as a bartender at a local brewery, my wonderfully-supportive husband and I began working on recipes. Drawn toward sours, barrel-aged, and fruit beers, we began experimenting and creating fun, unique, flavor profiles.

Initially thinking we would open a traditional taproom in Denver, those plans changed as the Denver beer scene and real estate scene also changed. We changed our model and decided to go small – nano brewery status. Instead, we bought property in Evergreen, CO and converted the existing outbuilding into our brewery. Though we would have loved to have a taproom onsite and a fantastic off-leash dog park, it was not meant to be with zoning issues and restrictions, so we readjusted again and decided to have a production-only facility.

Since we do not have a taproom, we will be distributing our beers, so watch for Barrel Dog beers in Evergreen restaurants and taprooms. If all goes well, we’ll expand from there!