A to Z Denver Breweries Round 6

The SheppyBrew Beer Model and I are done with Round 6 of our A to Z Denver Breweries series of posts.

Hurray for us! 

In late 2024, we started off this round with A is for Arms, Call To Brewing Company (sadly now closed)

We recently just finished with Z is for MestiZo Brew Cantina.

In this round, we had to take way more "Artistic License" to slot breweries into letters than I like, and (obviously) a Round 7 would be even worse.

For most of the round, I thought the A to Z Series would now be complete. The Beer Model and I would need a new way to pick new breweries. 

However, the Colorado Brewery Map & List does still have lots of Denver-area breweries, and we probably could come up with some brewery for most letters. We'd have to come up with what to do if we cannot find anything that works for a particular letter. Let me know if you have ideas.

Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
	1 is for 14er Brewing Company
A is for Alpine Dog Brewing Company (closed)	A is for Alternation Brewing Company (closed)	A is for Altitude Brewing & Supply	A is for A Bit Twisted Brewpub	A is for AC Golden Tank Room	A is for Arms, Call To Brewing Company (closed)
B is for Baere Brewing Company	B is for Briar Common Brewery + Eatery	B is for Bierstadt Lagerhaus	B is for Bull and Bush Brewery	B is for Black Shirt Brewing Company	B is for Barrels & Bottles Brewery
C is for Comrade Brewing Company	C is for Colorado Plus Brew Pub (closed)	C is for Cerveceria Colorado	C is for Comet Brews	C is for Cannonball Creek Brewing Company	C is for Cohesion Brewing Company
D is for Draw, Boggy (closed)	D is for De Steeg Brewing (renamed)	D is for Dead Hippie Brewing (closed)	D is for Denver Beer Company - Downing	D is for Diebolt Brewing Company	D is for Denver Beer Company, Olde Town Arvada
E is for Epic Brewing Company (closed)	E is for Empourium Brewing Company	E is for Evergreen Brewery	E is for Eddyline Brewery	E is for El Rancho Colorado (closed)	E is for Someplace Else Brewery
F is for Factotum Brewhouse (closed)	F is for FlyteCo Craft Brewing	F is for Fiction Beer Company	F is for FlyteCo Tower	F is for Fiction Beer Company Chapter Two	F is Frolic Brewing Company
G is for Great Frontier Brewing	G is for Goldspot Brewing Company	Grist Brewing Company (Rare) (closed)	G is for Golden City Brewery	G is for Great Divide Brewing Company	G is for Great Divide Brewery, Belmar
H is for Hogshead Brewery	H is for Halfpenny Brewing Company	H is for Holidaily Brewing Company	H is for Holidaily Brewing Company (DTC)	H is for Left Hand RiNo Drinks & Eats	H is for C H eluna Brewing Company
I is for IronWorks Brewery and Pub (closed)	I is for [The] Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project (closed)	I is for Iron Mule Brewery	I is for {"..."}	I is for Sanitas Brewing II (closed)	I is for Incantation Brewing (closed)
J is for JoyRide Brewing Company	J is for Jagged Mountain Brewery	J is for Jackass Hill Brewery (closed)	J is for Jade Mountain Brewery and Teahouse (closed)	J is For BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse	J is for Justice Lady Brewing
K is for Kokopelli Beer Company	K is for Kitchen, Lowdown Brewery +	K is for Kettle, Copper Brewing Company	K is for Knuckle Puck Brewery Kombucha & Beer	K is for Kodiak Brewery Bar and Grill (closed)	K is for Knotted Root Brewing Company
L is for Little Machine Beer	L is for Lariat Lodge Brewing – Littleton	L is for Lady Justice	L is for Little Dry Creek Brewery (renamed)	L is for Locavore Beer Works	L is for Littleton Brewing Company
M is for Mockery Brewing Company	M is for Mirror Image Brewing Company	M is for Mountain Toad Brewing	M is for Mobcraft Dee Tacko (closed)	M is for Monolith Brewing	M is for Moonlight Pizza & Brewpub
N is for New Terrain Brewing Company	N is for New Image Brewing Company	N is for Novel Strand Brewing Company	N is for New Image, Wheat Ridge	N is for 4 Noses - Park Hill	N is for North River Brewery (RiNo)
O is for Our Mutual Friend Brewing Company	O is for Ohm Brewing Company	O is for Oasis Brewery (closed)	O is for Old 121 Brewhouse	O is for Odyssey Beerwerks	O is for Odell Brewing 5 Points
P is for Pints Pub	P is for Peak to Peak Brewery (closed)	P is for Prost Brewing Company	P is for Peak View Brewing Company (closed)	P is for Public Offering Brewing Company	P is for Platt Park Brewing Co
Q is for Queen Bee Brews	Q is for LiQuid Mechanics Brewing Company	Q is for barQuentine Brewing Company	Q is for Six Capital Brewing and BBQ	Q is for Smokin' Bones BBQ	Q is For Brad's Pit BBQ
R is for Ratio Beer Works	R is for Resolute Brewing Company Arvada Tap & Cellar	R is for Raices Brewing Company	R is for River North Brewery	R is for Reverence Brewing Company	R is for Resolute Brewing Company Centennial Brewery
S is for Spangalang Brewery	S is for Station 26 Brewing Company	S is for Smash Face Brewing (closed)	S is for 6 and 40 Brewery	S is for Seedstock Brewing Company	S is for Second Dawn Brewing Company
T is for TRVE Brewing Company	T is for Two22 Brew	T is for Tivoli Brewing Company (closed)	T is for Tommyknocker Brewery	T is for Tilray Beer Brands, Littleton	T is for The Post Chicken & Beer (Rosedale)
U is for Ursula Brewery (closed)	U is for oUter Range Brewing Company	U is for Upslope Brewing Company	U is for BlUe SprUce Brewing Company	U is for G U anella Pass Brewery	U is for LŪki Brewery
V is for Vine Street Pub and Brewery (closed)	V is for Vail Brewing Company	V is for Vision Quest Brewing Company	V is for Very Nice Brewing Company	V is for Village, Greenwood, Downhill Brewing	V is for LiVing the Dream Brewing Company
W is for Wits End Brewing Company (closed)	W is for Woods Boss Brewing Company	W is for Wah Gwaan Brewing Company	W is for Westbound & Down (Denver)	W is for Wanderment Brewing	W is for Wild Sky Brewery (closed)
X is for WestFaX Brewing Company	X is for Mad Jack's [JaX] Mountain Brewery (closed)	X is for Bruz Off FaX	X is for Los Dos Potrillos MeXican Restaurant and Brewery	X is for EquinoX Brewing	X is for MaX Taps Colorado
Y is for Yak and Yeti Restaurant and Brewpub	Y is for Over Yonder Brewing Company	Y is for Wild Blue Yonder Brewing Company	Y is for Black SkY BrewerY	Y is for BerkeleY AlleY Beer CompanY	Y is for Ye Olde 121 Public House
Z is for Zuni Street Brewing Company	Z is for Zuni Street Brewing Company (again)	Z is for BruZ Beers	Z is for CraZy Mountain Brewery	Z is for Zymos Brewing	Z is for MestiZo Brew Cantina

Too many on this list have closed. I'm sure that there are even more that shut down than I'm aware of. It is sad to see so many breweries going out of business.

Even with all the closings, there are still a ton of Denver-area breweries that we've never visited, and even more that I have not mentioned on this blog.

We will want to continue visiting new local breweries, but we have not figured out how to pick. Keep an eye on this blog, and I may let you know.

As always keep watching the regular SheppyBrew Channels to see what is happening with my BBQ, Beer, Biking: SheppyBrew's Facebook Page; Sheppy's Twitter Feed; SheppyBrew's Instagram Page; and SheppyBrew's Website.Of course, don't forget to visit this blog often as well!

🍺 Chelsea Dagger Pre‑Prohibition Lager

Brewery: SheppyBrew 
Style: Pre‑Prohibition Lager
ABV: 5.4%
IBU: 30
SRM: 3.6

Appearance

Brilliant pale gold with a bright, sunlit clarity that shows off its lean grain bill. A tight white head forms quickly and lingers in a thin lace, just enough to remind you this is a lager with backbone. The color sits right in that classic pre‑Prohibition range — light, but not fragile.

Aroma

A clean, crackery malt note leads, softened by a faint sweetness from the flaked corn. Cluster hops add their unmistakable American heritage: a mix of herbal spice, light floral tones, and a subtle rustic edge. The overall impression is crisp and inviting, with just enough hop character to signal that this isn’t a modern macro‑lager.

Z is for MestiZo Brew Cantina

Ok ... here we are at the end of Round 6 of the A to Z series of posts.

Yes, we've gone through the alphabet 6 times, visiting a brewery for each letter.

At the beginning, we were able to find Denver-area breweries (one was actually a meadery) that literally began with all 26 letters of the alphabet.

As we progressed, we had to take more and more "Artistic License", and without actually counting, For round 6, I'd say we were at about half breweries that began with the letter and half that we had to stretch a little.

Round 6 began late November of 2024 with A is for Arms, Call To Brewing Company (sadly closed now).

And ... now ... we are at the letter "Z"....

Z is for MestiZo Brew Cantina

Platte River Half-Marathon

I ran my first official Half Marathon yesterday.

As you know if you read 2026 Fitness Goals, I've been training for a Half Marathon, the "Platte River Half Marathon", and Sunday was the day.

I finished the whole thing. I actually was able to run it faster than I thought I would be able to do it. So, I'm happy with my results.

While working through the training plan, Runna gave me a project goal pace of 9:50 to 10:25 per mile, meaning it expected me to finish in 2:09 to 2:16.

Quite frankly, I thought that pace was ridiculously optimistic based on my longer training runs. I'd never really maintained that pace for more than a few miles at a time. 

2026 Easter Ham

Well ... I let my kids talk me into making ham again for Easter dinner.

While ham is not my favorite holiday food, I aim to please, so I went ahead and decided to do my "typical" Double Smoked Ham.

My wife got the standard spiral cut ham, around 10lbs.

On Easter morning I made a glaze / sauce with a coke base, a little honey, and various spices. 

I also made a special "rub" for the ham.

After church, I placed the ham in a cooking pan and applied the rub and let it sit while I prepared my Weber Kettle.

2026 Q1 SheppyBrew Stats

It is already April. The first quarter of 2026 is done. Time to report on the Q1 SheppyBrew Brewing stats.

Both last year and 2024 yielded 95 gallons of beer, which is lower than any year since 2016. 

If the first 3 months are an indication, 2026 will be an even less volume. Significantly less. As I type this, I'm tracking to less than 60 gallons for the year, which would be the least amount of beer brewed EVER!

I'm not sure if the brewing will pick up this year or not. I guess we'll see.

So far in 2026, I've brewed 3 batches of beer.

• Hop-cember Pale Lager
• "Whisper of the Tengu" Rice Lager
• Mud Blood Baltic Porter

This 3 batches of beer totaled 15 gallons. I'm not sure when I've brewed only 3 batches of beer in 3 months. It may have occurred, but I don't think it has ever happened.

Hop-cember Pale Lager

March Update on 2026 Fitness Goals

As you know if you follow this blog, I generally give a monthly update on fitness / Strava goals. I guess we can say that it is another level of accountability to share these publicly.

Plus, I from time to time I'll look at older updates just to see where I was way-back-when.

In previous years, my goals have been mostly around cycling, but starting this year, I've started running as well.

If you're interested, I always track these workouts on Strava. 

As I mentioned in Random Things, a vacation slowed me down in March, but even so, I'm tracking pretty well to my 2026 Fitness goals.