A local brewery that is known for its inventive beers will soon close both locations on the front series.
SpellPreviously known as Jade Mountain Brewery & Teahouse, his intention announced to close this week. On Saturday is the last day of the business world in the satellite taproom and coffee shop, located on 415 S. Cherokee St. in Denver. The flagship brewery in Aurora, at 4233 S. Buckley Road, has already finished serving customers.
Owner Sean Gurrero wrote a candid note in which the closure of the brewery explained to his websiteWith reference to the economic challenges that he has been confronted with since the opening in 2021 as a reason to stop.
Jade Mountain Brewery came to Aurora via Huzhou, China, where Guerrero operated a small traditional brewery. The beer menu reflected those carrots with styles with unusual ingredients such as Squid Ink and Durian. The ingenuity of Guerrero brought something new to the artisan beer scene of Colorado, but that did not translate into dollars and cent.
“We struggled from the day we opened our doors,” Guerrero said in the final announcement. “Despite the fact that we create something really unique in the beer scene in Colorado, we simply never got the next we had hoped for. Perhaps our branding was confusing, our beer names and styles. Perhaps what I made was too different, too niche or more likely that it was because we opened in the middle of Covid in an uncertain political and economic climate. “
A year ago, Guerrero renamed the company as a spell in the hope of seducing more drinkers to visit more often. The new look of the brewery included a heavy metal ethos and a focus on more approachable styles for the American beer palate.
Despite the first return – “Craft beer drinkers and other brewers seemed to deal with this decision as if I killed their puppy,” he said – Guerrero achieved his goal to get more ass on seats.
Then, last summer, Cantation Brewing opened a satellite papers in Denver with a coffee shop, so that customers could find alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in one place. That was the way Guerrero to reach drinkers in Denver and turn to meet the shifts in drinking habits of the consumer.
“Beyond are the days of driving hours to Greeley or Glenwood Springs for good beer, many people don’t even walk a block to view something new and different. But to be honest, (six) months at Alameda it doesn’t give much chance. I just can’t make it with $ 100 a day, “he said.
He added: “I did my best to maintain things, we are just too far in the hole to dig ourselves.”
The memorandum of Guerrero refers to the fact that his brewery is not the only one struggling. Craft Beer, once a thriving industryhas perceive a decline Since the COVID-19 Pandemie. According to the Colorado Beverage Coalition, 41 local breweries were closed in 2024 and 140 have been closed since the pandemic.
Some of the remarkable recent closures are El Rancho in Evergreen, Alpine Dog Brewery, Fiction Beer Co. and 14er Brewing Co. In Denver and Little Dry Creek Brewery in Greenwood Village. Even newer breweries struggle; Kodiac Brewery Bar & Grill in Centennial, for example, was closed after just a year.
As far as the future is concerned, Guerrero suggested that one day he could make beer again. “This is not forever farewell. Just see you now, “he said.
Specific brewing will be one farewell party On Friday and Saturday at the Locale van Denver, with $ 5 beers and 50% of the merchandise.