Hi ya’ll!  Sorry for being MIA for the last couple of weeks.  My computer decided to bite the dust!  Also, its February and all my teacher friends know that is one of the hardest months of the school year (spring break is too far away)! Needless to say I am pretty pumped that we are headed into March this week.

Anywho, I have been dying to tell you all about the brewery tour my friends and I went on a few weekends ago.   This little brewery adventure came about because we slacked on getting tickets to a beer festival and they sold out.   So my wonderful roomie, Special K, wasn’t going to let that keep us from having a fantastic weekend! She organized a fabulous tour of some of the breweries in the RiNo neighborhood (River North).  The day started out with beautiful weather then turned a little chilly but that did not keep us down!

We started at Mockery Brewing to enjoy our first couple of beers.  I really enjoyed this place!  We sat out of the patio (this was when the day was still warm) and had a great time chirping El Jefe (sorry I’m not sorry)! I had a DU Hast Weiss – Smoked Wheat Ale (Beer score = 16 [guest post from El Jefe explaining this coming soon]).  It was superb!   Mockery Brewing I will be back!

Once we finished up our beers we decided to head to the next Brewery, Black Shirt Brewing Co. Special K told us it was close by…. Let’s just say the walk there included a super creepy factory (“Our friend of a friend who we are now better friends with” [Sorry CPA dude] was convinced we were going to be chopped up into tiny little pieces [slightly dramatic]) and a bird poop bridge.  Like seriously I’m pretty sure that it is where every bird in Denver goes to do their business.  But you will be glad to know that we survived (barely! Ok I’m a little bit of a drama queen [Special K would definitely agree with this]) and we made it to Black Shirt Brewery Co.  This was a cool little place.  At this point in the day the weather started to get a little chilly but the cold can’t stop us!  The girls and I shared a flight of 6 different beers.  We enjoyed them, although I did not pay attention to how I put the flight down so I’m not sure we ever figured out which beers we were actually tasting (oops! My bad!).  There was only one of the 6 that I did not thoroughly enjoy (of course I’m not sure of the name, sorry).

Next on the list was Beryl’s Beer Co. There is some construction in the area so this also ended up being a tricky walk but once again we made it (Special K’s navigation skills = B-, but we still love her!).  The beer I got was amazing!  It was called Jingle Beans.  It is a pear coffee stout.  I am not usually a dark beer lover but I will definitely get this beer again.  We  played horse race (a card game) and even drew a crowd. El Jefe served as the race announcer and he did a fabulous job (there is video evidence and I really want to share but I will refrain because I am a nice girlfriend)!

For our final stop we made our way to C Squared Ciders.  This place is awesome!  They have Mario Cart on an original Nintendo system, life size beer pong (trash cans and kickballs), large connect 4, and a lot more.  I had a ginger cider and it was fabulous!  I wish we would have spent a little more time here but it was late and we were all super tired (plus D.P. Dough was calling our names, and you DO NOT ignore D.P Dough when it is calling your name, you just DON’T DO IT! You hear me Man Bun?! YOU JUST DON’T Ignore D.P. Dough).

If you love craft beers and ciders then you should definitely add Denver to your Bucket List.  There are almost as many breweries as there are dispensaries (not really, but there are a ton of amazing breweries).

*When picking beer do not just go by the name.  I learned this lesson the hard way. You are welcome!*

Hasta Luego Amigos!

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What is your favorite brewery?