Local Relic Artisan Ales turns eight years old this week, and there's a week of events to attend, kicking off with a Triple Anniversary Thursday with 291 Distillery and Side Dish with Schniper!
The first time we had heard of them, they had a tent at one of the first All Colorado Beer fests that was up in that weird building on N Nevada. They had a peach... saison? I think... that just melted me. I was in absolute love and I'm sure I annoyed them with how many times I kept circling back through their line.
In the quest to find more of that peach saison, we managed to attend an open house of sorts at their old brew space way out on Platte/Powers and met Jeff and Grant (apparently he's no longer the head brewer??), and thoroughly enjoyed the tour and picking brains and trying new stuff. Sadly though, I learned that I would never again enjoy that particular beer that I still think about all these years later :(
Happy anniversary to Local Relic cheers to many more years.
(Green Man - holy crap, what a blast from the past!! haha forgot about that place)
We've had a similar experience with an Earl Gray Saison that we couldn't get enough of. There's definitely pros and cons to the nomadic brewing style they use...
My favorite LR memory...
The first time we had heard of them, they had a tent at one of the first All Colorado Beer fests that was up in that weird building on N Nevada. They had a peach... saison? I think... that just melted me. I was in absolute love and I'm sure I annoyed them with how many times I kept circling back through their line.
In the quest to find more of that peach saison, we managed to attend an open house of sorts at their old brew space way out on Platte/Powers and met Jeff and Grant (apparently he's no longer the head brewer??), and thoroughly enjoyed the tour and picking brains and trying new stuff. Sadly though, I learned that I would never again enjoy that particular beer that I still think about all these years later :(
Happy anniversary to Local Relic cheers to many more years.
(Green Man - holy crap, what a blast from the past!! haha forgot about that place)
We've had a similar experience with an Earl Gray Saison that we couldn't get enough of. There's definitely pros and cons to the nomadic brewing style they use...