denver brewhoo
08-12-2006, 03:10 PM
Stopped in w/ ms denver brewhoo to see how the Kevins were doing. Answer is, they are doing great.
Had a pint of the HMS Victory, an ESB which took Gold in the last World Beer Cup, and a pint of the dryhopped Lucky Scotsman from the firkin....yep, they are doing a cask every third friday, actually a pin (5.4 gallons), any more than that in this tiny joint would probably go bad before running out. (It's a 7 bbl brewery attached to a homebrew supply store, for those who don't know. There's a bar with room for 10 normal people or 8 homebrewers who like what they brew, and a couple of 4-tops to the side.)
They run a few gallons of an appropriate beer--in this case a 60 Shilling-- into the cask, prime it, and let it condition. On Fridays they tap it. No hand pump, it's gravity flow. The Lucky Scotsman dryhopped in the cask w/ EKG was excellent, as was the award winning ESB. (on regular tap)
This is not a brewpub, it's a tasting room for one of the smaller production microbreweries in the world, so it's spartan, and no food. Everything is available in growlers to go, 5 gallon sankeys (sixtels I guess) and half barrel sankeys, plus given that it's a homebrew shop and thus frequented by homebrewers you can obviously bring your cornie in for a fillup. Basically this place is in a strip mall at roughly Hampden and Chambers, maybe 1/2 to 3/4 miles east of Parker Road and Hampden, a few blocks from Meadow Hills Golf Course. I think it's the stoplight before Chambers on Hampden, but check out their eponymous website if you're not sure of these directions and prices for the to-go stuff (believe a sixtel was $37, growler $8, but sdon't hold me to it)
Had a pint of the HMS Victory, an ESB which took Gold in the last World Beer Cup, and a pint of the dryhopped Lucky Scotsman from the firkin....yep, they are doing a cask every third friday, actually a pin (5.4 gallons), any more than that in this tiny joint would probably go bad before running out. (It's a 7 bbl brewery attached to a homebrew supply store, for those who don't know. There's a bar with room for 10 normal people or 8 homebrewers who like what they brew, and a couple of 4-tops to the side.)
They run a few gallons of an appropriate beer--in this case a 60 Shilling-- into the cask, prime it, and let it condition. On Fridays they tap it. No hand pump, it's gravity flow. The Lucky Scotsman dryhopped in the cask w/ EKG was excellent, as was the award winning ESB. (on regular tap)
This is not a brewpub, it's a tasting room for one of the smaller production microbreweries in the world, so it's spartan, and no food. Everything is available in growlers to go, 5 gallon sankeys (sixtels I guess) and half barrel sankeys, plus given that it's a homebrew shop and thus frequented by homebrewers you can obviously bring your cornie in for a fillup. Basically this place is in a strip mall at roughly Hampden and Chambers, maybe 1/2 to 3/4 miles east of Parker Road and Hampden, a few blocks from Meadow Hills Golf Course. I think it's the stoplight before Chambers on Hampden, but check out their eponymous website if you're not sure of these directions and prices for the to-go stuff (believe a sixtel was $37, growler $8, but sdon't hold me to it)