USA, CO: Cheluna Brewing Company to be inaugurated on December 1

After months of drawn-out construction, Cheluna Brewing Company will be the second business to open inside north Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace on Dec. 1, the new brewery announced on social media last month.

Cheluna, formerly known as Casita Brewing Co. before a naming spat spurred the owners to change the title, will open with a small celebration the evening of Dec. 1, according to co-owner Javiér Pérez.

Pérez began laying the groundwork for Cheluna, along with his wife, Jennifer, in 2014, after nearly 25 years of home brewing in the couple’s garage. Many of Javiér’s beers blend his mixed Mexican and German ancestry, he told The Sentinel in an interview last year.

Pérez, who daylights as an emergency room physician at the VA Hospital in Denver, said he chose to open his first brick-and-mortar at Stanley in part because the neighborhoods around the future market have long been under-served.

“It’s a dry watering hole and now it’s going to be full for all the people around here,” he said in August. “This is going to be a breath of fresh air.”

Pérez, guided by friends at Spangalang Brewing in Denver’s Five Points, has been heading the brewing operations at Cheluna.

01 December, 2016