E-Malt.com News article: USA, CO: Prost Brewing now open in Denver

Prost Brewing opened on August, 23 in Lower Highland, serving up German-style lagers. The brewery is one of nearly two dozen that will open this year in the Denver metro area, but is stands apart for several reasons - not the least of which is its intense focus on a thin slice of the spectrum of beers, westword.com reported on August, 23.

Prost only plans to make pilsners, bocks, dunkels and other light German lagers, a 180-degree turn from what is popular in craft brewing and the specialty of head brewer Bill Eye, formerly of Dry Dock Brewing.

The other primary difference for Prost its its brewhouse, a seventy-barrel system that the owners acquired earlier this year.

Most new breweries begin with fifteen-, seven-, three-, or even one-barrel systems, while even the largest brewers in the state typically use forty-barrel systems. Prost's brewhouse means it has the second or third largest system in the state.

But judging from the demand at a half dozen or so bars around town where Prost's beers are already on tap, the brewery will find a market. It will also use its capacity to contract brew beer for other breweries, including Crooked Stave and Dad & Dude's Breweria.


24 August, 2012