USA, CO: Station 26 Brewing opens in Stapleton

Station 26 Brewing opened on December 21 in a beautifully renovated old Denver firehouse in northeast Park Hill, Westword reported on December 23.

Owner Justin Baccary had been planning to wait one more week, but when he received his final permit from the city, he decided to open the doors.

His beers include an IPA, a stout, a Belgian-American pale ale, an English-style bitter and an interesting Cherrywood-smoked golden ale. He's got at least two other beers in the works, including a brown and a double IPA.

Baccary, a former investment banker, quit to become a brewer at Dad & Dude's Breweria in Parker more than two years ago. He left that position to start his own brewery in 2013.

He picked the east side of Denver because there are so few breweries in that part of town, and although it took a while, he finally found the old firehouse.

With three enormous garage doors and sloped concrete floors, the building is well-suited for a brewery. There is also space for a patio, which can seat sixty, and a basement where Baccary hopes to store wine and whiskey barrels for aging beer.

27 December, 2013