USA, CO: Grossen Bart Brewery expected to open in Longmont this fall

After a nearly two-year search, the owners of Grossen Bart Brewery have announced they have signed a lease on a new 3,100-square-foot location at 1025 Delaware Ave. in Longmont, Times-Call reported on June 3.

Though they looked in other cities, including Boulder, Erie and Frederick, co-founder Shad Chancey said he and his partner, Taylor Wise, always had a preference for Longmont because they both live here and think the city provides plenty of opportunity for them to start and grow their business.

Several Longmont sites were considered before they finally settled on the Delaware Avenue location, he said.

"We found this location in January. Since then we've basically been in negotiations," Chancey said.

Plans are to open with a 10-barrel brewing system, he said.

"It's going to be a nice size tap room and on the side of it, we're going to have a beer garden out there," Chancey said.

Opening is planned for early fall, he said.

"We started this in 2012," Chancey said. "We got licensed to distribute and all that, but we were always just looking for the right location."

Over the two years, they have been brewing and distributing their beers where they could, including in restaurants, but were always limited in what they could do until they found a permanent spot, he said.

Grossen Bart, which is German for "big beard," will be joining 300 Suns, which opened in February, and Left Hand Brewing Co. and Oskar Blues Brewery as the other craft breweries that call Longmont home. A nanobrewery called Samples is scheduled to open downtown this fall, and Boulder-based Mountain Sun Pubs & Breweries will open the Longs Peak Pub & Taphouse later this year inside the Roosevelt Park Apartments, joining the Pumphouse brewpub in downtown Longmont.

04 June, 2014