USA, WY: Accomplice Beer Co. expects to open next month in Cheyenne

The empty restaurant space in the historic Cheyenne Depot downtown will soon be back in action with the addition of the city’s third microbrewery, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported on May 10.

Accomplice Beer Co. expects to open next month, and its liquor licensing permits are moving through Cheyenne City Council now.

“Everything is a go,” Wyoming Rib and Chop House manager Wade Lancaster said. “We hope to open June 6, barring any complications.”

Accomplice Beer Co. will be a sibling to Wyoming Rib and Chop House, a popular local eatery on West Lincolnway.

Wyoming Rib and Chop House will remain at its location, and the two enterprises will be distinct from one another.

While Accomplice will be a microbrewery, it won’t be producing its own beer on-site until the fall.

The holdup is due to long delays in the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau’s permitting process – the same issue that pushed back the opening of Danielmark’s Brewing in Cheyenne earlier this year.

In the meantime, Accomplice will feature beers from around Wyoming and Northern Colorado until its own beer production is up and running, Lancaster said.

Additionally, Accomplice’s brewmaster, Jerod Day, will be working with breweries in Colorado and Wyoming on collaboration beers that can be sold at Accomplice.

The new brewery will feature a self-serve beer system that allows customers to pour their own draft beer.

A computer monitors how much beer a person has poured and charges his or her credit card accordingly.

The computer also alerts staff if a high amount of beer has been purchased, allowing staff to cut off a patron if he or she has had too much to drink.

Lancaster said Accomplice will be open seven days a week and will serve food, including wings and ribs.

The restaurant side will be “very casual, counter service food,” Lancaster said, and patrons will order food at a counter before it’s brought out to their table.

Lancaster said the business is committed to the Depot.

“We’re really hoping to stick around,” Lancaster said.

Accomplice would be the second brewery in Cheyenne to open this year and the third brewery total.

Freedom’s Edge Brewing has been open since 2012 and is now on Pioneer Avenue, while Danielmark’s Brewing opened last month on 18th Street.

Accomplice Beer Co. will be in the same spot as Cheyenne Brewing Co., which closed last year.

12 May, 2016