Brewery began operations on Eighth Avenue in 2011
Courtesy of Jackalope Brewing Co.
Jackalope Brewing Co. CEO and co-founder Bailey Spaulding announced Monday The Den taproom located in The Gulch will not reopen.
Located at
701 Eighth Ave. S., The Den saw beer initially brewed in 2011, when Spaulding and Robyn Virball launched the craft beer company. The facility never reopened after closing due to COVID-19 concerns.
With operations at the SoBro locale officially having ended, Spaulding and Jackalope President Steve Wright will concentrate efforts fully on The Ranch, Jackalope s larger brewery and taproom in Wedgewood-Houston. That facility opened in August 2018. Some of the best and most profound moments of my life happened at [The Den], Spaulding posted on the brewery s Twitter page. As Jackalope grew, we knew we needed to find a new home, and so two years ago, we opened the Ranch, When COVID hit, we consolidated our business to the Ranch, as it didn’t make sense t