The pandemic has hit breweries and restaurants hard, but it may have hit college-campus businesses even harder, since they rely on students visiting in person for much of their income. For Tivoli Brewing, which occupies a unique spot in the Tivoli Student Union building on the Auraria campus, this double whammy has had a crippling effect.
In December, just before Christmas, the brewery’s ownership group laid off at least half of its staff, including its lead brewers, brewery director and longtime taproom manager; it also overhauled its management for the second time in three years: Tivoli president Ken Hehir is no longer with the company.