When Wynkoop Brewing starting slinging chicken out of its stately Mercantile Room event space last July, it was as a temporary pandemic pivot that would allow the state s oldest brewpub to offer takeout comfort food for people who were no longer allowed to eat inside and as a way for the Wynkoop to keep its staff employed.
But Colorado is crazy for chicken right now fried, Nashville-style and rotisserie concepts seem to be popping up on every street and out of every food truck and the Coop Chicken + Beer found a lot of fans.
As a result, the Breckenridge-Wynkoop Group, which owns the Wynkoop, the Cherry Cricket and Amato s Ale House, has decided to make the Coop a permanent, stand-alone restaurant with its own entrance and menu. To make that happen, the Coop closed on Tuesday and will undergo extensive remodeling before opening back up in late summer with a new look but with the same menu of fried and rotisserie chicken and craft beer.