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It was a sunny, blue-sky day with plenty of birds circling and chirping as if to announce Casey Brewing’s new patio. In addition to their downtown taproom, Casey Brewing has a Barrel Cellar location, further down Grand Avenue, where the beers are made and there’s a prime vantage point for the Roaring Fork River.
“We opened up the taproom around Labor Day of 2019 … and while that was happening we kind of shut this down for normal activities just so we could focus on the taproom,” Troy Casey, owner of Casey Brewing, said. “COVID came and we just kind of shut this down because we had that going on downtown.”
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Carbondale BeerWorks owner Patrice Fuller said on this year’s National Beer Drinking Day that the beverage isn’t just for men – beer is for women, too.
“Because I think a lot of times people think … only men drink double (India pale ales). I’m pretty proud, you know, I’m a female that owns my own brewery, so that I really love. It’s not just a boys’ beer,” Fuller said.
Fuller moved to the valley and purchased the brewery just under five years ago. Her previous job was as a bar manager in Seattle at a place called Tap House that offered 160 beers on tap at a time. Fuller said she tries to bring a bit of home to BeerWorks and incorporate different brews from the Pacific Northwest in their selection of 16 handles.
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