“Grimm Broth­ers Brew­house is devoted to the art and sci­ence of beer and brew­ing. A pas­sion for brew­ing and shar­ing of excit­ing fla­vors of beer are at the heart of this brewery’s values.

Grimm Broth­ers Brew­house was founded by avid home brew­ers and beer enthu­si­asts who love pro­duc­ing qual­ity, fla­vor­ful beers” — Grimm Broth­ers Brew­house & Tap Room

Address: 547 N. Den­ver Ave. Loveland, CO 80538
Hours: Mon– Closed, Tues-Thurs– 1–7 pm, Fri-1–9 pm, Sat-12–9 pm, Sun– 1–5 pm
Web­site: http://www.grimmbrosbrewhouse.com/

Twit­ter: @grimmbrosbrew

Face­book: Grimm Broth­ers Brewhouse

New brew­eries are always excit­ing to dis­cover. There aren’t many things bet­ter than hear­ing about a small, new brew­ery that opened up that is mak­ing deli­cious brews.  I had heard from a few good friends and fam­ily mem­bers that one such brew­ery had opened just north of where I grew up. For this rea­son, on my most recent trip to Col­orado, I made sure to stop by the Grimm Broth­ers Brew­house & Tap Room.

Loca­tion, Loca­tion, Location!

When it comes to loca­tion, the brew­ery is set. There was no other brew­ery in the city of Love­land at the time they opened; how­ever, there is now one other small brew­ery and a large chain brew­ery located just east of Grimm. An added bonus for Grimm is that Ft. Collins, which draws beer lovers from all across the coun­try, is just a hand full of miles to the north. This will no doubt help bring some traffic.

The Grimm Broth­ers was rel­a­tively easy for me to find. Just a few miles west of Colorado’s I-25 cor­ri­dor the brew­ery is set in what reminded me of a busi­ness park. On the streets along the way were a few signs point­ing in the direc­tion of the brew­ery which was really help­ful in find­ing it quickly.

Atmos­phere:

The Grimm Broth­ers was a hap­pen­ing place. Although they haven’t been open for even a year, it seemed there was an end­less sup­ply of peo­ple pour­ing in to pick up the lat­est of their beers. Inside the brew­ery, there is a tap room with a sit­ting area. Also, there was a garage right next door that was open with a long table and sev­eral chairs for over flow cus­tomers to come in and sit. This garage is the entry to the brew­ing area. I am not sure how often they have the door open, but it added a nice feel to basi­cally be sit­ting inside the brewery.

The brew­ery was also set up for an inti­mate expe­ri­ence with the head brew­ers, Don and Aaron, mingling through­out the tap room speak­ing with all their cus­tomers. I spoke with sev­eral dif­fer­ent cus­tomers on my visit and each one seemed to have devel­oped a rela­tion­ship with one of the brewers.

One of the most enjoy­able aspects of my visit was how the brew­ery dis­played their logo and labels for their brews around the brew­ery. Grow­ing up on the Grimm Broth­ers Fairy Tales, I was really impressed with the labels the brew­ery had come up with (from the help of Ten­fold Col­lec­tive) for the beer.

Menu:

The beer made at Grimm Broth­ers is pri­mar­ily Ger­man focused. The brew­ers enjoy the clean and crisp­ness of the Ger­man styles. Plus, there aren’t many in Col­orado that do only Ger­man styles. Of course, they do not limit them­selves to only Ger­man beers, they have also brewed sev­eral beers using Bret­tanomyces. Those have not yet been released since it takes longer to brew than other styles.

The beer lineup includes:

• Snow Drop – Honey Wheat Ale
• Lit­tle Red Cap – Alt Style Ale
• The Fear­less Youth – Dunkel Lager
• Mas­ter Thief – Ger­man Porter
• Hare’s Bride– Impe­r­ial Hefeweizen (I pur­chased a bot­tle of this for a later review)

With some rotat­ing releases that include:

• Puss-N-Boots – Hefeweizen
• Riffraff – Amberweizen
• Golden Key– Ger­man Pils

Don brought me a flight of their beers to try and I enjoyed each one but there were two that really stood out (and I ended up get­ting a growler of each). The Riffraff was deli­cious with aro­mas of banana and clove mixed with a nice malt back­bone. The Golden Key pils had a light bis­cuit fla­vor that was bal­anced out nicely with a present yet sub­tle hop profile.

In addi­tion to the nor­mal brews in their port­fo­lio, there were sev­eral bar­rels around the brew­ery which Don men­tioned were from the Buf­falo Trace dis­tillery and they had some brews that were cur­rently aging.

Lastly, cer­tain Fri­days they will release a spe­cial beer for Fabled Fri­day. Some recent fabled brews include Almond Fear­less Youth and Red Cap Gin­ger Sweet Orange.

As far as food goes, the brew­ery itself did not have any avail­able out­side of the bar snacks; how­ever, there was an excel­lent hot dog stand out­side the brew­ery called The Daily Dawg who made some phe­nom­e­nal beef hot dogs as well as a nice turkey dog.

Final Impres­sion:

Over­all, I really enjoyed my time at Grimm Broth­ers. Each and every per­son I spoke to was very friendly, help­ful and infor­ma­tive. The brew­ers were pas­sion­ate about their beer and brew­ing as well as inter­ested in talk­ing with the peo­ple, shar­ing their pas­sion and get­ting feedback.

When speak­ing with both brew­ers, they men­tioned they had come from a home brew club called The Liq­uid Poets out of Ft. Collins, CO. What was inter­est­ing was that out of that same club, there were sev­eral other brew­ers that had started or were in the process of start­ing brew­eries some of which include Funkw­erks, Pateros Creek, and Equinox. It sounded like there was a great sense of com­mu­nity within the group solid­i­fy­ing my thoughts on how craft brew­ing is all about col­lab­o­ra­tion and not competition.

If you have the oppor­tu­nity to visit Grimm Broth­ers do not pass it up. With excep­tional beers and a pas­sion for shar­ing it with their cus­tomers, Don and Aaron do a fan­tas­tic job and I rec­om­mend this as a stop any time you are in the Denver/Ft. Collins area.

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Patrick

Patrick Schroeder has two rules: 1) Drink beer good peo­ple brew. Craft brew­ers brew for the love of their craft so give every beer a try. B) Never drink the sed­i­ment cake. Other than that, Patrick spends his time home brew­ing, spend­ing time with his fam­ily and tip­ping back a few pints with fel­low beer lovers. If you wish to con­tact him, send an email to patrick@thebrewbros.com. You can also find him on Twit­ter under the name beerguru14. Prost!

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