South Broadway brewery closing after eight years: “We needed more patrons”

Burns Family Artisan Ales has held a unique place in Colorado s craft beer scene the tiny brewery specializes in rich high-alcohol beers and has been run almost entirely for much of its existence by husband-and-wife owners Wayne Burns and Laura Worley Despite its family feeling loyal followers and its highly-rated beers though Burns at S Broadway stated Tuesday that it will close its doors on May Related Articles Brewery owner opens retro-themed dive bar on Colfax Camp at a Colorado hop farm this summer and enjoy beers onsite This Colorado whiskey was just named America s best single malt Two Boulder County breweries adding second locations See Colorado s World Beer Cup winners for When we opened to the society on August our pride was in our great system and in the quality and innovation of our beer the owners wrote on social media Wayne Burns who helped start Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery now closed in Denver in before opening Burns Family Artisan Ales had been an award-winning beer maker for two decades at the Vine Street Pub in Denver and at Kuhnhenn s Brewing and Bell s Brewery both in Michigan We developed classic and experimental styles from ABV to ABV We succeeded with our niche of barrel-aged and high-alcohol beer to an extent that we remain the th highest rated brewery in the state of Colorado they continued We have a client base of loyalists who visit us regularly cheerlead for us promote us and can t say enough good things about us thank you Burns which originally operated in the former Wit s End Brewing space in a business park at W nd Ave moved to the more heavily trafficked South Broadway location the former home of Dos Luces Brewing in late But the truth of the matter is that our taproom was full only on the rarest of occasions We needed more patrons Burns and Worley declared online The majority of advantageous way to get the best cash flow is by selling someone a glass of beer in your own place over the bar We purely didn t have enough people visiting to enable expansion Thank you for buying beer for attending our events and recommending us to others It is not your fault that we are closing It is not our fault It s just the way business can be Subscribe to our new food newsletter Stuffed to get Denver food and drink news sent straight to your inbox