
"If it were ten miles from the nearest brewery or directly next door, we'd be fools not to take it. "When we saw our current space after months and months of searching, we knew we had to pounce on it," Chris says. In return, the brewery will serve their beers on tap and solicit customer feedback.

Factotum's goal is to help homebrewers of all skill levels by letting them brew their beers on Factotum's system, and with Chris Bruns's help. "Regarding the proximity, we were initially concerned about stepping on toes with Diebolt, but hoped that the development of the whole 38th Avenue corridor and the fact that Denver Beer Co and Mountain Monk.are moving into Sunnyside would ease that," says Laura Bruns in an e-mail, adding that the location was their dream space in terms of size.Īnd since Factotum's mission is different from that of most breweries, Bruns says she hopes the two won't overlap.

"But Sunnyside isn't really on the map, so with both of us, I think it will be a boon to the neighborhood."īrother-sister owners Chris and Laura Bruns had originally planned to open Factotum at 4735 Lipan Street, but lost that space after a fire-code problem. "I might be able to hit them with a baseball if I tried and I'm not that great of a baseball player," he says of Factotum. That situation made Diebolt owner Jack Diebolt a little nervous at first, but he figures it will be good for the neighborhood in the long run. See also: A GABF Sweep for Colorado Reinvigorates Boring Old Brown Ales The location is just yards away from Diebolt Brewing, which opened thirteen months ago at 3855 Mariposa Street. While River North, LoDo and the Beermuda Triangle may boast the city's thickest concentrations of small craft breweries, the Sunnyside neighborhood in north Denver is slowly building a beer scene of its own - one that could make it a new destination for craft-beer drinkers over the next year.įactotum Brewhouse recently revealed that it plans to open later this year or early next year in a former auto-body shop-turned-photography studio at 3845 Lipan Street.
