{"id":76402,"date":"2018-03-09T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-brewing-co-no-longer-serving-food\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:54:09","slug":"durango-brewing-co-no-longer-serving-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-brewing-co-no-longer-serving-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango Brewing Co. no longer serving food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Durango
Durango Brewing Co. at 30th Street and Main Avenue will allow customers to order in after closing its kitchen. The taproom recently underwent major renovations.<\/span>Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Durango Brewing Co. has closed its kitchen to focus on its brewery \u2013 inviting families and friends to order out or bring their own picnic basket while enjoying the brewery\u2019s ales.<\/p>\n

The move hearkens to the brewery\u2019s origins, when it had a barbecue grill fired up and invited patrons to bring their own meat to grill while the microbrewery handled the beers.<\/p>\n

Closing the kitchen also allows DBC<\/a> to become \u201cpuppy friendly,\u201d opening up its patio to dogs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to do food, but it became a distraction,\u201d said Tyler Brewer, manager of brewing operations and head brewer. \u201cWe are a production facility. We\u2019re not a brewpub.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Troy
Troy Slites, left, and Tyler Brewer, are the main hands running brewery operations at Durango Brewing Co.<\/span>Patrick Armijo\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Brewer said \u201ca couple\u201d of employees, most of whom were part time, were laid off with the closing of the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Brewer said everyone is invited to order to-go food from other restaurants, or bring picnic baskets or pots of chili while enjoying DBC\u2019s beers in the dining area and patio. To-go menus from Durango restaurants will be available at tables.<\/p>\n

The brewery offers seven year-round staple beers \u2013 everything from its Dark Lager to its Four Corners Pale Ale.<\/p>\n

It also offers seasonal stout beers and a taproom series of beers aged four to eight months in oak barrels and available only in the taproom. Another eight barrels are being added to expand the volume for the taproom series.<\/p>\n

Durango Brewing Co., which is in its 28th year and is one of Colorado\u2019s oldest microbreweries, distributes regionally in the Four Corners, extending into Pueblo and Colorado Springs, and the brewery has just begun distribution throughout most of New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The business also may expand its taproom by moving into space now occupied by the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Connect Four and cornhole tournaments will also be offered, and live music will be added on Thursdays. The brewery also will offer monthly sensory beer training sessions.<\/p>\n

The microbrewery is owned by Miller International Inc., a Denver-based clothing firm with several brands, including Cinch Boots. Miller International has no relationship to the MillerCoors, a division of the Molson Coors Brewing Co.<\/p>\n

parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrons can have food delivered from outside restaurants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[338,2490,5696],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-76402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-enterprises","tag-distiller-and-brewer","tag-durango-brewing-co"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76408,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76402\/revisions\/76408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76402"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=76402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}