The state’s brewer-in-chief says that, although he did think about it, he won’t be installing a kegerator in the governor’s mansion.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who helped found Wynkoop Brewing Co., said he considered putting one of the beer- chilling fridges with a door spigot inside the mansion but thought better of it.
“I was all set to do it,” Hickenlooper said Thursday. “I thought it was a great idea, and my wife pointed out and said, ‘You know, you do that, and it’s going to be part of the news story that this is what your idea is, what you want to have happen.’ “
And then the message sent to citizens won’t be about fixing the state’s economy and balancing the budget, she told him.
“You want to have people focus on what is red tape and how can we get business to hire that person sooner and how are we going to balance the budget,” he said.
Hickenlooper is planning to stay in his Park Hill home and occasionally socialize or spend time at the mansion. The kegerator, he said, will have to wait until “the distant future — perhaps never.”
No worries, though. The mansion already has a full bar. Tim Hoover, The Denver Post
