Forty-six years after beer was last brewed there, the Tivoli building on the Auraria campus in Denver got some welcome deliveries Wednesday.
The first of more than a dozen custom-made tanks were squeezed through a 10-foot brick archway and placed on the terrazzo floor that supported 150 years of brewing operations.
The tanks’ arrival marked a significant step in the . Tivoli Brewing Co., founded in 2012 by Corey Marshall with the blessing of the families behind the former Tivoli operation, last year signed a 20-year lease for a 9,000-square-foot slice of the Auraria student union.
Tivoli Brewing is outfitting the space to house a tap room with 52 draft lines, brewing operations capable of producing 15,000 barrels of beer annually, as well as a “live lab” for students pursuing brewing operations degrees as part of a partnership with Auraria Higher Education Center.
With the tanks’ arrival, the brewery is on schedule to meet an Aug. 1 opening date, Marshall said.
When operational, the brewery will churn out a slate of the “latest, greatest, most innovative styles” of today as well as brews that would pay homage to the past.
Marshall and crew have recipes for more than 45 of the beers produced by Tivoli and predecessors such as Sigi’s and Zang’s, he said.
He added: “We’re going to be as true to style, true to recipe as possible.”
Alicia Wallace: 303-954-1939, awallace@denverpost.com
