So Hogshead will start off with a ten-barrel system, says co-owner Mike Manczur, who also owns Kotan, Inc., a development company located next door to where the brewery will be. The other partners are John Cianci, Jeff Kipp and Stephen Kirby, who will be the brewmaster.
"Stephen has been brewing in the UK since he was a teenager," Manczur says, adding that Hogshead will have six beers on tap at all times. Two of them will be cask-conditioned English bitters poured using a traditional hand pump at the bar, rather than a typical CO2 draft system.
A hogshead, incidentally, is a 500-year-old unit of measurement in the UK that is often used to measure liquids like, yes, beer.
Hogshead is the eighth brewery to announce its intentions to open inside Denver city limits in 2012.