Reader: A taproom that looks like Grandma's attic? Am I in a Portlandia skit?

If you heading to Grandma's house next holiday season, you'll be rewarded...with beer. Yes, Denver is getting another craft-beer spot, this one located at 1710 South Broadway and named Grandma's House. "I wanted to go with the crafting and craft brewing aesthetic and maintain that kind of Etsy-type community feel,"...

By Patricia Calhoun

September 19, 2013

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If you heading to Grandma's house next holiday season, you'll be rewarded...with beer. Yes, Denver is getting another craft-beer spot, this one located at 1710 South Broadway and named Grandma's House. "I wanted to go with the crafting and craft brewing aesthetic and maintain that kind of Etsy-type community feel," explains brewery owner Matthew Fuerst. "A brewery's priority should be its beer, and it usually is -- but taprooms don't really set themselves apart, so I thought why not doing something kooky?"

Says eyeroll:

This is a series of elaborate jokes, right? The steampunk brewery, the Communist brewery, the facial hair brewery, the brewery where the owners allow homebrewers to come in and make the beer (thereby basically assaulting their patrons by making them pay money to buy a pint of homebrew), and now drinking beer in Grandma's attic? I, for one, am not interested in trying to drink a beer while having a creepy porcelain doll stare at me. Here's a novel concept: make a GOOD PINT OF BEER instead of cooking up these ridiculous theme parks. I feel like I'm in a Portlandia"skit.

What do you think of Denver's spate of themed brewpubs? What theme is left to use? And would you take your grandma to Grandma's House?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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