"Well, we thought this might happen...due to your unquenchable thirst for beer, we are having to close our doors for this weekend. We'll be back next weekend, however, so we hope to see you then," the brewery wrote in a Facebook post today.
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The situation doesn't make co-owner James Howat too happy. "It sucks," he tells Westword. "People tell us that it's a good problem to have. But it's not. It really sucks."
Although Former Future has been open for a month, it has only been operating on Fridays and Saturdays, which means it sold out after just eight days. "We really, really got hammered the first few weekends. That put us behind the curve," Howat says.
Former Future isn't the first small Denver craft brewery that had to limit its hours in the beginning because of a beer shortage. TRVE Brewing, Black Shirt and Our Mutual Friend all suffered hiccups in the early stages.
"In the planning phase, there is a balance between what you can sell and what you can afford to buy," Howat explains.
He'll use the next ten days to streamline his four-barrel system and his tanks so that they are never empty. When he reopens, hopefully on March 7, he'll have a couple of new beers on tap -- a citrus sour and a session black IPA -- along with some older ones. The weekend after that, he should be back up to speed with at least six beers on tap.
Howat and his wife, Sarah, will also use the downtime to refinish the floors and install a silent-movie screen that goes with the brewery's theme of mixing the past and the present.
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